Be on the lookout for suspicious behaviour
Another ordinary day for the average Joe, off from work wherever, appreciating the respite from routine that the weekend offers. At least, if your weekends haven’t become routine. How sad a thought. I started off early, busily figuring out how to place an object with multiple bolts to fasten at the top of a pole. Did you know that small metal pieces which fall into long grass tend to stay attached to the ground instead of their intended mechanical destination? Even small magnets are insufficient in the search and recover phase; off to the parts box to find a compromise.
The secret in placing anything on a pole that is higher than you is to spend weeks “building up” the biceps and triceps, and to never, ever look directly into the sun. ‘Nuf said. I now know how windy it is outside (helpful when the leaves have been blown away for another season).
Suppers are a shared moment in our family; we share whatever is on the table with the son that works nearby, finding a suitable container and driving over while the food is still hot enough to hurt. Given that he is a cog in the petroleum marketing industry, I also seized the moment and filled up the gas tank, because gas is currently down to $1.02/litre which is the lowest point I’ve seen in many months. Once inside to trade money for nothing (I accept on good faith that there is something coming out of the nozzle hidden in the tank opening), he showed me today’s “bulletin” from the employer to the employees.
Seems there’s an armed robber in the region, preying on lone cashiers in the dark of the evening. There was even a poor quality photo from somebody else’s surveillance camera; sufficient to discern that the unidentified robber is humanoid… anyhow, the staff has instructions to lock the doors when they see suspicious movement outside.
This in a building with a full glass front, brightly lit and mirrorlike from the interior. If you see someone under those conditions, it may go beyond suspicious, warping into alien behaviour. May my son’s shift be without incident, and may such things convince him that education is a reward in itself.
