"call me, crazy"
got addicted to barista brat's blog this week. i can't get enough of her succinct & saucy stories about clueless (trust-fund-kid) customers, an 8-yr old "milk connoisseur", and spiteful horny co-baristas.
i'm reading all her entries, stretching back to march 2006, and to celebrate (ameliorate?) the advent of yet another gloriously stressful family-reunion-packed december, here is one of my favorite posts:
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Friday, December 08, 2006
(excerpted from http://baristabrat.blogspot.com)
call me, crazy
for the past four days my bux has been bombarded with prank phone calls. for whatever reason, some person is getting their jollies by calling my bux and asking ridiculous questions.
"what color is your atmosphere?" a heavily accented voice asked when my perky assistant manager answered the phone.
"excuse me?" perky assistant manager wasn't sure if she heard him correctly.
"what color is your atmosphere?" he asked again
"i'm sorry but i think you have the wrong number."
"WHAT. COLOR. IS. YOUR. ATMOSPHERE." he screamed at her.
"i'm hanging up now," perky assistant manager said before ending the call.
an hour later the phone rang again and this time i answered.
"how old is the glass?" asked the accented voice that i assumed had called earlier.
"four hundred thirty-two." i informed him and hung up.
apparently my method worked because he didn't call back for the rest of the night.
the next night, however, he was back to his old tricks. he called so many times that perky assistant manager told me she had to leave the phone off the hook.
last night when he called my barista buddy was the lucky person to pick up the phone.
"how cold is the toilet?" mr. prank asked.
"how old is the toilet?" barista buddy asked, deciding to play along with mr. prank.
"how cold is the toilet?" mr. prank repeated.
"how bold is the toilet?"
"HOW. COLD. IS. THE. TOILET."
"how gold is the toilet?" barista buddy was laughing now.
"you stupid bitch man! i get knife and i will cut!" mr. prank threatened, but barista buddy just hung up on him and turned the ringer off.
so tonight when i answered the phone and heard "what airplane is inside?" i responded with an "operator, this is the call we want traced. how soon will the police be there?".
amazingly mr. prank was the one to hang up and didn't call back for the rest of the night. we'll see if he wants to ask us more questions tomorrow.
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shivering in seattle
cold. windy. wet. muddy. perfect.
i spent a weekend with my friend kris up in seattle a few weeks ago. they're currently in their rainy half of the year and it gave my coddled always-sunny-in-santa-monica butt a wake-up call. i didn't see the sun all weekend, but that hardly put a damper on the fun we had on the squishy trails. it helped that i had a deliciously squishy dual-suspension transition bike to match the terrain.
after picking up my xs sexy metallic teal beast at dropnzone in ferndale, we hit up the south side of galbraith mountain, and tented it that evening in a $19/night bellingham campground. the next morning, with mud still between our toes, we rode up the north side of the mountain and hit builder bob's trail, sst, 911, intestine, shawn's trail, and a zillion others i forget the names of.
sweet bike-fork-bike-rack @ dropnzone:
new boots...or new bike...
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free show on sat 11/10/07 @ the roxy!!!
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Hi!
Through methods that we don't entirely understand but are glad to inform you of, you can now RSVP to come to our show at the Roxy in Los Angeles for free! Here's the link:
http://losangeles.going.com/invite-13700
Sign up! Bring your friends! Get a flip!
Also, although the LA show is all ages, we want to apologize about the upcoming shows that are 21+ (Portland, Visalia, Tucson, San Diego and Albuquerque). We realize how disappointing it is for those of you unable to attend these shows...we do make an effort to play all ages shows whenever possible, but for a staggering variety of reasons (legal, logistical and otherwise) we can't always make it happen. We promise to try even harder next tour, and most sincerely apologize to anybody who can't make it this time around. We'll see each other soon enough! Yes!
Keep it trill.
Yr pals,
Octopus Project!
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...give their tunes a listen & get more details @ the octopus project's myspace page...
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