Heathansson
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As luck would have it, I was in Target today buying a pretty subpar pretzel and some high fructose corn syrup disguised as Coca Cola when a lady came up who spoke no english. She needed hot water so she could make warm baby formula, but the people behind the counter didn't speak her language or understand what she wanted; they knew they couldn't put her possibly contaminated baby bottle in the microwave though.
so I was able through understanding the problem, pantomime, and knowledge of the words "caliente" and "agua" to tell them to give her a little steaming tea water for her formula; she knows how, through some esoteric alchemical knowledge, to alter the molecules in the water so they aren't vibrating quite so fast.
I made sure she knew the "agua" was "muy muy caliente" though.
It's really funny, though, because when I KNOW I'm going to target, I like to put on a bright red polo shirt and be rude to people who ask me questions. I can't do it at my usual job, and it's important to burn all the gnarly brush out from between the trees, so that's how I work it out.
There used to be a somewhat strange guy who worked there....he always was in the parking lot, gathering up the carts. The kind of guy Musashi would say you should put to work gathering up the carts, when your more skillful warriors were restocking shelves, working a cash register, or helping patrons figure out where the fetishes to ward off brujitos were kept. Every time he saw me, he'd ask me if he knew me from church. I said no; I doubt it. I don't really go to church. Then he'd try to get me to go to his church. It was a pretty slick scam on the one hand, except for the fact that 1)it probably got him fired and 2)one would have to wonder about a church that employed such odd ducks to do their recruiting.
Musashi wouldn't have had this guy pegged for an army recruiter.
He's gone now though. I didn't rat him out. Just gave him a little hassle about it because I didn't want him to go losing his job; he was a little odd and I felt like he might not understand things so well.
Crimson Jester
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There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens... (the theatrical version of the pilot ends with this phrase: "...far far away amongsted the stars...")
where is that isle?
Heathansson
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