Lobby Thoughts #16

We know how stupid the average person is. Remember that 50% of people are more stupid than that. -by unknown

No, I'm not admiring your or your partner's butt. I am checking your belt line and pockets to see if there is indication of a concealed firearm. Not that I have a problem with that, I just want to know who in the building is armed.

I was called Barney Fife by a customer who I had to escort from the building for his inability to control his anger and frustration. I was tempted to say: "Perhaps, but I have more than one bullet."

Free Food at Work: I have caught guards (and janitors and temps and your fellow employees) stealing your lunches from the company refrigerator. I have fired a guard for walking into a reception, cutting into line at the buffet, filling a plate with food and walking out. when asked, she said she was hungry and had forgotten her lunch. The company's food is not for guards unless you are specifically told it is ok. Sad thing to get fired for...especially when if you wait, the left overs could feed a small town.

Some are too stupid to recognize developmentally disabled people or too mean to leave them alone and so hassle them for entertainment, sadism or because of fear. Disgusting behavior by so called professionals who believe themselves to be 'good people.'

Visiting corporate HQ executive arrives to much fanfare. Inspects the premises and smiles at everyone. As he leaves I notice he left his glasses on a desk in the corner. As he passes my post, I say, "Excuse me Sir. you left your..." He glares at me and keeps walking. [I surmise his mother was scared by a security guard while he was in the womb]
I say "Sir, your..." He says "Look I gotta go." I smile and nod. He returns 15 minutes later and wanders around the building with this entourage in tow. I mention to one of them that he left his glasses on the desk over there. I am scolded...Why didn't you say something We have been looking for them for 15 minutes! "Sorry Sir,  Have a nice day!" 

I "endeavor to persevere." from the film The Outlaw Jose Wales

"Hell is other people" Sartre (No Exit).  No, hell (and heaven) is our minds. We are not our thoughts, bodies  or our mind. We are much bigger....if we can remember. [Remember that hologramatic far edge of the expanding universe where in "we" are datamatrixes; points and waves both? No?, me either!]

"Did I fall asleep?" "Yes, for a little while."  from TV show Dollhouse.

See also Doris Lessing, The Four Gated City.

This is such a beautiful planet. Sometimes I enjoy just watching the shadows moving from West to East in this lobby.