Look no further, readers!
Tonight at Retail Job, a coworker accidentally knocked a 36″ x 12″ x 6″ hunk o’ plexiglass onto my unsuspecting head.
The plexiglass bounced off and fell to the floor.
There’s a song for such occasions:
While Steven Demetre Georgiou/Cat Stevens/Yusef Islam was a lovely man…
… I *polite cough* don’t relish his performance style. So, I’d recommend the above, tacky-looking video over the live version below. Good song either way, nice to hear strong women being acknowledged in song… … 35 years ago.
I’d better lie down now.
He always reminds me of one of those bobbing hula girls on the dashboard.
P.S. I hope you don’t end up with a bruise on your lovely shorn head.
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Rebekah Reply:
August 4th, 2011 at 9:33 PM
He makes hula girls look stoic and tense. One could get seasick.
I didn’t mind getting thwacked from great height— they sent me home two hours early! Which is awesome, if you don’t relish organizing body products at your local mall all night for minimum wage.
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Ouch- and no hair to pad your noggin either. You’re having an awful lot of adventures lately.
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Rebekah Reply:
August 4th, 2011 at 9:35 PM
And might I add that these adventures all suck? At least this one ended happily.
After the girl knocked the heavy plexiglass on me, and apologized profusely and asked “ARE YOU BLEEDING?” I said, “Well, you’d know if I were.” Shorn heads don’t keep secrets.
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Did you check out Elvis’s Hard Headed Woman? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRipt8GJ9GQ
Cat Stevens, aka,whatevermuslimnamehetook, supported the Ayatolleh’s contract on Salman Rushdie. I could never much deal with Cat after that.
BTW, some of those ‘weeds’ might still be plants. I’d need closeups.
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Rebekah Reply:
August 30th, 2011 at 8:43 PM
I remember the Elvis song—- what’s more, I bet Cat Stevens heard it.
“Cat Stevens, aka,whatevermuslimnamehetook, supported the Ayatolleh’s contract on Salman Rushdie. I could never much deal with Cat after that.”
Quite the turn-off, eh?
Some of the weeds are plants— a couple of bushes sprouted lavender blossoms. I’m starting with the endless Known Weeds. This lady adored gardening, I bet the yards were beautiful when she was here.
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If I remember my notes from Junior year physics correctly, it’s actually better if, when you are struck by something, that it bounces off of you. If the plexiglass were to have broken, it means that your dome would have absorbed the impact, resulting in a heapin’ helpin’ of greater hurtin’. However, when an object bounces some of that energy is transferred off of you and back into the object. Still hurts, but not as much.
Once, I dropped an empty-but-really-huge coffee pot on my mouth. It hurt like sin so you have my deepest sympathies, girl!
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