Claycord – Talk About Whatever – Oct.20, 2023

I agree about The Blair Witch Project, I couldn’t watch more than five minutes before turning it off. Some of my favorites are more of a psychological thriller than scary. Rosemary’s Baby, (1968) The Amityville Horror, (1979) Jaws, (1975) and The Birds, (1963).
For scary movies, The House Of Wax, (1953), and Night Of The Living Dead, (1968) were pretty good.

Carpenter’s Halloween is probably my favorite (not sure the Universal monsters are really scary, if so, the Creature from the Black Lagoon would be a tight second). Least favorite, so many it is difficult to say. Never saw blair witch, so can’t say that. I was not a fan of the Scream franchise (liked Scary Movie franchise, though), so I will say that.

“Creature from the Black Lagoon” yep! Excellent!.

Forget the scary movies… just watch the News!

the orig movie of phantom was; 1925
it’s excellent, worth ur time
watch on a rainy night in the dark…
😯

🎃 I couldn’t watch it now. I was young and fearless in the ‘60s.. Today, I’m a 🐓. Life is scary enough! Bram Stokers “Dracula” is well done, also, and worth the time. 👹

I skip the ads if the button shows up, but they have started interrupting the video to run quick ads. They are usually short and mostlyi tolerable. Some are worse than others. Some of he Rolling Stows most popular videos are riddled with ads. It’s not entirely Google’s fault. The artist’s get a cut and I’m’ sure some of them have agents working to their advantage. In some respects it’s very sad. It was a great source of free entertainment.

Where are they now? I know Garcia died, but I haven’t heard from them in years.

Hopefully I won’t have another day like that for quite a while. Someone commented they hoped today would be better. It was, my first customer had bought a red blouse at Fairfield Macy’s, but she needed one size bigger, and they computer said we had 2. I went over to the area where that brand was, no red blouse in size 8. I offered to order it for her, but she needed it for tonight. I suggested she checked the lower level, sometimes clothes migrate to other areas. After she left I decided to check out the area called “Last Act”, everything is reduced 60 percent or more, this blouse was not Last Act, never the less I found it there, and rushed downstairs hoping to find my customer, I didn’t see her, asked my manager if someone had inquired about a red blouse, no was the answer. Then I saw Janice, who does a lot of go backs and asked her if someone had inquired about a red blouse, she said yes, and led me to the customer, who was so happy she hugged me, and promised me she would go on Macy’s website and give me a 10 for my customer service. Made my whole day. Hope Dr. J liked this chapter as well. 😊

Dr. J My life is rather boring these days. In the mid eighties to late nineties it was much more exciting. Party week ends at the Scandinavian Club’s Clear Lake cabin, hikes with the Club, trips to Yosemite and the Gold Country, and perhaps the most exciting a huge Halloween party at the Swedich American Hall on Market and Castro about 300 people for 4 years I was Master of Ceremonies. Then of course there were the sixties, but that is a whole other story.

I try to do that for all customers. If any of you come to shop with me I promise I will do the same for you, no matter political disagreements. First of all I know how it is when you have you heart set on one particular outfit you want to wear, so I can identify. My experience in working retail is almost 95 percent of customers are nice and appreciate what you do. Then there is a small percent that can be difficult, but can be reasoned with, and then perhaps 2 percent or less, that no matter what you do they are not happy, always find soemething to complain about. Later in the day a new hire had a customer that had $20.00 coupon off $50.00 however it did not work on the sweater she was buying. She was very upset, I try to explain that coupons don’t work on everything and if the computer does not take it there is nothing we can do. She left upset. I asked the new hire if the customer had a Macy’s card, she said yes. I then scanned a different coupon and that one (25%) worked and it took $21.00 off the sweater. I saw the customer walk towards the shoe department, located on the same floor, so I went over and found her and told her if she paid with her Macy’s card she would save $21.00 she thanked me, but did not follow me to have the sweater rung up. I don’t think she came back for it, when I left 30 minutes later the sweater was still by the counter. You can;t please everyone.

When service such as what you did is rendered, I ask to speak with a manager !
Too often customers gripe and complain to management,
too seldom are managers informed when they have a valuable employee they have.
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Whenever you get service over and above, take time to be the exception and make sure person is brought to managements attention.

It is expensive and unreasonable but I bet you’ll do it anyway. You seem like you’d make a cool grandma.

generally speaking a very small portion from the private fund venues goes back to the school and such. I agree with “D”…..

I agree with you. It’s especially difficult for people with 2 or 3 kids in the school. Twenty bucks per child for stuff you don’t even want is too much, but you are obligated to buy something. Sometimes the classes have competitions on who can sell the most – putting more pressure on families. Uh, whatever happened to all that CA Lottery money the schools were supposed to get?

What a sh$t show! Took me an hour to get home. What I witnessed, people driving the wrong way down the road, intersections blocked for 5 light changes with no one moving, fights breaking out, horns honking constantly and I actually saw someone drive up on the side walk to try to pass through! Not one cop is sight! It would’ve been nice to have some police at some of these main intersections directing traffic at least. It was a crazy drive home with what I saw.