Creatures of the Night, What News they Print
November 24th 2008 13:23
Once again I am sitting here and thinking about things.... This time though I have a beer on my desk! Not that I drink alcohol as if it were ambrosia and become a modern-day Oracle or anything; I just need some loosening up.
Regardless of what state I am in, it does strike me how different it is to live/work on the opposite side of the norm. As many people do all over the world, I work overnights. That means I sleep during the day when most normal people are out at the mall buying useless junk or texting their on-again off-again booty call. And some are actually at work too. In any case, driving is easier and the stores aren't as crowded for me which is a most definite plus.
And yet, I do feel a degree of resentment towards those daywalkers who can take their lunch break, go anywhere they please (as long as they don't get fired for coming back to work late or drunk, or worse), and wherever they go they are able to DO things. Normal things... Things that people do (see above). Me... if I had a lunchbreak, and trust me that is a rant in and of itself, I stay at work or I get picked up by the police for breaking and entering.
Also, I get phone calls at home while I am sleeping every day... usually with just enough time in between them so that I can just begin to snore. Most often they are trying to sell me car warranties or vacation plans, or even, and this one makes me laugh a little, trying to determine what groceries I buy and where I buy them. And When.... check that, IF I answer them, the first thing I say is I work overnights and you just woke me up. The responses I get are spectacular. It seems, because I am not a "daywalker", that most of these poor people I am gruff with can't process the idea that there are things that happen when they lay their heads upon their pillows and begin dreaming of the next "High School Musical" sequel.
For example, Newspapers, something I am familiar with (can anyone deduce where I work?). They are printed on gigantic machines which make a lot of noise and rumble with long streams of paper flowing through them. They are mostly done at night. While everyone is sleeping. Out of the normal sight/vision of those who read them. And yet most people, I don't think, recognize that when they open the folds of a paper and go scrambling to pick up all of the advertisements which are inserted into them; again while they sleep. It gets to me sometimes.
Anyway, rant over.... sorry I couldn't find a picture to make this post pretty or anything, but I have a six-pack to drink and a coffin to crawl into. This probably didn't make any sense anyway.
Regardless of what state I am in, it does strike me how different it is to live/work on the opposite side of the norm. As many people do all over the world, I work overnights. That means I sleep during the day when most normal people are out at the mall buying useless junk or texting their on-again off-again booty call. And some are actually at work too. In any case, driving is easier and the stores aren't as crowded for me which is a most definite plus.
And yet, I do feel a degree of resentment towards those daywalkers who can take their lunch break, go anywhere they please (as long as they don't get fired for coming back to work late or drunk, or worse), and wherever they go they are able to DO things. Normal things... Things that people do (see above). Me... if I had a lunchbreak, and trust me that is a rant in and of itself, I stay at work or I get picked up by the police for breaking and entering.
Also, I get phone calls at home while I am sleeping every day... usually with just enough time in between them so that I can just begin to snore. Most often they are trying to sell me car warranties or vacation plans, or even, and this one makes me laugh a little, trying to determine what groceries I buy and where I buy them. And When.... check that, IF I answer them, the first thing I say is I work overnights and you just woke me up. The responses I get are spectacular. It seems, because I am not a "daywalker", that most of these poor people I am gruff with can't process the idea that there are things that happen when they lay their heads upon their pillows and begin dreaming of the next "High School Musical" sequel.
For example, Newspapers, something I am familiar with (can anyone deduce where I work?). They are printed on gigantic machines which make a lot of noise and rumble with long streams of paper flowing through them. They are mostly done at night. While everyone is sleeping. Out of the normal sight/vision of those who read them. And yet most people, I don't think, recognize that when they open the folds of a paper and go scrambling to pick up all of the advertisements which are inserted into them; again while they sleep. It gets to me sometimes.
Anyway, rant over.... sorry I couldn't find a picture to make this post pretty or anything, but I have a six-pack to drink and a coffin to crawl into. This probably didn't make any sense anyway.
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