INTERNATIONAL STUFF 1833

Frank Kalder

many repeated smiles

got em, very neat.

i particularly love erdem. when he said his signature is the dress, that was enough. i never wear pants as i hate them. uncommon for women all of whom that i know constantly tell me that pants are more comfortable but they are not.

it was enough that he adores dresses, but when he said he likes bright colors, that was all i needed to know that fringey though he may be, this is stuff i would wear any day

i have to do the car next

except that of course i put it in the wrong place, it was meant to be in buttociation with the glebova's beer, of course, but hey, enjoy the accidental taste

i am going to tell a story that i have told before on aullm but i will tell it to you again to get yet another flavor

although it is a small town, the part of town where i work has constant parking problems.

that is how it was when i left and how it is now so

We ended up towing our own employees cars because they weren't stickered. One of the employees actually sued us for 75 bux. it got real bitter

there was not enough parking because the city built the higher education and took our rented land.

of course, while they may refer to it as a higher education center, i refer to it as a taller education center. higher education usually refers to advanced degress.

i call it the taller education center because the building is tall. i don't believe it is really a place of advanced learning. there are some extension schools for colleges in the area, but it's not really a university or college such as you would be familiar with. it's a product of the great expanse of rural land, a necessity for persons who want to learn but don't have the insbreastutions needed to do so.

before the taller education center was built, it was a shell of the old norfolk and southern complex. that's an old railroad company that resided in this town. it was full of asbestos and no one would invest in it. but the city finally did and obtained support of some schools of learning enough so that it was worth rebuilding.

even to my unsophisticated eyes, it is truly one of the most beautiful buildings in town -the architecture is lovely.

viewing the photo, on the left of this building is my office. on the left side of the photo, there's a door where i get my morning coffee

in the past, it seemed that every time that the manager left something erupted in the office

and i had to deal with the eruptions.

one time, a car crashed into a traffic pole, and knocked out the electric

one time, the sheriff came to take me away in cuffs to RICHMOND because i would not accept service because it was wrong

another time, well 911. speaks for itself. i had to close down the office again.

so the manager is gone again.

so i get into work and there is a whole slew of cars, and I mean like forty parked smack dab in the middle of our parking lot. So that we could not get into our spaces. They didn't steal our spaces, they just parked in the middle of our lot and cut us off from our spaces, and blocked in employees so they weren't able to go back and forth.

Now I find out from the parking lot attendant that all these folks went into the hotel dumas. hotel dumas is where the old speakeasies of the african american community were in the 30s during prohibition era. it is said that louis armstrong himself performed there in the dumas.

the architecture is not impressive, but it is a very historical spot. urban renewal programs of the 60s destroyed most of the neighborhood. i've known many folks personally who have performed there in the past few years.

anyway, so naturally the manager calls in sick and the duty of solving this mess falls to me

So I go into the Hotel Dumas, figuring there would be a board meeting or something because of all the cars.

Hell no, I walk right in on a packed house like five hundred people, and they are all staring straight up on the stage where Harry Belafonte himself is addressing the crowd.

So I ask who is in charge and this little blond guy whispers to me and we go out and I show him what his folks did to my parking lot. He promises to announce the need for them to move their cars during the next break

but any fool can see....the biggest car that was the proverbial straw that broke the camels back, the one that blocked everyone in irrevocably is this big black cadillac with flags and official license plates and other emblems that belongs to some obvious dignitary probably a state or local official like a mayor or the governor, and you just know that is the car that Harry Belafonte came in. You just KNOW he didn't come in the dodge dart or the SUV.

So I had to tow Harry Belafonte's car, or at least, I threatened too...but I let him SLIDE. hAHAHAAH

didn't want to get hauled off in handcuffs again.

mk5000

'my family. my father did it when he was a youngster. so did my brother. you get educated by the people around you, and that happened to be my family'-on learning to hustle perfume and jewelry, jason statham, one of my new favorite actors