RRR 4/7

Tue, 23 Nov 2004

Today was a very good day. I arrived at my corner at about 6:33 PM on Monday and stayed till 7:54 PM. I got four honks from people driving south, four from people going north, 8 from people going east and 1 from someone going west. I also got three thumbs up (2 from cars and one from a pedestrian.)

Shortly after setting up shop Clint, an employee of Red Robin, came out in his street clothes to shoot the breeze with me for awhile and ask me if I wanted to go to a Health Card class with him the following day.

Then after that I got many more visitors. Becky, the manager for the night, came out to see me, Marissa, the creepy girl down the street, brought her equally creepy roommate to meet me and try and convince to come home with them, and then the highlight fortnight happened.... My friends Nate, Elias, and Andrew stopped by. They (Elias and Nate) came out and did cartwheels and held signs and yelled at cars passing by while Andrew stood in the back with his arms tucked into his T-shirt (I guess he was cold or something and didn't really want to be seen with us since he still works for the Red Robin we were protesting in front of.) Anyway it was great to have a big crowd and that's when the people from the restaurant (employees) came out to kick it, we even had a cameo by freaking MARIETTE GUIDRY!!! It was great, I wish all my days could be that fun. So after Nate, Elias, and Andrew left Clint came back out to stand with me until my CD ran out and we were harmonizing to Oasis' "Wonderwall."

So after I left my corner, I went to work out, and when I got out of the gym I saw that I had a new voice mail. When I listened to it I was elated to hear that it was some guy from Red Robin Inc. telling me that he was calling in response to some complaints he had heard and to give him a call at some 1-800 number. At the time I didn't really think it was weird that he was calling me at 10 at night or that his message was somewhat mumbled, I was just excited that I had got a reaction out of the company. It wasn't until later that evening at our poker game that I realized/found out that it was actually Nate who had called and left a bogus message on my phone. I was slightly crestfallen at the time, but hopefully with a little time I'll be able to get a genuine angry message of my very own.

Shout outs:

I just want to say "what up" to melissa. It was really cool of you to come and make amends after you made a huge Samoan ass out of yourself.

To Carhart and KEXP for sponsoring me in my time of need. For today's best mix of oldies and newbies make sure to tune to KEXP!!

And to Ms. Guidry: Good luck with that new phone, make sure you store me under ASIAN DREAMBOAT.

Joe