Customers can be and very often are, unreasonable, belligerent and a right royal pain in the proverbial.
I keep making and forgetting mind notes to touch base with Orwell, last seen/read Cambridge days.
Animal Farm, compulsive reading, It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed and, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon, the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before.
Certainly a "roman a clef", but the "clef" isn't exactly hidden under a bushel. Likewise for 1984, which I've just finished re-reading for the first time since I was a teenager. And that was a long, long, time ago.
Dostoyevsky foresaw Russia's future enslavement with his Karamazov, which I suggested to some kids last week.
Indeed, we are being asked (told, really) to accept what we know to be absurdities.
"Yes, I'll take 'American Politicians' for $1,000, Alex."
This response absolutely baffled me. How helpful is the internet? It took just a few minutes to find out about Alex Trebek and "Jeopardy", the game show.
Same stuff, a cursory search indicates. It went from prescription only to over-the-counter here in God’s Country in 2020. I’ve found it much more effective for relief of joint pain than oral NSAIDs. I’m guessing it’s safer, too, but I’ll go over that with the physician when I see him next week.
