RANT HERE

[Peter Voice]

Excuse me Eric, I'm still screaming here.
Pls can your used car quotes and girl friend comparisons wait?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggghh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

[jester]

Originally posted by Peter Voice

You really don't want to know why.

Actually I might take great pleasure in it.. Please tell..

[Doctor Eric]

I apologize, Peter. Continue, please.

[Peter Voice]

Thank you,
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That feels a lot better

[jester]

Now don't hold back. We're still listening. Let it all out now, I think theres still some more to come isn't there?

[Rachel Peters]

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hi. i'm squeezing in ehre for a second. I hope it's not too rude of me to inturrupt someone else's screaming. Forgive me. I'll be gone in a moment and you can continue screaming.

I started a thread called, "k, here's the thing..." and Scot redirected me here, since it was a rant.

I felt like a dork for complaining about my work place, right after I made that rant... but then... THEN!!! JUST NOw....

well, I have this banana on my desk. It's so old that it's funny. It's black and it's leathery, and it's past the point of "bad". It doesn't smell and it doesn't even look like a banana anymore. I love it. I found it that way in teh fridge when I started working here and nobody knows how old it is.

about 5 months ago I started an experiment in teh fridge with another banana. It was neatly wrapped and labelled with clear, polite instructions to please not throw it away. Everybody knew about it, and respected the "if it's labelled we won't throw it out" rule. It was out of the way and not at all irritating to anyone. I wanted to see just how long it would take to develop another pertified banana. Today someone was cleaning out the fridge. I said, "please don't throw out my banana." "What banana?" "The banana right th..... right over th...... "

Someone threw out my friggen banana!!!

It may sound like a small thing to care about... but... it... it was special. And I want to cry. That was a good half a year of patience on my part, and it's GONE. I think that banana was the closest thing I'll ever have to a child. ...ok, that was over the top. But COMMON!!

[Rachel Peters]

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forgive me. i'm getting over the banana thing. in time i may learn to grow fond of another rotten fruit. ...the site of bananas still tugs at my heart from time to time, but that sharp, stabbing pain will ease. i know it will.

please. continue on with the "AAAAA" ing.

Thank you.

sincerely,

cracked peters.

[Barry]

RIP banana

hey rachel,
i understand completely, how dare they? i myself had a pet salsa for many many years, picked it up in mexico on a trip with my dad in 1979. traveled with it from house to house for some years. in 1987, just to be safe i put a warning label on it stating "do not eat". so that no one would hurt themselves, and also so that that no one would hurt my beloved jar of salsa. it was still packed carefully with my belongings when i left the states to live in europe in 1995. subsequently, all of my belongings which were in storage had been scattered about. every now and then, i wonder how my salsa is getting on or if it is still longer with is.

sorry to hear about the loss of your banana, and sorry too, to hear that people could be so cruel.

as you stated before you work in an artistic enviornment that feels more like an accounting house. terribly terribly strange.

get well soon

[Rachel Peters]

so long, salsa

Oh, Barry.
As much as I don't wish this pain of loss on anyone, it is comforting to know that someone understands.
Whether spiced tomato, or banana -- losing any pet fruit is like losing a little of oneself.

You know... I just realized that your salsa would now be as old as me.
DUDE! Maybe I'M you're salsa!!!
I always wondered why I looked nothing like my parents.
I should tape a label to myself, so nobody gets injured.



-rp

[Barry]

baby, you hot!

hey,
you know it is true, not many know or understand the loss of one´s dearest fruit. it does comfort me somewhat to share my experience. your the first person i have related the salsa story to in a long time.

it amuses me that you could be my pet salsa, though. and if true this would explain the lack of resemblance to one´s supposed parents. (would also make me wonder how you got so far away as canada)

sounds like kind of a strange pick-up line now that i think about it..."baby, i could be your salsa!"

on a serious note, however, i have the distinct feeling that in your case the label wouldn´t help...people would probably still get hurt. be especially wary of a label that says do no throw away. people around the office might be heard to say, "what rachel?"

-barry

[Rachel Peters]

post-it

Next time they clean out the fridge I think I will stick a post-it on myself, just to make a statement.

...does salsa ferment?

You could have had the finest salsa wine this side of... wherever you are.

[Barry]

fresh fruit for rotting vegetables

you know, i had no idea wheteher the salsa was just getting better or becoming toxic. though i imagine after about 10 years it might no longer be a foodstuff. i do know that at a certain point the idea of eating it was sort of like eating an old freind and i didn´t have the heart.

(like the two canibals at a dinner party, the one turns to his friend and says "you know, john. I really hate my father. his buddy replies, try the pasta)

i think you should definitely put a post it on your own forehead anyway, after looking at your site and reading you rant, the post-it idea just seems to fit.

-b

oh, by the way, "wherever, i am" is köln, in darkest deutschland

[jesus]

Get a room guys

[Rachel Peters]

ranting finished.

I belong elsewhere now.

adieu.

[Barry]

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