Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

This is really fun... my friend Joy, with whom I was on staff at ASP sent me this fun thing she found which was a list we kept of a horrible day we had where many things went wrong, which called our "loser day":

J & J's Loser Day - Tuesday, July 29th, 1997

1. Joy takes longcut
   

2. Group gets FIRED!
   

3. Haul makes funny noise.
   

4. Joy gets sucky drink (but drinks it anyway).
   

5. Group gets fired.
   

6. Family said we did sucky job and don't want us back.
   

7. Genie didn't take lumber (that they no longer need)
   

8. Went wrong way to get to Creasy's first.
   

9. Creasy's doesn't have underpinning.
   

10. Creasy's has 60 lb. bags of concrete. (not 80)
    

11. Can't find "easy to find" glass store.
    

12. Sawdust stinks & so does Rose Musk air freshener.
    

13. Creasy's charged us for 80 lb. bags so had to fix ticket = 20 minutes.
    

14. We see gross dead dog.
    

15. Haul's brake fluid completely empty - Garanimals?
    

16. Stepped in sump pump gunk.
    

17. Joy can't play "Silent Night."
    

18. Brake fluid spills all over car.
    

19. Sawdust in face.
    

20. Turn signal not work.
    

21. We go to West Virginia.
    

22. 84 lumber does not have underpinning or glass.
    

23. We don't get windshield and/or mirror fixed.
    

    BONUS** flirted with 2 car salesmen hotties in Princeton. :)
    

24. "You don't look like no squirt to me. You look pretty DAMN GOOD. Heh-heh." - to Joy @ Princeton Lowe's
    

    ----HELLO, Sexual harassment!
    

25. We have to open account @ this Lowe's apparently.
    

26. We say forget it, pay with check & leave.
    

27. Jenn smashes Joy's fingers with door.
    

28. Jenn closes door in Joy's face.
    

29. 33 mi. to Tazewell, then 24 mi, then 29 mi....
    

30. Joy forgets stop sign.
    

31. Haul makes more noises, runs low on brake fluid again. We crawl under Haul @ WalMart.
    

32. Need to go to glass company to get big window.
    

33. See "easy to find" John's on the way home from Princeton, W.V.

I'm sure most of this isn't funny to anyone, but you have to read it anyway because it's funny to me, and sometimes this site is only about entertaining myself. If you want to know more about each, click "see more".

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1. Joy takes longcut

Joy took a shortcut that turned out to take longer than the regular way, so it was a longcut.

2. Group gets FIRED!

We showed up at a family's house to check on the work, and no work crew because the family asked them to leave.

3. Haul makes funny noise.

Haul was the name of our van.

4. Joy gets sucky drink (but drinks it anyway).

I can't remember what this drink was but she hated it but felt guilty wasting it so drank it anyway.

5. Group gets fired.

Just a relisting of number 2.

6. Family said we did sucky job and don't want us back.

Same as 2 and 5.

7. Genie didn't take lumber (that they no longer need)

Our group that got fired didn't take the lumber that we bought for them in the morning hardware run.

8. Went wrong way to get to Creasy's first.

Got lost going to the gas station/hardware/plumbing supply/convenience store we used all the time.

9. Creasy's doesn't have underpinning.

They didn't have what we needed anyway.

10. Creasy's has 60 lb. bags of concrete. (not 80)

We had to buy more bags and do some math to figure out how much more because we usually bought 80 lb. bags.

11. Can't find "easy to find" glass store.

Dustin claimed there was a glass store which was easy to find, and we needed to get glass cut. But we couldn't find the easy to find glass store.

12. Sawdust stinks & so does Rose Musk air freshener.

Our van smelled like sawdust because as a prank another center's staff had filled it with sawdust. It stunk. We tried to cover it up with an air freshener but it didn't help.

13. Creasy's charged us for 80 lb. bags so 
had to fix ticket = 20 minutes.

Self explanatory. It took too long to fix.

14. We see gross dead dog.

Really gross.

15. Haul's brake fluid completely empty - Garanimals?

This means someone didn't check the fluids in the van in the morning, which we were supposed to do every day.

16. Stepped in sump pump gunk.

This was just gross.

17. Joy can't play "Silent Night."

I can't remember what this means or why we would be discussing a Christmas song in July.

18. Brake fluid spills all over car.

Inside of car, I believe.

19. Sawdust in face.

The sawdust was in the engine, in the ventilation system, everywhere. As we would drive, it would blow in our faces.

20. Turn signal not work.

This van had some issues.

21. We go to West Virginia.

This was all in search of underpinning and glass. We knew of another hardware store there and were semi-close.

22. 84 lumber does not have underpinning or glass.

This was the store in West Virginia. So, wasted trip.

23. We don't get windshield and/or mirror fixed.

Both were problems with the van but we wasted our day checking the brake fluid and driving all over to find supplies.

  BONUS** flirted with 2 car salesmen hotties in Princeton. :)

We needed directions.

24. "You don't look like no squirt to me. 
You look pretty DAMN GOOD. Heh-heh." 
- to Joy @ Princeton Lowe's

   ----HELLO, Sexual harassment!

Joy was wearing a yellow shirt that said "Squirt" on it, as in the soda.

25. We have to open account @ this Lowe's apparently.

This was a Lowe's in WV too I think, still looking for those supplies. Our normal Lowe's was on the other side of the county in Virginia.

26. We say forget it, pay with check & leave.

27. Jenn smashes Joy's fingers with door.

28. Jenn closes door in Joy's face.

29. 33 mi. to Tazewell, then 24 mi, then 29 mi...

These were road signs... in order... as we were driving toward Tazewell.

30. Joy forgets stop sign.

31. Haul makes more noises, runs low 
on brake fluid again.  We crawl under 
Haul @ WalMart.

Haul was bleeding brake fluid.

32. Need to go to glass company to get big window.

Decide to find some other glass company to get the window we need.

33. See "easy to find" John's on the way home from Princeton, W.V.

We had driven right by it way back at the beginning of the day without seeing it.

We think this was all topped off by seeing the other 2 staff members having a nice leisurely afternoon lunch at Pizza Hut on our way back to the center to shower and crash.