all set
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Miscellaneous goings-on
Just got off the phone with AirTran from booking our flights for the Boston trip... so now we're all set! For some reason, my credit card was declined!!? Ugh... just got off the phone with the credit card company... found out that I used the wrong freaking account to pay my bill last month -- the minimum had already been paid, I was just trying to make an extra payment on it-- and I selected the wrong checking account!?!?! ARGH!!!!!! I've been doing so well with managing my money, too... I'm so pissed off that I did something so stupid. And not only did my credit card company try to send the payment once; they sent it TWICE and it didn't go through!!! So now my bank has charged me TWICE for them trying to put that amount through. I am SO MAD. Since it's technically my fault, they both say "too bad, so sad". *sigh* Oh well, I'll figure it out and fix things when I get the next bill from them. I can't pay my bill online since that happened now; I have to send it in via mail or I can have them take the payment over the phone -- for the great price of $16.95! Yeah, right! You have already cost me enough! I think that my new goal is going to be paying off that particular credit card, because the interest rates are absolutely RIDICULOUS! I'll stick with my beloved Capital One card, they don't let me down.

Oh well.

Back to my post for today.

I found out some potentially great news about work, but I'm going to have to wait for the big reveal. ;) Work today was decent, Mr. McAnnoying has been in a bad mood so he hasn't been talking to me. I was pretty busy today... had a lot of descriptions to type. I really like my new computer & monitor... it's 100 x better than the old one. It has an updated version of Office (2003) on it, it has a couple new features, but most of those programs are basically the same anyway.

Well, it's almost time for Idol, and Jack Bauer is on after sweet Idol, so I must depart. Going to be a busy rest-of-the-week, I have Hubcaps tomorrow night, Roomful of Blues Thursday night, and Bull Roast on Friday night. Maybe I'll have time to post from work. :)

happy friday
Mood:  celebratory
Now Playing: Lisa Marie Presley
Topic: Weekend happenings
This will be a quick post, since I'll be leaving work in a few minutes.

Les Mis was awesome... if there are still tickets to any shows available, you should go see it. The Hippodrome is absolutely gorgeous... I was slightly annoyed however by the guy sitting next to me that felt the urge to keep typing on his PDA device during the performance. Granted, it wasn't making any noise, but it lit up and it was distracting. During the first part of the second act, the people sitting behind us were eating something from a crinkly plastic bag and that was annoying, too. But the show was great! Our seats were fantastic, too. The creative genious that must have gone into lighting and sets was spectacular.

This weekend will be so nice... I'm really looking forward to warmer temperatures. :) Not sure what the plans are for tomorrow, but it will probably be the birthday dinner that Kurtis is making for me. Sunday I'm going to my mom's for dinner, so that should be nice... I'm picking up my grandfather on the way, too -- I haven't seen him in a few months, so it will be good to see him.

Well, I have to get back to work......... hope everyone has a nice weekend!

long time no post
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Joss Stone (she is mon-ey!!)
Topic: Miscellaneous goings-on
Okay, I'm going to try to at least do an entry every other day, even if it's only a paragraph. As far as I know, we don't have the monitoring software yet and things may not be quite as bad as expected. I think that the only reason they will pull anything up on you is if people are complaining that you're on the internet a lot. They aren't going to just pull up stuff on EVERYONE every single day; that would take too much time.

Let's see... what's been going on? I have to apologize for the entry before this one, we have to use this stupid-ass font that you can't read at work now and I'd typed in it when I copied it to the blog.... I'll have to use Arial or something like that when I'm going to be cutting & pasting, sorry! That's why the characters came out all screwy.

Monday night we saw Joe Bonamassa at Ram's Head... it was an awesome show... so awesome that I wanted to see him play at the Recher Wednesday night, but that didn't happen. Tuesday I turned on the TV for American Idol and found that my Tuesday night TV ritual got all F'd up because the president wanted to have a press conference (and he pretty much reiterated everything he has said in every other press conference he's ever had)!! Just for that I'm not voting for him, lol... so I had to watch Idol last night and my favorite show 24 has been moved to Sunday night. That SUCKS! I hardly ever watch TV on Sundays (except of course during football season) and I'm afraid that I'll forget it's on. Well, I probably won't since I'm so obsessed, but you never know.

Tuesday I met with an advisor at the community college; his name was Mike Chase - what a great guy! He made me feel really comfortable and a lot more confident about what I'm about to undertake, hehe. He said that I fit the profile of the college's most successful students and he has found that people in my situation (mid 20's, working and have attempted college before) typically do the best. 3 of my classes from Chesapeake will transfer there (9 credits), my A in Theatre, and my B's in Business and Fund of Oral Comm. Classes. So I'm already 1/6th of the way there! ;-) We decided that it will be best for me to start classes in the fall, although he thought that I am capable of taking the more intensive summer courses. Fortunately, the only aptitude test that I have to take is their math test, and I don't have to take it right away, I can wait until I've taken a semester or two of classes. I'm eligible for their English class as it stands now... so this will be my 3rd time taking Composition, lol. Third time's the charm, right? I've decided that I'll take English and Psychology my first semester... that way I can refresh myself on writing papers and I'll be interested in my psychology class.

Getting to the right place for my meeting was a bit of an adventure... Tuesday it was pouring down rain (gee, like almost every day this week) and I had no umbrella. I proceeded to walk into the wrong building and explore 3 floors before finally asking someone where the admissions office was. I was directed to another building probably 200 yards away, which seemed like a mile in the crappy weather. So I was pretty soggy when I went in for my appointment. Maybe he was so nice just because I looked pitiful, lol.


Yesterday (Wednesday), Kurtis and I met Nick at Waugh Chapel for dinner (I had breakfast) at Bob Evan's and then coffee at Caribou Coffee afterwards. It was a nice time, and I liked the d?cor of the coffee shop... it was styled after a hunting lodge, sans animal heads. It reminded me a little of Lake Tahoe.


Tonight Kurtis is taking me to see Les Miserabl?s at the Hippodrome in Baltimore (as an early birthday present). I'm really excited about it; I've never seen a REAL show, although I'm familiar with the music from a lot of Broadway shows.

Ahh... on to my article/essay. It's kind of at a stand-still right now. I haven't really felt like working on it, and I'm going to go in a different direction with it. Jeff, I appreciate your critiques, but I do think you may have been a bit over-critical. I'm writing this for fun, even though I may enter it into a contest... I'd posted earlier (maybe a few weeks ago) that I was thinking about entering an essay contest for Glamour magazine, it was to tell your life story - or tell a story related to your life in some way; something that helped form who you are now... along those lines. I do agree that my humor is a bit cynical. Looking back, I think that asking for an opinion on an unfinished work was a bit foolish on my part, because some things that I'm explaining make more sense further into the story/essay - i.e. trying to escape. I guess you could say that the theme that will run through the story is how I've always been trying to escape from something and how I finally stopped running away (from problems, life, etc.). Yes, I appreciate seeing things from a "different" view, but my intentions of this writing isn't as much about relationships with other people as it is my relationship with myself. Hopefully you can understand a little bit more. I'm not interested in winning anything (although that would be nice), I'm doing it more for my personal enrichment or to better my mental health, you could say. This essay thing is 3,000 words or less, and so far I have only about 700, so I have a lot of room to work with.

As far as you becoming a teacher, Jeff, if you'd like to do something like that, I applaud you... it takes a special person to become a teacher -it's very hard work. My best friend Stef teaches English at SSU (I guess that's SU now) and is working on her Master's. Have you ever taken any courses related to teaching? I think that since teachers may utilize different methods (thinking or creatively speaking) from their students, it may be difficult to balance their opinions. I hope that I explained that well enough, I'm having trouble putting it into words, I guess.

Well, it's back to work for me... I've allotted my daily slack-off allowance, haha. I'm really looking forward to this weekend and some warm weather!!

No entry for yesterday!
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: LC -- I am the rain
Topic: Introspection
Well, I'm getting in my internet time while I can, hehe. I'm at lunch anyway, so it's not that big of a deal. Everyone is in the CAD meeting right now where they will learn of the big brother stuff.

Thanks to everyone who has commented in my blog! I went from having 0 comments a few months ago to regular comments... it's really nice. :) BTW, my thoughts & heart go out to my friend Jeff and his fiance who are expecting a baby girl in June, she is having some problems with her pregnancy. Everything is going to be fine, though! I just know it is. ;-)

I feel kind of blah today... the weather is gorgeous so that brightened my mood some. I did a little self-therapy last night which was cleansing, but also emotionally exhausting. I think that I'll make an appointment to see my therapist soon, even though I just saw her last week, lol. Lots of stuff is going on, nothing bad really, just change. Just because everything is going well doesn't mean there isn't more work to be done. I don't want to be one of those people who is constantly in crisis. I like to be prepared for whatever emotions surface, because something completely unrelated to what is happening can bring up other things. Pretty weird.

Well, I've worked a little bit more on my essay, so here is the first page for your enjoyment:

My story is one of self-improvement and resilience, but also dumb luck. I say dumb luck because it is dumb luck that I've survived to be 24 years old (which I turned on the 19th of April). In my 24 years, I've experienced more than some (sheltered) people have in their lifetime. It is astonishing that I arrived at this age essentially unscathed! That is not to say that I am "normal" or that I didn't suffer throughout the journey. I can't change the past and wouldn't want to; since I would be someone different from the person I am today. Two years ago I would have given anything to be someone else, but after a year of therapy and introspection, I realize that being me isn't so bad. I'm still not where I would like to be, but I am finally on the right track and that is enough for me.

I grew up on the outskirts of a small town on the eastern shore of Maryland: an urban retiree's dream, but a teenager's nightmare. My parents decided to move to Denton from their house in Glen Burnie; a suburb of Baltimore. I've spent much of my life trying to get away from Denton. If I wasn't plotting my escape, I was daydreaming of the freedom that would soon be mine: to hang out whenever I wanted at Marley Station. Everyone needs a dream, right? At that point in time I knew that a successful future meant dropping out of school and working at a minimum wage job to support my black hair dye addiction. Maybe if I was really lucky I could even afford a few tattoos and body piercings.

I had two unsuccessful attempts fleeing Denton, once by car and once with my friend via bicycle. On my first try, I made it twelve miles to what was then a shop that sold seafood and is now a place called Cutesy Country Crap. I'm sure that it's really a front for the KKK and they just spelled it with C's to be politically correct. You'll still find a higher than average population of racists in Caroline County (mostly in trailer parks) - or should I say Karoline Kounty? I was fortunate enough to have parents who accept people regardless of race, but a lot of native folks keep bigotry alive.

My first attempted escape was with my best friend Stefani when we were in eighth grade. For reasons now beyond my understanding, she and I were inspired to ride our bikes to Annapolis by the then-popular song "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum. It wasn't until five years later that I finally recognized, "Wrong way on a one-way track" meant that you shouldn't run away, right? "Run away, but it always seems the same," means that you can't run away from your problems. It was a simple concept, but apparently not simple enough for our 13-year-old minds to understand. We did make it pretty far considering the forces working against us; a group of quacking ducks threatening to wake up Stefani's parents and a drizzly night in the low 50's.

On my second getaway at age 17, I made it all the way to the Americana Circle apartments across from Marley Station mall: only a five-minute drive from where I currently reside. I was so close to fulfilling my dream of becoming a professional Mallrat! If it weren't for that reprehensible father of mine, I might still be working at Auntie Anne's (note to Auntie Anne's employees: I love the pretzels, but Hot Topic was more my style - no hard feelings?). As further evidence of my destiny, I had my first car (an '84 Toyota Supra) break down right in front of where I now work!

My family history is a rather complicated matter. I will begin with my father who some would describe as an extraverted nonconformist intellectual. My parents separated when I was a wee lass and my father was held generally responsible for raising me. Dad owned a camera repair business at the time and I would sit with him at his workbench as he labored over broken Nikons, bitching about people who took their cameras to the beach. He loved explaining how things worked and would draw diagrams or create models for me using whatever was within reach. Salt and pepper shakers, envelopes, and napkins were his tools of choice.


That's it so far. Any suggestions? I will probably end up changing it a hundred times... and to be honest, I won't post the finished product for fear of angering certain members of my family, or I'll post a severely edited version. I'm attempting to write in a humorous manner, so if it seems that I'm being too callous about some things, try not to take it personally.

Everything is starting to fall into place..
Mood:  energetic
Now Playing: Clay Aiken
Topic: Introspection
I just scheduled my appointment to meet with a career counselor at Anne Arundel community college! I'm going next Tuesday (13th)... I'm very excited about it.

I know that I'll have quite a few years to decide on what career would be best for me, so I don't want to have everything pegged down to an exact outcome. Right now the careers that are most interesting to me are the PR specialist, copy writer/publicity writer or one of the counseling options (psychology, career counselor, etc). My aunt works as a publicity writer for Weyerhauser and does marketing/PR stuff for them... I'll have to ask her more about her job. That looks like the most realistic opportunity for me at this point in time... I'll be utilizing my best talents (writing, communications, etc.) and I could combine it with sociology and psychology in determining target groups and that kind of stuff. It makes sense to me! You know the funny thing is that the very first class I took in college (Chesapeake) was an oral communications & speech writing class... my professor told me that I was very good at it and that I should strongly consider a career in that field. Ahh... if only I'd listened to her and worked harder... I'd have a degree by now! Oh well. I think that my experience in the working world has helped me a lot... I know what I enjoy doing and what I don't enjoy doing, and I've worked with a wide variety of people. Well, I have to get back to work now... I got an email from Uche, (pretty lame) so I'll have to post that soon.

Careers for my personality type
Mood:  not sure
Topic: Introspection
I've just finished my "Do what you are" book and I feel pretty weird to be honest. No wonder I hate my job so much! I'll post some of my notes on my personality type:

STRENGTHS:
Innovative thinkers, good problem solvers
Can combine their talents with interests and abilities of others
Can find success in whatever interests them
Good at putting the right people into the right positions or tasks
Motivate others with infectious enthusiasm and energy

WEAKNESSES:
May not be well organized or good at setting priorities
Have trouble following through on details of a project
May become bored and easily sidetracked
Don't usually enjoy anything repetitive or routine
Usually less effective working alone

Let's see... my job is repetitive, boring, routine... it requires good organizational skills and having follow-through. It is apparent to me now that I'm going to have to find something else to do in the meantime; I may be good at my job when I want to be, but it is too repetitive and I have to deal with difficult people.

I also have a list of career satisfaction for my personality type... I'll pick out a few things and comment on my current use of those.

As an ENFP, career satisfaction means doing work that:

1. Lets me meet new people, learn new skills and continually satisfy my curiousity. None of that at Harms. Sometimes I get to meet new people, but those times are few and far between. Any kind of new skill that I've had to learn with my job I've learned in an hour and become bored with almost immediately.

2. Lets me create new ideas, products, services or solutions to problems that will help other people and then see my projects become reality. If I create anything new, it isn't rewarded or noticed.

3. Is consistent with my personal beliefs & values and lets me create opportunities that benefit others. Gee, let me think. I work with engineers that have all the personality of a brick. I value people who are a little more normal. There are a few people there that I respect, but they are in the minority. Also, I have a problem with a company that keeps a chauvinistic asshole who disappears for hours on end and has sexually harrassed half the women at the office.

4. Rarely requires me to handle the follow-through, routine details, or maintenance of a system or project. Like my daily work.

5. Work at my own pace and schedule with a minimum of rules or structure and the freedom to act spontaneously. At 8:45 "Lauren, this is a rush, can you get it to me by 9?" Umm... no, I can't! I'm going to do the other things I had planned before I even look at your work!

6. Is fun, challenging and always varied. I know that some people could do my job for the rest of their life and be quite content with the challenges each new day brings -- typing forms, doing proposals, making copies and filing. I'm sure that there is someone out there that thinks those things are fun! Not me. The only time that I enjoy my job is when I'm going Fuzz's CCEPS stuff and I get to correspond with the members. (hey, I'm getting some ideas here...)

7. Is done in a friendly & relaxed environment with humor, goodwill and a minimum of interpersonal conflict. I'm bolding & italicizing this one because it's a biggie for me. I used to be funny all the time at work, and I still try to a certain extent.. but due to the lack of goodwill, hostile environment and constant interpersonal conflict, I find it quite difficult to maintain an upbeat attitude.

8. Allows me the freedom to follow my inspirations and participate in exciting and intriguing adventures. Haha!!!!

9. Is done in an environment that appreciates and rewards enthusiasm, ingenuity and imagination. The idea of enthusiasm at work is who plays the martyr the best. Who works the latest, who takes on the most projects, who thinks that they're the best. Imagination is not an option. We even have to use 12 point Arial font for everything.

10. Lets me work with a diverse group of people on a variety of projects, motivated by creative inspiration. Well, I certainly work with a diverse group of people... it's just that they aren't diverse in the right ways.


I have an extensive list of careers that were suggested for my personality type and guess what? Secretary or Administrative duties appears nowhere!! The closest thing to my current job is a Human Resource Manager, lol. Yeah, it's a little different than typing and filing. My personality type is best at dealing with people, being creative, or having an effect on people in some way, shape or form.

Here are the main occupations that I am primarily considering:

Columnist
Screenwriter
Copy writer
Public Relations Specialist *
Social Scientist
Psychologist *
Addictions Counselor *
EAP Counselor (employee assistance program)

The *'d selections are fields that I'd thought of pursuing before. I would really like to go into psychology, but the incredible amount of school that you have to go through is a little daunting for me.

Here are some other options that I am considering:
Journalist (doubtful, but I'm putting it up here anyway)
Musician/Composer (lack the discipline, although it's a great hobby)
Newscaster (chance to use my public speaking skills!)
Reporter/Editor for magazine
Marketing consultant
Career counselor
Social worker (that would be too depressing, I think)
Conference Planner (I may try something like this as an interrim job)


Well I'm getting kinda sleepy, so I think that it's time to sign off. Of course I missed my Saturday cut-off by an hour. :P~ Daylight savings time starts, too. That is NOT going to be fun on Monday.

I am so money!
Mood:  celebratory
Now Playing: Clay Aiken -- Invisible
Topic: Friends and Family
I found my hotel and I got an incredible deal on it... the cheapest that I can find it on any other travel site is $179 a night -- and I got it for half that!!! I'm paying $85 a night for the Hyatt Regency in Boston's financial district. See, my persistence paid off! :):):):):):) It's a 4 star hotel, by the way. ;-) It's a little over a mile from my cousin's house, but it's within walking distance... and I know that I could stand to lose a few pounds. Besides, Boston in June is mon-ey!

Tonight me, Kurt & Blaine are going to see Several Species who are a Pink Floyd cover band... they're playing at the Recher theatre. I swear it rains every friggin time I go there. Kurt is talking about not going... I hope that he does, but I don't want him to be miserable if he does go.

Well, I've gotta get outta here... I'll post this weekend if I can, otherwise I'll see you on Monday!

Personality type
Mood:  cheeky
Now Playing: Jonny Lang -- Red Light (the cd is fine, him live is not!)
Topic: Introspection
To go along with my topic the other day of figuring out what kind of career that I would be good at and enjoy, I'm readying a book called "Do what you are" which was covered with dust sitting on the bookshelf. I haven't gotten very far other than identifying my personality type; which I think nails me down just about perfectly. Believe it or not, I can be optimistic and confident at times! I think that I'm getting back to more of my 'true self'... I found myself laughing at times reading the book when it was describing different traits. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that this is my personality type, although I'm going to explore some other possibilities.

Pay attention, people! I'm giving you some deep insight into my psyche!!

ENFP
Extraverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving
Approximately 5 percent of the American population

ENFPs are full of enthusiasm and new ideas. Optimistic, spontaneous, creative, and confident, they have original minds and a strong sense of the possible. For an ENFP, life is an exciting drama.

Because they are so interested in possibilities, ENFPs see significance in all things and prefer to keep lots of options open. They are perceptive and keen observers who notice anything out of the ordinary. ENFPs are curious; they prefer to understand rather than judge.

Imaginative, adaptable and alert, ENFPs value inspiration above all else and are often ingenious inventors. They are sometimes nonconformists, and are good at seeing new ways of doing things. ENFPs open up new avenues for thought or action...and then keep them open!

In carrying out their innovative ideas, ENFPs rely on their impulsive energy. They have lots of initiative and find problems stimulating. They also get an infusion of energy from being around other people, and can successfully combine their talents with the strengths of others.

ENFPs are charming and full of vitality. They treat people with sympathy, gentleness, and warmth and are ready to help anyone with a problem. They can be remarkably insightful and perceptive, and they often care about the development of others. ENFPs avoid conflict and prefer harmony. They put more energy into maintaining personal relationships than into maintaining objects, and they like to keep a wide assortment of relationships alive.

Possible Blind Spots

Since they find it so easy to generate ideas, ENFPs have difficulty focusing on just one thing at a time and can have trouble making decisions. They see so many possibilities that they have difficulty selecting the best activity or interest to pursue. Sometimes they make poor choices or get involved with too many things at once. Carefully choosing where they will focus their energy helps ENFPs avoid wasting their time and squandering their considerable talents.

To an ENFP, the fun part of a project is the initial problem solving and creation of something new. They like to exercise their inspiration on the important and challenging parts of a problem. After this stage, they often lose interest and lack the self-discipline necessary to complete what they've started. They are likely to start many projects but finish few. ENFPs have more to show for their efforts when they follow through with the necessary but tedious parts of a project until it is completed. Often writing important facts or steps down on paper helps them keep from getting sidetracked.

Often ENFPs are not particularly well organized. They can benefit from learning and applying time management and personal organizational skills. They do well when they team up with other more realistic and practical people. This usually suits them fine anyway, since ENFPs don't like working alone, especially for extended periods of time. They find working with another person, even on a less interesting phase of a project, far preferable to working alone.

ENFPs are not much interested in details. Since they are more excited about using their imagination and creating something original, they may not bother to collect all the information they need in order to carry out a particular activity. Sometimes they just improvise on the spot, instead of planning and preparing ahead. Because they find information gathering tedious, ENFPs run the risk of never getting past the "bright idea" stage or, once started, never finishing. Always restless, they'd rather put off dealing with troublesome details and move on to something else new or unusual. ENFPs are more effective when they consciously attend to the actual world around them and gather more realistic impressions to make their innovations workable.

it's almost friday!
Mood:  cool
Now Playing: Sports Junkies -- 24th in DC ratings
Topic: Miscellaneous goings-on
Last night was interesting... Kurt & I had a discussion about career choices and that kind of stuff. He's been warning me about getting comfortable here and settling for something less than what I should be doing. He's right, but I'm just not sure what direction I want to go. I'll be enthusiastic about something for a while, but then I'll change my mind. About the only thing that's been a constant is something in the counseling/psychology field, but I don't think that I have the discipline to follow through with the education. I'm not sure if it's me thinking that I can't do it or just being lazy. Going to school full-time is not an option for me, so I don't really know what to do about that. I know that I'm eventually going to have to complete college and I've grown pretty complacent when it comes to that. Kurt told me that he had some books on determining your personality type and what kind of career you should go into. I'm going to read them and then evaluate where I'm at. I've been saying that I'm going to update my resume, but haven't done it yet. I don't want to leave Harms until I have a solid plan for the future, because as much as the people annoy me and as much as I get stressed out and pissed off, I make good money and it's a convenient place to work. I have a lot of flexibility as far as taking time off and it's also close to home.

Speaking of work, I was checking on my 401k today and I'm doing pretty well! It looks like I got in at the right time... a lot of people lost a lot of money when the tech boom went bust, but now those things are picking up steam again. I haven't had much growth so far this year (only 4% so far), but my investments have grown by 32% since the inception last year. Pretty damn good!

There are a few new things on Engrish.com that I'm sure you'll enjoy. :) I'll be back later today.

Etiquette hell and lunchtime accidents
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: Picture -- Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow
Topic: Jokes & Funny stuff
As I was coming out of my therapist's office during lunch today, I witnessed the tail-end of an accident at the Route 2 (Ritchie Hwy) and Woods Road. I heard a loud crash and looked up to see that a high-end SUV (either a Lexus or Mercedes; couldn't tell because the front end was rather smooshed) had plowed into a crappy old Dodge Neon (probably a mid 90's model). Well these three women pile out of the Neon and they're all like, "I don't believe she hit us!" "She ran the light" and were generally bitchy. I'm sure that I would be, too had I gotten hit, but they had a real attitude about it. Of course it was Suzy Soccer Mom in her expensive SUV that hit them, so I'm sure that's going to be lawsuit city! I don't know if she was talking on her cell phone, putting on lipstick in the mirror, reprimanding her child in the backseat or late to a charity event, but I'm sure that it was one of those things that caused the accident. Everyone walked away unharmed from what I could see, but I bet when the ambulances showed up (after I'd left) the women probably said, "Oh, my neck! Oh, I'm so traumatized!"

Seeing the damage that SUV did to that little car further solidified my negative feelings towards SUV's.

As I was doing some research on my Urban Legends Reference Page, Snopes, I happened across a great website -- Etiquette Hell... check it out if you have some free time. I'll have to submit some stories about my co-workers!