8/7/07
Once upon a time there was a guy who applied for a loan at Usury, Inc. back when Usury, Inc was known as Highway Robbery LLC. This was back in the day when applications were required to provide a copy of their voided check, a recent paystub and a complete mailed bank statement.

He only submitted an application. A few hours later he sent a paystub and told me "That's all you need". The next day he faxed over a voided check. After pulling teeth I received all the pages of the guy's bank statement. Minutes after it was in my hand and I was ready to complete the process he phoned in to cancel.

"This has been taking too long! Cancel my loan!" he was pretty irate and oblivious to the fact that he was the reason why the fucking loan process was taking forever. Even today with the quick and easy websites for submitting applications there are people who cancel for the same reason thinking they're entitled to receiving money with an outrageous annual percentage rate. There's a reason why these folks are charged an arm and a leg and a testicle because no one will lend to them in the first place since they represent an extraordinary risk.

What made this guy stand head and shoulders above the rest is the fact that he demanded that the company fax back the documents that he faxed us. Since I was relatively new to the job I still had some patience, which has been recently redeveloped along with a new philosophy towards our idiots, and tried to explain that faxing isn't like teleportation. He still has the originals. If the company faxes back the documents we received via fax then we'd still have the fucking documents. I explained the documents would be shredded. He still wanted them faxed because he didn't want us to shred them because I'd tape them together and use them.

So I escalated the call to the department manager, the faxes were faxed back to him and he was happy.

My crime of idiocy is so egregious because for the greater part of my life I have been considered as being marginally intelligent or functional in the world-at-large. Of course I never said anything to correct their assumptions.

For a week and a half the skies would always threaten rain in the late afternoon. Saturday hailed the rainy season where it starts raining at four p.m. and ends around seven p.m.. Plus the little plant has been raising its leaves rather than being all droopy too!

I spent the ass-end of the storm outside with my camera set to do action shots hoping to capture some lightning in a photograph. There was so much ozone in the air and one strike was really close and made me jump which is impressive!

My digital camera still has all the images from that day in April when I saved that chocolate pit bull. Yes they're saved on my hard drive but I can't bring myself to delete them from the camera. Plus I'd feel strange going out to that rescue over in Divide just to see her and say hello.

My hand after carrying in groceries.

elmgrows as an interim game master, Jaybird falling asleep, maribou and Cassius being animated about something.

Black Leg being naughty by Alaska Lady's house.

My lame attempts to capture lightning on camera.

A rainbow over King Soopers. A little later it became a double rainbow.

A sunset from the parking lot of King Soopers.