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No Lifejacket For You !

27 Thursday Oct 2016

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The management of the office building where my bank is located posted signs informing all occupants of a fire drill on Thursday at 2pm.

In the old days, like when I was elementary school, fire drills were not posted days in advance so one could plan for them. The fire bell rang and we all filed out of the building in neat and swiftly moving lines to a safe spot several hundred yards away from the school building which we all not so secretly hoped was really on fire.

I’m sure the administrators and teacher were all in on the ” randomness” of the fire drill but we kids were kept in the dark which, when you think of it, is pretty much how fire drills are supposed to work.

The bell rings and you leave the building because it actually may be on fire which brings me to the bank, the office building and the fire drill.

When I was in the bank yesterday, yes I visit my bank, endorse checks, write out deposit slips and actually talk to people, several tellers and me were discussing the upcoming planned evacuation set for 2 o’clock on Thursday.

The place is pretty much a ghost town these days anyway being populated mostly by customers with grey or gray or no hair but that’s another post for another day.

Only it seems that tellers are not eligible to exit the building when the fire drill actually happens.  They have to remain behind the counter  and man or woman their teller windows in case a customer comes into the bank during the fire drill.

Why anyone would actually walk into a building while it’s occupants are fleeing and running away from the building and bells are ringing is beyond me but I suppose anything is possible.

So the tellers have to stay which is a little like boarding a cruise ship and being told that you are not eligible to take part in the practice lifeboat drill because there are not enough life jackets to around or we’re short a couple of lifeboats and you are easily replaceable anyway.

Seems to me that management or what’s left of it at the branch should step up and show leadership and genuine concern for the tellers and stay in the building while the drill is happening.

I’ll let you know who left and who stayed the next time I visit the bank.  That is if it hasn’t burned down.

Jobs

21 Friday Oct 2016

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As a friend once told me – “The easiest job I ever had was laying sod.”

” Green side up.  Brown side down.”

 

 

Timing is Everything

02 Sunday Oct 2016

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A few years ago I received a Garmin super duper looper watch as a gift.  I wore it on and off never really paying attention to the data it collected other than my pace and total mileage.

Recently I dug into the innards of the watch looking for whatever useless information I could find.

There was the usual mileage count but there also was a number that struck me dumb. Something I had never even considered in terms of running and being a runner.

The mileage was around 500 give or take.  I wear the watch infrequently when I run and certainly not during timed and measured races.  The number that amazed me was this.

It was total time.

Those 500 miles took almost 96 hours of my time.  That’s a couple of days worth of hours stacked end to end.  And that’s only the recorded time when I wore the watch.

How much time does anyone suppose I have directed towards running since I was , oh, say 16 years old some 50 years ago?

Time well spent.

 

Running Tags

01 Saturday Oct 2016

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Can someone over at corporate find a way to keep all the football themed advertising/fantasy blogs away from the tag ” Running” please?

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