addendum

my friend jack just called to say he was reading my blog and i never mention him. jack helped me pick out my new car. he points, i pay. there you are mentioned. jack jack jack! the kinkos experience today was challenging to say the least. deforestation was increased exponentially by the enlarging of my save the world posters. that would be known as irony! the brilliant cathy who worked at kinkos in downey was always able to enlarge my posters to five feet tall or wide with a minimum of effort ~she had a slide rule or a slide disk and knew all the secrets of the machines to produce a wonderful effortless product. but, as is the case with corporate america, the better you do your job, the less you actually do it (so if you feel you are stuck in a dead-end job its probably because you are not very good at even that!)... fedex who bought kinkos promoted cathy to shipping in another city and now she never touches a copy machine. its like great teachers who are promoted to administrators. we all suffer. the first person to help me at kinkos today couldnt even use the regular machine, 11 x 14 was beyond her understanding. her manager took over after the large scale copier ran out of paper from so many mis-calculations. he was worse/illogical but patient. an hour and twenty minutes later i had four posters and fourteen big mistakes. some of the mistakes were usable... but kinkos wouldnt give them to me without paying for them. why would i pay for mistakes they made when i could have as many of the ones done correctly (they were no cathy, but good enough) as i wanted? so the mistake "save the world" posters, miles of paper, went into the trash. not such good customer service or public relations. i was so upset by this way of conducting business i had to go to the seventh day adventist restaurant for lunch. broccoli soup, macaroni and cheese, cashew cookie ~everything handmade and vegan (and no mistakes) and jack jack jack didnt get to go with me because he had to be at his dead-end job. there you were mentioned again.