so from the 17th

So, the plan was to help out an elderly neighbor a few doors up from me; I was merely going to run the snowthrower over her sidewalk. The first hiccup in the plan was a known problem and that problem was that she lives six houses up from me. I had enough time and I had enough gasoline so I ran the machine from my house to hers. When I got to her house, her neighbor was shoveling him sidewalk, so I did his and then I crossed the street to help out a guy I wave to once in awhile when he's walking his dogs. While I was helping out that guy, someone asked if I would do the driveway for an elder lady in the next house over.

The snow had changed to rain by the time I had crossed to the other side of the street and I was soaked through in a lot of places. I really just wanted to get back home. I wasn't too joyful doing the old lady's drive. She called to me from her window to thank me and I said "No" when she asked if she could pay me. When I was just about done, she came out and shoved something in my gloved hand. I refused again but she insisted and I shoved whatever it was in pocket.

When I got back home I had done fourteen houses and three driveways. The dog walker guy gave me some gasoline and what that elder lady ended up giving me was a fifty dollar bill.

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I really don't want to be in work today.

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It's dying now; the arrangement of plants that someone had sent him. It must have cost a bit of dough. I watered it while he was out; but now he's back. He can water his own damn plant.

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"Was it a cold walk in?" He asked from his desk as I walked by.

"Yeah, a little bit."

"I was going to give you a ride in but I was falling asleep at the wheel. I've been working all night."

Unfortunately, he doesn't know how much of an asshole that same exchange makes him appear.

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He complains if you do and he complains if you don't.

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"If it's not at the end of your elbows, you do not give a shit."