{"id":511,"date":"2006-07-13T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=511"},"modified":"2006-07-13T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T20:03:00","slug":"branch-office-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/13\/branch-office-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Branch office post #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still at the Second Street branch office (see previous post).  I&#8217;ve been hitting the water cooler pretty hard so this post may not make as much sense as the last one.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the Second Street branch office is changing the T-shirts they sell&#8230; a waitress, um, I mean, a branch office employee, is standing on a chair taking the &#8220;YOU&#8217;RE KILLING MY BUZZ&#8221; shirt out of the display case.<\/p>\n<p>Snozberry is the band that is playing the Second Street branch office tonight.  $3 cover.  I saw them once before, about six months ago.  I can&#8217;t remember anything about the music they played but I do remember one thing.  They had these girls who danced in front of the stage and they were called &#8220;Band-Aids.&#8221;  At one point the lead singer got on the mic and said, &#8220;Between the Band-Aids and the waitresses, I have masturbation material for the next month!&#8221;  Er, I mean, between the Band-Aids and the branch office employees&#8230; oh, screw it, never mind.<\/p>\n<p>Been cruising around MySpace&#8230; am I the only MySpace user in Memphis who doesn&#8217;t have a pic of themselves at a bar drinking with Mendi?<\/p>\n<p>The new shirt that is going in the display case says &#8220;it&#8217;s not rocket science&#8221;&#8230; you&#8217;re among the first to know.  She&#8217;s up on the chair again&#8230; &#8216;scuse me a second&#8230; (leaning way over)&#8230; okay, I&#8217;m back.  I saw that shirt at the East Bumblefuck branch office on Sunday&#8230; what&#8217;s up with East Bumblefuck getting new shirts before downtown?<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today at the Union branch office, there was a guy in a T-shirt that said, &#8220;let me drop everything and work on your problem.&#8221;  I want to buy about 150 of those and have them shipped to my former company, the one that did rebates.<\/p>\n<p>I also see a lot of guys wearing T-shirts that say &#8220;i (heart) hot moms.&#8221;  I want a T-shirt that says &#8220;i (heart) romanian girls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are two TVs visible from the big, long conference table at the front of the Second Street branch office&#8230; they&#8217;re both tuned to ESPN2, where a domino tournament is on.  God&#8230; they could switch it to Oprah and it would be an improvement.  Can TV possibly get any more boring than this?  &#8230;wait, yes it can, forgot about golf.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, another T-shirt I saw yesterday as I wandered through Peabody Place&#8230; &#8220;Oklahoma Bucks.&#8221;  Hey dude, there&#8217;s a misspelled word on your shirt&#8230; that should be an &#8220;S.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looking for an elegant space for a private party?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downtownmemphis.com\/domain\/documents\/stella2.pdf\">Stella just expanded into its basement.<\/a>  The space holds up to 100.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, my friend Carmel and several of her girlfriends were sitting at a table at Stella.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbobart.net\">Dr. Bob<\/a> was sitting at the bar and sent a round of drinks to their table.  It could have something to do with the fact that Carmel was wearing a tube top.<\/p>\n<p>Other than the Stella announcement, there was absolutely nothing in this post worth reading whatsoever.  Now it&#8217;s definitely time for a nap.  Logging out, shutting down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still at the Second Street branch office (see previous post). I&#8217;ve been hitting the water cooler pretty hard so this post may not make as much sense as the last one. Apparently the Second Street branch office is changing the T-shirts they sell&#8230; a waitress, um, I mean, a branch office employee, is standing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/13\/branch-office-post-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Branch office post #2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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