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Aw, why'd you have to go and spoil all the fun?

Sorry, I didnt intend on all the fun. Its just that I live in the metroplex here and ive never seen this much ice/snow all over the place and there are these rubermaid plastic bins(fairly large) and some streets on big hills, and yeah ive been outside quite a bit. Im quite soar now. After smacking into curbs, then continueing to roll on the curb, and hitting a stop sign, im in some pain. It hurts to rotate my shoulder. Pain just shoots down my back. Big fun though. I would recomend sliding down city streets in big plastic bins to anyone. Just wear a leather jacket, cause when you are rolling/flipping along a curb you want some protection from the concrete and ice. And other materials will most likely rip.

You want to talk ice? Let's talk ice.

As some may not know, I work with the morning news at CBS in Dallas-Fort Worth. (The studio is actually in Fort Worth.)

Ice started to hit Monday night. I got a call at 7 PM telling me to be in at 2 AM. I normally get there around 4 AM.

I drove to work the next morning, and with the ice on the highway, it took me 45 minutes to travel what normally takes me 15. We did our normal morning show from 5 AM to 7 AM and cut-ins from 7 to 9. Ice ice ice. Don't go to work. Yadda yadda yadda.

Next was the noon show. Ice ice ice.

Then came the calls from crew saying they weren't coming in. I was asked to stay. Sure, why not.

While normally we do two half-hour shows at 5 and 6, management decided we should also do a special one-hour 4 o'clock. An hour and a half from 4 to 5:30, then back again at 6 for another half hour. Ice ice ice. Weather weather weather. Traffic traffic traffic.

I finally left at 6:45 PM after working almost 17 hours. It took me an hour to get home, I ate some soup, got about 5 hours sleep and was back to work again at 4 AM after an even longer drive, because by then the ice was worse. Almost couldn't make it up the hill into the parking lot. (Some people got stuck after sliding back down.)

Then, get this, we go on at 5 AM, as usual, but stayed on for 5 hours straight. Ice ice ice. Ice ice ice. Ice ice ice. Didn't even get fed. Didn't even get a lunch break. (The evening crew got two meals, courtesy CBS 11, as they also did the night before.)

The roads, at least where I was going, were a little better by 12:45 when I went home. Only took me a half hour to do a 15-minute drive.

Then I slept. Then I ate. Then I slept again.

[i]Edit typo: "Norming" show"? What the hell's a "norming" show?



[This message has been edited by Wes (edited 02-27-2003).]

did you complain to someone? I know ever here it's illegal for your emplyer to get you to do a 17-hour shift without

A) Providing one 15 minute break for every 4 hours worked

and

2) Providing a one hour meal break every 8 hours worked

I believe Texas is a work at will state. So Wes, I guess that means you live in the metroplex, right? Well, of course you do. But where abouts this jungle do you live?

Besides, it's just the business I work in. The hours weren't what bothered me, anyway. It was the disregard for us as not only dedicated employees, but also as hungry people. Evening crew gets two meals two nights in a row and we can't even get some fucking bagels?

mmmm...Bagels...with creamcheese and green onions *drools*

Can't get them in Germany...dammit! Look what you did, got me hungry for something I can't buy here...damn you Wes!

*Mourns over Bagels*

No bagels in Germany? Ah, the irony.

The whatroplex?

*kicks Wes*
Send some o' those thar Bagels this way, partner!

Oh man...last time I had Bagels was last year, in Florida...*drools*

You know, hot out of the oven...*slurrrp!*

With lots of cream cheese...

I hate you.

What's even funnier is that, although I didn't mention it at the time, I was honestly eating a bagel when I wrote that last reply. With cream cheese.

Skaarjj - The Metroplex is a strange term used in reference to greater Dallas-Fort Worth. From what I've read, it's unique to the area. Although the origin of the term is difficult to determine, it's apparently a combination of the informal metro (metropolitan) and the suffix plex (divided into a specified number of parts).

Heh...funnily enough, the American Heritage Dictionary uses DFW in its definition of metropolitan:

quote:

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Of or constituting a large city or urbanized area, including adjacent suburbs and towns: the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area; a metropolitan county.

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Dupy do. No bagels for you? Dang that must SUCK. Why cant you get bagels there? And wes, where abouts the metroplex do you live?

WS: If I can get bagels here in Korea, I guarantee that you'll be able to find them somewhere in Germany (although, granted, maybe not in your neighborhood). It is quite a pain in the neck to get what you want sometimes, though. I've been wanting to make manicotti for the past year or so, but I haven't gotten around to getting the ingredients yet...

*Kicks Master Suho*

Yeah...I'd have to f**king drive all the way to Frankfurt...just to visit the American comissary there...man, I'm in Ostfriesland! Mention the word Bagel, and they look at you funny...and no, you can't get Bagels anywhere near here...I've hunted high and low, believe me!!!

Can't believe you get to eat Bagels there... *sulks*

Aw man, of all the unfair things...my kingdom for a Bagel! Please? Gimmee gimme gimme!

Damn.

ummmm....ws....can't you just get someone to send you some bagles?? i would gladly send you bagles if you'll quit whining lol

I don't think you can send bagels through the mail... I guess WS is just going to have to suffer until the next time he visits Korea...

*Grumpily drinks his German beer*

Bagels by air? No, they have to be fresh...then they taste the best! And actually, I'm not sure if they would get through customs here...hmm...

You know Master Suho...Korea is sounding better and better...

ws.. try salomon bagels in Berlin. don't know how often you get there though, but the bagels are fresh

WS: You know you're welcome any time. Just make sure you bring some of that German beer with you.

Make some!

  http://www.lunched.co.uk/Breads/bagels.html

Psst, Wes! I'm trying to work out a trade here, if you don't mind!

Hey, now that's not a bad idea, Wes...thanks for the link!

Suho - Make some!

  http://byo.com/recipe/915.html