I'm Just Too Nice
So yesterday morning my phone rang at 8:45 AM. 8:45 AM!!! Crazy! After it rang three times, I figured my mom wasn't home to pick it up so I had to. As thought, it was good ol Target. They needed me to come in and work... again. Haha man those guys are funny. They don't schedule any of us to work some days, but they end up calling us or wanting us to call in and volunteer our work instead. Yesterday was pretty weird, all of middle management was being pissy because all of the store's administrative management was there (don't get that often) because we were having a visit/inspection from regional administrators or something (get that less). What does this result in you ask? Slave labor. We were expected to pick up guests before they got in lines or something. Yeah right like I'm going to go fishing for guests that hard. Dudes, they gave me a stupid feather duster and told me to dust the joint! What the hey, not cool at all. I rarely dust my room, and they expect me to dust there at work? Haha. That's how bad it got there. What a load. I suppose however, all is well because I bought myself my first DVD. Whoot. What a friggin achievement. I ended up buying myself Heartbreakers. I bought it for the low Target price of $9.20 (after my tax saving discount). Sweeaatt. I'll have to watch it sometime, we'll see when and where. Oh and yes, the soda machine in the breakroom does have Vanilla Coke afterall. Great stuff. It gives change back, too! I once bought something once for 90 cents, and when I went digging for my dime, I came up emptyhanded. Very disapointing, but I guess they fixed that. I also turned in a new availability, asking for more hours.

Mare got in contact with a bunch of us and got us all to agree to go to Berkeley. However when it was time to leave, nobody wanted to drive hahah (as usual, I suppose). After much debating, we decided on going down to Fremond for some good ol pho. It was pretty good stuff. I must however, give a suggestion and warning. You can't drive 50 mph on the freeway. It's not good face, and it's dangerous. We talked a little bit in front of Willy's house, and then went to Carol's house. There we played Trivial Pursuit, but because of all the people (probably) we never finished the game. Oh and there was a molded chocolate cake there that some people ate. The victims? Robert, Carol, and myself. What a bunch of unlucky mofos. I thought it was coconut at first, cuz it looked semi white (turned out to be green on later inspection) and tasted nasty (how I find coconut to be). I swear I had a stomach ache after eating that. Damn me for not checking out my food before gobbling the sucker down. Savage, savage.

Ah yes, the intricacy of the manual transmission. Seems that everyone wants a piece again. Rob and I again put our cars up for test drives. Quite interesting. Carol, Nick, Chris Wong, and Will Yan all took chances. Before that earlier in the day Marian took my car for a roll. I got a few videos, and about 80 percent of them are videos of one of combinations of the following: stalls, jerks, skids, high rpm revs. LOL. Rob and myself probably got bigger stomach aches with the roller coaster ride after the defective cake. As of tonight, here are the following standings in driving the manual transmission among the newbies.

1. Will Yan - Stalls only from dumping clutch from idle rpm. Recommend for advancement to phase II... hills.
2. Marian - Aggressively launches car without little or no skid or jerk. Needs to work on not dumping clutch as quick with aggressively.
___Carol - Looks to have got the basics down.
3. Jhermaine* - Didn't remember too many issues with this character.
___Chester* - Same as above.
4. Nick - Mofo had it first time around few months ago. Lost the ability and has to gain it back.
5. Willy - Good until get to hills. Just can't seem to figure it out. Would be ranked higher if not for sessions on hills. !* Banned *! from handing manual transmission pending notice.
6. Chris Wong - What can I say... practice. Eventually you'll pick up on the ability. Also !* banned *! pending notice.
* = has not compiled enough time nor driving distance to accurately rank

If you want to give driving a manual tranny a try, I think now's the time to inquire before Rob and I change our minds.

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