So now he’s the Legume. He resembles a bean. And he’s getting fatter. Not that I am in tip-top shape but I see how he hustles to and fro, waddling here and there, sometimes out of breath, sometimes sweaty. Always with the ‘yeah yeah yeah’. Like Cigar Shack Zack used to say ‘Exactly’ all the damn time and would follow it with a chuckle to cover his ass, this one is ‘yeah yeah yeah’ in a voice that carries.

Regarding the Legume, I’m reluctant to say what I told Cary Bell at John’s Bar years ago. I met Cary Bell at John’s Bar after responding to a Village Voice personal ad in the 1990’s. We didn’t connect but sat for a while and talked.

He was married to a woman for about 20 years. It was a loveless marriage, with three kids. Two older kids and one younger kid. I was hit by a bolt of righteousness. Cary was a decade or two older than me and in the closet. I told him, ‘You have more days behind you than ahead of you. Why would you want to maintain a lie? You should live your life.’

We exchanged numbers and I didn’t expect to hear from him again. After all, It was pleasant but there was no connection. A few days later, Cary called. He told me he took my words to heart and came out to his wife who was filing for divorce, and his children.

He told me the two older children were fine with it, the youngest had a problem. He was relieved and told me that a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders. I never heard from him again but I have seen his online presence and he seems to be doing alright or was doing alright. At least I hope so.

Today was mediocre at best. The backward baseball hat wearing Bro in the mailroom did my tasks yesterday which was quite easy to do. I handled everything today and was done before noon again.

There are 3 methods to check the volume of work that I do. One is the folder with the PDFs that I print, fold, and make origami with. There is the Force Sales queue from which I create the PDFs. And there are the physical products that I manufacture out of thin air.

I ‘x’ the pdf folder and set the Force Sales to be approved (but not cleared yet) and the pile of kits. This is what confused Schlomo the DKB saying it takes the same amount of time to do A and to do B.

I didn’t understand at the time but then I figured it out. The man is a moron. I explained what he was seeing but he did not want to hear it and insisted he was right. He accused me of stretching out the work all day. So now I get it done as soon as possible and sit around for work to come through in drips and drabs.

Now that I am actively seeking new employment I really do not care a bit about what they might think. I do know the majority are dumb.