Mad Macedonian

The Mad Houstonian At Walmart During the Wuhan Virus Hysteria of March 2020

Good evening, Houston! The Mad Houstonian, here!

How y'all hangin'?

Find any TP, PT, hand sanitizer?

Are you looking for viable alternatives, yet?

Corn on the Cob, Lettuce, Cabbage, some other leafy veggie?

Don't forget  that, in a pinch, tortillas are good for more than burritos and tacos, and such.

I mean, look, just like TP comes in various plys... tortillas can be found in various sizes, and corn  or flour!

Lordy, people, I swear! Call it what you will, COVID-19, China Corona Virus, Chinese Corona Virus, Chinese Virus, Wuhan Virus, Wuhan Flu, Kung Flu, or something else....

There is no need to panic buy anything!

YOU MOST CERTAINLY DO NOT NEED ENOUGH TP TO LAST YOU INTO THE NEXT YEAR, OR THE NEXT CENTURY!!!

When I almost got flattened in a crosswalk by someone driving like he was trying to get to the nearest HEB, or Walmart, the panic was just beginning, but when I left the hospital, 6 days later...I expected to see scenes of Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth, and wondered if I needed to re-read The Stand by Stephen King, and Swan song by Robert McCammon, as prep for the coming apocalypse.

Then I finally had a chance to visit the Walmart Supercenter near where I live....

Of Cows and the Courage to Do Crazy For a Chicken Sandwich

  

 
 

I rely on my peculiar sense of humor to keep my spirits up every day...

 

Recently, my friend Amanda Socci reminded me that July 12th was Cow Appreciation Day at Chick Fil A.

 

Embarrass yourself in public by dressing as a cow and get a free entrée. I was SOOO there!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I made my get up from stuff lying around the apartment ( a couple of spots were refusing to stick by the time I placed the order ) and hopped the bus to the Meyerland store in Bellaire on the way to work.

 

The bus riders probably thought I needed a straight jacket and a few may have considered getting off at the next stop, hee, hee.

 

I was a big hit when I arrived to get my sandwich and ordered the bagel chicken/egg/cheese. sandwich.

The Boogie Woogie Walmart Cashier of the Houston Scene

 

In recent days our store was doing a promotion and associates volunteered to don the costume of the Olaf character in Frozen and go around the store making friends with the kiddies and posing for selfies.

 

One day, as I manned the self check-out lanes one of our female associates came by in the costume and the urge to have a little fun came over me....

Business being extremely slow I tossed an associate my cell and asked her to take a quick photo....

So, what does she do? She sees me dancing with Olaf and decides to make a one minute video...and I posted it on my Facebook since I apparently could not save it to an email.

Forget Fred & Ginger...Get a load of Kiril & Olaf !! 

 

Dancing With the Stars-worthy ya think?

 

Yesterday, watching the video again, I was inspired to poetic creativity....

 

Father's Day at Walmart -- A Cashier's Tale

Fast, friendly, funny, helpful; that's how I am as I go about my daily tasks as a cashier in the fast-paced environment of an always busy Walmart.

In the almost 3 years I've been at it I have many regular customers, including some cat lovers, who come through my lane several times a month.

I get frazzled parents to laugh at how I respond to babbling, even crying, babies and toddlers by telling the child that while I may agree with them there is nothing I can do about it...they will have to listen to mom and dad, there's just no way around it...the child never fails to stop the crying and give me a funny look.

I get laughs when I hold up a jug of  a certain detergent and ask "is this All?" and the customer catches themselves responding by reflexively pointing at their still full cart(s) before realizing the joke.

I get laughs when I ask if a customer has ever seen the sun rise and set at the same time and, after they say no, I raise and lower a box of Sun detergent.

I get laughs when I ring up cat food and litter first, explaining how I didn't want to hurt the feelings  of the cat if it found out I didn't treat its stuff with the proper respect.

The things I do to keep myself amused for 8 hours, I swear...hee, hee! They make the day go by faster.

And that brings me to today, a typically busy Sunday made busier by it being Father's Day...

Fridays Don't Give Up So Don't You Give Up Either!

 

Friday's have been with us, seemingly, since forever.

Good Friday's, Black Friday's, Detective Joe Friday's...Friday the 13th's...You get the picture...

 

There are even Leap Friday's.

( Missed the first post? The World Is Yours...Never Give Up )

The 39th Anniversary Since I Last Dressed For Halloween

BOO !!!

 

Happy

Halloween !!!

 

 

If you ask me, Glamour Magazine missed an opportunity with their recent Woman of the Year cover, hee, hee!

 

 

On Halloween 1976 my little sisters needed an escort to the Girl Scout Halloween party...

Caring older brother that I was, my 16 yr. old self eagerly said he was up to the job!

Soooo...raiding the clothing inventory of our mom...I grabbed a dress, a wig, high heeled shoes and a bra (stuffed with the Los Angeles Times) and gallantly sallied forth, as Miss America 1976, my 11 and 8 yr. old sisters in tow.

One Plant Short of a Full Garden, or...

 

Kiril Kundurazieff - Writer

Houston, TX.

Sept. 2012 -- Present

I took a quiz, the other day, that supposedly gives you your Native American name...My name is Ahanu.

 "Ahanu is an Algonquian name that means one who laughs. You have a great sense of humor and you enjoy laughing and making others laugh with you. Your smile is bright and your laughter is infectious."

The Mad Macedonian (8th Anniversary This Coming October)

The Opinionated Pussycat (Jan. 2010 -- Present)

The Cycling Dude (Jan. 2003 -- Nov. 2010)

Sneakeasy's Joint (May 2002 -- Oct. 2010)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yo, Gabriel! What Do Ya Think?

There is the Creation Story all Christians know and love:

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth....So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Eventually God took a break, etc...

...and then there is this:

And on a blistering hot Summer day in 1959, being bored out of his Almighty Skull, God said, "Yo, Gabe! Where are those cans of spray paint those artists were flying around here with last week, making such a mess on the clouds they had to repent for it"?

Alien Murdered on Streets of Houston!

The search continues, after a week, for the killer or killers of Moj Yatihc, from the planet Alienopolhooey, whose body was found, one night, on the 2nd floor walkway of an apartment in the Westchase District of Houston, TX.

The Visitor from another world was on a 2 person exploratory mission from her planet, to see if Earth people were civilized and intelligent enough, to handle first contact.

ODD THOUGHTS 4: Have You Exposed Yourself Lately To Poetry?

Odd Thoughts That Wander Through My Brain While Taking a Shower 4

 

To paraphrase Sage Cohen in her book, Writing the Life Poetic...

What does poetry mean to you? Whether you have read any of my own works, or not, what particular path has brought you to this moment where you are reading this blog post? What poems and songs are waiting for you to write them? Who will you become, creatively, when you go deeper into the realm of reading and writing poetry and song?

"Poets are regular people who simply take the time to digest their regular, real-life experiences and transform them into poems"

"When it comes to writing poetry, the raw material of your life and imagination is more than enough."

- Sage Cohen

A decade ago I discovered the fun and joy of writing poetry a little before discovering the joy of reading poetry and songs, then being inspired by them to write pieces of my own.