14-08-2002 08:49									#31
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Wow
that was actually a nice read.

	14-08-2002 08:57									#32
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This summed up the exact feelings I had working in retail. Low paid retail workers unite!

As a good liberal and a caring person who recognizes that life is a web of interconnecting influences, I feel sad for Mr. Creepy. As a clerk, I want him to get the **** out of my life and never come back.

	14-08-2002 11:08									#33
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Dammit, i got started reading, and stayed up way too late again.

An amazing read, by the way. The author has a very intelligent, entertaining writing style, and seems to be incredibly insightful into human nature. Very interesting material.

	08-09-2002 18:43									#34
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Bump.

New stories have been posted.

	23-10-2002 08:49									#35
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thought this deserved a bump

	23-10-2002 08:52									#36
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New stories? Cool!

	23-10-2002 10:24									#37
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I'll add this page to my favorites list.

Videostore clerk. Never. Never in a million years would I work in that job. Just talking with friends I can get all the TMI I would never want, but in a public business? No thank you.

I worked in a health club for two years as a cleaner and front desk clerk. Part of both jobs is cleaning equipment and picking up/washing *shiver* used towels. Most of the towels you find are on the floor of the lockerrooms, even though we provide drop-off bins. You go into the men's (or women's, but I'm a guy) lockeroom and you're surrounded by nakedness. Despite the Bally's commercials, the "beautiful people" apparently do not use public lockerooms. Miss Ali thinks she has it bad. We've even found a used condom in the shower area...

...Horrors.

The sights I've seen in there had almost turned me straight. Almost, but not quite. I'm modest and noble to a fault, so I never once fantasized about anyone I saw in there, but GAWD how many times do I have to see fat and wrinkled naked bodies? Developing tunnel-vision and staring at the floor are the only things you can do. And don't talk in sentences no longer than a few concise words.

	23-10-2002 10:32									#38
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Rose: fun times and I thought the under-sink slime was bad at my restaurant job (well there was the time a pork chop got lost for a week or two...)

	23-10-2002 10:41									#39
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Only recently did the club start offering any kind of real food items beyond simple sport bars and fruit smoothies. I suspect they've had an incident or two by now...


The absolute worst thing I had to clean in my two years working there...

...shower drains.


"Say, 'Goodnight David'."
"Goodnight David."

	23-10-2002 10:43									#40
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Hilarious. Truly hilarious

	24-10-2002 09:36									#41
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Ming, Rah? Y'all know this place?

	24-10-2002 09:38									#42
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quote: The absolute worst thing I had to clean in my two years working there... ...shower drains.

You've never cleaned a grease trap that hasn't been cleaned in months gotten so bad that the vent in the back won't open any more I take it
But showers drains come pretty close...

	24-10-2002 10:10									#43
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yeah I read these before. Pretty interesting.

A note though- her video store doesn't just sell porn. They have a strange setup. They have the porn down the stairs in the basement. Although that seems like a good place for it. I was surprised at how many stories she had of men trying to jerk off down there. Interesting.

But even in my city of smut, we really don't have any major video stores that carry porn. I can't think of any really. We have separate stores for porn- and other supplies .

	24-10-2002 10:23									#44
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All video stores in Australia (that I have seen) carry porn.
Not that I rent them - the internet is a lot less embarassing.

	24-10-2002 10:24									#45
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Hahahha, how true, how true.

	24-10-2002 10:27									#46
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imagine if they monitored your interenet sites you visited and sent the information to your mother.

	24-10-2002 10:29									#47
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I think she'd be relieved that I didn't actually spend 24 hours a day on Apolyton.

	24-10-2002 12:42									#48
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quote: Originally posted by DRoseDARs I'll add this page to my favorites list. Videostore clerk. Never. Never in a million years would I work in that job. Just talking with friends I can get all the TMI I would never want, but in a public business? No thank you.

I actually worked as a porn store clerk while I was in graduate school, and I wouldn't trade that experience for anything. And it wasn't this kind, either, with a discreet adult section away from everything else; no, it was a full-out XXX bookstore, with mags and toys up front and booth in the back. If we'd had the web back then (this was the late 80's), I'd have had a blog for sure. As it was, the job -- and the many, many entertaining stories it generated -- made me the center of attention at damned near every party I went to.

On the downside, I always worked the last shift of the evening, so I was the one who mopped up.

	29-11-2002 01:15									#49
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The journal has been updated.

Ali has quit her job at the video store. While sad in a way, this has gotta be a good thing. Pushing porn for a living makes for a fascinating internet diary, but I think she'll be better off outta there. I sure hope so, anyway.

It looks like the journal is over, it shall be staying in my bookmark folder, though, stuff this good is hard to find.

Thanks Ali!

	29-11-2002 01:48									#50
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Awww.

The story about the two customers, one young and one blind, who formed an unstoppable gay porn-searching tag team was a modern classic - there's no other word for it.

I wonder if someone's planning to publish this in a book form.

	29-11-2002 17:45									#51
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Ali quit?? Good God NO!



End of a brilliant series.