Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Oh, Nathanael....Nathanael Nathanael Nathanael...

Well he really didn't have any fast food experience...anyway he was unceremoniously let go from Subway after a week. He's kinda spacey but in his defense the woman who hired him really didn't give him much training. Yes, he made a few spacey mistakes, like asking a man with a fly in his sandwich if he still wanted it...d'oh...to his credit, in a "you don't want this, I assume" voice. But yes, if a fly is in your sandwich you just automatically start again. You don't make the comment. You just pitch it and start...well now he knows...I can just see my son with his head in the clouds asking goofy questions like that...

I remember him playing tee ball. He would sit down in the outfield and identify the names of all the plants around him while being oblivious to the game. Same thing now.

Well he'd better get a job doing something, well, that will utilize his gifts. He just doesn't live in the real world. He sort of lives in his own reality. :) He's not as bummed as I am. Well maybe he is but he doesn't show it. He really had a lot of restrictions in his schedule and that was another factor, I assume.

Oh, well. C'est la vie.

5 Comments:

At 5:05 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oops--sorry about Nathanael's experience. But it will be a good learning experience for him about how little the real world will respect his brains if he doesn't do the work the way they want him to. It's just as well he lost the job because we're leaving in three weeks anyway, and he's got band camp in there too. Let him concentrate on his college researching. He needs to do that! His brains are useless if he sits on his butt. Mom

 
At 5:38 PM, Blogger Ann said...

Yup, he is getting massive journalage from every college in the country. Some send entire books full of information. Well I know he will get into ONE of those! Grinnell will be cool. I told him, though, that he can't join the Society for the Advancement for Queer Left-Handed Midgets or Angry Misanthropic Students for Vegetable Rights.

 
At 7:48 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"He can't join the Society for the Advancement for Queer Left-Handed Midgets or Angry Misanthropic Students for Vegetable Rights."

Wow! maybe you should open your mind a little! Vegetable right are important! And what's wrong with Queer left-handed little people? Why won't you let him make his own decisions? I think he'd be a great member of the Society for Underprivileged Intergalactic Brainiac Star Munchers.

Just a thought!

If he had a drivers license and could get here he could work for me this summer! Although I am personally opposed to the Society for Underprivileged Intergalactic Brainiac Star Munchers.

Dan

 
At 9:46 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I think he'd be a great member of the Society for Underprivileged Intergalactic Brainiac Star Munchers."

*snort*

He needs a job. He needs to learn to work in the real world and hold a deadline and mingle with the mortals you know.

And about college, he needs to live a little. He is going to be on his own and will find he own way. I remember the kids who came from very strict households were the one who came apart the very worst. Trust him and all the years you have spent raising him but recognize he is his own person.

 
At 2:06 PM, Blogger Ann said...

We're working on the DL issue. However, he doesn't have a car.

As far as college and being an adult, he's shown me enough maturity thus far that I really don't worry about it, all humor aside. We've never had to be strict with him, for that reason.

 

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