Bad Breaks

The weekend has come and gone-with sadly, very little to show for it.

On a positive note, my friend Beaker Callahan visited for the weekend with her boyfriend in tow. Despite my looming head cold we (Hope Valentine, Beaker, and Beaker's man) headed out for a night on the town-after which I returned home for some deep sleep and plenty of cough drops.

The next morning I awoke to find my head cold had fully taken form and I was really sick. So I sadly passed on the day's planned events with Beaker and journeyed north to my parents house for some R&R.

And that' s about it.

Today I came into work to find one of my friends in the office, Peaches Wilson had returned early from her trip to Aruba. On the morning of her third vacation day, while hurrying out of a bathroom, she managed to somehow trip over her flip flops and subsequently take a heavy spill on the cool marble floor. While she can't remember the exact chain of events that followed(she passed out momentarily), she soon learned that she had broken her foot and required immediate medical assistance. After a quick trip to the hospital she and her traveling companions were on the next flight home, where after a five-hour flight, she was greeted in Chicago by a ill-tempered customer service rep who was to transport the now disabled Peaches via wheelchair to the shuttle bus stop. Begrudgingly the service rep allowed the girls to use the restrooms before quickly transporting them to the bus stop.

Once they arrived at the shuttle waiting area, the rep asked Peaches to disembark the wheelchair because she had to get back to the service office. Peache's traveling companions noted that there was no bench in the waiting area and asked the woman where she expected her to sit? The representative suggested she take the weight off her broken foot by sitting on the curb and then proceeded to put her hand out for a tip.

Needless to say, no tip was given. After all, it is hard to reach one's wallet when one is sitting on the ground.

Considering she will be in her boot cast for the next four weeks, Peaches is notably bummed out about the effects this will have on her summer. Unlike "Coworker E's" wrist brace, this boot in on for the long haul.