Ah Springtime in the Midwest...the weather will hopefully begin to break soon (and not into a tornadic state as it did last week), the days are getting longer, my attention span at work is getting shorter, and the landscapers are out in full-force.
I have had many run ins with the "street-yellers" of the opposite sex, but never before have I experienced encounters with the landscaping breed. They can usually be found in hoards of at least five and are usually making more of a mess of the area then improving the "beautification" of the grounds and spending more time looking about their surroundings than concentrating on the job at hand. Dressed in my usual attire I proceeded to walk in to a hospital and caught the attention of these individuals digging amongst the flower beds. I thought I had avoided verbal contact as I made it to the door (where I was unfortunately told that being a vendor I could not proceed to the correct area without an appointment), but alas my return to my car was in too close a proximity for the landscapers to forget. They proceeded to tell me they thought I looked like a number of things (too bad the woman at the front desk didn't think I looked like a doctor) as I hurried by. Little did they know that I am simply an underpaid sales rep who needs a vacation more than my next breath of oxygen...But perhaps this scenario was better than more crude run ins with several members of the Springfield population. Maybe I should have become a doctor or taken up a higher paying position as I would like to retire, um yesterday.
As the weather continues to improve I am sure that I will be able to lessen the number of run ins with landscapers as I will be sprinting to get inside my destinations, with the inferno that this city becomes in the dead of summer. The air conditioning system in my car will be up for a grueling challenge indeed.
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