Agnes by Tony Cochran for April 07, 2014

I think “uncle” Ted had sneaked a few drinks, so he misunderstood…. he was actually next in line to get a brain, when he left to go pee.

So he’s gotten through life OK, brainless…. but never could rise above night clerk at the 7-11.

It’s all good… he gets a small discount on beer (it still costs more than at the supermarket, but he can’t do the math.)Not only does that keep him going, nutritionally, a six-pack for Trout’s mother gets him the only other thing he needs….(well besides his little TV and the seedy motel room he rents by the month.) That’s pretty much why he’s Trout’s uncle in the first place.

The way some jobs are done, makes one wonder sometimes

uncles = johns ?

Thank heaven for weak bladders! And yes, the way some jobs are done…especially management that doesn’t understand the importance of customers and that you have to actually produce something worth buying for the money to come in….I’m pretty sure they were gotten through the job-passer-outers.

Our provincial govt is pushing trade and tech courses. Welders & IT people – that’s what’s needed. … So we have been told.

David…. in a way, yes.But “John” to me means a one-shot deal, just for the money.Maybe even some repeat business, but not Thanksgiving dinner.

Trout’s uncles don’t have much money…. they may have shown up originally seeking her Mom’s business, or somehow wandered into it, but they’re family now.

When they’re broke, they trade with beer, or fixing the kitchen sink….sometimes they stay a month, when they’re “between jobs,”but when their horses come in, (once every three years or so) they take Mom and Trout to Denny’s for a New York strip dinner.At 11 pm.

It must be true. She heard it on a TED Talk.

Where are these job passer outers? I’m been unemployed for months.