Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
> I got continuous deliveries of clams last week for pick up this weekend. I
> started with 3000 lbs. of clams, no display table, and a lot of agita
> (spelled right?).

Spelled right, and spelled out.

> Saturday morning, the manager finally put up the display
> table and we started filling 50 count bags. For the uninitiated, there are
> approximately 400 clams per 25 pound shipping crate. I received somewhere
> around 120 crates or 48,000 clams equalling to 960 bags.

Holy benthic bivalves!

You must have some kind of foot-traffic to move a thousand bags of
clams in a weekend.

> Had a few
> people come in and want me to go get them some 'fresh ones' off the
> boat.......well, duh. It is late afternoon on a holiday, so let me go out
> and send a clam digger out to pull up say 50 to 100 just for you ........
> Oh, and by the way, happy frigging Memorial Day, for telling me how your
> lack of planning became my fault. It's you that these
> soldiers/sailors/flyboys/marines gave their lives for so you have the
> freedoms to say that.

Nobody has the freedom to be stupid and wrong. I hope you slapped them
with a herring*.

--Blair

* - http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/fishslap.htm