yesterday i was sent to cover the mind, body and spirit section of the shop. this is like the freak centre. i had worked there once befroe, several months ago, but in the meantime i had blocked from my mind just how strange the customers who go there are. this is the area where we stick all the strange books: self help, witchcraft, angels, talking to the dead, crystals, devil worship, and religion. within an hour of starting to shelve there, a man came in, sat down and started meditating in a corner. several witches were next, followed by a bag lady with snot running out of her nose. a freak show, in other words. but the real excitedment of the day came a few hours later when my boss came over and whispered we had a psycho slav in the art section. he asked me to go stand nearby and translate. i dont know if the guy was polish, ukrainian or russian, but i suspect ukrainian. he speach was slurred, which is what polish sounds like to me anyway. he kept repeating a litany of slavonic swear words, and screaming into space. sometimes he would fall on the ground, and make very odd faces. my boss called the police. the police came and used my testimony to arrest the guy ( it is asbosable to swear in public, but not to be just freaklike) and they took the guy away, presumably to test him to see what drugs he was on.
i was dissapointed the excitement was over, that meant i had to go back to m,b,s.
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