almost serendipity

So I applied for a job with a major retailer in the area, well, not so much in the area but near the area. I got a call from a friend of mine after I applied, and she asked me if I applied at the company. I asked her how she knew that, because as far as I knew she had no ties to the company. It turns out that her husband (who used to work at my last job before I got there) currently works at the company I applied for, in the same department even. The hiring manager knew that he used to work at my last job and asked him if he knew me. He said he didn't directly but that his wife did. My friend (the wife) sent the hiring manager a letter of recommendation.

THEN another friend of mine just moved into a new apartment with some roommates. I was over checking it out and met one of her roommates who used to work for a company that designs a lot of the specific packaging this company uses. She gave me the inside scoop from a different angle.

At the interview, I thought it went well. Apparently it did not, since I got a letter of rejection yesterday in the mail. Oh well.

Garage Sale

So my mom had a garage sale last weekend, but it was part of a huge neighborhood garage sale. A ton of people came by, and since we are the first house on the block, we got a lot of traffic. Also a lot of $20 dollar bills since we were the first stop.

So there were a number of crazies out for all the cheap crap other people are getting rid of. There was one woman who wanted a box of note cards I had on the table (which I bought in like 1986) for 50¢, she asked me if I would take 25¢ for them, how cheap can you get? (I took the quarter)

Another lady bought the box of rubber stamps I had for sale and then proceeded to tell me (totally unprovoked) all about the chicken farm she has, and that she sells the eggs to friends of hers that also sell eggs because her husband doesn't want people coming to their house. She really wanted me to watch out for them because they were laid by special hens that lay blue eggs.

We had some car stuff out and got a lot of car crazies, but since I am one of them I can't really say much...