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"My dad moved for work to a small country town in the outback. Actually, I
think we were a hamlet or a village, technically. The point is that it was a
very small place with a lot of old, white, salt-of-the-earth men. The
white-haired Boomer-generation man who ran the local hardware store was exactly
what you’d expect from a man running a hardware store in a small farming town.
That made it even more surprising that said hardware owner agreed to let me
work there on weekends. I am weedy, I have never nailed a wall in my life, and
my clothing choices lean to the swishy-skirt side of nonbinary. I was not who
you expected in a hardware store.
Still, money was money, and I wanted to make a good impression. On my first
day, I wore my manliest pants and a nice button-down shirt. The owner greeted
me and, in order, showed me how to work the register and how to search his
inventory database and then got down to running down with me the details for
how I’d be paid and what he wanted me to do if I had to call in sick."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
