Some People Are Characters and What I Learned at Work Today

Note: I wrote this a couple of years ago and never published it.... not sure why but I like the thought, so here it is. :-)

There's commercial for cable TV right now that has the tag line, "Characters Wanted". The point of these ads is that this network has unique characters. Anyway, they have shows with really wonderful, unique characters. They don't just slog through life in an ordinary way but make the ordinary extraordinary.

In life, some people are characters. Some people have that knack for finding humor in daily life, for retelling a story so that you laugh out loud, or are just so unique that "character" is the only word describes them. Sometimes people mean this in a somewhat negative way but the way I mean is not negative at all. It's totally positive and I'm a bit jealous. I would love to be a character, a person who is just FUN.

Which leads to my dual title. One of the women with whom I have the pleasure to work is a character. She's just so fun to know and always has a way of making me look at things in a new way. In fact, I suspect her entire family is made up of characters. Her mom even recently made a boot for a chicken whose leg was injured! A boot! for a chicken! Awesome! It's because of her that I learned what Schmuck really means. Do you know? I know what we think it means and how we use it, but its true meaning is, well, you can read it about it here.

So, here's to being unique and letting your inner geek arise, or inner book worm, or whatever it is that makes you, you!