11/28/2001 08:50:09 PM
the seed was planted... and now. we hope. work was long and boring, i got sent to layaway again, every single layaway i had to pull had one or all boxes on the top shelves, about 30+ feet high. for those of you who don't know i am acrophobic. it's not just mental, if i have to climb, it gets physical, my knees get weak, and i find it hard to keep my hands steady... i feel completely afraid and out of control, like the slightest little move will make me plunge to my death. so there i am, on the second to highest step on a ladder, on my tippy toes, trying to pry the box i want loose, it is under two others, with the special layaway poking stick, cunningly fashioned from a broken broom handle and electrical tape, all the boxes tumble down, the heaviest landing corner down on my skull. it's a miracle i didn't fall off the ladder from the impact of the blow, it was so hard to get my balance back. i didn't tell anyone, or ask to go home, because as bad as the throbbing was, i knew it wasn't as bad as the headache i would get waiting in the emergency room, knowing i was about to blow a 75$ co-pay on unnecessary emergency medical sevices, insisted upon by a company concerned only about protecting it's oily hide from employee injury related litigation. i don't even have a goose egg or anything, so it's not a big deal. i don't think i'll be working layaway anymore though.

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