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Previously on Work Stories, I wrote about a drunk guy who came into the museum and made me laugh.   Right?   I think that’s what I wrote about.   Let me check that really quickly.   Yep.   That’s what I wrote about.   The guy who read something once when he was in grade three.   That guy sure made me laugh.   It was a funny moment.   You may have had to be there.   I don’t know. This week, Work Stories will bring you another Work Story from another time at the museum that I work at.   Why?   Like I’ve said before, it’s the most recent place that I have worked, so it’s the place where I remember the most stories from.   It’s also the place where the most oddities and interesting things have happened.   I didn’t get much of that kind of stuff at any of my other jobs.   If you get more stories from a certain workplace, that’s what more of the stories will be focused on.   It only makes sense. The W...

Previously on Work Stories, I wrote about a guy who tried to scan his ticket at the televisions, thinking that they were the black box that I had said to scan at.   It’s still one of the few times I’ve been completely wordless because of something that a person has done while trying to get into the museum that I work at.   It was unbelievable.   Four big television screens.   That’s where he thought the scanner was, even though I had pointed at the scanner sitting on the counter.   I don’t know what gets into people’s minds sometimes. I’ve got another story for you this week about another strange encounter at work.   We get crazy and weird people coming up to our ticketing area all the time.   That’s how I end up with half of the stories I tell in the Work Stories.   They approach, they act really strange, and then we part ways.   They think nothing at all of the time they walked up to that guy selling tickets at one of the many attr...

Last night brought about another finale to another show that the online world had deemed great.   I have not watched Fargo, but I have seen the online reaction grow and grow through the people I follow on Twitter.   They became more enamored with the show over the past two months.   As the finale approached, the buzz hit a high point.   It hit a tipping point, you might say.   It got to be so much for the viewers that their excitement for the Fargo finale spilled over and caused vitriol to go against other beloved television shows.   This was solely in a “my show is better” sense.   There was no reasoning behind why Fargo was purportedly a better show.   It simply was and any other show sucked. That’s the way of the internet in recent weeks, months, years.   If something is not exceptional and the favourite thing of the outspoken online personality, then it automatically sucks and should be shamed for not being their favourite. ...