Don't know if you want to hear my story , but here it goes..
I was studying at Berklee when they opened the "Biggest record store in the world" in Boston...mind you , I was a Newbury comics fan, but , hey, I've always had a wide musical knowledge...So , on top of the Undergraduate classes, the proficency tests that I had to pass every semester on electric bass, the MP&E labs, the MP&E projects, being a tenor in the Berklee Choir AND having a girlfriend (ooohhh Anna!!!), I worked on Thursday afternoon/Nights and all day Sat and Sun.. ...,,ahhh the virtues of being young!!!
Got there and was part of the cashiers/stocking staff and sometimes the art dept. since I have very nice calligraphy, I used to write the artists names on the white dividers...
Saw many artists there.. Carly Simon (wow..she's a big girl!!), Jody Watley , who was a spoiled diva, Taylor Dayne, the guys from Wet Wet Wet, MICHAEL PALIN!!!!(who was lovely.. doing promo for "A fish called Wanda".. Cleese was supposed to be there but he proved to be too much of a diva!)..even met a Berklee classmate's Dad, a very famous mexican comedian, "Chavelo" who was a HUGE Jazz fan, and was very nice...
Made a few friends, among them Louis (a big black guy!), Lisa (a beautiful Black girl), and many whom I can't remember their name...One anecdote that still resonates was that Mike, our supervisor, was a really straight guy.. until I found out he was gay... and I thought my "gaydar" was functioning properly!!! Also had another supervisor named Mike, who I'll always remember cause every time that we asked him "CAN I go to the bathroom?" he'd always reply.."I don't know, CAN YOU???"..but he was very nice..
There was another supervisor (Bob?) who was older and a BIG AHOLE!!! But these were few and far between..most people were really nice, as long as you did your job..
Oh.. I almost forgot about Caroline Jones with whom I went to see Dan Reed Network who were opening for UB40 at Great Woods!!!
I was also smitten with a goth girl who was beautiful and was voluptuous.. Jennifer B... I even invited her for dinner (I COOKED! That was how I lured them!!!) but , somehow it didn't click (this was before Anna!)...
Anyway,, it was all nice until a supervisor , Leslie, who I'm sure had a crush on me but I wouldn't give her the time of day, starting being mean to me, and that is something I'll NEVER tolerate!!! It got to the point that she mobbed me when I was doing cashier functions and made me make a mistake, so she told me she'd "do my register", which as many of you know, is making sure that , after closing, there were no discrepancies... so, after closing, she started yelling at me while I was leaving (I am very nice, but you really don't wanna piss me off, cause I know where your weakest point is and I'll throw salt in there...blame all the water signs in my Astral Chart).. to which I screamed at her.."DO YOU KNOW WHAT A COMB IS????"(she was always disheveled and looked like a waif)... which, shut her up immediately and promptly got me fired, but not without my friend Lisa telling me the next day that Leslie had really lost it and couldn't even do my cash register... oh well...
Fast forward to the FB years.. and I found a now defunct group called "I worked at Tower Boston", which was run by .. GUESS WHO??? LESLIE!!!!...anyway...I moved on to being a security guard in the MFA.. which was WAY nicer!!!