Showing posts with label Resigned Prompt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Resigned Prompt. Show all posts

Wednesday November 3rd, 2010

The exercise:

Today we deal with a word with several very different meanings: resigned.

The one that interests me at the moment is the one about removing yourself from a political position. Because the Premier of British Columbia did that today.

Party at my house!

Windows are mostly installed. And I'm sitting around 700 words for the day. Let's see what I can manage tonight.

Update: tonight went well. Here's day three. Also, I should probably mention that the premier's resignation might have had something to do with his 9% approval rating.

Yes, you read that right.

Mine:

Hank, the manager of the only gas station in town, was widely considered the stupidest man to walk the planet. Okay, perhaps 'widely considered' is a slight exaggeration. Let me say instead that every person that ever met him considered him to be the stupidest man to walk the planet.

He couldn't give correct change to save his life, he lost the keys to the station three times a day, and if he was working the pumps there was a fifty-fifty chance that the gas nozzle would end up in the wrong hole.

If you know what I mean.

If you don't, that's okay - you're better off than the rest of us.

Despite all this, the owner re-signed Hank every time his contract was up, no matter who else applied to take over. I guess that's the kind of job security that working for your dad provides.