Acts of Gord

Mo Valentine said it all, when he sent along this link

Acts of Gord: Love the Gord, Fear the Gord

For anyone who has worked retail–or retoil, as I like to call it. This guy owns a video game store, calls himself “The Gord,” and writes short stories about the idiots he comes across doing his daily business. I find many paraells to this and my days in the trenches of New York!

Here’s a particular gem that Mo included:

The Book of Vengeance, Chapter 6: There Is A Bike Rack Outside For A Reason

This takes me back to my days at Excalibur. Most of the people we dealt with at the knife-and-sword shop were cool, but when you got an idiot in there, every moment you expected their village to call.

Luckily the swords stayed clean of blood, though at times it was difficult to leave them in their scabbards. “Are those real?” “Are those sharp?” “Sure chocko, lemme show ya…”

Now I’m free of retoil… but anyone who’s worked retail can probably empathize with Gord.