Just Like That

After a little over a year of selling high-end lighting to snooty customers with deep pockets, I was asked on the spot to leave the Honolulu Design Center. "No problem!" I exclaimed. It is surprising they kept me there as long as they did. Their reason for termination was the company's downward spiral of sales and the waning economy. I always questioned how they would make a profit with an over-stocked, outrageously plush, 50 million dollar building to account for and maintain. It was pointless why they hired me seeming only a handful of customers would come in a day on average. Business would be so slow it got me through many classes until they cracked down on employee Internet use. I will only miss the sound system I wrote about. There were no hard feelings in the end, though it's ironic it occurred on such an already eventful day in history (4/20); Hitler's birthday, Columbine massacre, National Marijuana Day, Guru's death (today), and now, getting canned in 2010. Every 4/20 gets crazier and crazier.