I'm still pretty sore from skating the other day, so I ended up calling Uber for a ride to work. No trouble there. The driver going to work arrived in 3 minutes. The one going home came in 8 minutes, and that was at quarter of 5 at the height of rush hour. Both got me there within five minutes with no traffic whatsoever.
Work, on the other hand, was a mess from start to finish. We were crazy all day. It's the beginning of the month. A lot of people likely just got their money today or will on Monday. I had a hard time keeping up with the carts and the sweeping and putting cold items away. And I had to sweep spilled blueberries and clean up a broken plastic gallon water jug, and do it all with no help. The head bagger ended up in a register all day. I never did get to the other side of the parking lot. Needless to say, I was very happy when I managed to get out with no trouble.
At least the weather was nice for all the trouble. It was sunny and bright blue, chilly but nothing like last week. If it hadn't been so windy, it might have been just about perfect.
Finished Snow Day when I got home, then took a shower. Had dinner while watching more Out of Control. Dave takes Herm on a flight to the North Pole in search of real "Eskimo Pies," despite Herm being terrified of heights. Meanwhile, Diz runs the studio and speeds up a little boy's paper route and Angela profiles Katz's Delicatessen in New York (which according to research still exists to this day and still serves everything). (Oh, and look for Dennis Miller as the guide explaining how to survive in the desert in the "Are We There Yet?" segment.)
Diz is worried that Fred Thompson, the guy Dave is interviewing, will "Mouth Off" and take over his job. She encourages the others to help her get rid of the guy. Herm, however, smells an opportunity to brown nose to the new host. Dave, however, is friends with the guy and actually wants to share hosting duties with him.
Stayed at YouTube and finished the night with the Match Game marathon. For all of the episodes of this show that do exist and are in frequent rotation on Buzzr and Game Show Network, there's many that can only be found at YouTube. For instance, Buzzr skipped an episode of that recent week with Mary Ann Mobley and Richard Kiel that had a question about the Klu Klux Klan that would never have flown today (despite Gene's angry insistence that they were terrible people). Valerie Bertanelli only just cleared her one week of episodes from 1978 two years ago (mainly because she was 18 at the time and had been uncomfortable around randy old men Gene Rayburn and Ed Asner). There was an offensive Nazi-related answer to an Audience Match in a PM episode with Roz Kelly and Jimmie Walker. Other episodes don't turn up anymore because they have bad tapes, like two from the 1978 Christmas week that also features Joe Santos and Fannie Flagg (including the episode before Charles and Brett playing Santa and Bretzy La Bratt).
See some of the rarest Match Game episodes of all in this though-provoking and very popular marathon!
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