The Grabber didn't make it

Hotness, the unfortunate young lady being stalked by The Garden Gnome, scored a double victory today. The cuts went out last night, with people getting emails that told them they were either a) unemployed or b) still working. More on that later.

Actually, I guess Hotness scored a triple victory. First, she is still on the project, if you count that as a victory. Second, The Garden Gnome is not. In some cases, it seems that the reasons for a person being cut are arbitrary. In this case, not so much. The Gnome spent way too much time wandering the halls to get much actual work done. I hope he  gets a VERY long holiday weekend, lasting until August, perhaps.

Third, though, on Hotness's list of victories, is the fact that The Grabber also did not make the cut. In our previously described L-shaped room (puzzling fact of the day: Shaggy made the cut. He also almost got renamed Ichabod Crane, but that isn't puzzling if you've seen him.) there was an individual who sat around the L-bend from Hotness who did two things that really disturbed her. One I don't really understand, the other I do. Because she sat at the L-joint, however, she was able to view both of these activities in all their glory.

The first, which frankly I don't see as all that bad, involved The Grabber taking off his shoes. I don't approve, but his feet apparently do not stink, so I am agnostic on this. Hotness says, however, that it didn't stop there. Apparently he would stretch out his legs and flex his toes repeatedly. This seriously grossed out Hotness. However, it paled in comparison with the activity that earned The Grabber his name.

The Grabber, it would appear, suffered from a permanently uncomfortable crotch, and a total lack of social inhibition regarding adjusting same to meet his satisfaction without respect to who might or might not be able to observe. Said grabbing was, according to Hotness, vigorous and frequent, while still short of public lewdness. His failure to make the cut, combined with The Garden Gnome's demise, gave Hotness cause to breathe a sigh of relief.

Of course, I am now much more grateful for my father's advice about when and where it is acceptable to adjust the boys.