Slippers

- Responsibility (as mentioned previously) is the driving force behind any slipper salesman due to it's eventual leading to customer gratification. Particuarly in recent times, when slipper sales have fallen on a low patch, the slipper man's job is a tough one.

This turbulance in gross national slipper retail has been mainly cuased by the overpricing and overstocking, a common enough set of business errors, but this time added by the very fact that slippers are themselves a product halfway between perishable and not perishable goods. As in; slippers may fall apart in transit or in bad hands (perishable) or they may be kept lovingly together by a good owner (non-perishable).

Obviously the former case is the preference of slipper salesmen, as the more slippers a man (or woman) will get through relates directly to how much they're likely to be able to add to the retirement fund.

Slipper sales are a slippery business.
sli 3:03 PM

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- You don't really understand what's happening to you. Carpets are made for times like this - a time where you lie back against the softeness of the floor and dream of happy times. I think the feeling of joy that condescends from doing this can be surmised with the following words.

"Inching slowly through clawed hands of ice
Clinging to the name of the three blind mice"

A poem written and often performed by the Hon J J R Watson, established poet of these Isles. I think the vivid imagery used is so representating of our modern squeaky clean lives in this day and age. The mixture of the chill of fear, and the established children's referencing leads the reader (or listener) to a remenise of the mood that encapsulates happiness.

Watson's full works are available in hardback - I highly recommend checking Amazon for a copy.
sli 10:00 AM

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- With responsibility comes expectation, as Yoda might say. That's emphasizing the 'might' with all there is and possibly stretching the noble word a shade or four too far.

With expectation comes risk assesment. Think along the lines of "I am expected to jump thirty feet across this raging river, but will I die?"

With risk assesment comes business marketing. An illogical unatural and probably unhealthy step, but I'm stepping it because I can.

And finally, with business marketing comes the customer gratification. Bloody brilliant eh?
sli 5:21 PM

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