{"id":21288,"date":"2018-07-21T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=21288"},"modified":"2018-07-21T10:07:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T14:07:01","slug":"work-stories-i-might-have-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2018\/07\/21\/work-stories-i-might-have-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Work stories I might have told"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heigh Ho! Heigh Ho! It’s off to work we go. Video still: trailer, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” public domain<\/p><\/div>\n

A solid week of work can take a lot out of you. So on Friday night, whatever our plans and good intentions, Terry and I rarely make it out the door to do the town. It’s usually a night of takeout dinner and watching some clever British detective unravel a heinous bludgeoning death on TV. Feet up, brain off.<\/p>\n

But last night we made an exception to attend North Country at Work’s<\/a> first Work Story Slam, conveniently nearby in Canton at the county historical association. Seven brave souls stood up to tell anecdotes from their varied working lives and it was a good time all round, I think. As Amy pointed out in her introductory remarks, we spend most of our waking adult hours working, so where else would our best stories come from?<\/p>\n

My own working life is a little sedate these days. I work with sane and civil folk and spend a lot of time staring into twin monitors at my desk. Thin soup for storytelling. But it was not always so. So as I watched last night’s performers, I thought, as I often do in such situations, about what I would say if I was up behind the microphone.<\/p>\n

Maybe the evening I averted an international incident on the Tug Hill by being Bartender for the Revolution. Maybe the winter night I got stuck in the subject’s driveway while surveilling an unfaithful spouse. Maybe the day I turned the steam hose out the dishroom window to drive away unruly cafeteria patrons. Or when the horn section hitched a ride home in my rusted out and unheated equipment van and kept warm by shoulder-pounding and singing the “Gilligan’s Island” theme song in four-part harmony.<\/p>\n

You know – work stories. If you can drag yourself off the couch on a Friday night, the next Work Story Slam<\/a> is Friday, August 17 in Hammond, NY at the Hammond Museum. Tell everybody about that time when you\u2026<\/p>\n

Or tell it now in a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A solid week of work can take a lot out of you. So on Friday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21288"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21293,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288\/revisions\/21293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}