Second part of the dream Stan and I went to some administrative/city building to register (to vote?!?) or something. We sat down at a desk with a woman, dark hair, blue eyes, maybe in her early thirties or late 20s. The woman kept asking us questions to make sure we were "legitimate." She asked if my husband could vouch for the fact that something on my application form was legitimate. I vouched for him as well. Then she asked me something about my former work history, specifically working at Kinko's in FC. I told her that I would typeset resumes and brochures, usually 1-page items for customers using Mac computers. She looked a little suspiciously at me and said that people can do that themselves, insinuating that I was making up my job. She kept talking and then I interrupted her and said, "let me explain." Her eyes got really big, and her expression said "how dare you interrupt me!" I told her that I worked there back in the 80s (she was just a young kid...what would she remember?) when maybe 10% of the population had a personal computer. Now about 90% have computers (I dont know the actual stats...that's just what I said in the dream), so I had to do the work for them.
She was a real idiot. I can't remember how the dream ended. Sometimes I think when I'm dealing with these Palin-voting dolts in these dreams my automatic wake reflexes kick in.
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I heard that a lot of the mid 20th century buildings can't be saved because they weren't made well enough to begin with, so it is a rare and good thing when this part of history can be preserved.
I can see some people have issues with you for some of the work you had to do at Kinkos. It is the political correctness of the WW2 generation. They would hold a position that when you do copies for some radical crazy person you would be no different than the Germans who said they were only following orders.
Unfortunately, People like this believe that repressing views is a solution, and it is very sad, because there is no way that repressing the views is going to prevent genocide.
You learned a lot about working on computers at Kinkos back then and now that you are self employed you will never have to produce anything for the kinds of customers you had back then.
Stan, this dream had absolutely NOTHING to do with some of those awful Pete Peters-loving Alan Berg Assassinators that would drag their neanderthal butts into kinko's to have their hate-lit typeset, nor does it have anything to do with the people who hate them or anyone they do business with.
This dream was about a bimbo who didn't realize that personal computing didn't exist en masse back in the 80s like it does today. She didn't realize that back in the 80s there were places that did desktop publishing for people, because most people didn't have their own computers to do it themselves. You know, like young people that came of age in the 90s and thought people always drove fuel injection cars.
This has nothing to do with with any of the things you mention. I don't know where you are reading that into my dream.
Sorry, I'm glad it was more of a bimbo thing.
It sounds more like the dream is a result of seeing Palin on TV so much.
Maybe there are people that would never imagine there was a time when most people had to hire someone to do work on a computer for them. They would then wonder how anyone would have had a job making computer documents that almost anyone would now simply compose on their own computer at home.
Just for the record, I never typeset any of that shitlit. I refused to finish it, as did a few of my other coworkers. I don't know if the job ever got done, or if it got returned to the customer unfinished with a "we don't have time to do it in your timeframe" excuse.
However, sometimes if you refuse to do a job, no matter how awful, it could be cause for termination, so I wouldn't hold it against anyone if they did finish it if they feared losing their job for not doing so.
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