I loathe answering the phone at work.
Its not my Job and for whatever god forsaken reason, it makes me CRAZY.
The other day it just so happened to be ringing off the hook and I randomly felt obliged to pick it up and oh, i am glad i did.
It was the Ajax lady, you know, from the Cheech and Chong movie "Up in Smoke".
Her real name is June Fairchild and she lives in California and claims that at some point her late husband was business partners with my boss MANUEL.
Manuel at the time of the call was out of the country and obviously not available to speak to June so she talked my ear off for about 20 minutes instead.
She spoke of things such as meeting Johnny Cash and him picking her up and spinning her around because her name was the same as his wife's.
She also told me what a catch Marty Stuart used to be in his younger years and how she had always had a crush on him.
She went on to explain that the Ajax scene, (her one claim to fame) was filmed using a tube taped to her cheek that was attached to a vacuum cleaner and that is how it appeared that she snorted all of that household cleaner.
Towards the end of our mostly one sided bazaar and off beat phone conversation, The loquacious Ms. Fairchild insisted that I tell Manuel that "Crazy June" had called, I guess that is what he used to call her back in the day....."Manuel was right on the mark with that one" sounds just about what I thought to myself, I responded only with a chuckle. Just HOW unsound the lady is, i never would have guessed until checking out the pictures from a story the LA times did on her in February of 2001
I never cease to be amazed by humans
