Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( a unique insight into the day-to-day behavior of the people in our lives )
We made it! A week of a new Post for each day of the week! Fun, satisfying and tiring in an odd way. Not the ‘I shoveled the whole driveway’ or ‘raked the lawn’ tired, not the ‘went to the fitness center’ or ‘worked out on the elliptical machine’, not even the ‘stay up all night trying to finish the report that was due first period yesterday’.
Well, it is sort of like that last one, but more of how you think you’ve finished the report, it’s only 3:00 am and you make the mistake of going to bed for a nap and then wake up at 6:00 am (luckily) and read the report sitting in the printer tray and realize with that turning-of-the-stomach feeling that the last section (of your report) totally makes no sense at all. Your head flashes at about 300 degrees, and you sit down and re-write the whole damn thing and get to class/work just late enough to draw the attention of your teacher/supervisor…. sort of like that.
But still, it’s Saturday! So, lets wrap this one up and get out there (or back to bed) and get some work done ( and get some…) and call up tonight…
Oh yeah! I just remembered something weirdly funny* that happened to me this week at work. The Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Drive Call-In Show uses a ‘conference call service’ to allow us all to talk together in real-time: DS#1 from Florida, Steve from Texas, Molly from a big-square-state and such.
So when you call us (8:00 to 8:45 EDT) at 218-339-0422 the first thing you will hear is a woman’s voice saying, “Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine, the theory of clarks, scotts and row-gers! … and at the end of the message, she says, ‘please enter your Passcode followed by the # sign (code: 512103)…. anyway, at work this week I had to participate in a remote conference call organized by a client company and involved people from all over the country…. and … you guessed it! (The client company) was using the same conference call service! And the ‘Saturday Night Drive woman’s voice’ that welcomes you to the Saturday Drive was prompting me for my access code! (Laughing-While-Typing) … I almost said, “hi! Did I forget to start the call?” But then I remembered I was not ‘in the car, surrounded by Wakefield‘, so I did not say anything to let her know that I recognized her from Saturday nights.
(…and you, New Reader, was wondering whether or not this Wakefield Doctrine thing would be fun! ) LWT
Quick Doctrine Review! Saturday tends to be a Day of:
- hope and anticipation for clarks
- fun…excitement…activity…fun for a scott
- satisfaction and reassurance that the structure of the Work Week can be imposed on a poorly organized Weekend Day for the rogers (hey!! Progenitor roger! you need to write us a Comment from work!)
* is there any other kind of funny?
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Good post! Funny little post! Hey, I got me some fo sure. LOL (oh. I see. no one got the sex reference?)
Like the drummer lots. Good energy. Hey Crabman! Whatcha think? He’s fun, no?
Since there are so many reading this morning (in my version of the world) I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for joining in the conversation the last few days. Real excitn’.
I figured that would happen to you sooner or later! lol
Glad you remembered where you were at before you had a chance to speak, or it would be like the guy in the elevator who says, “Now, I suppose you are all wondering why I called you together here today. Let me tell you…”
As to this whole Wakefield thing — I think I need a does of scott for today.
lol yeah, (but there was that weird…frisson or whatever) when I recognized her voice…
as to the scott… we all have, not only the capacity to be scottian, but to attract the scottian elements of our (individual) realities… good luck with that today and remember what we always say, “Take Notes!”
lol
Well, here’s your e-mail from work.
Thankfully, work is boring and tedious. That ‘s a good thing.
Spent most of last night coughing violently, and am glad to report that after having been randomly re-arranged, my internal organs are finally back in place. However, everything re-settled in at 45 degrees to the right, so I keep walking into door jambs.
…assuming you have a full day protecting the weekend denizens of your Complex ( “Mr. Coyne? About your Shift Report… our list of employees of the building does not include a Mr. U. Grant, nor does it include a T. Jefferson…and it most certainly does not have enough people for a Honor Guard, and yet you insist the building is un-damaged! Please explain or I will have to write you up.”)
If you get back online, and do not expect to be able to call in tonight, I will be asking if anyone thinks doing some ‘Advice Column’ Posts again and any suggestions for questions, both real and imagined will be appreciated. Now I think I hear a bugle somewhere… lol
Well of course the first thing I honed in on was “get some…”! Being a scottian female and all.
Oh Clarkie Clarkie, to be a fly on the wall…
@RCoyne – having some recent experience with internal organs and such may I assure you that very soon you will find yourself compensating such that you’ll be able to avoid the jambs with relatively small effort.
Other than the challenge walking through doorways, how was it working on the weekend? You being a roger and all? Seems to me that rogers are suited best for the M-F 9-5 schedule. Concise, predictable. No surprises. Order. Everything in its place.
I’m calling tonite. I won on college football and I’m slightly feeling good (read: anything you think) and get Jasmine to call. She never calls. Get her on the phone. Where you driving tonite? I spell tonight tonite. So what? It’s like though is tho. Where’s the red underline on tho?
I digress. So, let’s talk. My daughter is here tonite and I’m in a talkative mood. Stupid politics. We are under a tornado watch, so it’s at least interesting. I’ve never seen one. Except on TV. That’s short for television. These weather people get excited about severe weather, ha! I wonder if that carries over when they get home!?
I think we should concentrate on Rogers tonite. Tonight. Drive time. BTW, I wore my CSR cap again for the Toys for Tots gig at Strokers Biker Bar last Sat nite. See pics on my FB page! Yeah! Notre Dame kept the under and I appreciate their defense. But, we don’t need to talk about that. They are Catholic and we don’t talk about religion in Texas. Oh wait, the car, the drive, we can talk, I gotta call – then ?????