Introducing Quackers! The little ducks that . . .

The title of this post is a nod to the famous "Quackers commercial," circa 1988, captured for eternity on VHS when my dad taped A Charlie Brown Christmas/How the Grinch Stole Christmas off TV for us. Much like the York peppermint patty commercial ("When I bite into a York peppermint patty . . . [man jumps on table]) the ending was cut off, leaving us perpetually curious. So I don't know the rest of that slogan, but it's kind of irrelevant since Quackers never quite succeeded in wresting a significant portion of the "cheddar flavored crackers shaped like animals you might find in a pond" market from Goldfish.

Since I got absolutely no love for my allusion when I described my UPS uniform by using a scene from White Christmas, I'm not expecting much here, but anyway.

So, point of the story, I'm starting duck driver training on Monday.

My audition consisted of me giving a slightly modified introduction where I basically cut out all the jokes (except for "Absolutely no smoking. If I see you smoking, I'm going to have to assume you're fire and take appropriate action.") I also added my own "joke" where I asked the "passengers" (played by the boss/interviewer) if anyone was here in Seattle for the first time. "Really? Great. Me too! I've heard it's a great city, though, I think we'll have fun." Hahaha, imagine how funny it would be if your tour guide had never been to the city before! Or if they had just moved there a few days ago!

And I laughed nervously the entire time. This was the only time in my life I have received anything resembling positive feedback on my nervous laughter. "I like the way you laugh at yourself-- it makes you likeable."

So, in conclusion, "I'm the life of the party!" said a la Gloria from the camping trip I will refer to as the "Pip trip" to distinguish it from multiple other similar camping trips (i.e. the "Club Chinook"/Ignition Remix trip, the "Are we really going camping with our teachers?" trip, etc.)