Area Woman Changes Profile Picture

GREEN, Ohio -- After much consideration, area waitress and perpetual college student Kelly Padilla has changed her Facebook profile picture. Padilla, 25, took more than two dozen photos of herself with her iPhone in the bathroom mirror at the Brubaker’s Pub on Massillon Road Saturday night, some with her hair pulled back, and others with it down. Her best friend, 24-year-old Brittany Schaub, also appeared in some of the photos.

“It was hard to get a full body shot, because you can only step back so far before you just bump into the hand dryers,” Padilla told reporters. “But actually, I thought the close-up shots turned out better anyway, because you can totally see my eyeshadow more.”

Padilla said she and Schaub spent nearly four hours Sunday afternoon trying to decide which picture was profile worthy, toggling back and forth between shots several hundred times after weeding out those in which Padilla’s hair was kind of “jacked up” or in which she appeared to have a “freakin lazy eye or something.” Although both women had econ homework they should’ve been working on, they felt they wouldn’t really be able to concentrate on it until they’d had a good look at all the photos from the previous night’s drunken hilarity, which were completely different from the photos they took at the same bar a week prior.

“We finally chose this one because my hair looks good but you can still kind of see my shoulder tat,” Padilla said. “What do you think? I mean, keep in mind, I have like 493 friends who are going to see this.”

Padilla said that before Sunday, she had not changed her profile picture since Aug. 27 when some dude named Austin or Todd took a “totally epic” picture of her doing a shot of Patron while she danced on the bar.

Area Man Discovers Speaker Phone

Tuesday at 1:44 p.m. was a life-changing moment for area marketing coordinator Brad Shadle, who finally learned how to use the speaker phone function on his office phone after more than two years on the job. “Now I can call people without picking up my receiver, but then pick it up when they answer,” Shadle said. “Or, if I choose to leave them on speaker phone, I can even lean back in my chair and cross my arms while discussing ‘strategic partnerships’ and the ‘importance of honing in on segment growth areas’ while also referring to whomever is on the other end of the line as “my main man.”

Some of Shadle’s coworkers, however, aren’t so happy about his newfound knowledge. Assistant project coordinator Amy McHenry, who sits just a few feet away from Shadle, says his incessant speaker phone babble can sometimes be annoying and awkward. “Like that time he had that mouth breather Steve Klein from sales on the phone, and I overheard Steve refer to me as ‘Cankles McHenry,’ she said. “I mean, has Steve looked at his wife lately? Two words for you: ‘ham arms.’”

When asked if he was concerned about his speaker phone conversations being overheard, Shadle chuckled. “Exsqueeze me?” he said. “Isn’t that the point of speaker phone?”

Shadle’s boss declined to comment.