the possini euro galaxy chrome light fixture is off the table.
damn. I really don’t know why they discontinued it either.
I mean it only had a million positive reviews
and a total of zero negative ones. Seriously.
And now I’ve only got this teeny tiny image of it
from my amazon shopping cart with ‘no longer available’ in red beside it.
Sad times. C’est la vie.
it’s a bummer too cause I totally could have used the money.
I did guess the right powerball number though. So, there’s $4.
My fantasies of quitting my job though will have to remain just that for the time being.
Bummer.
Yeah, so, today was crappy.
Woken up at dawn
from my best night of sleep in as long as I can remember
(despite the fact that I wasn’t into bed until after 2 am)
because the third-in at the shop was delayed indefinitely.
Long morning followed by an even longer “productivity session”
– payroll, scheduling, labor analysis, food analysis, store reports, weekly recaps, email, store orders… –
punctuated by a 24 hour resignation notice via text message.
(Which is a lot like being broken up with on a post-it.)
Awesome.
More scheduling, this time more like frantic shifting/tweaking/begging/pleading/texting/calling
plus a couple of tears, not because I’m sad so much as I’m just tired.
Tired of peoples’ shit.
It was one one of those days though
that went well beyond the realm of the human.
If it could go wrong, it did.
Both blenders broke.
Ran out of the most popular syrup.
Keyboard mysteriously missing two keys.
A store starting the day with 9 people –
now with 1 in the ER, 1 in a car wreck, 1 shipped off to bootcamp early, 1 on the way out of town.
(that last one would be me,
conveniently scheduled to be out-of-state
the week that everyone’s shit is apparently due to hit the fan)
Totally awesome.
The cherry, really, on the top of this mune-day
is round two of intellectually-dwarfed customers
who believe in their core, with their gut, in the essence of their being
that nonfat milk has 0 calories.
I’m going to be honest here,
I had a moment
a crisis of doubt
a
weakness
of
heart
and I broke down.
This is the second time in less than a month, after all.
I picked up a gallon of skim milk and I read the label
(not to the customer, I do have scruples, but just to myself
to be sure, without a doubt, that I was not crazy).
I’m not sure how this misguided notion that ‘nonfat’ = 0 calories
got into the ether and invaded the minds of seemingly normal adults
but in the event the contagion has spread, allow me to set the record straight:
Anyway. Yeah. So today was crappy.
And I have discovered that my stress tolerance is diminishing. Rapidly.
I’m experiencing physical discomfort, knots in my back, and difficulty breathing.
Basically, living the dream.
And so it was
that I decided I could not survive the day
in fact, I could not survive another hour
without macaroni and cheese.
Homemade, indulgent, dare I say hedonistic macaroni and cheese.
And though it may not look like much, rest assured this is the best
most delicious, most decadent, most dramatic
gluten free macaroni and cheese casserole that has ever graced the Earth.
And a little something funny while the noodles boil:
The thing about working retail is… well, you realize people suck.
In the clothing/department store scene one is repeatedly faced with questions about human behavior. Like, why would someone go into a dressing room with 38 different items, proceed to remove each one from its hanger, throw them all up in the air, and then exit the dressing room somehow leaving 42 different items of clothing laying around, some inside out, some on the floor, some bunched up on the bench, etc…? Why would they do that? Or, where is the brat stealing earrings leaving the little cardboard holders stuffed into the mirror edge or in random pants’ pockets around the store? Who are they and can I please have a word with their mother? And, what makes this person think they can return a sweater with stinky pit stains just because the tags are still on it?
In the grocery store scene one cannot help but garner frustration as they find random food items scattered around the store in places they do not belong. Why, why would someone leave a box of popsicles on a random shelf in the cereal isle? Don’t they know count chocula cannot be trusted near triple rockets? Don’t they know the triple rockets are going to melt? And why is a rotisserie chicken sitting on a shelf of men’s deodorant? Who does this?
At Starbucks there are the people who have an aneurism if left too much room for cream in their coffee or, as the case may be, too little. One must wonder how it is that this young woman can order the same simple drink every single morning, every single week and yet still does not know how to ask for what she wants. Who is it that keeps dumping a gallon of hot liquid into the trash causing the bags to weaken and tear and drool all over the floor? And what cave did this man crawl out of that left him under the impression that Starbucks is a sit-down establishment in which a waitress will take your order, serve you, and finally deliver a bill? Does he not see the line forming at the registers? Does he not understand the movement of the masses starting at the entrance, progressing to the registers, meandering to the hand-off plane, and finally making their way full-circle back to the entrance whereby they leave the premises with drink-in-hand?
Of course, its the one in 300 that truly test the hourly-wage retail worker’s composure. Most of the customers are courteous and pleasant enough. Yet, like a mean insult, that single instance tends to carry as much weight as the 299 others.
For myself, it has only been in the last few months that my patience has really worn thin. Maybe the reserve would deepen a bit if a few days could pass before confronted with the next irritatingly unaware and inconsiderate customer with a chip on their shoulder. But somehow they just keep strolling in, day by day and I’m left with my mother’s voice in the back of my head, “don’t underestimate whats out there loose”.
Boom Goes the Dynamite 