Work is starting to take its toll on me... I don't think it's actually as bad as I make it out to be. I'm just one lazy lazy bum that's all. And in my opinion, late night shopping is just insanity. Who shops at midnight - SERIOUSLY! Go home to your families and sleep you silly consumerist people. Thanks to unorganized sillies like yourselves I get to close up and go home at 1am... That's one thing I'll never ever want to experience ever again. Oh Retail, I hope we don't ever meet again at Christmas time. You make me sick. Thanks to you, it doesn't even feel like Christmas this year.. :(Let me see... In a week of my 5pm~1am shifts I:
- had a she-stalker wanting to 'catch me on my break sometime' for coffee (weird!!)
- was asked 57 too many times where I was from because I had a 'curious accent' ("Is that an American/Canadian accent I detect? I can't figure out which. 'Thirrrrty-seven dollarrrrrs?' har har har" Yeah real funny dude)
- got soooo sick of asking "would you like exchange cards with that?"
- got soooo tired of hearing "what's an exchange card?"
- experienced far too many dodgy guys buyin dodgy books/mags (Where are you supposed to look when a guy's askin for a discount cuz the cover of playboy:brunnettes--which happens to be the last copy--is conveniently ripped?)
- officially got freaked out by weird old men
- took advantage of the guys at Tank givin me free smoothie upgrades
- sold at least four Sex & the City dvd/overnight packs (valued at only $279.99) which is more than anyone else can say
- had moments of hysterical laughter for fear I'd cry if I didn't
- nearly barfed at the smell of money
- went through half of my germ-X
- found that there are no taxis when you desperately need them
- accidently sent a lot of people to the Two Double Seven Whitcoulls on the false belief that 'Whitcoulls Bennetts on Broadway' was the one in Newmarket... not the Palmerston North branch (who would've thought?! really!)
- got sick calluses on my hand from vaccuming the store for an hour everyday after closing
- learnt to always check your receipt when shoppin at Whitcoulls cuz everything seems to be priced wrong
- learnt that when dealing with annoying customers: just lie. ("Sorry, it looks like we're all out" oh boo hoo i can't find the 12 copies that are supposed to be in store)
- learnt to stay away from Muffin Break
Am I even allowed to say half those things? I don't even know anymore. The list could go on really, but you get the idea. Wasn't my favourite week if I do say so myself. But I did have a moment today as one of the girls at work was leavin, she yelled out:
"You're one weird, weird girl wrapped in the form of a normal person. That scares me a little.."
Haha pretty much makes up for everything really. The only surprising thing was that it took her almost a whole month of working with me to figure that out.
Oh look at that. And then it was Christmas. Have a good one. Eat lots. Drink more (water that is... or juice... unless its in an Italian restaurant... in which case you'd probably wanna opt for something fancier :P)
God bless y'all!
I got pretty flowers. Jealous much?
