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I've missed three entire days! How horrible! Working is evil, I tell you. Of course, I get paid tomorrow, so it's not all bad. The only thing I'm rather disappointed about is that I didn't get the chance to write down some of the really strange dreams I've had over the past three days (which is 75% of the total point of this thing right now). Plus I can't remember the dream I had last night. Probably because I was so tired from my 12-hour day. It was bad enough that I had to wait until 7:45 or so to take my break, but the fact that it was my own choosing makes it worse. The grad party I went to wasn't bad, and I got to see all my friends again. Some of them came over to harass me at work, too, and left balloons tied to my car (I wonder how long it took them to find my car in the parking lot...). I'm still not sure if I should use real names here or not. I'll probably continue to be paranoid like that forever. You never know when someone strange will show up and start stalking you, hmm?
Yesterday at work was really slow until after I got back from my break... then everything started to get busy and we didn't get done with everything until 11:15. Towards the end of the set, this lady came in with about 7 other people and didn't stand in a line, and just stood at the counter next to my register and looked irate. After I'd waited on about three people she started to glare at me, and then screamed "Can I get some service here???" I wanted to yell back "Get in the freaking line you idiot!" but I'm a nice person and only think those things. Then she had this huge order consisting mostly of small drinks. So I rang everything up, and I couldn't remember what all the drinks were, so I asked again and in about five seconds she screamed them all at me again. Luckily one of the other counter-girls helped me out, or else I would've had to risk her wrath and ask again. Then she told me she wanted another small popcorn (that she hadn't asked for before), so I got that, and then she insisted that I hadn't gotten her the medium drink, but whoever had it had already walked away with it, so she yelled at me over that until the person with the drink came back. And she didn't even apologize. Then she wanted a cup of cheese, and I had to charge her a dollar for it, because the theatre is run by Nazis and my manager was behind the counter (didn't do anything to stop this lady's rampage though, darn him). So she stared yelling things like "My goodness aren't you a tightwad tonight? You can't even give me the cheee for free, you selfish little brat? You've already charged me $34!" Of course, I couldn't give her the cheese because, hey, my manager was back there. I don't think I would've given it to her for free anyway, because she was so mean to me. Why don't people understand that it's not my fault that everything's so expensive??? So, to my great relief, they started walking away. Then one of the little boys told the mother that his drink should've been free, because he got nachos. I don't have any idea where he came up with that idea (he didn't even get nachos!). We have a nacho combo, which is a large nacho, and a medium drink, but neither of them are free. So I had to explain this, which made her even more angry.
Then (oh no, I'm not done with this night yet. It had to have been the weirdest one since I started) we were almost done shutting everything down, and we all had to use register one because the others had been shut down. So what happens? Register one freezes up! And there were three people in the line. Someone dumped the pretzels right before someone ordered them, we had to write down all the orders by hand and add them up in our heads, and you can't open the drawer when the computer's frozen, so we had to have the manager open it, and then we had to keep it open. Then I accidentally closed it, and this other guy came up and ordered a bunch of large drinks, but then he didn't want any of them and we had to dump everything out. I wanted to go to sleep so badly. At least I don't work again until Thursday (the day of our big Inspection by the district manager or something). That ought to be fun.. I hope what I heard was true and they're only there for a half-hour in the morning before any of the regular employees arrive.
Compared to last night, Saturday and Friday weren't much of anything at all at work. After work on Saturday I went to see the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with my sister and one of my friends. It was actually pretty good, and it probably would've been better if I could stop my self from snickering every time Special Agent Sawyer (hehehe!) was on the screen. My sister didn't realize it was Tom Sawyer until we were in the car on the way home. Literary characters in bizarre places make me laugh. I realize now that I should try to read some of the books (or at least learn their stories), and then see the movie again. The very end was disturbing, though, because it leaves open a way for a very bizarre sequel that, if I may state my opinion now, should never, ever, ever happen.
I finally finished The Selfish Gene, which I've been working through for about a week and a half now. It, and two other books, were a gift from my old neighbour. The chapter on memes was my favourite part of the book. This morning, I started The Demon-Haunted World. I hope it's as good (I'm sure it will be). At least I have things to read now, and I don't have to worry so much about telling people that the last book that I read was Megamorphs #3.
I suppose I should go running today... I guess it will depend on what sort of mood I'm in after I get done looking at laptops at Best Buy. Maybe I'll get lucky and be able to negotiate some sort of deal with the computer guy so I'll be able to afford one. I wonder how much money I have in my bank account (I wonder if I'll ever be able to rescue my money from my savings account.... I wonder why I can't properly type the word "account").
Yesterday at work was really slow until after I got back from my break... then everything started to get busy and we didn't get done with everything until 11:15. Towards the end of the set, this lady came in with about 7 other people and didn't stand in a line, and just stood at the counter next to my register and looked irate. After I'd waited on about three people she started to glare at me, and then screamed "Can I get some service here???" I wanted to yell back "Get in the freaking line you idiot!" but I'm a nice person and only think those things. Then she had this huge order consisting mostly of small drinks. So I rang everything up, and I couldn't remember what all the drinks were, so I asked again and in about five seconds she screamed them all at me again. Luckily one of the other counter-girls helped me out, or else I would've had to risk her wrath and ask again. Then she told me she wanted another small popcorn (that she hadn't asked for before), so I got that, and then she insisted that I hadn't gotten her the medium drink, but whoever had it had already walked away with it, so she yelled at me over that until the person with the drink came back. And she didn't even apologize. Then she wanted a cup of cheese, and I had to charge her a dollar for it, because the theatre is run by Nazis and my manager was behind the counter (didn't do anything to stop this lady's rampage though, darn him). So she stared yelling things like "My goodness aren't you a tightwad tonight? You can't even give me the cheee for free, you selfish little brat? You've already charged me $34!" Of course, I couldn't give her the cheese because, hey, my manager was back there. I don't think I would've given it to her for free anyway, because she was so mean to me. Why don't people understand that it's not my fault that everything's so expensive??? So, to my great relief, they started walking away. Then one of the little boys told the mother that his drink should've been free, because he got nachos. I don't have any idea where he came up with that idea (he didn't even get nachos!). We have a nacho combo, which is a large nacho, and a medium drink, but neither of them are free. So I had to explain this, which made her even more angry.
Then (oh no, I'm not done with this night yet. It had to have been the weirdest one since I started) we were almost done shutting everything down, and we all had to use register one because the others had been shut down. So what happens? Register one freezes up! And there were three people in the line. Someone dumped the pretzels right before someone ordered them, we had to write down all the orders by hand and add them up in our heads, and you can't open the drawer when the computer's frozen, so we had to have the manager open it, and then we had to keep it open. Then I accidentally closed it, and this other guy came up and ordered a bunch of large drinks, but then he didn't want any of them and we had to dump everything out. I wanted to go to sleep so badly. At least I don't work again until Thursday (the day of our big Inspection by the district manager or something). That ought to be fun.. I hope what I heard was true and they're only there for a half-hour in the morning before any of the regular employees arrive.
Compared to last night, Saturday and Friday weren't much of anything at all at work. After work on Saturday I went to see the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with my sister and one of my friends. It was actually pretty good, and it probably would've been better if I could stop my self from snickering every time Special Agent Sawyer (hehehe!) was on the screen. My sister didn't realize it was Tom Sawyer until we were in the car on the way home. Literary characters in bizarre places make me laugh. I realize now that I should try to read some of the books (or at least learn their stories), and then see the movie again. The very end was disturbing, though, because it leaves open a way for a very bizarre sequel that, if I may state my opinion now, should never, ever, ever happen.
I finally finished The Selfish Gene, which I've been working through for about a week and a half now. It, and two other books, were a gift from my old neighbour. The chapter on memes was my favourite part of the book. This morning, I started The Demon-Haunted World. I hope it's as good (I'm sure it will be). At least I have things to read now, and I don't have to worry so much about telling people that the last book that I read was Megamorphs #3.
I suppose I should go running today... I guess it will depend on what sort of mood I'm in after I get done looking at laptops at Best Buy. Maybe I'll get lucky and be able to negotiate some sort of deal with the computer guy so I'll be able to afford one. I wonder how much money I have in my bank account (I wonder if I'll ever be able to rescue my money from my savings account.... I wonder why I can't properly type the word "account").
