Amusing ramblings...or atleast they were amusing to me...
So I am now a shift supervisor at Starbucks - which makes me happy! I ran my first full shift by myself this morning and it went flawlessly. Hooray!
I'm opening again tomorrow and it's one of our regulars' birthdays so I made sure that she was coming in when I saw her today...we'll have silly string, a sign, and candles for her scone all ready to go tomorrow morning.
Exciting.
There have been a few funny incidents at my store lately:
a) I told another regular that he looked a bit like Daniel Craig - the new James Bond - and of course he's not Daniel Craig but he gave us a big tip because of that. The next day I saw someone come in who I thought looked a lot like Bruce Cockburn...so this is what happened:
Me: Sir, has anyone ever told you that you look just like Bruce Cockburn?
B.C: *looks shifty eyed* Yeah, I get that a lot. *pulls out a wad of cash to pay for his drink*
The man behind him was obviously with the B.C look-a-like and looked like the manager type...
So I argued with Josh about wether or not it was infact Bruce Cockburn...and finally I got a third opinion from one of the other baristas who agreed with me that it was Bruce Cockburn...so I went outside and said, "Excuse me, I don't want to bug you - but could I please get your autograph." To which he responded, "Of course, I thought you might have figured me out." And then we had a pleasant conversation about what he was doing in Victoria, etc. All in all, I was right and I got to meet Bruce Cockburn and get his autograph! Yay!
And apparently hardly anyone my age knows who Bruce Cockburn is...it's been hard to brag to people about it...
The next day I saw the James Bond look-a-like regular again and mentioned to him that I liked him better because he tipped me even though he wasn't James Bond but when I told Bruce Cockburn that he looked like Bruce Cockburn he didn't tip...
b) So Starbucks has turned their music company, Hear Music, into an actual label now. The first artist to be signed to the Hear Music Label was Paul McCartney....so of course for his brand new cd we had to play a special copy of it all day long in every store in over 27 different countries....
Needless to say, it was the worst thing I've ever heard and the Starbucks signs that say that "this album is worthy of his entire music legacy" are actually insulting Paul McCartney by saying that the rest of his music is this shitty....which some of it isn't.
I thought that I might have to slit my own wrists after just the first song, but we had to listen to it all day - 8 hours on repeat!! I was keeping a tally on a chalk board beside our bar - it read: Paul McCartney (number of times we'd listened to his cd that day) vs. Megan: 0....but then people started voting for me! Woot! People were coming back multiple times to vote...it was exciting. I won.
So part of the whole Paul McCartney horrible extravaganza was that we were selling the funniest looking limited edition starbucks cards with a terrible picture of Paul McCartney on them - but each store only received 25 and so they were gone pretty quickly...but someone came in this morning and used up his Paul McCartney card that someone had bought for him - so I asked if he'd like to keep it to refill it but he declined and said that I could have it - which I told him was actually awesome because it'd been wanting one because they were so funny looking.
In addition - once my manager got to work she told me she had a gift for me - she took out the Starbucks stereo system cd of Paul McCartney's cd which we'd had to play all day the day of the release (the cd's expire after) and said that she'd been thinking of destroying it but then thought about who would want to destroy it the most and so she'd saved it for me.
So I thought about it for a while - my Paul McCartney cd and starbucks card - and I told Jess (my manager) my plan for what to do with them - I'm going to frame them together in a frame with a little caption that says "Worst day of my life" and that way whenever I think I'm having a terrible day I can look at that picture frame and feel okay about my day because it can't possibly be as bad.
tehe.
Not a whole heck of a lot has happened lately - I'm working 37.75 hours a week which is nice and I tend to have weekends off which is even nicer!
Pele's wedding is coming up and I'm incredibly excited for it and to be the photographer for it.
I've been listening to some cool music, if you'd like to be in on my playlist (Penny can tell you that I tend to have a pretty interesting taste in music but sometimes it's worth checking out):
The Barenaked Ladies version of Lovers in a Dangerous Time
Ella Fitzgerald - Too Darn Hot and Ain't Misbehaving
Lilly Allen - Nan You're a Window Shopper ( I love this song)
Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks (very catchy, excellent whistling.)
Anything from the John Butler Trio - I really like them.
Paul McCartney's new song: Feet in the Clouds (the most painful song ever...try to listen to it without making remarks and making fun of how many times he says the word 'never')
And everything off of the new Fiest Cd "The Reminder" but especially My Moon, My Man and Limit To Your Love
That's about all for now.
Love
Meg