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this is gunna be a long one. so sit back, relax, go grab a snapple, and listen to caitlin's stories of the last 3 days.
so lets see. saturday was pretty boring. except i got to sleep in till 1130. aah heaven. went to work for cathy's last day. walked in and was told there was no closing cashier. but it quickly became obvious i was already dangerously close to the 40 hour mark and i couldnt stay. so whatever. or so we thought. cathy's last day was, shall we say, emotional. she had to make 2 trips to her car to take all the stuff people had given to her. and many people were crying. it was craziness all around. so....everyone left. and as im sitting here ringing, it occurs to me, its about 7 o'clock and we have 4 cashiers. one of which was luigi who was suppose to close the booth. so 3 cashiers at 8? i dont think so. not to mention we were getting slammed. so me little brain starts going into problem solving overdrive. i figured out that if i took a half hour break, even tho i was only working 5 hours, i could stay until 9:15 and that would put me at exactly 40 hours. that way, they wouldnt be down a cashier and i could just close the booth early. so thats what i did. then i came home. and slept.
so yeah. then sunday came. which, my friends, marks the first date. woooo. impressed doesnt begin to cover it. he bought me flowers. O:-D hehehe. and then we went to chile's for lunch, and he didnt let me even help pay. and you'll all be happy to know, i ate. my appetite has apparently returned to me. at least it did until 5 minutes ago when i ate a friggin bone in my big y chicken salad. eeeww. but lets continue with my story. then we went to the movies and saw serentity, which was actually a pretty good movie. and then i had to go to work. blaah. and i know it sounds all simple, but let me tell you, it was amazing. perfect in fact. and then i went to work, didnt get out till 1030 because some guy wanted a floral arrangement at 10. but yanno what? i really didnt even mind.
and so we move on to monday. school wasnt too bad, besides falling asleep again on in the lounge and waking up with the biggest kink in my neck EVER. that wasnt too cool. so anyways, i got home, and alas, no messages from big y. sooo i decided to clean my car. which i'll have you know, is quite the sparkling vehicle, if you ignore the slime solidified on the floor. and i left the portable phone on the hood, but we'll get to that. thats not the point. the point is i finally got a phone call at 5:20ish from rach, saying luigi was sick and they needed me to close the booth, or rach would stay. and i knew rach had a test, and luigi needed to rest, so thus, i went to work 5:45-10:15. random i know. and so i drove to work. with the portable phone on the hood. and ran it over. and had to cough out $70 for a new one lol. oops. and so, i went to work for my 4ish hours. and you would think, what could possibley happen during a bearly 4 hour shift. well kids. let me tell you.
the booth was a cinch. that wasnt the problem. the problem, or problems, came about when chris left me in charge while he was on his break. it was about 10 o'clock or so, and he had just sent kristina on break, along with himself. so i have jillian, and thats it. which wasnt bad, it was slow. so i started bagging until a couple needed 4 cans of enfamil. so whatever, i save her order, get the enfamil, ring it up. and i bag it, and the guy grabs it, practically FLIES out of the store, and says hes gunna bring the car up front. *red flag* im like omg i just let someone get out of the store with enfamil, and this lady has an ebt card. *tries not to panic* soooo the lady scans her card. cashier types the number in wrong and it declines it. im like gah my nerves are already freaking out. soooo we put the card thru the right way......and it says contact bank. im like OH NO. so im slowly putting myself between the register and the exit so this lady cant take off. now the order was $62, and she had $59 on her card. so im like ok, as long as we get the 59, i'll even foot the bill before i let her leave without paying for enfamil. so then she wants to get money from the guy. im like OH I DONT THINK SO. so luckily she motioned for him to come back in, they pay their bill, enfamil safe and paid for. by this time i have quite the line, but i wasnt about to leave jillian to deal with possible scammers by herself. sheesh. luckily kristina had come back but a few moments before. so problem #1 is out of the way, until i turn to kristina and notice her starring at her screen with coupons in her hand. and bob hill had already called us warning coupon man was in the store. great. so of course its him. so of course i have to go thru all the coupons again, because the way he works is he gets items that are on sale, and then tries to use coupons that either break even with the sale price, or exceed it so we end up owing him money if you dont read the coupons right. and he picks out new cashiers too. so kristina didnt even see it coming. so now im hovering over her and making sure things are right, picking out the coupons for the items he never got. so then he wants to take off the items that i didnt let him use the wrong coupons on. gaaaaah. long story short, we eventually get this guy out of our line, scam-free, even tho he did get a ton of stuff for practically nothing, but theres nothing you can do about that if he has the coupons.
and then chris reappears from break. im like CHRIS! you are NEVER going on a break again. i mean seriously, what are the odds that BOTH my cashiers almost get scammed at the same time! so i relayed my stories to chris, called loss prevention on coupon man because i found another card he was using, and signed myself out of that place. it was quite the crazy night. i bet chris didnt have one single problem after i left lol.
soooo yeah. today im working 330-930. early lol. and yet, i have this feeling im not gunna see 930. lol oh well. maybe im wrong. but i doubt it.
so those are all my stories. i hope you enjoyed this edition of caitlin's life.