Today a customer turned up while I was restocking the milk fridge underneath the bar. As I came out from the back room with about eight 2L bottles of milk in my arms, I realised he was standing there and greeted him.
This man immediately places his drink order (a grande skim chai latte. Oh yes, I remember the rude ones). Before I even put down the approximately 16 kilos of milk I've been carrying. He wouldn't have been waiting long, he'd probably had just enough time to walk up to the counter since the fridge out the back is close to the door to the main area. I wasn't going to load up the fridge while he was waiting, obviously, but to not even give me time to free my hands by placing the milk on top of the fridges seemed a bit much. The whole time he was trying to speed his transaction along, shoving the money out, stuff like that.
That made me fairly grumpy. If he didn't have time for basic courtesy, then he didn't have time to order a drink. That would be my rule in my perfect cafe where I got to kick out the rude inconsiderate customers and I'd reward the decent ones. Also, if you're in a rush and you're unsure you have the time to order a drink, don't order a drink. I can make drinks fast, but sometimes, stuff happens.
Maybe I should have dropped all the bottles at my feet and immediately moved to make his drink. Though it's unclear whether that would have made any impact on him. Worse still, he may start expecting everyone to jump to his orders every time he came in.
He came back, too, just at closing time. He ordered a tall skim no whip mocha (yeah, he made me pretty grumpy). He seemed in less of a hurry that time. So much so that he hung around reading newspapers for what felt like ten minutes after his drink was ready. I like how everyone else can wait for him, but when he's in a rush he can't wait for anyone else.
I am probably also extra annoyed because we were running low on skim all day (when CS and I left at the end of the day we were down to one 2L bottle of skim milk). I hope they get a milk order tomorrow, otherwise, it's going to suck. How dare he demand skim! Etc. etc.
I guess I can be happy I make damn good drinks that make customers come back for a second fix. But why can't the nice ones come back more often? And he wore a cardigan. (Those long thick-knitted ones that are more commonly seen on women? His was in white.) I don't like your lack of manners, cardigan-man! I will take my frustration out on your poor fashion choices.
Anyway. I am now on annual leave from work, so I can focus on studying and not have shifts get in the way of productivity (or lack thereof). Yay, being paid to stay away from work!
Though I may turn up on Fridays because that's when our cheesecake order comes in. (Mmm, cheesecake.)
The Book Depository is not letting me throw more money at them indiscriminately. I'm waiting on three different books to become available - the D&D 4th edition Player's Handbook (I am downloading a copy as I write - three days after release PDFs are online, maybe even earlier - but I still tend to prefer physical books to online versions), the
Gunnerkrigg Court book, and now what I've just discovered has been released - the newest
Runaways hardcover book! Eeeeeee! This is not to mention all the Batgirl books I've been wanting - some which become available before disappearing again.
I haven't read any of the Runaways comics since Joss Whedon took over writing, I haven't bought any individual issues - I even resisted reading the
scans_daily posts (though I admit I did look through the art now and then)... I want this book SO MUCH.
I am tempted to start ordering other books in my saved items list, just to have something to look forward to in the mail. Been a long while since I last ordered something off that site. I love new books.
That's it, I now have a comics tag. I'll just go back and add the other entries later. When I need to procrastinate.