Well, that was enlightening.
If you're having a wonderful, productive morning, it will go to hell by 11:00. I started strong but lost it, and chaos reigned.
This season's CD is great music for working. For the first week. I know that after two months I'll want to destory the store's stero system and delete all the music on it that I already have and loved from my iTunes.
Linen is evil. No matter how well you get out every wrinkle with the steamer in the backroom and how carefully you hang it; by the time you get it to the front window display it will be completely wrinkled all over again. Yes, in ten seconds. Evil, remember?
With enough pins, you can make a pair of pants two sizes two big look like it fits on Barbie (mannequin). It might take twenty or so pins to do the job. It also will look horrible from the back, but who's going to see the back of a window mannequin aside the wall, anyway?
Sometimes the best way to get a shirt on Barbie is with her torso off, and sometimes it's not. You only have a 50/50 shot of realizing which it is before you're halfway done and struggling.
There will always be an immature teenage boy to laugh at you when you have your hand in a very embarassing place on Barbie's body. Seriously. It never fails.
Rubber mallets would make it easier to get Barbie's arms off. There isn't a rubber mallet in the corporate approved store toolbox and there never will be.
The collar of your shirt is a great place to store pins. Unless you are the sort of person who would forget to remove them before leaving for home, getting in your car, and putting the seatbelt on.
Every keyholder will lock their keys in the office at least once. Yes, it will be on a day when you really, really, really need to get in the office and there isn't another keyholder available to let you inside for five hours.
Your Store Manager will laugh when you call to tell her this. Which is fine. She needed a laugh anyway, and at least you're not being scolded for being so silly.
Your most reliable worker will read the schedule wrong and be three hours late someday. No one is perfect. Yes, it will be on the day you've locked your keys in the office, and her absence will mean you're alone in the store.
Rush Hour traffic will keep your relieving keyholder away when you really need her to be early. When all is said and done, you will only have 30 minutes to catch up on all the work you couldn't do while you were stuck outside the officeroom.
Just remember: God doesn't give you more than you can handle. It's liberating.