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So aaron and i have problems with ants around winter, happened last year. We're used to it and i know they cant hurt me but i still hate them and find them disgusting. They get into out dishwasher, i dont know why, half the time they arent going after the food. They've gotten into the freezer.. once again i dont know why. And of course they died because of the cold. So i gave them a shot of the RAID before i left the house and hoped that would drive the majority of them away and of course kill the ones the poison actually hit.
The work. It wasnt as horibbly busy as it had been, but there were a lot of returns being made. Mainly people who had bought project items and then realized that they didnt have the time to do the project. And it was also senior discount day and since almost all of our customers are seniors, nearly everyone got a discount. Near the end of my shift there was this elderly woman, who had placed her walker in one of cart stalls while she shopped. Amazingly she came to my register and then proceded to tell me the life story of her grand-daughter and her husband. And so now ya'll get to hear it. She found this beautiful sheer butterfly fabric and was intended to make a dress. Her daughter told her that the granddaughter and her then boyfriend ran off and eloped, which was all well and fine with her, but neither of them apparently have a job. he's trying to get back into the military. (then she says the military isnt taking people) So she calls up her granddaughter(not in the store, part of the story) to tell her that she's going to have surgery in a couple weeks and will need some one to look after her at home afterward, so if they would like some place, free rent, minor food bills, to stay they were welcome at her home. She pauses and gets some stuff out of her cart and then she practically jumps across the counter and yells at me SHE SAID NO! then she goes back to her little old lady act and tells me how she and her sister found this wondering piece of amber one a recent shopping trip (she was buying seed beads and such now) and she was going to make her granddaughter a necklace.
I was supposed to be off at 230, but then it started to get hectic and i took the previously mentioned elderly woman at about 230. It didnt help that Lyndy kept not giving people their senior discounts and they kept pointing it out after she'd already totaled everything up. which then meant she needed to return and resell everything back to them, taking at least twice as long. So i got an extra 30 minutes today and as much as i could always use the extra money, staying any longer would require me to take a lunch and it was already past Lyndy's lunch time and karen was only supposed to be there for 3 hours today. Seriously? 3 hours? She glared at me when i left the store. There was also a woman who grabbed me (not really) and asked me if anyone was in framing. There was a sign saying Shane would be back in 30 minutes, i assume he was on lunch, but she got a call and she had kids to pick up from school. So i ran around the store trying to find shane, called over the walkies, but no one ever answers me on the damned things they're so useless. Not just anyone can work the framing department, people are specially trained, shane is one of them, i am not. I told her this and she just looked at me. So then i tried to find Ellen, who can sort of work the frame shop, she was in the back doing DUs and i finally got her over to the frame shop. As a manager she can sort of work it but either i got to leave at that point.
A couple weeks ago aaron and i got a card from his parents and aunt in Arizona with a safeway gift card. yay free money! So picked up cat food, as we needed it. Ant traps as we will undoubtedly need them, some rubber gloves for when i clean up the ant corpses. A couple of potatoes and a small steak.
Right now i just want to sit here and play some wow but i need to get started on that steak for aaron will be home soon.
The work. It wasnt as horibbly busy as it had been, but there were a lot of returns being made. Mainly people who had bought project items and then realized that they didnt have the time to do the project. And it was also senior discount day and since almost all of our customers are seniors, nearly everyone got a discount. Near the end of my shift there was this elderly woman, who had placed her walker in one of cart stalls while she shopped. Amazingly she came to my register and then proceded to tell me the life story of her grand-daughter and her husband. And so now ya'll get to hear it. She found this beautiful sheer butterfly fabric and was intended to make a dress. Her daughter told her that the granddaughter and her then boyfriend ran off and eloped, which was all well and fine with her, but neither of them apparently have a job. he's trying to get back into the military. (then she says the military isnt taking people) So she calls up her granddaughter(not in the store, part of the story) to tell her that she's going to have surgery in a couple weeks and will need some one to look after her at home afterward, so if they would like some place, free rent, minor food bills, to stay they were welcome at her home. She pauses and gets some stuff out of her cart and then she practically jumps across the counter and yells at me SHE SAID NO! then she goes back to her little old lady act and tells me how she and her sister found this wondering piece of amber one a recent shopping trip (she was buying seed beads and such now) and she was going to make her granddaughter a necklace.
I was supposed to be off at 230, but then it started to get hectic and i took the previously mentioned elderly woman at about 230. It didnt help that Lyndy kept not giving people their senior discounts and they kept pointing it out after she'd already totaled everything up. which then meant she needed to return and resell everything back to them, taking at least twice as long. So i got an extra 30 minutes today and as much as i could always use the extra money, staying any longer would require me to take a lunch and it was already past Lyndy's lunch time and karen was only supposed to be there for 3 hours today. Seriously? 3 hours? She glared at me when i left the store. There was also a woman who grabbed me (not really) and asked me if anyone was in framing. There was a sign saying Shane would be back in 30 minutes, i assume he was on lunch, but she got a call and she had kids to pick up from school. So i ran around the store trying to find shane, called over the walkies, but no one ever answers me on the damned things they're so useless. Not just anyone can work the framing department, people are specially trained, shane is one of them, i am not. I told her this and she just looked at me. So then i tried to find Ellen, who can sort of work the frame shop, she was in the back doing DUs and i finally got her over to the frame shop. As a manager she can sort of work it but either i got to leave at that point.
A couple weeks ago aaron and i got a card from his parents and aunt in Arizona with a safeway gift card. yay free money! So picked up cat food, as we needed it. Ant traps as we will undoubtedly need them, some rubber gloves for when i clean up the ant corpses. A couple of potatoes and a small steak.
Right now i just want to sit here and play some wow but i need to get started on that steak for aaron will be home soon.