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So... lots of crazy has happened.
A couple days ago a customer came in and claimed I didn't give him his $60 change. He wasn't mad or blaming anyone since we'd been talking and it just slipped both our minds, but he'd just called and been told to come in and talk to Kris... and I noticed the receipt he'd handed me was one of mine.
We counted my til and Kris said my til was dead on... but she wasn't sure how to count til's so she might have been doing it backwards.
I had to wait a whole day to figure out what happened to the $60 because I couldn't for the life of me remember the transaction. Well... I remembered him, and the nickel he handed me... but I couldn't remember anything having to do with bills. They had to count my til and check the cameras.
Even though I knew I hadn't pocketed any money this still made me incredibly nervous. What if somehow, some strange mix of change given back wrong, my til WAS spot on and I hadn't given him his 60? I said this to Tana and she told me "No that's dumb", and that sounded way too intricate. Tana's funny. XD
The following day (Valentine's day) I for some reason thought it was today instead... and I set my clock like I was going in at noon, but I was scheduled for 10:30. Called in, they said see you when you come in, and I was still nervous as all hell. I mean... I'd already gotten a talking to about tardies and just over a week later I miss a whole hour and a half... and right after a day where there's a mysterious $60 incident.
Heidi drives me in and we're joking about how they might fire me but at least I might be able to get a good letter of recommendation out of them still.
I clock in quick and learn that I had indeed forgotten to give the man his $60. The cameras showed the man and I talking for a while, then I gave him his small change, and he walked off and I closed me til. I didn't really as if my til was on since not only would that sound suspicious, but the answer should be obvious to me since I didn't just buy a $60 anything that previous day.
The day was slow as hell so I got sent back to do some PK training (I always thing "Player Killer" when I see PK, but no. It's nothing that fun. It stands for Product Knowledge). I got lunch, came back, started eating and in walks hot Hardware Vicki. And I was eating sushi! Nerd much. Then I started worrying about if she was one of those people grossed out by sushi.
I started trying to eat my sushi as ninja as possible... which... isn't possible so I resorted to just trying to eat without dropping everything all over the floor in some odd spastic move.
She gets to talking to Kris and Kaz and I guess she just had to move back in with her parents due to breaking up with her girlfriend 2 weeks ago. I tried not to smile... I even went "Aaw..." I'm a bit nervous most of the time since I'm apparently completely see through when it comes to what I'm thinking or how I'm feeling (yeah, I'll get into that in a bit). So she goes on to talk about how she couldn't take her negativity, and she was sick of getting picked on all the time. The girlfriend, who was somewhat goth according to Kaz, would never let Vicki watch her law shows (she let slip she was a criminal justice and law major... or something along those lines... I was still a bit fixed on trying not to throw sushi all over myself.) because she always wanted to watch something like project runway.
Now... I don't know what project runway is but it sounds like... well... BLARRRRGH. I'm starving, on with the story.
Then she turns to me and asks me where the cookies are.
...
Bluh? I half expected my alarm clock to go off right about then.
She sees how confused I am, and says "Wait... that wasn't you... it was... um... what was her name? Selling the girl scout cookies. Then Kaz says "No, that's Tana selling those."
I told her she was the second person to ask me about the cookies. Brian, the other person in hardware had asked me just a couple days ago when the cookies were coming in.
Rest of the day went pretty normal... well... up until close.
Rhonda, on of my coworkers and myself were talking about Valentine's day plans and such, and I said something like "Well, I don't much do anything on Valentines Day, but I DID find out the person I have a crush on is single."
MAN she jumped all over this. "Who? Is it one of your coworkers?" I just kept going "What? I don't want to say! You'll tell! No, I'm too shy about all that!"
"No, I'm not like that! I wouldn't rat you out! You can trust me! Do you know if she swings that way?"
"I'm... yeah."
@ o
Do I have "dyke" tattooed on my forehead, or have they been having meetings about me? Every time I start to get nervous about people finding out in different groups of people one of 'em just comes out with "Oh, I know. It's alright."
"What's the letter of her first name?"
"I can't tell you that, you'd know! Wait... how many lesbians ARE there working here?"
"Is it so and so in garden? I don't think she's single and she's a bit old for you."
"No?"
"Oh! OHHHH! I know. Is it a certain lady from Hardware?"
"Oh my god!"
"Oooooh! I'd be careful about that one."
"What?"
"I'm just kidding! Haha. Don't worry, I won't rat on ya, and heck maybe I'll get you guys hooked up like I hooked Jean up with that guy that drove her to the loony bin."
@ o
Oh... my... god!
I'm both mortified, highly amused, and happy.
Anyways, I came home to mom having made some mystery desert. She'd started making brownies, and at some point switched over to this recipe containing apple sauce and brown sugar and just went with it, thinking it completely normal for brownies... or that maybe it was just a strange new kind of brownie. Except... she didn't have any apple sauce so she just mashed up an apple... and she only had one apple and that wasn't enough so she grabbed a banana and mashed that up too and threw it in there. Then at the end she went "Wait... where's the chocolate?" So she just tossed in the chocolate chips anyways, then a bit of milk because it looked too dry.
It wasn't that bad actually.
Tina was saying on vent "I need a guild bank to put my stuff in. Meta, are you going to make that guild today?" I told her she could go ahead and make the guild and just be Guild Leader 'til I come back from not playing. She and Gajah went to make a charter... but "Rusalka's Embrace" wouldn't work since the apostrophe is an unusable character in guild names.
Rather than be illiterate, we decided... well I decided after much badgering to come up with another name. I searched hell and high water... I figured Russian would be best since Rusalka is a Slavic thing and I wasn't about to trace it back that specifically. I found the Russian word for "embrace" or "hug" and we went through the stupid process of englishizing the word so that morons could sound it out and be none the wiser.
I still don't know if we did it right, and it probably doesn't much matter... and Richard feel free to laugh at it. The name we came up with is "Brotsya Rusalka" The hard and soft making letters really fecked with our heads for a while before we decided just to ignore them completely and not even try to push them through the tiny holes of the strainer that is English. I THINK it translates roughly to just "To hug the water sprite that drowns people"
A couple days ago a customer came in and claimed I didn't give him his $60 change. He wasn't mad or blaming anyone since we'd been talking and it just slipped both our minds, but he'd just called and been told to come in and talk to Kris... and I noticed the receipt he'd handed me was one of mine.
We counted my til and Kris said my til was dead on... but she wasn't sure how to count til's so she might have been doing it backwards.
I had to wait a whole day to figure out what happened to the $60 because I couldn't for the life of me remember the transaction. Well... I remembered him, and the nickel he handed me... but I couldn't remember anything having to do with bills. They had to count my til and check the cameras.
Even though I knew I hadn't pocketed any money this still made me incredibly nervous. What if somehow, some strange mix of change given back wrong, my til WAS spot on and I hadn't given him his 60? I said this to Tana and she told me "No that's dumb", and that sounded way too intricate. Tana's funny. XD
The following day (Valentine's day) I for some reason thought it was today instead... and I set my clock like I was going in at noon, but I was scheduled for 10:30. Called in, they said see you when you come in, and I was still nervous as all hell. I mean... I'd already gotten a talking to about tardies and just over a week later I miss a whole hour and a half... and right after a day where there's a mysterious $60 incident.
Heidi drives me in and we're joking about how they might fire me but at least I might be able to get a good letter of recommendation out of them still.
I clock in quick and learn that I had indeed forgotten to give the man his $60. The cameras showed the man and I talking for a while, then I gave him his small change, and he walked off and I closed me til. I didn't really as if my til was on since not only would that sound suspicious, but the answer should be obvious to me since I didn't just buy a $60 anything that previous day.
The day was slow as hell so I got sent back to do some PK training (I always thing "Player Killer" when I see PK, but no. It's nothing that fun. It stands for Product Knowledge). I got lunch, came back, started eating and in walks hot Hardware Vicki. And I was eating sushi! Nerd much. Then I started worrying about if she was one of those people grossed out by sushi.
I started trying to eat my sushi as ninja as possible... which... isn't possible so I resorted to just trying to eat without dropping everything all over the floor in some odd spastic move.
She gets to talking to Kris and Kaz and I guess she just had to move back in with her parents due to breaking up with her girlfriend 2 weeks ago. I tried not to smile... I even went "Aaw..." I'm a bit nervous most of the time since I'm apparently completely see through when it comes to what I'm thinking or how I'm feeling (yeah, I'll get into that in a bit). So she goes on to talk about how she couldn't take her negativity, and she was sick of getting picked on all the time. The girlfriend, who was somewhat goth according to Kaz, would never let Vicki watch her law shows (she let slip she was a criminal justice and law major... or something along those lines... I was still a bit fixed on trying not to throw sushi all over myself.) because she always wanted to watch something like project runway.
Now... I don't know what project runway is but it sounds like... well... BLARRRRGH. I'm starving, on with the story.
Then she turns to me and asks me where the cookies are.
...
Bluh? I half expected my alarm clock to go off right about then.
She sees how confused I am, and says "Wait... that wasn't you... it was... um... what was her name? Selling the girl scout cookies. Then Kaz says "No, that's Tana selling those."
I told her she was the second person to ask me about the cookies. Brian, the other person in hardware had asked me just a couple days ago when the cookies were coming in.
Rest of the day went pretty normal... well... up until close.
Rhonda, on of my coworkers and myself were talking about Valentine's day plans and such, and I said something like "Well, I don't much do anything on Valentines Day, but I DID find out the person I have a crush on is single."
MAN she jumped all over this. "Who? Is it one of your coworkers?" I just kept going "What? I don't want to say! You'll tell! No, I'm too shy about all that!"
"No, I'm not like that! I wouldn't rat you out! You can trust me! Do you know if she swings that way?"
"I'm... yeah."
@ o
Do I have "dyke" tattooed on my forehead, or have they been having meetings about me? Every time I start to get nervous about people finding out in different groups of people one of 'em just comes out with "Oh, I know. It's alright."
"What's the letter of her first name?"
"I can't tell you that, you'd know! Wait... how many lesbians ARE there working here?"
"Is it so and so in garden? I don't think she's single and she's a bit old for you."
"No?"
"Oh! OHHHH! I know. Is it a certain lady from Hardware?"
"Oh my god!"
"Oooooh! I'd be careful about that one."
"What?"
"I'm just kidding! Haha. Don't worry, I won't rat on ya, and heck maybe I'll get you guys hooked up like I hooked Jean up with that guy that drove her to the loony bin."
@ o
Oh... my... god!
I'm both mortified, highly amused, and happy.
Anyways, I came home to mom having made some mystery desert. She'd started making brownies, and at some point switched over to this recipe containing apple sauce and brown sugar and just went with it, thinking it completely normal for brownies... or that maybe it was just a strange new kind of brownie. Except... she didn't have any apple sauce so she just mashed up an apple... and she only had one apple and that wasn't enough so she grabbed a banana and mashed that up too and threw it in there. Then at the end she went "Wait... where's the chocolate?" So she just tossed in the chocolate chips anyways, then a bit of milk because it looked too dry.
It wasn't that bad actually.
Tina was saying on vent "I need a guild bank to put my stuff in. Meta, are you going to make that guild today?" I told her she could go ahead and make the guild and just be Guild Leader 'til I come back from not playing. She and Gajah went to make a charter... but "Rusalka's Embrace" wouldn't work since the apostrophe is an unusable character in guild names.
Rather than be illiterate, we decided... well I decided after much badgering to come up with another name. I searched hell and high water... I figured Russian would be best since Rusalka is a Slavic thing and I wasn't about to trace it back that specifically. I found the Russian word for "embrace" or "hug" and we went through the stupid process of englishizing the word so that morons could sound it out and be none the wiser.
I still don't know if we did it right, and it probably doesn't much matter... and Richard feel free to laugh at it. The name we came up with is "Brotsya Rusalka" The hard and soft making letters really fecked with our heads for a while before we decided just to ignore them completely and not even try to push them through the tiny holes of the strainer that is English. I THINK it translates roughly to just "To hug the water sprite that drowns people"