I worked an 8-hour shift today ( Read more... )

Tonight's moment of Zen, to steal from Jon Stewart, was the woman who pointed to a cross pendant and asked suspiciously, " "Is this a Catholic cross? Because I don't want one of them -- I want a Christian cross ( Read more... )

I am not dead, just swept up in school, work, and Crash. Crash is delighting me. School is killing me.

Work is definitely on the "killing" side of the scale, but it provides me with moments of entertainment. Of course, tonight I had to clean the women's bathroom, so it also provides me with moments where I lose my will to live.

So, we now have a ( Read more... )

I went to continue the never-ending move today, and discovered the water line to the refrigerator's ice maker was leaking. After some bustling around turning off water and mopping up leakage and so on, I then discovered that the top-floor leakage was the tip of the melted iceberg ( Read more... )

The last few shifts at work have been dizzyingly busy. I stay in my little pen of display cases and just move from person to person to person. Overall, I'll say that 99.9% of my customers have been amazingly decent to me.

Two exceptions:

First: At one point I had at least a dozen people lined up at my register and people all around the counters. I  ( Read more... )

1. Happy birthday, darling Kate. I am sorry I forgot ( Read more... )

Today was awful. I feel like an abused lab rat. A rat with a head full of Christmas carol ear worms.

On Sunday mornings we put up signage for all the new sale items. I couldn't find seven of the items we had advertised. The co-worker supposed to be working with me broke her hip on Friday, so I was alone. I was berated at length for a) leaving a $10 ( Read more... )

Almost immediately after clocking in I was accosted by an older couple. The woman wanted "those pantyhose that come in a ball," by which I assume she meant these:


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Fishnet Pantyhose

One night a woman started with, "This may sound crazy . . . "

Note: the last two times I have been asked this question it's involved asking if I knew where to score weed. I haven't smoked weed in donkeys' years because the only times I have it makes me intensely paranoid and annoying. So I was a little tense, until she continued ( Read more... )

I have spotted t-shirts with the following in the last two days at S-Mart ( Read more... )