Ice Cream...enjoyable or a pain in the ass?
I have discovered a hard job.
Scooping ice cream. No really. It might seem like an easy job but its not. I too was fooled. One person is easy enough, small vanilla on a cone. Two people are mostly easy, small vanilla on a cone and a strawberry with the same. Where it gets tricky is when people give complecated orders, or they have a big crowd. Many people dont place simple orders with one flavor of ice cream cone, or dont order one at a time. There is only so many different cones you can remember in your head. If someone orders a mint chocolate chip and strawberry on the same cone, and a chocolate chip with vanilla on the same cone and are two different sizes and one is in a cup and one is in a cone, it becomes all blurred together very fast. You often dont get it all right and have to ask them to repeat it. "Oh sorry you wanted a small MINT chocolate chip cone, a large chocolate chip cone, and a small vanilla/strawberry in a cup." "Whoops. Hard to forget since its SIMPLE and all" (*hand/head*) Oh and the cones. Those are real high quality things. You scoop one scoop, the cone cracks. Two scoops, it breaks in half and falls into the other tub of ice cream. Annnd back to square one.
Its not that bad. Sometimes you get free ice-cream between waves of customers. Of course, by the time you get through the long lines of customers, the ice cream you scooped and put off to the side is all melted. I feel somewhat happy to see the thrilled faces of the children as you give them their ice cream, but there is a limit to how long I can take the high pitched voices of "ICE CREAM!! ICE CREAAAAM! WHERES MY COOKIE DOUGH? HE GOT MORE THAN ME! Then there are the fun conversations between toddlers and their parents as they fight over whether they can get a small instead of a kiddie. Just give the kid what he wants to he'll shut up. It may be too much but chances are most of it will fall off the cone when he tips it to the side or drops it.
At the end of the day I come home covered head to toe in ice cream thats really sticky. I gotta hand it to the ice cream scoopers of the world. They have a hard job. Im only doing it for a few months and im exhasted.
Scooping ice cream. No really. It might seem like an easy job but its not. I too was fooled. One person is easy enough, small vanilla on a cone. Two people are mostly easy, small vanilla on a cone and a strawberry with the same. Where it gets tricky is when people give complecated orders, or they have a big crowd. Many people dont place simple orders with one flavor of ice cream cone, or dont order one at a time. There is only so many different cones you can remember in your head. If someone orders a mint chocolate chip and strawberry on the same cone, and a chocolate chip with vanilla on the same cone and are two different sizes and one is in a cup and one is in a cone, it becomes all blurred together very fast. You often dont get it all right and have to ask them to repeat it. "Oh sorry you wanted a small MINT chocolate chip cone, a large chocolate chip cone, and a small vanilla/strawberry in a cup." "Whoops. Hard to forget since its SIMPLE and all" (*hand/head*) Oh and the cones. Those are real high quality things. You scoop one scoop, the cone cracks. Two scoops, it breaks in half and falls into the other tub of ice cream. Annnd back to square one.
Its not that bad. Sometimes you get free ice-cream between waves of customers. Of course, by the time you get through the long lines of customers, the ice cream you scooped and put off to the side is all melted. I feel somewhat happy to see the thrilled faces of the children as you give them their ice cream, but there is a limit to how long I can take the high pitched voices of "ICE CREAM!! ICE CREAAAAM! WHERES MY COOKIE DOUGH? HE GOT MORE THAN ME! Then there are the fun conversations between toddlers and their parents as they fight over whether they can get a small instead of a kiddie. Just give the kid what he wants to he'll shut up. It may be too much but chances are most of it will fall off the cone when he tips it to the side or drops it.
At the end of the day I come home covered head to toe in ice cream thats really sticky. I gotta hand it to the ice cream scoopers of the world. They have a hard job. Im only doing it for a few months and im exhasted.