Customers @ MindSay

Note:  This story may seem boring at first, but the boring details are necessary for the ending to be funny.  And believe me, it is funny.  :p

So last night at work (Wal-Mart), my first customers of the day were these four people, two men and two women, who were I guess doing their shopping for that month.  They had two full buggies (shopping carts, if you prefer) of groceries, and just like anybody else, they were good and ready to go home.

The first lady unloaded her buggy and I started ringing up the stuff and putting it in bags.  One of the guys meandered around to the front and loaded up the groceries as they came to him.  All four people were cracking jokes the whole time, but the one guy in the front (I think they called him Cecil) kept heckling the lady unloading the groceries and giving her a hard time.  I would just chuckle to myself and keep working.

The first lady filled up her buggy and told the second lady she could start loading groceries into her buggy.  I guess the first lady went to the restroom or something, cuz I didn't see or hear her for a couple minutes.  While she was gone, the assumed Cecil took her buggy and moved it out of the way, against the wall. 

When she came back, she looked around and asked him, "Where's my basket?  What did you do with my groceries?"

The reply:

"They was in the way, so I moved it.  You know how that song goes, 'ya park it like it's hot'?  I parked it like you got groceries."

 

I couldn't help but laugh.  I kept thinking to myself, "I know he did NOT just do that!"  That was the lamest, most hilarious thing I've ever heard.  The other lady, the one with the second buggy, looked at me and asked, "You want him?  He's not mine, you can have him.  Please, take him home.  Do it today."  XD

Oh man, that was...wow.  :p

~G~

Woke up to a rainy,cold, yucky day.... Yes, I'm very thankful for the rain, as we have been in a really bad drought for a loooonnngggg time now. Still..... The cold is what hurt I guess. After almost 80 degrees yesterday.   We got up and went to the local flea market to buy some avon and vaccum cleaner bags. Cheaper than anywhere else and I buy enough to last half a year. I dont like going to this flea market after say about 9 am because it gets very smoky from people smoking there. I am allergic to the smoke and it greatly bothers me... On the way back home we found a book store that had just opened. An independant one selling used books. We love book stores...antique stores,......  They also take books and give you  store credit. We browsed, then headed home. Once there, my husband proceeds to attack the book shelves in a search for unwanted books to take back to the new store we found. He got a bag full.  Anyway, I had to be at work at 1, so he took me and went in to browse some. I work at a major retail bookstore.  I was put on a register by myself today, well, in between two seasoned cashiers. I didn't do too bad... Yes, I made some booboos but all in all I thought I did pretty good! Just my feet and back are killing me from standing all day! I did get a 30 minute break and I got off at 6. Still, I DO NOT want to work on Saturdays! Or Sundays for that matter. I like a Mon-Fri job, since I'm just part time anyway. I only took this job because we need to get caught up on some overdue bills and pay for daughters braces, among other things. Have a son in college too. Need to help him out as much as possible... Anyway, nothing will be like my last job at the Coffee Corner was. I could get as much time off as I needed, basically tell when I could work. There were only a handful of us that worked  there anyway. It was small and intimate. We got to know our customers as they came every day, and shared their lives with us, and we them. I made some good friends there. It was a Christian place and the atmosphere was wonderful to be in. My friend owned it for almost 2 and 1/2 years. I worked for 1 and 1/2 years there. It became a lot for her. The taxes with having employees kills small businesses like hers. And the rent was outrageous too. She did good for awhile, then the costs began to tax her and her own money. She had to get out so she sold it. The new owners kept it for 5 months and kept us too. Then they sold it and those new owners kicked us out, and now the place is empty. The third owners never did anything with it. Sigh.... wish I could've bought it and run it myself. With no employees to pay,I could have done it I think. Just would've taken an initial investment of say 10 grand?? And who has that?? Not I!!  Anyway, I'll never have a job like that again. Occasionally I would work a Saturday, but she closed the place on Sundays so we could all go to church. We all attend the same church too. It was family, and cozy. I miss it a lot. I had planned on quitting in Dec. if it had stayed open, just because of the new owners changing everything, the hours and such. Of course it quit being Christian owned after they acquired it. We lost some of our regulars when it changed owners but the die hard ones stayed.   Thing is, I've never worked a retail job per say, not at a major retailer. Years before my children were born, I worked at a church daycare. I was there for 7 years and quit when I was about to give birth to my first born in '88. Then I was a SAHM and had another child in 1991. While my children were small, I kept several other children in the home to make some money. Then when my youngest was 4, she went to preschool and my oldest started Kindergarten at the church school. I went to work in the cafeteria there. I got off at 2 as the kids were getting out of school. It was perfect. I quit there when my oldest got out of second grade, and my youngest had just finished kindergarten. We started Homeschooling then. We did that for 5 years. I enjoyed my time with them, and we did a lot of field trips and such with the local homeschooling group. Both kids got involved with extracurricular activities such as swim team,softball,and baseball with little league. My daughter got involved with pop warner cheering too. That was fun. Her last year of Pop Warner her squad made it to Nationals, which Pop Warner holds in Orlando,Fla. That was something else to experience and it lit a cheering bug under my daughter. They went into public school for the first time during middle school and seemed to do great. Both of them flourished. They both can relate to all different ages and such due to their background in homeschooling and then public school. I am proud of them both. They have accomplished much. Not too much deterred them, except maybe MATH! lol and I hate math too, so I can't really blame them! Just they had to have 4 years to graduate! My son squeaked by barely and now my daughter is doing the same thing! I only had to have 2 years of math to graduate and I took Pre-Algebra for those 2 years! Hah... My husband and I neither one could do High school now. It has changed... My son got involved with Drama while in high school and now he is in college about to major in some aspect of it...acting,producing,teaching, some form of it. He was wonderful in high school during all the plays he was in. He even got a big part his first year as a freshman. That was hard to do in high school. His teacher saw something in him and took a chance on him, and BOOM...now look at him go!!!  We love to see anything that he is involved with. We have supported both our kids in whatever they chose to do. We were there for them. Goodness, there was a lot!  Some I have mentioned before but I want to list them all now, I want to see how extensive it is!:

Scouting,baseball,softball,cheering,swim team,gymnastics,ballet classes, dance classes,parades,competitions,music lessons,band,Pokemon!(LOL), clubs, Drama,church,youth group,outings,.... whew! And on it goes! LOL I can't think of much more but I know its there! Anyway, that proves my point, they did a lot and we were there for them! We had crazy schedules, but we made it work. Sometimes one parent went with one child and the other parent with the other child! It was a whirlwind sometimes,but it was fun.... I miss it and I miss them being little.Just like Trace Adkins song:

Then They Do

In the early rush of morning
Trying to get the kids to school
One's hanging on my shirttail
Another's locked up
In her room
And I'm yelling up the stairs
Stop worrying 'bout your hair
You look fine

Then they're fightin' in the backseat
I'm playing referee
Now someone's gotta go
The moment that we leave
And everybody's late
I swear that I can't wait
'Till they grow up

(Chorus) Then they do
And that's how it is
It's just quiet in the morning
Can't believe
How much you miss
All they do
And all they did
You want all the dreams
They dreamed of
To come true
Then they do

Now the youngest is starting college
She'll be leavin' in the Fall
And Brianna's latest boyfriend
Called to ask if we could talk
And I got the impression
That he's about to pop the question any day

I look over at their pictures
Sittin' in their frames
I see them as babies
I guess that'll never change
You pray all their lives
That someday they will find happiness

(Chorus)

 

 

Makes me cry everytime I hear it. And oh, how so true! Don't wish your kids were grown, you will miss them!

I remember a couple of years ago an incident that I interrupted at Walmart. I usually don't say things to parents with their kids but this day I got angry at the mom. She was jerking her small child and telling him to quit it. Then she jerked him a good one and almost shouted,"I'll be so ***&&  glad when you are grown!" I turned to her and said," No, you won't. They grow too fast and you'll regret ever saying that to him." then I just walked off. She was shocked that I said anything, and I hope it sunk in too...

 

"You pray all their lives
That someday they will find happiness"  

This line is also so true. As a parent, you pray, you begin to pray when they are little, that somewhere out in this vast, mean, world, that if the Lord tarries, HE will bring your child a wonderful Christian partner. Someone who is kind, and who has been Saved. Someone who has accepted Christ with their all, and will love your child deeply and honor them. For your son you want an obedient wife that respects him as the head of the household and becomes his helpmate,loving him deeply. For your daughter you want a loving,kind man who will guide,help,and love her deeply. Both becoming helpmates and loving the Lord.They need to pray about everything.... It is not easy in these days and times for our children. Satan has thrown a lot of traps out there for them. We can rasie them and give them to the Lord, but they ultimately must decide. My son was saved when he was 5, as well as my daughter. It was a sweet time with both of them. I have watched them through the years and seen them doing right, and some wrong, but they always find their roots, and come to Christ.

Proverbs 22:6 (KJV)
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

 

 

Well, I wrote way more than I intended too, but it was good. I had a lot to say, and more to say still... It is therapy to write. You can always go back and see how you've changed and what you need to do to change.

Well, signing out for the night.

Good night.... A little prayer I learned while a small child:

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

Bless this bed I lay upon

Four corners to my bed

Four angels round my head

One to sleep

One to pray

and two to watch until the day. Amen

 

This prayer doesn't mean anything much to me anymore, not since I became a Christian when I was 17.

I'll leave you hanging here. I'll pick up my story whenever I sign back in..... More to come!

 

 

reasons why i hate mary kay

1. i spent over $2000 on it and never had any customers
2. my sales director didn't help me get customers at all
3. i felt like shit asking my family to buy stuff
4. now that i want to sell it back, i've got $600 coming to me
5. it took me forty minutes to find the number to call to sell it all back
6. the skin care line made my face greasy
7. it's mlm at its finest
8. the prizes suck!
9. i hated my senior sales director since she was a biggity-bitch
10. i miss my $2000
11. i had this huge convoluted idea about how i was going to save the world
12. i could have spent that money on christmas presents

check it, yo. mary kay may have some nice make up, and some people may like their skin care, but that business is like the economy of antigua.  1% of the company live in mansions with marble sidewalks and shopping malls on every corner.  the leftover 99% is filled with dirt roads, unkempt villages, starving children, and people dying of curable infections and viruses.

P.S. on a totally different note, thanks for nominating me top blog! wheee! although i guess i have to thank nomad, since without her, that blog would never have existed...

I always have to live in the states that none of the stupid mistakes happens at the gas stations!

 

MINOCQUA, Wis. - Dozens of drivers made a mad rush for cheap gas after a station employee accidentally changed the price to 33 cents a gallon. An employee closing Trig's Minocqua Shell for the night meant to drop the price of gas by 1 cent.

But he mistakenly dropped a nine from the $3.299 a gallon in the computer, making the price of gas .329 cents Monday night.

 

For full story:

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22153441/

 

I giggled though cause the store manager blamed the ppl for rushing and getting the gas at the .329 price!  This is what she said:

Manager upset at 'dishonest' people
Reuland told people they were being dishonest — the main store sign had the correct price.

"I was very upset that there's that many dishonest people," she said. "They knew there was a problem, and they took advantage of an employee's mistake and I think that's terrible."

 

 

I don't see one dishonest person in that bunch of folks getting cheap gas!  How can you call them dishonest?  Does the manager not take in account how many signs that dont' get changed when they sare suppose too?  Just yesterday when I filled up my van, the store had 3.19 up on the board but when I pumped it was 2.89.  They hadn't gotten around to changing the signs!  Big deal.  That doesn't make them or me dishonest.  Store manager needs to realize that those people saw a bargin and they were going to get it.  Shoving it to the man and to the oil companies.  I would have been right in there with my 30 gallon truck, my 20 gallon van, and my 15 gallon lil truck.  Not to mention I would have filled up both gas cans a 30 gallon one and a 10 gallon one!:D  That doesn't make me dishonest that makes me smart to get the gas before the mistake is caught!  They are the ones that made the mistake not the customers!

 

I had a really great talk with Donna today. We laughed and talked about boys and the suckiness of this semester and how we should get together after finals week. She told me she's considering taking some time off from teaching to pursue her art (which I think is a great idea). It sounds like in some ways she's in the same boat as me. Rrr.
lol I didn't tell her about Ira (after all, I could totally see her letting it slip and saying something about him to me while I'm in drawing or something and he's around) but I did tell her about the issues I've been having with Ryan and how Cory has been acting. She seriously wondered if I'd never date Cory.
Funny how people don't get that sometimes I don't like people....I just find it fun to mess with them. No, I am not a tease.

People at Subway are beging retarded. So are the customers. Oh my gosh, I was seriously ready to kill about half of the people who walked through the door. One woman was super snotty when I asked her about her veggies and was like "I want it the same way as the other one!" at which point I had to clarify to her that I had not made her previous sandwich. I had just come onto my shift and the MALE to my left had been the one who had made her sandwich. Had her head not been so far up her ass she might have made that connection without my assistance. So, yeah...If I could work at Girls Inc. I totally would. At least I could deal with people I relatively like and not these morons who don't appreciate what you do for them. I mean jeez, on one had you've got customers bitching about this that and the other whereas on the other hand you have little girls hugging you and saying they love you. Yeaaah seems like and easy enough decision to me. Damn my lack of wheels, though. Never the less, Subway days may be coming to an end soon. I'm beging to remember my reasons for quitting the first time around.

Don't get me wrong, I don't believe in signs. But if I did, wouldn't you say that me being in one car and a potentical love-interest randomly being in a car beside me and me turning one way and him turning the other would be a horrible sign?...or that after weeks of searching high and low for citrus tic tacs (which have a certain connection to someone), my mom suddenly sees some at a grocery store we frequent and buys them for me just when I've given up hope (hope for someone, not for tic tacs)?...luckily, I don't believe in signs...

Oooh, also, Ira played some freakin' awesome music in class on Tuesday. Stuff by Andrew Bird as well as The Boy Least Likely To. I've become entirely addicted to the latter, and cannot wait for some cash to grace my palm so I can snag one of their cds. Here's one of their music videos: