*i love my job, i love my job*

some days i have to remind myself that i love my job. well... i have to remind myself that i love getting a paycheck from my job and that it really isn't all that bad.

like yesterday.

it was payday which was pretty swell. but i was on register 21. that means that i got the privilege of selling tobacco. not a problem except i don't know where anything is back there so when a person tells me what they want i have to make them point or tell me which color and then i ask a lot of "is this it???" which seems to make them irritated for some reason. (if it were me, i would like to make sure they grabbed the right thing before they rang it up... but i could just be crazy...)

i'm trying to remember that i like my job when it happened.

the most interesting thing in the world that made me smile for about two hours.

so i'm standing there waiting for someone to come cause its super slow and up rolls this woman. i say rolls because she is in a motorized wheel chair. and she's rather large. and so is her wheelchair. and she has no teeth. but she has a little basket that is very full of things and a huge bag a kitty litter somehow perched between her knees. no small feat because it weighs like 25 pounds. so she gets everything up on the belt and i start ringing her up. just a few things and then she tells me that she has a coupon for "some smokes" and that she wants a "carton of marlbros. the white ones." if you don't know what marlbro boxes look like a) what planet are you from? and b) THEY ARE ALL WHITE! she didn't want the red boxes, i asked. so i wander over a little further down to see if i can spot a carton that is more white than any of the others... no luck. so i walk back down, to investigate and find out what the heck she wants when she says "but i need some money orders. should i do that first? thats what i want to pay with."

...

really?

"you want to pay with money orders that you don't have?" (that was my head talking... not my mouth of course) so i tell her yeah you should probably do that first. so she says "i'll leave my things right here and you watch them and i'll be back" and off she rolls. that is probably one of the most annoying thing that people can do. walk away from you while you are in the middle of some kind of a transaction with their stuff for an indefinite perioud of time. so i start to get a little bit annoyed. this lady is a few screws short and i'm getting irritated. so i take a few deep breaths and remind myself that i love my job and wait for someone else to come along. so a few minutes later she comes back over and is ready to go and once again reminds me that she "wants her smokes. the white box." i tell her that there are lots of white boxes and that she needs to help me figure out which ones she wants. she has no idea. we finally figure out one that she thinks will work. Super. so then i ring her all up and her total is 101.34.

lady only has 100

so we take something off. and the total drops down to 100.12.

lady knows she has some change.

so she start unloading her purse up on the belt to try and find some change so that we don't have to take anything else off. she pulls out papers, and gloves and other odds and ends that you would expect to see in somebodies purse. and then... SHE PULLS OUT HER DENTURES.


and sets them on the belt. a full mouth set. and just leaves them there.

REALLY!?!:?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

ilovemyjobilovemyjobilovemyjob.

well...she was still around for about 30 minutes longer and then i helped her load everything onto her wheel chair somehow... kitty litter and all so that she should roll on home. some people.