Longest...day...ever

[flutes_and_fabric]

So here was my day:

5 am: wake up
6 am: go to school
7 am: 1st class
8-11am: 2nd class
11-12:30 pm: practice/sectionals/rehearsal
12:30-1:30 pm: most useless class in the world
1:30-2 pm: snuck out of class early, got food
2-3:00 pm: lesson
3-3:30 pm: rehearsal
3:30-5 pm: different rehearsal
5-5:20: grabbed some food
5:20-6: driving to work, homeless people banned together and stood in a line across a major road. Sat in one place for 5 minutes. Drove on the wrong side of the road. Took back way to work.
6-10 pm: work

SCs:

senile old congress man who's really nice, but didn't know what he wanted and expected me to read his mind. Acted very snotty, but still seemed interested in what I had to say. Weird. Would not leave the store.

lady who wanted me to do her shopping

lady who walked up to the counter behind me with the "closed" sign on it. She continuously cleared her throat to get my attention. I ignored her and walked away, forcing her to chase after me.

Lady grabbed my scissors from my hand. I almost had a heart attack. She was just cutting the tag off of her daughter's new kitty ears headband. I could have done that.

Women who pulled all the brocade fabric from the shelf, then left it on the floor. Only got half a yard of fabric. Wanted it cut down the length. She didn't get that I didn't cut it that way.

I was putting out christmas stock. Guy walks up, pulls down a shelf of stuff, sends it crashing to the ground, then walks away...

Lady who walks through the mess of stuff I'm trying to clean up and just...stands there...on top of trash

People who put fabric on top of the shelves right above where it's supposed to go. Is it really that hard to put away!

Kid who's playing hide and go seek in the storage closet...I found him. He's just trying to get some sleep...in the storage closet. He argues that the door isn't locked and there's no "employees only" sign. The argument ends when I wring out a mop full of dirty bucket water over his head. Boo ya.

woman who gets very offended when I ask her how her rosh hashanah was. She was wearing a star of david and since that's kinda an indicator, I don't think it was wrong of me to assume.

Lady who tries to push past me as I'm letting the last customers out. It's 9:05, we are so closed.

Construction guys come in to put in new lights. They're not sucky. They brought me Taco Bell.

10:25 pm: leave work

11 pm: take a shower

11: 30 pm: type this up

[Tigerpounce]

*consoles quietly*

I've had those days. Now you can always say "I've done more on less." It makes other suck-tastic days seem better... at least for me.

[NightAngel]

Long days suck.

This thread reminded me of my 23 hour work day. Sucky, sucky, sucky.

[bainsidhe]

Nice. I need to catalog some of my days occasionally. Sometimes my manager wonders what I'm actually doing all morning/afternoon. Just because there aren't new orders to be entered doesn't mean I'm not dealing with lots of other stuff. *sigh*

[FenigDurak]

Wait, you rung out mop water over the kids head? Like, on to the kid? How old was this kid?

[Andara Bledin]

He argues that the door isn't locked and there's no "employees only" sign. The argument ends when I wring out a mop full of dirty bucket water over his head. Boo ya.

Bwahahaha! Owned!

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[flutes_and_fabric]

Wait, you rung out mop water over the kids head? Like, on to the kid? How old was this kid?

High school age. Definitely old enough to drive. Probably only a few years younger than me. I graduated high school young, so even though he was close to my age I still consider him a kid because after four years of college, high schoolers start to look young.

[Polenicus]

Wait, you rung out mop water over the kids head? Like, on to the kid? How old was this kid?

Sometimes when they're being uncooperative like that, you do whatever it takes to get them to move.

As a security guard I've dealt with this sort of thing... they seem to have a belief that if they just stay put and keep trying to sleep, eventually you'll go away and stop bothering them, no matter HOW inappropriate a place they've picked to snooze.

Cold water ALWAYS works, though.

[dalesys]

...Cold water ALWAYS works, though.

I've heard that a pint of marbles (fresh out of the freezer) will levitate the groggiest teenager out of bed

[Snowbird]

5:20-6: driving to work, homeless people banned together and stood in a line across a major road. Sat in one place for 5 minutes. Drove on the wrong side of the road. Took back way to work.

Wait... what?

And the lady that grabbed your scissors, given your previous incident with those things, that scared me! What is it with people and sharp objects?

[KMCA]

I've pulled these often. 24 hour shifts are fun

[flutes_and_fabric]

Wait... what?

And the lady that grabbed your scissors, given your previous incident with those things, that scared me! What is it with people and sharp objects?

Yeah, we have A LOT of homeless people around. Some of the ones participating in this little stunt were fake limp guy, pregnant woman (she's been "pregnant" for 7 years now), air guitar guy, wolf man, teddy bear lady, skinless dude (the skin on his leg is just...gone, it's gross, there're holes in his leg), rose guy and fat man. They literally stood holding hands across the road. I pulled onto the wrong side of the road for like, 20 ft. to get to a back rd.

And yeah, a lot of people think it's ok to grab the scissors and cut stuff themselves. Like, if it's a big piece of fabric i'll go to move it down and they just grab the scissors and start cutting from the other side. NO! BAD CUSTOMER!

[BookstoreEscapee]

People who put fabric on top of the shelves right above where it's supposed to go. Is it really that hard to put away!

This was one of my biggest pet peeves in the bookstore. Someone would pick up a book from a face-out on the shelf, or a stack on a table, and then put it back right next to where it belongs. I haven't worked there for like 4 years now and I still find myself fixing them when I'm shopping.

[Andara Bledin]

This was one of my biggest pet peeves in the bookstore. Someone would pick up a book from a face-out on the shelf, or a stack on a table, and then put it back right next to where it belongs. I haven't worked there for like 4 years now and I still find myself fixing them when I'm shopping.

I've never worked in a book store, and I'm always moving books back to where they belong. It annoys the heck out of me when I'm looking for something, but I can't find it because some jerk put something else in front of it.

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