Christmas Eve suckery

[Lace Neil Singer]

Posted late, but better late than never. XD

One customer came to the petrol station purely to bitch about the supermarket being out of whole turkeys, and only having crowns left. Um, that's a shame... but what the hell do you want me to do about it? This is the petrol station. Even if I was working in the supermarket, there wouldn't be anything I could do. I sent her to Customer Services just to get rid of her cuz we had a queue stretching accross the shop and out the door. I know they won't do anything either, due to the fact that they can't just pull turkeys out of thin air, so I predicted an SC leaving in a huff screaming that Christmas was ruined.

Another SC told me I'd ruined her Christmas cuz we weren't selling Advent Calendars in the petrol station and there were none in the supermarket. WTF? Who the hell leaves it til Christmas Eve to go buy Advent Calendars?

SC moans about the ginormous queue and demands to know why there's no-one else on the till but me. He accuses my collegue Paul of "skiving" cuz he's not on the till... ignoring the fact that Paul is dealing with a contractor who's come to fix our phones. My other collegue is taking her break. I explain this to the SC who then demands, "So why don't you call over the road and get someone over?"

Um, we can't do that. Checkouts is busy out the wazoo and can't spare anyone right now, especially since we technically have three people working over here. It's Christmas Eve; you should expect to have to queue when you turn up at the same time as everyone else.

Teenage girl tries to queue jump; she runs up to the till and says, "I'm on pump three, can you take my money cuz I'm in a hurry."

I reply, "Sorry, but I can't check your pump while serving. Go back and wait your turn."

Teenage girl bitches back that she hasn't got time to wait around; it looks as tho it's going to be nasty til the taxi driver I was serving turned to her and told her that everyone has to be patient, and what makes her think she's so special? Teenage girl is crushed, goes to the back of the line, everyone cheers ironically.

Apparently, I ruined four Christmases for people on Christmas Eve, not counting turkey woman. Result!

[barainga]

Who the hell leaves it til Christmas Eve to go buy Advent Calendars?

~snicker~

I think about 90% of the population that celebrate Christmas.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I kinda miss having an advent calendar.

Maybe next year I will try to find one.

[Jester]

What exactly IS an advent calendar?

[AmbrosiaWriter]

What exactly IS an advent calendar?

I believe it's one of those calenders with numbers on little cut out doors. When the day comes, you fold open the door to see an image pertaining to the religious story of Christmas or some nicer ones have little treats like ornaments or small candies in them.

[Lyse]

A friend's wife made him a nifty advent calendar that had microbrews in the doors.

[RayvenQ]

What exactly IS an advent calendar?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_calendar

Basically cardboard and plastic things with doors you can open for each day leading up to christmas each containing a small piece of chocolate.

Though personally I "banked" my days, so rather than getting a tiny piece of chocolate every day, I'd get all the chocolate in one go.

[Marmalady]

You can get really pretty and elaborate ones too, that are designed to be used year after year - some made out of wood, with little drawers to be opened each day, or I have seen some beautiful quilted hanging ones with numbered pockets to hold sweets. One year I had one that opened out to be a free-standing house, it even lit up - my son loved it.

[EricKei]

As a child, I had one which was a felt XMAS tree with 25 bits of Velcro on it. You marked the days by attaching little felt candy canes and snowflakes and the like (the idea was that you started at the bottom and finished with a star on the peak). Had numbered pouches underneath to hold the actual "ornaments".

We had the chocolate ones, too, muhahahaha. Yummers.

[mhkohne]

For future reference, Gertrude Hawk (found in some malls) makes an advent calendar with some good chocholate in it (as opposed to the waxy crap found in many cheap advent calendars). We get them for the kids every year, my only complaint being that they keep using the same box design, instead of commisioning new art each year.

[Kheldarson]

My family always did a religious Advent Calendar with treats in it (so there was generally 4 in the house at once). We, the kids, would take turns reading the verses listed out of the Bible as part of our Advent wreath prayers. Well, more like, after dinner before we blew out the Advent candles prayers....

[NotAlBundy]

My aunt made one for us out of felt. Red background, big green Christmas tree. Little numbered pockets holding little felt ornaments that she made. My favorite ornaments to put on the tree were Bert and Ernie. And then yep, last one was a star on top.

[MoonCat]

WTF...there's no point in buying one on Christmas Eve! You've only got Christmas Day left to open! Gahhh....some people...

[Lace Neil Singer]

Exactly; if you want one so bad, then make one yourself. That is, if you're that crazy person who wants one on Christmas Eve when there's only one more door left. XD

[EricKei]

Well...I can think of ONE reason for buying one on XMAS Eve, especially if they are marked with the current year -- chances are, any available units would be deeply discounted. 24 chocolates for a buck or two? Not bad