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The day started with me having to go and get keys made for the Haunted Station so I can lock up the cash drawer at the end of the night. The Boss gave me money for it but he only wanted me to get the one key for the office. I picked up the keys from the Late Guy and "whoopsy" made a copy of one for the front door too. If something comes up and I have to open I have a key and the Boss won't know. When I went to the hardware store the key guy didn't have blanks that matched, great, now what? But then one of the other employees, who use to work at the Truck Stop, came up to the counter and told the guy to check in the random spare box and sure enough, there were two blanks. So I got the keys, went back by the Haunted Station and dropped off the Late Guy's keys, checked to make sure the new ones worked and then went home to get ready for work. BTW, the Late Guy was complaining about the Part Time Woman, it seems she couldn't dump the outside trash because there wa...

 The first thing I saw when I got to work was a hot food rack, they are going to go through with this. They've been told by multiple people that it didn't work in the past and resulted in a lot of waste, however they are like most companies, the big bosses who live far far away know better than the people who have worked at the place for decades. Oh well, at least I don't have to take the responsibility for it. I hope they don't put hot dog rollers in because those things are the worst. They finally got all the pumps up and running and the #12 pump crashed. Figures. Also the #10 diesel pump will start running slow and shut all the other diesel pumps down. This is going to be fun. And it's raining today, and rained during the whole shift. Because of the bad weather in the area, and rock slide on the mountain, and a tornado in Santa Fe, nobody was traveling so it was slow all day. This turned out to be a good thing because it meant I didn't have to go dump the tra...

 Today started off normally, and didn't stay that way. The Late Guy came by to tell me that the state wants the station to stop pumping premium or plus fuel until they do a through test of the storage tanks. So I rushed to get out of order signs written out and to put them on the pump. Two things, there was no scotch tape in the drawer so I had to cut strips of packing tape and of course I got mobbed by people while I was trying to do it. I finally got everything ready, got to the door and discovered that the Manager had already marked the pumps. As usual nobody told me the second half of the story. As the Manager was closing the safe bill reader jammed up. This meant I was going to have to bundle drop money and I wouldn't be able to get any money back out. I've worked here long enough to keep extra coins and bills just in case. There was a homeless guy hanging around, he's been here before. He isn't trouble, he buys stuff and then sits outside with his dog. However...

 When I got to work I discovered that I had forgot my Dr Pepper, I can buy a 6-pack at the store for the same price of two bottles at work so I bring my own. As I was running to the cooler to grab one, (Cherry Dr Pepper by the way, if I was going to have to buy one I might as well buy the best one) I noticed that one of the trash cans didn't have a trash bag in it, the Manager must have gotten distracted. So instead I ran behind the counter and grabbed one before the crowd showed up and filled up the can itself. When I got outside I spotted the half full trash bag on the side of the building where the Manager left it. So now I had to haul that around to the dumpster as cars were showing up on the lot. Nothing like starting your day at a dead run. And a half hour later I got my Cherry Dr Pepper. Another guy came in to ask about my Bad Hawg (my electric trike). We went through the usual, how much did it cost? How long did the battery last? He asked if they had a fat wheel version and...

 When I got to work it wasn't busy, the Manager had counted down her drawer but I waited for the Late Guy to close his so I could get the register that isn't under the air conditioner vent. While I was logging in a couple of local lowlifes came in, the guy was bleeding from "some kind of wound" and they wanted to know if we'd call an ambulance. The theory is that she stabbed him. The Manager wanted to know what the phone number was to call the ambulance so I said "911?", she didn't punch me. The ambulance showed up along with the EMTs and they stitched the guy up. He could have gone to the emergency room for the same thing. And you know they aren't going to pay the bill. There is an overflow revisor on the fill caps for the big fuel tanks and one of the drivers had dumped diesel in there. The Late Guy, who was working the morning, wanted to go pump it out. He got ready but he got a call from the Boss, the state inspector was at the Haunted Statio...

I walked in to chaos. The Late Guy had a line at his register so I rushed to log in and count in my drawer so he could get out. And it went like that for the next couple of hours. And of course nothing was done. I soon as I got a break I had to clean and stock the restrooms, dump the trash and eventually I bagged 19 bags of ice. And the mop bucket was in the office restroom, why? It hadn't been used, the floors were a mess. The Late Guy is back to being the Late Guy. I guess yesterday he spent the day bossing the Part Time Woman to do the work for him, he's good at that. The thing that makes me laugh is how he constantly complain about how people leave the Haunted Station and he left the Truck Stop exactly like that. I was trying to do the cigarette count but there was a family having a discussion about who was going to pay and were they going to use the card, tap or pay cash. Oh c'mon, I have a break in the traffic and can get my work done quickly but instead I had to stan...