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As The Station Turns 8/29

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As I was pulling on to the lot I noticed the suspicious red car pulling into the vacant lot again. They drove behind the trees where they wouldn't be seen on any of the station's security cameras. I really have to mention it to someone in a position of authority. I figured it was going to be another slow day. I started my cigarette count, we have to have the incoming and outgoing numbers to make sure nobody is stealing, as I was doing it some guy was hovering so I went over to the register to wait. When he started his second lap around the store I went back to doing my count and sure enough he practically ran over to the register to buy the first thing he had grabbed off the shelf. Every time. Then I got a line of people. I finally got to finish the count, in between customers, and then they all left. There is a glass display case at the front counter that locks up in case you want to sell high value items. The Manager uses it for storage of stuff she needs quick access to but ...
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As The Station Turns 8/27

The plumber is coming to my house on Friday morning so I had to get my weekly lottery ticket early. I took a walk to the Haunted Station, the Weekend Guy was covering the morning shift. Boy was he in a bad mood. Stuff isn't working, stuff isn't being ordered, stuff isn't in the system. While I was standing there some guy wanted one of those air fresheners you hang off the rear view mirror. I use to make sure they were in stock because we sold a lot of them, and of course there weren't any. There is a new personal wipe you can hang up in your car and the Late Guy said it probably wasn't in the system, he even wanted to make a bet. I said that some had already been sold so it probably was, the Late Guy owes me a dollar.  I was mentioning the Specter of Beggars Past (see my last post) and he said the guy had come in to the Haunted Station too. He said he thought it was the guy who use to drive around town on the bicycles that had been joined together and he put a motor...
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As The Station Turns 8/26

 I was getting ready for work when my toilet came loose. It's still attached to the sewer pipe but loose from the floor. I contacted the handyman and he's coming on Friday, my day off, but until then I have to be careful when I use it, so I went to work early to use the office toilet, I didn't clock in first, I did it on my own time. My first customer wanted to know if we had a hose, sorry. He bought a bottle of windshield washer fluid and bitched about the price. My attitude is the same, don't like it? Go to Walmart and don't complain at me. The first hour of my shift was non stop busy. I figured it would be like that for the rest of the day. And then the crowd dropped off to just pissers and lingerers. The Manager told me that Stinky is working at Arbys. She walked in, saw him back in the kitchen and walked out. I guess I'll be going somewhere else for a while. That guy had a stink that would linger, I can just imagine trying to eat something he's been nea...
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As The Station Turns 8/24

 When I got to work all the diesel pumps were shut down. It seems the #12 pump started leaking and set off the leak detector in the system, which shut all the other pumps down. They had a call in to the repair guy and he said he'd be there in "2 hours". They called him at 10 AM and it was 2 PM and he wasn't there.  Meanwhile the pump on the ice maker has stopped working and the machine is slowly filling up with water. I don't know how this is going to end but I assume it won't be well. Mrs. Late Guy was telling me the Professional Mooch came by. He was ranting about me kicking him off the lot. He claimed the owners gave him permission to be there, lie. He said he was going to kick my *** so he'd better steer really wide from me now on because the last time I taught someone a painful lesson I swore I'd never do that again but in his case I'd make an exception. Mrs. Late Guy told him off and said I was only following the Boss's orders. I guess he...
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As The Station Turns 8/23

Today the sky wasn't messing around, it was serious about raining so I left the Bad Hawg at home. Instead I loaded up all my household trash in the truck and drove to work, I dump it there because the raccoons in my neighborhood spread trash around the street if you don't throw it out a half hour before the truck shows up. And it rained on me while I was tossing everything in the dumpsters. Then it stopped. Pump number 3 decided to stop reading cards. I checked the receipts and it had been doing it all day, and half the night. I put a Pay Inside sign on it but I made sure I took it off a half hour before shift change. Let the other people deal with it plus the Boss would complain at me if he found out I did something on my own. Today was sloooow Moooootion Tag Teamers day. They came in one at a time, used the restroom, wandered around the store and as they left the next one would come in. Every time I went to do something here they would come again. A five minute job would take...
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As The Station Turns 8/22

 I forgot to post this yesterday but when I was chatting with the Late Guy on Friday he told me about a bear situation. It seems that a bear broke into someone's house and was eating their food. The people called the Game And Fish but by the time the ranger got there the bear had taken off. They baited a trap in the area and caught it, they hauled it to a place about 40 miles away. Well this week it showed up again and broke into someone's garage and ate the contents of their fridge, and it turned out to be the Random Woman's garage. The bear was easy to catch because that is where she stores her edibles. The bear OD'd so they had to "put it down". The Random Woman is going to be on edge for a while since her "prescription" went into the bear.  The weather report said it was going to be clear so I got out the Bad Hawg and fired it up, it's an electric trike for those who haven't read my past posts. As the day went along the horizon got really...
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As The Station Turns 8/20 - 21

 As I was heading to work the rain was coming, so I was rushing. First I had to wait for an RV that was sloooooly turning a corner. Then a guy was coming the other way with his turn signal on, but he wasn't in the turn lane. I sat there and waited until he actually turned, I flipped him off of course. And then it rained. At least I only had to run from my car to the door but none the less, if you're turning use the turn lane.  Bigfoot miscounted his drawer, again. He adds up the loose coins but doesn't include the rolled ones. Good thing I'm not a thief.  The Manager had taken the anti slip rug from under the soda machine and put it outside. Did I mention it was raining? The thing was soaked so I had to leave it outside for half the day. A guy was parked at the pump, not a customer, just sitting out there playing on his phone. I was going to go out and tell him to leave but I had too many customers in the building. When the place finally cleared out he was gone. Here...
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