ocularnervosa

 When I got to work I discovered that I had left my glasses at home. Thankfully I have a backup pair but they are older and so the world was slightly fuzzy. Later when I got home I searched all over and I have no idea where they are. I know I wore them home and there are only a couple of places I could have put them, perhaps the cat stole them. Anyhow when I walked in the station was very cold, the Manager was in a really crappy mood. She's always in a bad mood on Monday morning but gets over it as the day goes along, but today, she was in a horrible mood when I got there. Thankfully she was in a hurry and left right away so I didn't have to suffer through her wrath. I would learn more later. An old fart was trying to run his card at the pump but it was declined. When he came in I told him and said I could try a prepay for him, quite often that works since credit card companies figure the people who stole the card wouldn't come inside and risk being on camera. However he wa...

 I walked into a mob scene. Mrs. Late Guy was trying to dump the trashes so as soon as I clocked in I was running her drawer until she was finished, then I was able to count in mine. I almost wish the West Side Station had been down so the Weekend Guy had been there and could have taken care of it. They seriously need to hire more people for the summer.  At the start of the shift we have to count the number of individual cigarette packs, and then count out at the end of the day, the total has to match the register tape to prove people aren't stealing. Anyhow I was trying to count and people kept interrupting me. Some guy came in and wanted to know if I personally had jumper cables, no. He wanted to know if we had any for sale and I told him yes, over in the tools section. He then asked how much they were and I told him I would have to check it on the register. He then asked if there was a price on them, no, I would have to check the price on the register, he finally came over ...

 When I walked in the Weekend Guy was there. The Late Guy was trying to get the system up at the West Side Station so the Weekend Guy was covering at the Haunted Station in the morning and then came over to the Truck Stop for the afternoon. Later in the day a real computer repair guy showed up and put in a new screen at the West Side Station and the system is back up, for now. So the Weekend Guy will be back over there tomorrow. There was an Earth Wanderer at the station next door, he had a bucket on a dolly, you gotta wonder what was in it, he decided to cross the street, into oncoming traffic, he was almost hit by a box truck. I didn't see him again, or an ambulance, so I guess he got a ride north. The outside trash can filled up so naturally people kept trying to jam more in instead of using any of the other 9 cans on the lot. I decided to run out and dump it but that's when the tag teamers showed up. I often talk about it but today I decided to keep track: First was the fam...

 The weather apps (multiple) said the weather was going to be nice all day so I took the electric trike, aka my Hawg, to work. I was going to time myself but I forgot to look when I got to work. No problem, I would check it on the time clock app, except it won't let me log in, says my password is wrong, says my phone number is wrong, says my email is wrong. I think they don't want me using the app anymore. It's a total pain in the ass. Anyhow the Manager really likes my Hawg and now she wants to get one. It would be funny if half of town started buzzing around everywhere on electric bikes.  Two women came in and took their trash, old chicken bones, to the restroom to throw them away. There are 10 trashcans outside plus three dumpsters and they had to bring them in and throw them in the restroom, making the place smell even worse. And of course I got busy so I couldn't go dump the trash can for a while. Every woman who went to the restroom got to enjoy the smell of old c...

 Week 19 Since I'm not working at the station that sells lottery anymore I wasn't tempted by any good numbers or the perfect calendar date or someone just bought a lot of losing tickets so this game is going to hit, all the normal pitfalls of gambling. So perhaps I can finally take control of the experiment.  New beginnings. Since I was moved to a different station I am no longer selling myself a ticket, instead I have to buy it from someone else. Thankfully I know the guy and told him about my experiment. I had $9.27 in the Tip Jar so I decided to go with a $5 ticket. I had my choice between four games but which one? I figured I would give the old Lucky Coin a spin and it landed on the one I least wanted but I bought it anyhow. The ticket has a potential jackpot of $5000 and, it was a $10 winner! So to start this month I'm up $5, down overall but still up. Oh, and since Friday is my day off I shifted my buying day too. Maybe next week I'll hit something big. Week 20 Th...

 Wednesday is supply truck day and thanks to the management not hiring new people the Manager is working alone, she has to put everything away and wait on customers. When I came in she was mostly done but the outside trashes needed to be dumped so as soon as the place had cleared out I ran out to do it so she wouldn't get stuck with it. I told her in the future to not worry about it, I would get it done within the next 8 hours. She was stuck at the station for the next hour and a half redoing prices in the register and straightening out the walk in cooler. They could hire two new people so this didn't happen but, who am I to tell the management how to run their business. Also the Manager is planning on quitting soon but I don't think the Boss knows that.  When I worked across the street I cut some barcodes off the boxes of the DEF because they are a pain to scan at the register. However at the Truck Stop they have a sheet of barcodes for that, but they are old, worn out, an...