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 The Manager must have a lot of pent up energy. She defrosted the chest freezer today and insisted on doing the outside trashes before she left. I told her she didn't have to worry about it. She's saving aluminum cans for one of her grandchildren so she digs them out of the trash can.  The Manager said that she got her delivery today, as the guy was unloading the truck another driver came around the corner and ran over his ramp. I guess it didn't damage it bad enough that it couldn't roll it back into the trailer but the company was going to have to get it repaired. And the other driver was in a hurry because he needed the restroom. The Manager also said she found a dead cat on the back of the building. She went inside and got the shovel and threw it in the dumpster. As she was doing it one of the crows got a beak full of water and spit on her. I said it was mad that she had tossed its meal.  I looked out and the Late Guy was across the street, today is his day off and ...

 I was laying in bed playing Angry Birds when a message popped up from the Late Guy "call me as soon as you can". I wasn't doing very good at the game so I got up, tracked down my phone, which is in my word bag, and called him. It turns out he's caught whatever bug is going around town and he wanted me to come in early, but only an hour. No problem. So I stayed up and got ready for work.  When I got to work the Late Guy was rushing to get out of his drawer so I just counted in his and didn't have to deal with the Part Time Woman's BS drawer at all, it's still in the safe for the people who will be working the next two days.  The mens room is still down but the plumbers were there doing some hard core work out back. Eventually they came in and did multiple flush tests and the thing was working. They didn't tell me what had happened but the pissers are happy.  The lottery machine is down and won't reboot. Later someone came in and said he had been to...

It was going to rain so I took my car As I pulled to the end of my driveway I looked down the street, there were two trucks and a horse trailer blocking all the lanes and even the side of the street, so I was going to have to go around. I pulled into the Haunted Station through the back way and went to park but some guy was walking his dog, so I stopped to wait for him, and he stopped and held on to the dog. OK, so I started pulling forward and he started walking towards me again, so I stopped again, and he stopped again. So I started pulling forward again and this time I didn't stop, I pulled forward and started backing up and here he came again, planning on walking behind me. Well I had enough of this guy so I kept going and forced him to stop. When I got out I slammed the door extra hard and ignored him. He didn't come inside the station. So that's how my day started. The Late Guy was in a hurry so as I was walking in he was already counting down his drawer. Instead of g...

Today I was woken by a "ping" on my iPad, I keep it next to my bed so I can play Angry Birds first thing in the morning instead of getting up. I freaked out, the Boss wanted me to cover the morning shift at the Downtown station on Saturday but I was sure he said next Saturday. Was there someone waiting for me to come in and I was late? It turns out my sister sent me a Happy Halloween message, at 7 AM. I'm dressing up for work as an overworked, under appreciated, under paid employee. I wonder how many people will get it. Bigfoot left me $6 in dollar bills to open my shift. The guy does a crappy job with the drawers. The good news is I won't have to deal with his drawer for a week. I hope the Crazy Lady gets a drawer without a proper amount of change. Speaking of the graveyard shift, the Crazy Lady and the Graveyard Shift Guy are working afternoon shifts, solo, and complaining. They hate having to wait on all the customers and get the side work done. They spent years co...

 Week 41 Because I've been putting money into the Alternative Fund and it's been a slow week at work I have $8.45 in the Tip Jar. My usual spot is still closed so I had to go to a different store again, it worked out for two weeks so who knows? The place had a mostly empty rack the last time I went there but this week they had some new tickets so I went for the $5 one with the potential jackpot of $20,000, but the ticket was not a winner, and it's not a second chance ticket either. So I'm starting out the month losing. Week 42 I was told my usual spot would be open this week, but it wasn't. I almost forgot to buy a ticket this week but remembered because I had to go to the store, so I picked up one on my way home. It's been a slow week so I had $4.91 in the Tip Jar, it could have been more but I was really honest and gave people back what they overpayed me, good Karma and all. Anyhow since my usual spot is still closed and the other place doesn't have the ti...

 When I got to work the Manager was on the phone. She was only partway through closing her shift when she went outside to talk, I wasn't really listening but I guess she felt it was too private. Later when she came back she had her safe deposit in her hand, she had been walking around outside with a bunch of loose bills in her hand. That must have been one heck of a conversation for her to not have noticed. A guy came in looking for unroasted fresh chile. Sorry dude, you have a three week window from the end of September to the middle of October and you missed it. When I went out to check the trashes there was a blob of ice cream next to one of the cans. I was going to take a bucket of water out and wash it off but the crows discovered it and went nuts, so I left it for them. They actually did a better job than I would have. A guy was in the restroom for a long time and I needed to check the place but I got a crowd. A guy got a soda refill and his total was $1.40, he handed me 5 co...