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 Hell Week Redux, Day One The Part Time Woman works Saturday mornings at the Truck Stop. When I walked in she was taking a small bag of trash out to the dumpster, and was still in her drawer, as was Mrs. Late Guy. They know when I'm coming in and could close one so I can count in and go to work. But noooooo, they were still in both drawers. So I was stuck hanging around waiting for one of them to close their drawer. Finally Part Time Woman closed her drawer, and once again she was off in her count so I had to open my drawer for an odd amount. Oh well, I guess the Random Woman is going to be gone for the next two weekends and Part Time Woman will be covering across the street. So I got that good news. I'm going to have to cover Wednesday morning but the only good part was that they weren't putting in an order so I wouldn't have to unload that. Except it turns out that last week the supply company didn't send any of the tobacco so they had to put in an order. And ther...

When I arrived at work someone towing a trailer parked across the entrance to the diesel pumps. I drove straight at them before turning and having to go around. Then someone tried to pull into the pumps and blared their horn at the person. Seriously, directly in front of the pumps is not a parking space.  The Manager was in a hurry today, she had several things to get done and then she is on vacation. She hustled through everything at the Truck Stop and then ran down to the West Side Station and then clocked out. She's on vacation and come Saturday I'll be on Hell Week. After the third person in a row I wondered how long I could go before I yelled in someone's face "If It's A Debit Card You Have To Enter A PIN!!!!!" Honestly, if you want to use your debit know your PIN. The third person pulled out his card and jammed it in and out of the reader several times, which caused the card reader to jam up and I had to open the second register for .01¢ to run his card ...

 It was a quiet day at work. Not for the usual reasons of a seasonal slow down but instead it was because of bad drivers. First there was a semi rollover on the highway to Texas, they had to close the west bound lanes so it was bottlenecked to one lane in both directions. Then someone towing a trailer came down the mountain pass too fast, they didn't have breaks on their trailer so it started pushing them, they tried to slow down which caused them to jackknife and rolled both the car and the trailer shutting down the south bound lanes (If you're gonna tow a trailer through the mountains and are not use to it, go to a mechanic and see about tow breaks or at least slow down). To top it all off someone rolled their truck on the side road that runs east towards Oklahoma. So it was slow, then busy, then slow again, and a lot of angry impatient people. The Random Woman was across the street this morning, gotta wonder why the Dyslexic Woman wasn't working. Maybe the Boss wanted he...

  When I got to work it was a typical Monday, busy as heck. Bigfoot had left me a mostly acceptable drawer but I was going to have to get coins out of the safe later. The Manager was pissed because she cleaned out the slushie machines and there were bugs in one of them. Someone had to have left the top off. I told her I don't touch the thing and how someone had filled up one of the coffee machines with the wrong stuff, she wasn't happy about that either. I though they kept the mix locked up but I guess it's in the back somewhere, this is the first I learned about that. She was happy to get out of there today. Today two of the regulars showed up. First it was the Stuffed Dog guy who was buying milk and then the Butt Picker who was buying a pack of smokes, the rains have filled up al the outside ash cans with water so the butts out there are floating.  Last week I found a pair of sunglasses laying outside so I put them on the picnic table to see if someone would take them. Fo...

 When I got to work Mrs. Late Guy was complaining about the frozen coffee. It seems someone put French Vanilla in the Mocha machine. I'm pretty sure that only her and the Manager have access to the mixes so.... She had to empty the machine, dump the already mixed stuff into the right machine and then make a new mix for the Mocha side. At least I'm blame free because I don't touch those things. The #5 pump had been working but once again wouldn't turn on. Does it just hate me or something? I figured it out, in the afternoon the sun shifts past the canopy and shines directly upon it, the rest of the time it's either in the shade or it's night, but it warms up during the afternoon. Something must be loose or only slightly broken, when it heats up it expands and separates. Once the sun goes down it cools off and makes contact again. But it worked on my day off, how could that be? Then I remembered that it rained all day and the sun was behind the clouds. The Boss do...

Welcome to Hell Week I had two full days off, in a row. It was a miracle, however I am going to have to work 7 days including two back to back double shifts, since the Manager is taking a week off and there's nobody who can cover her shifts. I said this before and I'll say it again, I'm waiting to see what happens towards the end of this year and then may make a major change of plans.  My original weekend plan was to get a lot of stuff done on Thursday and then go visit the Late Guy on Friday, since I hadn't been there in a while. However I slept in on Thursday so I started the day behind and didn't get stuff done at the first of the day. In the end I went to see the Weekend Guy on Thursday morning and then spent the rest of the day doing stuff house, since Hell Week was coming up. On Friday it rained first thing in the morning so once again I put off going to see the Late Guy and hearing all his complaints. I went to do my big job of the morning and it took longer ...