As The Station Turns 6/10

The Manager was caught off guard when I walked in, she had been busy with the delivery truck all morning and didn't realize what time it was, she was happy to see me and go home. She told me the Dyslexic Woman, who is working the morning shift at the Haunted Station, freaked out that the Late Guy had put in a large order for DEF and she didn't know where she was suppose to store it. Ummm...in the back, in that big empty space that use to be a restaurant. The miscommunication going on over there is getting comical.

When I left the night before water was pouring out of the cappuccino machine. I had turned the water and the machine power off and then went home. When I went in today they had the one flavor marked out of order and the rest of the machine was operational. I don't know what they did, I don't want to know what they did. The more you know, the more you are expected to do.

I've been seeing a car in the vacant lot next door. Yep, some guy and his dog are living there. So far I haven't had to deal with him so that's a good thing.

The price of diesel went down, 40¢ a gallon, this was quite shocking, I guess the brand name station on the other side of town must have gone down and the bosses are matching them. I had to laugh because they didn't lower the price across the street.

The local Tow Truck Driver came in, he was on his way to load up an industrial size lawn mower from the golf course. He showed me a photo and I asked "what were they mowing?" because the entire back end was burned up. I guess they managed to get it away from the trees before it turned into a total disaster, instead they have a burned chunk of grass. I probably won't get a follow up to that story.

A woman kept trying to pay by tap from her phone. Nothing. She'd punch all kinds of buttons and, nothing. Finally after multiple attempts she got it to work. Here's a clue, learn how to use your app before you go in the store.

I had a hard time not laughing at a guy today. He sounded like Warren from The Andy Griffith Show. And of course he had to talk the entire time he was paying for his stuff. He was pushing me.

My neighbor came in and asked what I was doing. I said nothing, since I was at work. She said as soon as she gets a million dollars she's going to retire. It was the perfect setup so I got to do my joke, "I almost won the lottery, I was only 6 numbers off!" She rolled her eyes at me.

The place cleared out giving me the opportunity to check the restroom. I got to the edge of the counter and pissers came running in. Surprised? Yeah, me neither.

There is a thing I hate, and a guy did it tonight. They'll pull their bills out of their wallet, all in a neat row, and then throw them on the counter one at a time making a messy pile that I have to gather up, straighten out and put in the drawer. When the guy did that today I did it slowly, picking them up one at a time, Making sure George was facing the same way and then ringing it out and giving him his change. Just hand me the bills, I'm not a stripper on stage.

The Storyteller came in and he was happy, thanks to inflation his retirement payments went up. I didn't mention that the overall costs were going to eat into his savings more than what he was getting. He repeated trump's story about the oil smuggled out of Iran. I told him nobody had any confirmation on the story. He also told me all about how he use to work extra hours at the railroad, got a lot of overtime and that's why he has such a great retirement savings, a story I've heard a dozen times but pretend I never heard before.

A family came in, father, three small boys and mom. Dad and the boys finished up in the restroom and then hung around waiting for mom. I realized she was taking her time because it was a moment of silence on a noisy road trip, and I didn't complain at all. 

Just before the end of my shift I got a call from a truck driver. He wanted to know if we took a fleet card and I said yes. I was glad he was calling from the road because it meant I would be long gone by the time he showed up and this card is a pain in the butt because you have to call it in, wait for an operator, who just barely speaks English, go through the whole process of giving them all the information and then finally getting an approval code. Bwa ha ha ha, it was going to be the Graveyard shift's problem.

And speaking of the Graveyard Shift, the New Guy was suppose to start today. However he hadn't shown up when I left. What a way to make a great impression, show up late, or not at all, for your first shift. I'll find out how things turned out when I go in today.