As The Station Turns 6/17

 The Manager was complaining about how busy she was, customers, the delivery truck and Red Bull all showed up at the same time. I don't miss that. There were a few things for me to do but she got the bulk of it finished. I would suggest she leave some of it for me but there is no way I'd even hint at telling her what to do.

Skippy was there, he was changing the fuel prices, it went down a whole 10¢. He wanted to call the Late Guy to change the sign across the street but didn't have his number, and the Manager didn't have his number. I have his number but nobody asked me so I kept quiet about it. Also the Manager set the price of unleaded 80¢ too high, I got a good laugh about that and let her know, she had to re-change the sign but I never checked the pumps. 

There were four cars parked out on the lot, and four people sitting behind the wheel playing on their phones. I miss when we left our communication devices at home.

The Tire Shop Guy came in and we were talking about customers. He said someone came in to the shop and asked if they had air. A tire shop, did they have air? I waved my hands around and said "sure, take all you want".

I went by the free brochure rack and there were a couple of quarters in it. So I pulled the brochures out, took a screwdriver and pushed them to the edge and upwards so I could get my fingers on them and came away with 68¢. I then cleaned out the trash and dust. And, just for fun, or perhaps something evil, I took one of the fake $5's I have, folded it up and dropped it into the rack in a very awkward position. So far nobody has found it. 

A woman and a kid came in. Then he came back in with grandpa to talk about candy bars. He was then waiting for grandpa to come out when mom came back, and she was pissed. She turned around and the kid was gone without saying anything, No Candy For You! That was going to be a fun trip.

So if someone tells you "it's in the corner" where do you look for the thing? Do you look under the soda machines? Do you look under the microwave? Or do you look at the point where the two counters come together forming a....corner. I had to walk over to the corner of the counter and point right at the thing I told them was "in the corner". And if I say "hold your chip over the center of the card reader screen" where would you hold the chip? On the side of the machine? On the top of the machine? Or in the center of the screen? Same person by the way.

An old fart in a blue stripe flag hat, yes one of those hats, and asked for a receipt on pump 2, he was on pump 3 and I gave him the right one. Later he came in and said I had given him the wrong one, he was on pump 3. I pointed out on the receipt that it clearly said "pump 3" but then he said it was diesel. I pointed out that the receipt clearly said it was Unleaded. He then said it was the wrong price so I pointed out that the price on the receipt was the same price on the sign. So he wanted to know when I changed it. He thought the price was a dollar a gallon lower than what he paid, I have no idea where he got that from. I considered telling him the price went up when trump invaded Iran but I didn't want to get into that. I should print up slips with the Complaint Line and the White House number on it, call that.

Normally towards the end of the day I grab a small soda but some woman was coughing up a lung all over the machine so I skipped that. If I would have had the time I would have given it a good wipe down but I didn't.

About 5 hours later the Late Guy showed up to change the price across the street. Hey, he wanted to be the manager.

A guy wanted to know if there was an exceptional place to eat that he absolutely should not miss having a meal at. I shook my head no. The places around here aren't bad but they aren't 5 star either. 

The place was empty and it was a good time to do the trash, if you've read these before you know what happens next. I grabbed a trash bag and a guy came in to look through the greeting cards, all of them. He was almost out the door when he spotted the pins and had to look through all of them. Then the crowd showed up. An hour later I dumped the trash.

A trucker came in and claimed our website said we have showers. We don't have showers, or a website. I don't know what he was looking at.

A woman was heading east and wanted to know a nice place to stay in Amarillo. I haven't been there since Reagan was President. And the only place I went was a strip club so....

The Storyteller came in and showed me the new Kennedy 50¢ coin he recently acquired. I didn't tell him that I knew, I was the one who got it for him. He told me the story about how he was forced to use his coins to....buy a lottery ticket. 

The Crazy Lady showed up about a half hour early, which was great because I got to go home early. And once again I didn't see the New Guy.