As The Station Turns 6/7

 It was a busy but not crazy day, the kind I like. Time to do stuff, enough customers to make the day go by, and if the bosses are watching I look busier than I really am. 

A guy asked if he brought in his own cup for some ice and water would we charge. I told him no, no charge. He said OK, went outside, got in his car and left. I guess he just wanted to know.

A guy comes in and said "8". And? He said "Pump 8". And? He finally says he wants a receipt for pump 8. I knew what he wanted all along but I get tired of people not asking a proper question so I played stupid. Seriously, one word is not a proper way to ask a question. 

Someone parked on the lot and proceeded to stuff trash not in just one trash can but two of them. They could have pulled around to the dumpster and saved me a couple of trash bags but nope, they had to fill them up. And you know what happened next, a swarm showed up so I had to wait. When I finally got to the trash I discovered that the majority of it was beer bottles. I'm glad I wasn't driving around them.

A guy was throwing his pennies into the "take a penny" box. He found a pebble in his pocket and tossed that in there too. I laughed, and then I put it in the charity jar. Gotta share.

Some kid wanted to scan his gum and tried to grab the scanner. I wouldn't let him. What bugged me was his father was standing right there. Guess what parents? You are allowed to tell your kids "no" or "stop that" and it isn't considered abuse. Years from now when that kid is in handcuffs dad will say "I don't know where he went wrong, well it started the day you let him run amok in a store.

The Late Guy came by, he had been doing some side stuff and needed to clock out, and the time clock at the Haunted Station isn't working right, nothing over there is working right. He told me a new hire was going to be starting on Monday and would do the basic training at the Haunted Station, since it's the same register, and then move to the Graveyard shift, probably on Wednesday, He told me the boss wants to replace the entire Graveyard Shift, I won't mind. He gave the Graveyard Guy fair warning that they were watching and if he spent the entire night on his phone instead of actually doing stuff he would be on the unemployment line by the end of the month, gotta wonder if the guy was listening,

There was a car parked out back for a long time. Normally I start to get paranoid but I figured they were waiting for someone coming in on the Mexican Bus, and it turns out I was right. After the bus dropped the guy off they filled up and left. 

The Boss came in and he was extra chatty tonight. He was telling me about what happened when he fired Stinky and how pissed off the Weekend Guy was when he called him in, I told him that when I checked I discovered that my phone was dead and that's why I didn't get his call. He told me that the Manager of the West Side Station was taking Monday off so Mrs. Late Guy was going to be covering over there, which means I'm going to be working alone on Monday. I keep expecting the West Side Manager to quit. Gotta wonder who will wind up the manager down there. 

The Boss also told me his new list of who will be fired. He had 5 people, Stinky, The Crazy Lady, the Graveyard Shift Guy, The Random Woman and the Dyslexic Woman. He told me his new list, still 5 people, The original four and the Part Time Woman. I told him I had placed a bet on the Crazy Lady. I'm just glad I'm not on the list, or perhaps he's just not telling me. He was then asking me what days I had worked lately and I told him I never know when I'm going to be working or off anymore, a reminder of the number of times I reshuffled my week to cover for someone else.

There was a little plastic Jesus on top of the slots where we put credit cards when we're holding them while someone fills up. Well, it disappeared and I wondered where it had gone. Well today I sold several packs of chewing tobacco and there was Jesus down in the box. So I put him back where he had been. I don't think I'll tell anyone that I found it.

I found some Slim Jims under the counter so I put them out on a shelf but the problem is the box is top heavy. A couple of customers came in just as it tipped over and fell to the floor. They freaked out, I told them that it had just fallen over. After they quit staring at it I went, picked it up and put it on a different shelf where it was better balanced.

Last week I "loaned" the Storyteller $20 but I knew I was never getting the money back. Well the universe half rewarded me, I found $10. So, that is good. 

The Graveyard Shift guy showed up and I got out of there. I didn't tell him anything about the firing list or the new employee. Let him find out the hard way. Oh man, is that bad Karma? I'm not going to get my other $10.