As The Station Turns 7/05

 I could see the rain rolling in before I went to work so I took the Jeep. I beat it by minutes, because I had stoped to take a photo of a deer, Mrs. Late Guy was in a big hurry, it seems her husband left a window at open and she was trying to rush so she could go home and close it. But then she stuck around for an extra 10 minutes doing side work, that I kept telling her she could just leave. I guess I'll find out how that turned out today. Also I didn't get a chance to ask her how the cop thing turned out.

We sell scorpion suckers, even though they are expensive we sell a lot. Anyhow some guy wouldn't believe that they were real bugs in the sucker. He kept trying to argue with me about what they were made of while reading the label. I even pointed at the word "Real" on the display. I still think he didn't believe me.

I saw a truck with two large Mexican flags. It took me a minute and then I realized it was for FIFA. I hope some grouchy maga saw it.

A guy was telling his wife that they should get Colorado souvenirs and couldn't understand why we were selling New Mexico shot glasses. Then he found out that he was in New Mexico. Man was he embarrassed.

I looked across the street and realized that the Part Time Woman was working the afternoon shift again. She hates working on Sunday so it makes me laugh. Also I guess the Random Woman took the whole weekend off. Gotta wonder if she'll be there on Monday.

A tow truck pulled in, it had a wrecked car on the back, they must have run into something because the front end was messed up. The interesting thing was the family was in the truck, the driver had just picked them up. Thankfully they were all OK. They wasn't there for fuel, he just brought them in for a potty break, I bet they needed it. The driver did buy sunflower seeds so they were customers. 

Since we're on the edge of town it's not unusual to see someone come flying down the road. My favorite part is we are a block away is the entrance to the interstate so I like to see them slam on their breaks when they realize they want to turn there. However today a state cop was coming the other way and busted the guy. Oh how I laughed. 

The Boss came by and he said the Manager was going to be gone for a month. He wanted to know if I would cover her shift for two days a week, which meant that I'd have to work back to back doubles. A whole month? Four weeks of working my regular shifts plus two extra shifts? I was about to debate it when he corrected himself, he said she was going to take a week off In A Month and it would only be two days total. Yeah, OK, I can do that. It will suck but I've done it before. He said he didn't want the Dyslexic Woman coming back to the Truck Stop and didn't know what else to do. Plus they should be starting the work on the bridge so we'll probably be slower while across the street gets swamped. So all in all I'll pick up some extra bucks while covering during the slower middle of the week.

He also told me they were thinking of putting hot food in at the Truck Stop, I'm against it especially if I'm still covering the shift by myself. I told him they did hot dogs in the past and there was a lot of waste. I asked about the plan for across the street, I could easily send people over there for the walk up counter service. I also suggested that considering the lack of space they would be better off getting a food truck and parking it on the edge of the lot. Wouldn't it be funny if he listened to me.

I started to think about how long the Boss hung out and that the Part Time Woman was probably watching. I bet she hates the fact that the Boss is chatting with me and avoids her every chance he gets.

There is a woman I see around twice a week. She never knows what pump she's at and we have to play the "is it the one on the street side?" "Is it the one on the left or the right?" Then she puts her chip in the reader and it rejects it, I have to tell her to tap it. Every time. You'd think she would have figured it out by now. 

The sun went down, it got really dark and the Part Time Woman didn't turn on the canopy lights at the Haunted Station. I could see her moving around. I would check every now and then, no lights. They finally went on, just as she was leaving, an hour early. Must be nice to set your own hours and to get paid to hide out at work. No wonder she's on the "to be fired" list. 

Thankfully it was busy so I didn't have to talk to the Graveyard Shift Guy or Bigfoot, who has been showing up on time. The Boss likes Bigfoot, he does the actual work. I don't think the Graveyard Shift Guy realizes that he's one good hire away from being fired. And then I went home.