in between semesters craziness

So it's kind of been a while. Sorry about that. With finals and the end of the semester and moving out of the dorms things have been crazy, and I haven't worked in almost a week. Okay, so, today. Hmm, where to start. Well first off I sympathize with those who work in the grill/ice cream portion of the store. It was absolutely insane over there today. The Creamery gave every graduate a free single scoop coupon, and we have a lot of graduates. A lot. So the restaurant workers have been working their butts off. Well to start off the day, a guy came through my line and bought some chipotle something corn nuts. As I was scanning them, he was like "Don't those look so disgusting?" I was really puzzled as to how I was supposed to answer this question. Was I supposed to just agree with him? or was I supposed to support the item he was currently in the process of paying for. It really stumped me. I just looked at them and said that I wasn't sure. He laughed and said he was excited to try them. Alright sir. Have fun eating something you think looks disgusting. Weirdo. Haha this next one, is about you Julia, but you were going to count out as it happened so I didn't get to tell you. So if you are reading this, get ready. So as my co-worker Julia was going upstairs to count out, she waved all silly like and "miss america" like just to be funny. Right after she left a customer came through the other line, and in a fairly scoffing manner commented, "wow, that girl waves really funny, I mean, she was all like this" (as he made largely dramatized hand motions). It was pretty rude, but funny. We nicely tried to explain to him that she was kidding around but he was kinda odd and didn't really pick up on anything. Thats ok though. It probably made his day, seeing the crazy creamery girl waving her arms around in a ridiculous wave. Now its rant time! So when people ask you if the price something rang up as is the real price....Yes everyone, it is. Actually, no, that little number you see is just a joke and we have a secret price for all of your items. Ugh. And then, today, some kid bought some bread, and on the sign it said 2 for 3.00. He only bought one. It rang up as 1.50. So even I can see that 1.50 + 1.50 = 3.00, i.e. 2 for 3.00. But he looked at the screen and asked me "the sign over there says 2 for 3.00, so that would make one only 1.50, right?" this was after I had rang it up. And the price 1.50 had been established on the screen. I just kind of stared at him and said yes. He seemed so relieved. I don't understand why. It said 1.50, it was supposed to be 1.50. Why get all worked up? Who knows. Mostly stupid questions like that bug me a ton. Oh and the other big obnoxious mess I had to deal with today has to do with another one of my favorite rants. So people that live in Helaman can't use their Dinning Plus plans in our Creamery. Its their meal plan, they should know this. And most do, or just don't go all the way over to 900 to shop. But some do, and some don't know they can't use their meal plans. That happened today. With a huuuge order. The girl wanted to use her Dinning Plus and it didn't so I asked if she live in Helaman and I told her that hers didn't work here. And you see, many people put money on their Signature/school card and those work everywhere. So she was convinced that it had worked before. As nicely as I could I assured her it had not, seeing as we have never accepted Helaman Dinning Plus before. But she very surely told me "No I know it has, it just must not be now. I mean its fine if it wont work this time. I'll just have to go to Wyview" as if I would be offended at her going to another store. Except! not. I could give a rat's behind where she shops. Ha, my favorite was that he mom was with her, and when I told her she couldn't use her meal plan, her mom stepped in and said "Well she is an RA, does that change anything?" haha I just wanted to be like "What? oh she is an RA? Well why didn't you say so? She can do whatever she wants! Take whatever you want, don;t even worry about it, you're an RA." instead I just told her that meant nothing in this situation, and she then advised me we should put up a sign telling students from Helaman that their cards wouldn't work here. Or they could know the limits of their own meal plans? Hmm, odd concept. But I mean, that girl was an RA so, I should have probably just done whatever she said, even though she was taking a tone with me. Oh, and second favorite? She left her about 15 bags of crap there without even doing anything or apologizing. We had to put it all away. But she just huffily said she was going to shop elsewhere. With attitude I welcomed her absence. Ah well that was my day today. I hope it was entertaining to you all.

somewhat of a rant.

First weird thing that happened today: girl threw down her stuff right after this guy I had just rung up, and she looks at me and hurriedly said "We aren't married or together at all." and that was all. I just smiled and said ok while trying not to smile too much. It was crazy random. Also today I was loving all the "finals" purchases people were making. Let me just sum up 90% of what people bought today: candy and frozen dinners. I kid you not, I have not seen so much candy bought before. I love that I can just gage the stress level of people by what they buy. And boy were people stressin' today. So on to the rant section of today's entry. I have a few pet peeves, and will only cover a few right now. First off, green bags. They really are more of a pain than anything else because no one knows how to go about using them efficiently. I'll give an example of the perfect way to use your green bag, for all of those who might be wondering. At the conveyor belt, UNLOAD your green bag. That is basically all you need to do. But hardly anybody does. They usually do one of three things: (wow I'm using a lot of colons today) number 1. they pack everything in their bag and don't take it out once they get to the cashier. It is incredibly inconvenient and a huge pain. You have to take everything out of the bag, scan it, then put it back in. It takes forever. And is annoying to me and every other cashier ever. the second thing that people commonly do is unload their groceries from their green bag and hold onto the bag until everything is scanned, then realize and say oh, I have a green bag, and expect me to bad everything for them even though I am already done with their transaction. Also annoying. Third thing and probably the most annoying, people unload their stuff and instead of putting the bag on the other side of the counter, they hold it out to me. Right in front of my face, while I am already using my hands to scan things. They just hold it there, waiting for me to take it from them, all the while they could just move their arm 2 inches and put it where the groceries are. But that is just all to complicated it seems. So that is my rant about that. Second rant, cell phones. Don't talk on your cell while going through a line. It is super rude and we all hate it. Related to that, we are supposed to ask you how you are doing and whatnot, so when we say hello how are you today? and you just stare blankly it is more than obnoxious. We actually don;t care about you or your day, but we are supposed to pretend to be nice because it is our job. The least you can do is say fine thanks. Thats all. No life story needed. But for some a simple fine is too much to ask. Third rant, people who don't talk loud enough/expect me to read minds. You all may be surprised to know that cashiers ,in fact, are not able to read thoughts. Nor do we have super sonic hearing. Just today this girl came through and I was only have turned towards her because I was getting or doing something, and she practically whispered that she didn't want a bag. I didn't hear her completely and thought she was talking to her friend so it didn't register. As I bagged her item she a tiny bit louder said no bag, and stared at me like I was dumb. It was pretty cool. I love it when people treat me like an idiot when they are actually slightly incompetent for society and interactions with others. But instead of calling her out like I very much would have loved to, I just apologized and gave her her un-bagged item. Oh the many things I wish I could say to some people. I think that there should be a designated day for us to be able to say whatever we want. And I don't want to be rude just to be rude. Oh no. I completely appreciate those who have common sense and courtesy in public. But those who feel like they get to be rude to me because I work behind a register just need a little wake up call I think. Though will they ever get it? I doubt it. But a girl can dream right? speaking of dreams it is more than past time for me to get some sleep, hope you enjoyed today's rants!

tuesday, april 14th, 4:00pm - 8:00pm shift

So I had a number of weird things happen today. Right off the bat, as we were counting in (counting all the money in our drawers before we started) the song "Say What You Need to Say" by John Mayer was playing. I hate that song. But anyways, we went downstairs and the first customers I had were a girl buying some stuff and her strange guy friend. So she bought some laundry detergent and clorox or something, and it was pretty expensive. Not break the bank expensive just a little pricier than your average creamery visit. Well, the guy muttered into her ear, and I'm not sure if he wanted me to hear or not, that she was being ripped off. Whether that statement was meant for me to hear or not, I don't really care because it is a rip off and I am not deeply offended at comments against the store that I work at. I'm not that loyal. The girl replied to this that she knew and would go somewhere else but didn't have a car. "This is my life," she said, "this is how it is. I just feel like I would be such a better person if I had a car." (keep in mind that she just bought detergent at a kind of high price. She didn't kill someone or steal something) to this the guy replied, "Yeah, and I thought my life was bad. I mean my son tried to kill himself and I'm pretty sure your life is still worse." and he was dead serious! No sarcasm, nothing. It was way weird. So that was a good start to the day. The next weird occurrence was a Chinese woman and her 7 year old child. She woman asked her son something, I don't know what, and he either didn't know or answered wrong, and she burst out "DO YOU GO TO SCHOOL? BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!" Again, keep in mind that this little boy is about 7. She was buying some ground beef, and when I scanned it she saw the price and asked if it was 1.99 total or 1.99 per pound. I told her it was per pound and in my head asked her if she knew anything, just to get back at her for being so mean to her kid. Okay so next thing, let me just say something to all the guys out there, especially ones at BYU; so being able to speak another language is cool, and we girls will obviously respect that fact. BUT it does not make you the coolest guy around. At all. Especially since like 90% of boys on this campus can speak a foreign language. Okay that being said, these two guys that I could tell were going to be weird came through my line. They were speaking English all fine and dandy until I got to their items. Then, as if by some miracle, once they were right in front of me, they just switched over to some random language! I mean, wow. I was pretty throughly impressed. Except not really. I was actually more annoyed than anything at their lame attempt to be impressive. So those are my stories of the day. Enjoy.

random assortment of thoughts

I just got home from my weekly closing shift, and I'm pretty super excited because we close at 11 on weeknights now so I don't have to be there till 12:30 closing shop. But basically I decided instead of writing about something specific, I would just write about some random things today. Like this man that came through my line and was totally awkward. So it was pretty busy and from time to time I will get going pretty fast and forget to ask how the person is doing. This guy had one item and I quickly scanned it and checked him out etc etc. He took his time leaving though, and I started to check the next guy out and asked him how he was, and the man that I had just finished with somewhat indignantly said "Well you didn't ask me how I was doing." I didn't really know how to respond to that, it really caught me off guard. I just looked at him for a second and then asked "How are you doing today sir?" he laughed and said something then left, while my coworkers and all I laughed at how weird the encounter was. I mean, really. What a weird thing to do. I felt kinda bad too. So not only was he awkward, he made me feel bad. Who does this guy think he is? haha and he wasn't even some college student. College boys are usually pretty strange so I'm used to the weird things they do. But this guy was an adult, so it totally threw me off. Also I would like to comment that I was surprised by the high use of the little rubber dividing stick today. I was pretty proud of peoples' smart decisions to divide up their items as to not cause me frustration later. Another random thought; like a week or so ago I was staring out the window (one of my favorite bored-at-work pass times) and I saw the creepiest creeper van to date. It was big and dark purple, and on the window was written, "Help wanted: Reps from 13 to 19 years of age" and then a phone number. Nothin else. No logos, no business name or other descriptions of any kind. It was pretty much the best thing ever. Now I just wish that I had thought to write down the number and check it out. Oh well. I see some great things through that window. Like this lady that was probably six month pregnant jogging down the street. Seriously? I think this bothers me because I am lazy and out of shape but I mean come on, you are pregnant! This is your time to be lazy, random woman! Why are you physically exerting yourself? haha I had such a rant about it Julia told me I should chase her down and tell her. But She would probably out run me, even though she is carrying another person. Although with all my excess it could count as another person I bet. So there random pregnant woman, you may be able to beat me in a race but I don't even care. As of late one of my favorite things to watch out the window is that big bridal fair advertisement. It passes the creamery like 8 times in one shift. It cracks me up. This old man just drives it in circles around campus and Heritage in general. Where all the girls yeanin' to get married are. Good choice whoever owns that thing. Beat it into these girls' minds even more. Hopefully they'll all frantically go and get engaged pronto. That would be the ideal anyway. Alright well I'm digressing so, I'm done for the night. Until next time yous guys.

Cheese Curds.

I am still trying to decide how I want to go about doing this. I can't decide if I want to just blog after every shift or just whenever about random stuff. Until I get things figured out, I will just be bringing you some of my favorite rants that I have already from this semester of working. Today's topic: cheese curds. Until I started working at that store I had never heard of these cheese curds, also known as "squeaky cheese". One day early in the semester someone asked me if we were selling cheese curds and I, slightly confused, told them I didn't think so because I had never heard of anything like that. I asked one of my co-workers about it after and they told me that before the distributor was closed for remodeling they sold cheese curds. Okay so I'm sure you are wondering where I am going with all this random information about curds (whatever the heck that even is) of cheese. Here's the thing, people are obsessed with them. Obsessed. Someone storms in demanding cheese curds about every other shift. And recently we have started getting them in again so the harassment about them has somewhat abated, but not entirely. Just the other day a lady came up to me asking if I knew when we would be getting them in. Seeing as I really have no idea about when anything comes in, I just pretend like I know for customers, I told her I wasn't sure, but I didn't think it was on a regular basis. Which it's not. Cheese curds are a sporadic item of ours. But that wasn't good enough for her. She gave me a lovely look and rudely asked me if there were any way she could find out for sure. I then looked to my dear co-worker, Julia (who is going to show up in this quite a lot I'm sure) and asked her. Julia told her the same thing, and the lady, clearly exasperated, snidely asked if there were a number she could call to find out when we would have them. Julia asked if she wanted the number for this creamery, or-and she was about to say or the distributer creamery-but was rudely interrupted by the woman saying, through a laugh, "well, that is the number I would want to call here, right?" Needless to say Julia gave her the number and sent her on her way. Why was this woman so rude? Oh, because we didn't have any cheese curds on hand. Heaven almighty, what are we to do? And she wasn't even the only curd crazy person in there that day. Julia had a man come through that was asking about cheese curds like an addict who needed a heroine fix. This driving need for whatever curds are is very disturbing. So that's my soap box about that. People are obsessed with cheese curds, and its weird. the end.

numero uno.

So, I work at the Creamery on 9th, which is the basis for this entire blogging extravaganza. I have never done this before so bear with me in my blundering through this strange new world of self expression. But I digress (which will most definitely happen a lot in this blog). Today while I was working with some good friends of mine the idea popped up that we should write down all of our crazy and interesting experiences that we have with all our many lovely customers. So I will, in advance, apologize if anyone reads this and I make fun of something that you may do at the grocery store. No need to feel angry, embarrassed or sad, we all do dumb things at grocery stores. Even people who work at them and watch people make the same mistakes all day mess up. So that being said, people do really dumb, weird things sometimes. Especially at BYU. There is an interesting character or two on this campus. Word to the wise, singing while you are going through the checkout line is weird. Don't do it. In general full out singing while you are in public is kind of weird and I would avoid it. But that's just me. I wont go into specifics now because I am getting sleepy ( I know, its not even 1, but I have been feeling extra tired as of late), but soon I will be bringing you (whoever you are, whoever might be reading this, if anyone) stories of rants about cheese curds, people yapping on their cell phones, peoples' inability to find things right in front of them, and the general level of rude demeanor that people tend to have from time to time. I'm sure you're all very excited, I sure know I am.