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.