Women's Conference

Every year BYU hosts a conference for all the LDS ladies around the world. Which is wonderful and such but it means that once a year for about 3 days campus is filled with an abundance of middle aged to elderly women. They are literally everywhere. They fill the Wilk at lunch time. And the swarm the Creamery late at night. And they all want brownies and ice cream and apples oddly enough. So Thursday I worked from 4 to close, which is 7 hours and it really wasn't that busy for the majority of the shift. And only one catty lady that I had to deal with. She misread the king size milky way label and was under the impression that it was 89 cents (which is ridiculous by the way, candy bars haven't been that cheap since the stone ages) Well when she found out that the candy bar was not that much, she decided that she didn't want it and shoved it back to me, rather rudely, while I was still in the process of giving her change. It threw me off for a second but then I put her change back and called the manager up to the front, since they are the only ones who can authorize exchanges. She just looked and me and then asked why she couldn't just have her ten back. I told her that I had to do the exchange first and needed a manager. She then gave me and indignant look and said "Do I really have to sit her and wait?" I really just wanted to tell her yes, yes you do just have to sit there and wait. But I didn't. Instead I just looked at her for a second and reluctantly gave her back her money and did the exchange later. So as rude as she was, I would like to acknowledge the fact that I am amazed that there weren't more rude women like that. So kudos ladies of Women's Conference 2010, the majority of you were not crotchety and unpleasant. This and my previous experiences with those who might be considered "elderly" have brought me to this conclusion: Old people are either really nice, or really mean. There isn't a middle ground really. They can either say something that is just so kind and tender and just make your day, or they can grouch at you and make you do unnecessary tasks for them. So for me, when it comes to the elderly, there isn't a whole lot of gray area. I either like em or they annoy me with their un-zest for life. Also around this time something happened that made me laugh. This 12 or so year old boy came in with his mother or grandmother or something and when asked about how he liked are sherbet he loudly went on about how he liked it so much and how since he, and he only, told the Creamery that he liked it so much and kept on requesting that is be made again, brought it back because of his insisting. He was very very proud of the obvious hold he had on all of us there. It made me laugh because it is a perfect example of how even the young seem to feel that we are there to wait on them hand and foot, and heed their every desire. I was just laughing as he left the store, still boasting of his persuasive prowess. Well that is it for tonight, until next time (which I promise will not be as long as it was last time).

Customs (I know, its been forever)

Ok so I know it has been over a week since I've posted anything new, and I know you have all just been waiting on the edge of your seats for some new stories, so, worry no more. I am going to do two right now, one for customs (I'll explain what that is) and one for Women's Conference. And unfortunately it has been a while so, the details aren't as fresh, but hopefully the stories will still be good. Customs is the time in between semesters, so the scheduling is kind of just a first come first serve type of thing and it is a really really crazy time because everyone's parents are in town and everyone is trying to use up all their meal plan money etc etc. So I have already talked about this a little, but it has bugged me so much that I am going to talk about it again. The Helaman Dinning plans, as I have said, do not work at the Creamery, and the other day a guy came through and told one of my co-workers that we were going to get sued if we didn't put a sign up saying they couldn't use their cards here. Really? Really angry parent of a stupid kid who can't read up on his own meal plan, must we turn to litigation for everything? do we really need to further that stereotype? And what an idiotic thing to say anyways. Obviously we wouldn't get sued for something like that. This is just another example of people assuming that since we work at a grocery store, we are dumb. And that we would feel threatened by some ruffled parent saying we could be sued. It was super annoying and bugged me for half my shift. Also that day we had a guy calling from somewhere out of state because he wanted some of our roasted almond fudge ice cream. Apparently it had been featured in some newspaper and now it was a hot commodity. So here is my thing about that: our ice cream is good, it is, but it is not that good. Not order it from out of state good. But I have had multiple people ask about having our ice cream shipped to them. Who would pay that much in shipping fees just to have BYU label ice cream? are we really that obsessed with this school? Yes, people are really obsessed with this school. Which explains most of their strange behaviors. Sometimes/ most of the time I think people just need to get over it. Ok moving on. I got a call like a week ago from someone trying to get the event information desk or something. I told him he had the wrong number and this was the Creamery on 9th. He told me he was looking for information about the Stadium of Fire. I told him we didn't have the number for info, but he still seemed to think that I would know if there were still tickets on sale. Because since I can answer a phone and work for some part of BYU I am knowledgeable about all of BYU's doings. Obviously. I just told him I had absolutely no idea about that and then laughed after I hung up the phone. Now some random rants that happened during customs but are just annoying in general. People being obsessive about discount meat. This one specific kid always comes in during the day, finds meat that expires the next day and then comes to the register and bugs us about if he can have it for half off. He has done it numerous times, and frankly it has begun to get on my nerves. And on the mangers' as well apparently, because they have stopped doing that for people, possibly because of his badgering. Thats just my own speculation though. another thing that you ALL need to pay attention to, because this has happened a lot lately and is really really obnoxious. When you come up to check out, please have everything you need then. Don't put your stuff down and then ask if you can run and go get something. Or not even ask and just disappear. It is really very rude, and it pisses other customers off. This guy did that the other day and a lady came up and looked at his stuff and was like where is this person? and I told her he was just grabbing something, but she just scooted his stuff over and started handing me her stuff. I hesitated for a second while she stared me down, holding out her groceries, but then the guy showed up and I told her that he was right there and she waited. Basically dont run off after you have come up. It just makes everything more awkward and complicated for me, and I'd like to avoid that as much as possible. Ok, thats it for this one, another post to come later one tonight.