addendum to EFY

so I forgot a crucial EFY story. My first day with the kids, These boys came through and their total was $1.69. One of the boys turned to the other and said "Hey, guys look, 69. ha ha" Then they proceeded to high five one another and laugh at how funny the number 69 is. I guess I've never been a teenage boy, so I was less than impressed. Mostly it was just funny because as far as EFY boys go, its the number 69 in any context = much high fiving. and thats all I needed to add. In this addendum.

EFY

So as I'm sure all of you know, BYU hosts an event called Especially For Youth, a summer camp type of thing where kids from the ages of like, 14 or 12 or something to like 18. The majority of the kids that go are probably between the ages of 14 and 17. My least favorite age of kids. So I was not excited for EFY to start, needless to say, because it would mean swarms of hormonal, adolescent kids roaming around, being awkward and trying to understand the feelings of sexual tension they were having for each other. Annoying. And the first day of EFY, I walked into the Creamery for my shift and the place was filled with kids. Backed up all the way to the door. I had to fight my way to the back to clock in. It only gets like that during their breaks though, and one of their breaks is during like half of my shift. So I have had some interesting interaction. The other day, this one kid came through my line 3 different times, the second time he called me by my name (due to the name tag) and then wagged his little name badge thing as he was walking off and "smoothly" said, "oh, I'm Nick" (I think it was Nick at least..) and the third time he came through, as he left he asked me when I got off. Cool. Then said something about maybe seeing me. This kid was honestly about 15, maybe 16. Gross. So that was my first interesting experience. Then today, this girl came through and bought some Bubble tape gum, and after she bought it she picked it up, looked at her friends and said(and I quote), "I got bubble tape, bubble tape ok? we are going to party tonight guys!" I had to keep from laughing in her face. Then, right after that, there were two other little EFY girls, and a 24 year old guy behind them, rather creepily asked them if they were in EFY, and if they were liking it, and if they had met any cute guys. So this guy had caught my attention already, then when he came through my line, he looked at me and asked me how much was the most pizza I have ever eaten. What? Really? Is that really what you want to know? You creeper. Which is what he was. Then, to top it all off, he wanted to give me change after I had already entered his amount and it was super annoying. Then, this group of kids saw that the conveyor belt went around in circles. So, in order to demonstrate their capacity for immature obnoxiousness, they put their items allllll they way at the back where I couldn't reach them, so I had to push the button to make it move forever, since my belt is broken, while they laughed and carried on about how cool mechanized grocery store machinery is. I was pretty tired today as well, so when they did that I had to put on my best fake voice/smile and ask them if they enjoyed watching that conveyor belt move. They didn;t pick up on my sarcasm, obviously. They were too distracted by their rotating items. Well thats all the stories I have more now.

catch up blog

It really has been forever this time, and I know you are all just waiting on me to blog again, so I decided that I should finally do another post. Its going to be really random, and I will probably have to do more posts making up what I forget in this one, because this is just all from memory. So lets see, weird things that have happened to me in the last month or so; Well I did have this one guy come through and buy a few things, and as I was finishing up his order, he asked me why we didn't have any coffee or anything here. In my head I already knew that this was going to be an awkward discussion. I decided to just tell him that BYU didn't have any caffeine on campus, but of course he asked why, so I told him that Mormons didn't drink caffeine. He then laughed and said "Well, Jesus didn't say we weren't allowed to drink caffeine". I didn't know how to respond so I just smiled and said "I know" and handed him his receipt. He wasn't being mean or anything about it, but I know he was wanting to provoke me into some kind of discussion about it. Too bad for him I like my Dr. Pepper too much to disown caffeine in its entirety. Another funny experience I had, and possibly one of the funniest I've had, was with these two older women. It was a day that I had been fighting off the tail end of a cold and was very sniffly and stuffy sounding. These two women started to come through my line but as soon as they heard me talk hesitated, and one looked and me and asked me if I had a cold. I told her that I did, not thinking anything of it, but then she asked me, with a worried look on her face, if I could have another cashier come check her out, because she didn't want me and my malicious cold give her any trouble, her reason being heart problems. She actually told me that she didn't want to come near me and my cold because of heart problems. I didn't know that having a cold could really do anything to your heart, but I mean she was old and I'm not a doctor, what do I know. So I ended up having to call someone else up to help her while I just stood there trying not to laugh. Well just those two stories for now, I'll have an Efy post coming soon. Until then, keep it real all of you lovely people that read this.