Parking Debacle

Now I know it really has been a horrendously long time since my last post, and for that I am very sorry. It just seems that as I hit my two years at the Creamery mark this month, less and less that happens at the Creams surprises me or seems blog worthy. But as I worked my customary 4 to 8 pm grocery shift today, I found myself thinking, I should blog today. And gosh darn it I am going to. So here goes, my first Creamery post of the last year of our lives.

As some of you may or may not know/care, BYU has decided to start tearing down Heritage Halls this semester. Why they are doing it now instead of during the summer is information that is a much higher pay grade than my own, so I guess it will forever remain a mystery. But in any case, the Halls are being torn down and as a consequence the north parking lot of the Creamery is entirely fenced off. This has caused quite a bit of friction with our Creamery regulars, as they cannot seem to find anywhere else to park. Our south lot is really small and can't accommodate all the people we get on our usually busy evenings, so people are left looking for a place to park while they raid our store of all out milk and ice cream. They are justifiably annoyed at the situation, but they are unjustifiably con-fuddled about where they should park, because, not even 10 yards away, lies a massive parking lot. And I mean massive. It is huge, and is just across the street from the Creamery. It is a stones throw away literally, granted the thrower of this stone isn't a small child or a wuss. So because people can't seem to see this parking lot, or don't consider it an acceptable place to park, they come into the store and gripe and moan about how they fenced off that lot, and ask obnoxious questions like "Why have they put all those fences up? Where are we supposed to park? What are we supposed to do? How will our lives go without convenient parking at the Creamery?? TELL US NOW! SOLVE MY PROBLEMS FOR ME, PLEASE!" It is hard for me not to be rude about it and just be like, "See that GIANT parking lot, just across the street? yeah, that's where you park you half wits." Instead I just give them my fake sympathy smile and tell them how annoying I know it is and apologize profusely and then kindly direct them to the other lot. Usually they are like Oh! I didn't know I could park there! My parking problems are solved forever! Thanks kind Creamery cashier, you have really saved the day! But today, I had a woman come through and when I told her to park over in the other lot she said "Yeah but it is just so hard to carry my groceries across the street, especially all this milk. It is just really inconvenient." I said I was sorry and she walked away, but I mean come on, really? Have we gotten so lazy that walking across the street is really that much of a burden? And just because she, among many others, feels the need to buy ridiculous amounts of milk doesn't mean that she gets to complain about carrying them. I told her she could use a cart, as long as she brought it back, but she didn't seems to like the idea of walking an empty cart ALL the way back across the street. That would just be such a chore. So, until the construction is done (which, knowing BYU, could go on indefinitely) customers will have to face some very pressing trials and we at the Cream will have to put up with their whining about it. Man, I love this place, I don't know why I ever wanted to leave.