[10:43 PM]

Just One Of Those Days

Current Song: Tired
Current Mood: After All - Delerium

It's just been one of those days...

Point #1:
The ladies' bathroom was closed at my work cause the doorhandle on the inside of the restroom had broken off.The door itself wasn't locked, but simply had a sign that read in very big letters
"DO NOT ENTER
THIS RESTROOM IS BROKEN
WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCENow the part that confuses me is not that people kept using the bathroom (completely disregarding the sign). What confuses me is that my managers took no extra action other than the sign. They didn't leave any way for someone to get out if they did happen to get in, so that people getting trapped in there. I walked by once and had to free a trapped little girl who couldn't read the sign (or maybe she could've if she had cared to, but regardless the entire "bathroom is closed" thing was new to her)

Point #2
I was at the cash registers about half an hour before close and a man walked up with about 60$ in books. He set them down on the counter, then stared angerly as I rung them up (he seemd very busy). After that was done, he handed me his unsigned american express and continued to stare angerly. I asked for his ID and he threw his hands up in frustration.
"no no," I said, trying best to placate him. "it's just that your card isn't signed, and I need some way to verify who owns the card"
He growled at me "It's in the car, what do you want me to do?"
"well," I said, still trying to be positive. "If you want, I can just go ahead and hold onto these while you run and get it."
This cause him to stare angerly at his watch, then back at me. Finally he said, "Whatever." But didn't do anything else.
"I just can't take the card unless it's signed." I said. "That's their policy."
"I've never done this before," he replied. "I've used the card and never have done this."
"Well..." I said, realizing only now that he was probably foreign, but I'm pretty sure credit card companies have the same anti-theft policies elsewhere... "If you want I can call a manager."
"Yeah, do...I'm just trying to buy these books and apperantly it's all up to you."
So I called the manager over and she explained exactly the same thing I had, using almost the exact words, finally she said "but if you want we can put them on hold..."
"Fine, do that. I'll come back tomarrow." And with that he started out. The manager scrambled and said "wait, I need your name."
I don't think he was taking us seriously.

Point #3
I was walking through the book floor when this hick stopped me, pointed at our current affairs table, and said, "Look, could you set up a table that's any more anti-Bush?" I started to reply with the company's excuse about publishers putting out the liberal stuff now and the conservative stuff later and he shouted me down in about two words saying, "just look at this!" he picked up a bill clinton book labled "the definition of is" which has to be the least clinton-friendly book we hand sand said, "This must've happened years ago" even though the book itself looked to be new. Realizing that I wasn't talking to a human but an irate angry hick-monkey, I turned to walk away. He laughed at me departing, thinking I was so crushed by his very persuasive arguement that we're all a bunch of liberal bastards here at the local bookstore...

should I go on? eight hours of this. I went through eight hours of silliness, absurdity, insults, and nonsense... nothing prepared me for the messed up day I had...and now I get to hurry of to bed to do the entire thing again tomarrow, rapture!

blah, night all