Why the weekend was fired

[tiamatlady]

Seriously, I've never been HAPPIER to go back to work.
It was bad.

Saturday wasn't so, especially since I got a visit from maudlinkitty and got some quality slack timeon the couch. However I was painfully aware that I had work to do, that I had to do it Sunday, and it sucked to think about. Plus I was wibbling on the idea of the camera.

I should have stayed wibbling.


Yeah, so I drove through puddles. One of em swamped my car.

Engine cut out. I didn't know the puddle was that deep, and I was behind an asshat who insisted on slowing down. If he hadn't I would have made it. I was S-M-R-T tho, and I have SOME of the right reactions. Like the instant I knew I had no power, I put the thing into Neutral, and glided a lot further than I had any right to glide. I ALMOST made it out of the puddle, but ended up having to hop out, to push. In knee deep water. *sighs* I get the car out of the puddle, go to get in, and find the door has RELOCKED itself. *Bangs head on car* So I get the thing pushed up effectively onto the sidewalk, out of the water, and remember, it's in N so since I couldn't put the brake on, I made sure it wasn't going to roll. I took shelter, from the now REALLY pouring rain, under the porch of some local BHWMF, who turnedout to be pushy, yet nice. They offered me a towel, their phone, a beer (miller light *GAGS*) and whatever assistance I needed. They didn't have any problem with me, they had MAJOR problems with the yahoos whom they tried to warn about the puddle, who went anyway and got STUCK (OMG, was that ever funny! The one that wasn't funny was the mother in the minivan and her 3 kids who were just around the corner from home. Also not funny was the VW who was stuck in the deepest part. She bailed out her car for ten solid minutes.)

Anyway, the rain slows down, and I'm all "everyone is out I have noway to call anyone, since I don't know ANYONE'S numbers." the rest of the fam went to Plymouth or some such nonsense. I didn't want to call them anyway, I didn't want to hear about how stupid I am. *le sigh* I went over to the car to look at it, knowing there was SOME way to get in. My door was locked and I was looking about the trunk when helper white hat said "Um, the rest of the doors are open." I hugged him. Literally!

so I got the car into park, got my keys, locked stuff up. I let the nice guy have my keys, in case the cops needed to move the car (he's a laywer for the Staties, I'm certain he's trustworthy) and walked to my house. Because I was DOWN THE DAMN STREET from my house. I changed, I was SOAKED totally, grabbed the extra keys JUST in case, and went back. Once the rain slowed down some, I was able to restart my car. it DOES NOT sound right, but I know it's because it was soaked. A few days of driving and better weather will make it OK.



Eventually.
After all this nonsense, I was starving. I ran my laundry, as I didn't want to just DRY my shorts, I didn't know where some of the water I was wading through had been, it could have been sewer water. So while I was doing that I was calling around to see if I could get delivery. Becuase, You know, I wanted THEM stuck in the puddle, and I wasn't taking my car annywhere. So I thought. I hadn't really eaten at all yesterday so my thinking wasn't very clear. I SHOULD have just gone next door, to Friendly's, but NO, I wanted PIZZA. I walked away from an IM convo with emarkienna to load my laundry in the dryer and and go out for a quick pizza. Which, due to my muddled state wasn't easy. places that looked open weren't. I passed open places because it wasn't PIZZA. I FINALLY ended up at Pizza Hut, which always makes me ill, but it was what I wanted. I also now have lunch for the next day or two. I was so bad off I got a two liter of Coke which I NEVER want to have in the house. I'm sure I gained an assload of weight last night. I'm still astonished at how exhausted I was, and how my mind just refused to work! I'm doing some shopping tonight, I intend on having a nice steak for dinner, with some mixed veggies. Maybe i'll get some rice or something, which I'm trying to avoid but I think I need a nice full meal.

i took SO LONG doing that, that my laundry was WAY done. The good thing is that I worked a lot of water out of the car's system. I was intending on going out several times, starting the engine, making sure things were OK, but this did better for me.



I DID buy the camera. despite it pouring at BJs and watching stupid auto tricks which prove Americans think they just own everything and everyone (and oddly enough everyone who tried this manover was in a giant truck or SUV, funny that!) They'd pull up to the front, block off the entrance, just to *insert action here. Either let someone off or want to load up their car without having to run through the rain* A manager was standing there yelling at everyone, and got a LOT of attitude. HELLO, You CAN'T block the door! for ANY reason! it's a safety thing. People were walking up to the door with carts full of stuff and wanted to stand JUST inside, blocking everyone and everything, for their comfort. Personally I'd have let them all fight it out, who should stand where. I waited as long as i could, then wrapped my camera in my coaty thing, and ran for it.

I'll never wear those particular sandals again I think. Every time I do it's bad. Let's not mention how they like to slip off while I'm walking, or something.

I can't return the camera either, if common sense takes a hold of me. The box was soaked. NOT the camera or anything inside, just the box.




*note to the non-local* MA did a tax free weekend last weekend. As in anything you bought was not subject to sales tax. There's a limit to how much the item could cost. You couldn't buy a car last weekend and not pay tax. NY state does the same thing sometimes. The stores were PACKED as people made the big purchases, so to save some money. I saved $15. Whoo hoo! (/sarcasm)

And i can't even REALLY complain, since I got the camera.
From experience, I know that at BJ's, for an expensive item, you go to the service desk.
So I walk up to the desk, the woman does her DAMNDEST to ignore me. She'd seen me walk up, but I guess if you don't have to look at me, I'm not there.
I don't go away, tho, and finally she begrugingly says "Can I help you?"
I tell her EXACTLY what I want, I Also tell her she might have trouble finding it, and I'm OK if she doesn't have any.
She tells me "You know, it IS a tax free weekend, I don't know WHAT we have."
Me: "......"
I'm thinking, WHY the fuck would I be here for a camera if I DIDN'T know it was tax free weekend?
Seriously, she repeated it several times. Like I was an idiot. That WHY should i expect they'll have something in STOCK, becuase it was a busy weekend. I don't care WHAT weekend it's in. Asshat.

Anyway, she looks, gets distracted with a conversation, looks again, has to go ask someone, can't find it in the computer, asks me 8 times what I wanted again, went out to the floor to check if they actually carried the item (they do, I know becuase I'D ALREADY CHECKED) came back and asks me for my credit card.

WHOA NELLIE! WTF is up with that? If you don't have it, I'm going else where! "Ma'am" she says exasperatedly "we HAVE it, I said so" (Oh NO you didn't say so!) "Its out in a cage on the floor for easier access, so you could see what we have. It IS tax free weekend you know!" So basically it was MY fault for being so stupid to not know they were in a cage on the floor. Since SHE didn't know this herself, I don't think _I_ should be at fault here. THEN I get to wait around while she finds a manager to open said cage.

I should get a reward for NOT belting her with my new camera. She was very very STUPID and condesending. But, since she wasn't actually rude, or dismissive (overly) AND I got what I wanted I don't really have a leg to stand on. I mean what do I say to her manager? I didn't like her tone? I THINK she ignored me? That's like when I was reprimanded for saying "Yes Maam" because the customer thought I was being flip, when in reality I was just tired and distracted. I almost quit that night, since the manager obviously didn't like me and relished the reprimand. He got his tho - the cash manager found me crying, THEY liked me (I was their best cashier) went to bat for me saying OBVIOUSLY the customer was in a snit since this never happened, and was pissed at that manager for weeks. I hope he enjoyed it, because he had to answer for it once UPPER upper management heard about it. *snicker*

So yeah I got my camera, and a serious case of I never want to deal with the service desk again.


And now I'm at work and should be. It's slow today and I'm scared of the whys of that.