Long Overdue

Apparently the lack of commitment I possess does not fade away in the summer - if anything, it's heightened. So, I've been slow to blog. Better late than never though, right?

Worked two shifts since the last post (and went down to sit for one). Can't remember much to be honest.

Good moments:
- NAME TAGS CAME IN
- Colouring and drawing, and having a man ask "summer job, eh?"
- Man who hooked his son in on his plastic bike
- Webcam photos
- Lady proclaims she is a foreigner while asking for help to sort change
- WAFFLES (Betty is a beauty)
- 6 month old puppy that I wanted to steal

Less than glorious:
- Our prices are up again because of HST
- Lady asks about all our products, show her all the labels, and she decides she wants nothing. NOTHING
- The crows have multiplied

I'm boring, I know. Until next time,
vrroom.

The Names Potter, Harry Potter.

At work yesterday I saw Harry Potter. Not the Daniel Radcliffe kind but the legit "you could so be a real life Harry Potter with your messy brown hair, glasses and English accent" kind. This boy truly looked and sounded like Harry Potter I was just waiting for him to "wingardrium leviosa" his food and take it to the beach on his Nimbus 2000.

Making it an even sweeter deal, he was there with his friend. Who also happened to be English, had pale freckled skin and red hair. Need I say anything more?

Take me, take me to Platform 9 3/4.

XXX

Realization

Today I realized at work we are provided with one ply toilet paper.

Thankyou city, for being cheap.

XXX

Please, Use the ENTIRE Roll

So I'm going to take a post to go completely off beach topic.

I have many pet peeves but one quite possibly at the top of that list is ONE PLY TOILET PAPER.

I truly do not see the point of having (or in most cases providing) the one ply in any bathroom. In every aspect, it sucks. Yes, it may be cheap but then you have to use so much of it to avoid rippage that it cancels out the money you save in the first place. It's time consuming and messy.

Not to mention chafes like a .....

I think I can speak for everyone, guys and girls alike, who have wound the paper around their hand multiple times to create a remotely appropriate thickness for wiping - Malls, restaurants, public places please just go up a ply.

Wipe on people, wipe on.

XXX

WILL WORK FOR MONEY

If it doesn't stop raining I'm going to stand on a road with a sign and a hat.

Or maybe I'll squeegee car windows, at least the water will be free.

Life truly sucks when the weather depicts your work schedule.

Today I very optimistically looked at my Macbook "Dashboard" app in hopes of seeing SUN icons on my weather widgets. [For those Mac deficient folk out there (you poor unfortunate souls..) I'll photo you up, down below, with a weather widget.]

Optimism be damned.

There are some suns.. but other weather sites say all rain.

So widget, I'm calling your bullshit.

NO SUN, means NO WORK. Translating to NO MONEY.

Meanwhile, like my bank account, I am wasting away ridiculously addicted to feeding the fish in the lower right hand corner of this very screen.

On the market for a squeegee,

XXX

Make a wish, feed the fish.

Oh, But It Is

Today was painfully slow. We did a total of around 38 transactions. I mean, I can't complain because I got to eat omelettes and chips and listen to music all day. However, it is a little mind-numbing when you come across an average of 6 & 1/3 of a person each hour. To add to that, it was absolutely freezing. I had the heater going full blast and spent half the day attached to the bun warmer.

I had quite the encounter today though (even with only 38 people). I mean, the man actually didn't even count towards that number. So here it goes ...

A man steps up to the counter and I am secretly excited. He orders three drinks (all bottled) and my co-worker punches it into the machine. I noticed she charged him for a large instead of a small and when she tells him the price and he says "no way" I quickly go to fix it. I then tell him the total (I believe it came to about $8.65). He then proceeds to say that it shouldn't cost that much. I explain that each of our bottled drinks costs $2.95 and he responds with "OH, NO THEY DON'T". He then walks away exclaiming that he will not pay that much for a drink.

But sir, they do cost that much.

Just because you are not purchasing them does not mean that the price will suddenly drop. You can't bargain at a concession stand. Besides, we don't set the prices, the city of Vancouver does. I wish they were cheaper too. I think it is ridiculous as well, but you could have also kindly declined.

It's sad that we get blamed for the incredibly unreasonable prices. I mean, you're at the beach - what did you expect?

Signing out,
vrroom

An Ode

This post is going to be short and sweet - it goes out to all you considerate beach dwellers out there.

I want to say thank you to the lady who cleaned off the counter herself when her dog hopped up onto the counter, it's people like you that deserve more recognition.

Yours truly,
vrroom