It seems I'm STILL being punished by my higher brain for seeing Lady in the Water. Last night I dreamt a sort of rehash of the story, using the cast of Happy Days, the Gravelings from Dead Like Me, and the setting of a Sara Douglas novel. Then I dreamt up a new musical opening for The Cosby Show. Maybe my brain is also punishing me for almost two decades of Nick at Night?
Today I was torn between giving my two weeks notice and smashing my manager in the face with a Bedazzler (craft stores stock the best blunt objects
). Sadly I did neither. I have to secure a new job first. Grrr.
Usual customer rants:
If you can't do math, don't lecture cashiers on...math. A lady was all huffy because a book that was normally $60 was priced at $23.99 and marked '60% off''. "That's the price it would be if the book was originally $100. You better tell your manager. That's false advertising." M'kay, time for a math lesson: 60% off a $100 item would be...$40. Here's a hint--subtract by HALF, and you'll at least be in the right ballpark. Morons. And these short-bus riders then make snide remarks about cashiers being too stupid to do math.
9 times out of 10, if you think something is 'false advertising', it's because you are a moron with nonexistent reading comprehension skills.
Oh, and my polite-human to crass-white-trash ratio was pretty bad today. I had eighty-five customers. I'd say just under thirty actually knew the civilized response to, "Hi, how are you today?" For the record, acceptable responses do not include: grunting, shoving an item in your cashier's face and demanding the price, ignoring the question, or not hearing it because you were yapping on the cell phone.
One of the reasons I want to be a writer is that is severely reduces the amount of human interaction I'm forced to endure...
Today I was torn between giving my two weeks notice and smashing my manager in the face with a Bedazzler (craft stores stock the best blunt objects
). Sadly I did neither. I have to secure a new job first. Grrr.
Usual customer rants:
If you can't do math, don't lecture cashiers on...math. A lady was all huffy because a book that was normally $60 was priced at $23.99 and marked '60% off''. "That's the price it would be if the book was originally $100. You better tell your manager. That's false advertising." M'kay, time for a math lesson: 60% off a $100 item would be...$40. Here's a hint--subtract by HALF, and you'll at least be in the right ballpark. Morons. And these short-bus riders then make snide remarks about cashiers being too stupid to do math.
9 times out of 10, if you think something is 'false advertising', it's because you are a moron with nonexistent reading comprehension skills.
Oh, and my polite-human to crass-white-trash ratio was pretty bad today. I had eighty-five customers. I'd say just under thirty actually knew the civilized response to, "Hi, how are you today?" For the record, acceptable responses do not include: grunting, shoving an item in your cashier's face and demanding the price, ignoring the question, or not hearing it because you were yapping on the cell phone.
One of the reasons I want to be a writer is that is severely reduces the amount of human interaction I'm forced to endure...
Sorry you had such a bad day, tomorrow is always another opportunity to use a blunt object on a higher authority.