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December 19, 2005
I am an angry person
I hate that I always seem to be in a pissy mood. But then I just stay in a pissy mood.
This morning, I stopped at Panera Bread for a bagel and a caffe mocha. Normally, I just would have had water with the bagel, but it was cold this morning and I wanted a hot drink and one with caffiene in it that didn't taste too coffee-y. Anyway, as I was going in to my store, I set my cup on the floor. It tipped over. Normally only a little would have spilled out. But because the girl at Panera Bread didn't put the lid on all the way, almost the while thing spilled out.
So I started cleaning it up. One old woman (mall walker) stops in front of the store. "Oh what a shame. You spilled all your hot chocolate. And it looks so good."
Not even a minute later, another one stopped and said the same thing. In my head I said "If one more fucking person tells me that it is a shame that I spilled my drink, I am going to kill them!"
Luckily for the older mall walker population, I got the rest of my drink cleaned up pretty quickly.
However, when I took the trash out I got pissy again. See, at the mall, we put things in a trash compactor. Only about 75% of the stores don't actually compact their trash. It takes less than TEN SECONDS to walk behind the thing and push the button. Then you can just walk away. But no, today, Franklin Covey had thrown in a lot of boxes and didn't compact them. Yeah, I know it's cold outside. It was even colder for me since I had to compact THEIR trash before I could even get mine in there.
On the plus side, I had a surprisingly cheery day. It turns out that faking niceness to your customers actually makes you feel somewhat happy. Who knew?
Posted by shmecky at 10:21 PM | Comments (1)