Today was the start of our yard sale and I got up
late from going to bed late from a particularly enjoyable
conversation with Jamie. ;)
Bro. Steve came over and dropped off a trailer-full of stuff for
the sale. Bro. Jim and Ashley brought stuff, too. I helped Bro. Steve
set up a canopy thing for the person with the money to sit.
I had to go to work, however, something that turned out to be
terrible. I got there and the carts were like half-full. I clocked
in and started immediately. It was hot and not once was I able to
even fill the carts inside once. Once it was time for my lunch, which was pizza (7 slices, wow), the parking lot looked worse. They
actually were almost out of carts. I brought them in as fast as I
could but couldn't even get more than 2 of the 3 rows full and was
constantly filling up the same row. By the time I took my last
break, I had come out even, exactly how it looked when I got off
lunch 2 hours ago. After my break, however, I could find no
significant amount of carts outside except on the garden side of the
store, so I took off for there. I hadn't been able to touch the
carts over there all day and I made my way from there toward the
front, putting carts where they are stored on the garden side before
bringing them to the front. As little moving from there all the way
to the front I could manage, the better. Once all the spots were
full, I started bringing them to the front and found that they were
completely empty and Travis on overnight maintanence was pushing
some carts inside (he got hired on the same day I did). He came over
to me and sounded upset, saying they were paging me repeatedly
inside to get carts since they were running out and at first I
thought he was upset at me but it turned out he was mad because all
they did was page me while I'm "out here working my ass off" (as he
said) and no one is coming to help me. He said he took it on himself
to come help me since everyone inside was just being stupid (and a
lot of other cuss words he described them as). Well, Christina came
to help, too. Her brother, Support Manager Chris, called her because
he was leaving and said he had said everyone can go. I stayed and
finished the carts like I always do. At least I wasn't really tired
or irritated. I had the song "Feeling Good" by Muse stuck in my head
the whole time.