March 9, 2004 - Tuesday
4:15.
I've been here since two, actually to be honest on all accounts, I really started at 2:15 - hee. Now who is a dirty bird?
So it dawned on me today as I was bagging an ungodly huge order - that I cannot fold. Even when I try to it all comes out wrong. Maybe its a subconscience thing. Perhaps I do it unknowingly, in anycase everything gets stuffed, jumbled up and thrown in, usually with the wrong sized bag. It is at that point of the sale in which I start getting the " look " the evervescent glare. Horrified consumers look at me with disgust, all I can do is give them a blinky blink look, try to smile and stutter a goodbye.You come on my line, we follow my rules. This blinky blink sales girl has her own set of rules.
bling bling.
4:51. 5 1/2 hours left minus a half hour lunch and another 15 minute break. Life is good today. Despite the customers.. which if you ask me opinion should all go home. Then I could crawl and hide underneath my register and write. Maybe I should just crawl underneath now.. save the trouble of bothering the customers with my skilled bagging tecnique.
6:57. My sugar has been dropping, dropping, dropped. I am in need of sugar. Excuse me Mr. Manager Sir, please sir. If you dont mind I am dying a slow death over here. So if you dont mind, I need a bit of a break. I would hate to be lying in a pool of my own gelatinous drool. All because I needed just the teeniest morsal of brown sugar. We wouldn't want that, Believe me we wouldn't want that.
7:44. In case anyone was wondering, I did just get a break. No buckets needed for drool leakage. Boredom is setting in, I hate working this shift. I am not challanged, writing this journal and working out physics problems is my saving grace from working this retail from hell job. How geeky is that? God forbid if anyone found out.. Riddle me this batman..A train is moving towards a destroyed bridge.
The velocity of the train remains constant at 20m/s. A person inside the train realizes that they will die unless they run to the back of the train and jump out. If the person is 15m from the back of the train and the back of the train is 50m from the break in the track, what velocity must the person run with to make it to the back of the train just as the back of the train goes over the break in the bridge...sorry?
