Friday, May 26, 2006
Too much
There is just way too much going on in my life right now. A lot of it I won't go into, because it's too close, and too personal still. Let's just say I'm going through a very challenging time in my life, and feeling pretty overwhelmed.
On a lighter note...I'm looking forward to seeing Mom and Dad again on Wednesday. I'm looking forward to getting my insurance cards, so I can go to the doctor and the dentist. I'm looking forward to seeing Sarah again sometime soon. I'm looking foward to finding out where my home store will be (the Wendy's I'll end up staying at). I'm looking forward to taking my ops test and proving that I am not totally incompetent. I'm looking forward to not being in position all the time and not having to work with people who have seen me struggling to do the stuff that they do every day.
Because I know I haven't really written anything lighthearted in a while, I thought I'd throw in a random potpourri of funny/odd Wendy's stories...
There was a customer who came through the drive-thru and I smelled something funny. It turned out to be a stick of incense burning in his ashtray....
A bunch of the male employees have these weird not-quite-vampire fake gold teeth with pointy incisors that they wear on their front four top teeth. It makes them talk funny, and I am quietly amused...One of my coworkers is forever calling everyone either "cousin" (/cuz) or "nephew" (/phew) for reasons that I do not entirely comprehend...
A lady came in and asked for an ice water w/ lemon today. She said it was all she could afford. I said I knew the feeling. She said she didn't think anybody really did. Apparently she's homeless. Doh. Hannah=chagrined/speechless...
A customer ordered 15 jr bacon cheeseburgers in the DT, then got upset when there was a wait (for meat to cook). She wanted to know "what the hold-up was"...
My current manager is pretty religious, and she objects to any profanity/obscenity, no matter how mild, even when customers are nowhere within earshot. One of the employees started complaining about a lame-ass something-or-other and the manager turned to look at her so she immediately changed it to "lame-behind"...
The first day I set up the line by myself (which involves making tea) one of the coworkers with whom I get along pretty well drank some of it, and said "This is good tea, Hannah," and then right when I was getting ready to say thank you, she added, "I didn't think it would be, but it is," and I felt a little deflated...
How is it possible to stand in line for fifteen minutes and still not have given any thought to what you're going to order? It seems ridiculous, but people do it everyday...
Also, why would you order a small fry when a medium is easily twice the size, but only 4 cents more (it's on the 99 cent super value menu)? And it's not like the prices aren't RIGHT UP THERE on the menu board. Duh...
Anyway, enough stupidity for today. Happy weekend, everybody!
On a lighter note...I'm looking forward to seeing Mom and Dad again on Wednesday. I'm looking forward to getting my insurance cards, so I can go to the doctor and the dentist. I'm looking forward to seeing Sarah again sometime soon. I'm looking foward to finding out where my home store will be (the Wendy's I'll end up staying at). I'm looking forward to taking my ops test and proving that I am not totally incompetent. I'm looking forward to not being in position all the time and not having to work with people who have seen me struggling to do the stuff that they do every day.
Because I know I haven't really written anything lighthearted in a while, I thought I'd throw in a random potpourri of funny/odd Wendy's stories...
There was a customer who came through the drive-thru and I smelled something funny. It turned out to be a stick of incense burning in his ashtray....
A bunch of the male employees have these weird not-quite-vampire fake gold teeth with pointy incisors that they wear on their front four top teeth. It makes them talk funny, and I am quietly amused...One of my coworkers is forever calling everyone either "cousin" (/cuz) or "nephew" (/phew) for reasons that I do not entirely comprehend...
A lady came in and asked for an ice water w/ lemon today. She said it was all she could afford. I said I knew the feeling. She said she didn't think anybody really did. Apparently she's homeless. Doh. Hannah=chagrined/speechless...
A customer ordered 15 jr bacon cheeseburgers in the DT, then got upset when there was a wait (for meat to cook). She wanted to know "what the hold-up was"...
My current manager is pretty religious, and she objects to any profanity/obscenity, no matter how mild, even when customers are nowhere within earshot. One of the employees started complaining about a lame-ass something-or-other and the manager turned to look at her so she immediately changed it to "lame-behind"...
The first day I set up the line by myself (which involves making tea) one of the coworkers with whom I get along pretty well drank some of it, and said "This is good tea, Hannah," and then right when I was getting ready to say thank you, she added, "I didn't think it would be, but it is," and I felt a little deflated...
How is it possible to stand in line for fifteen minutes and still not have given any thought to what you're going to order? It seems ridiculous, but people do it everyday...
Also, why would you order a small fry when a medium is easily twice the size, but only 4 cents more (it's on the 99 cent super value menu)? And it's not like the prices aren't RIGHT UP THERE on the menu board. Duh...
Anyway, enough stupidity for today. Happy weekend, everybody!
