I have to put up, as I have done for the week leading up to VD, with guys walking around with flowers and chocolates, and being all loved up - as it's the only time they have to make a public display of emotions to prove that they feel something for their other half, when the rest of the year they can't be bothered to make an effort, or spend their time yelling and screaming and stagnating.
Sod it, I'm going to spread my affections around my friends, at least I know that they're there for me all the year...
fuck valentines day i just got off work now i'm going to take 2 double shots of tequila and go pass the fuck out till its time to get up and go to work
I'm already AT work and I'll be back tonight to check drunk, horny, couples into my hotel so that they can go upstairs and do things that would make any sane person never want to stay in a hotel again.
and I guarantee you, we'll wash the sheets, but not the blankets or bedspread for another month.
I'll be lazing around alone for most of the day. Then I have a show to work tonight. Then...probably going to bed early because I have to get up early tomorrow. Lame...
I think I'll celebrate tomorrow by buying all the chocolate that's on sale. Not only am I single but I'm also a cheap bastard. Today I'll just sit around and sneer at Valentine's Day.
YAWG said:
I think I'll celebrate tomorrow by buying all the chocolate that's on sale. Not only am I single but I'm also a cheap bastard. Today I'll just sit around and sneer at Valentine's Day.
And I join you in your sneer fest.(as close to these available emoticons can come to a sneer anyway.0
I went to the mall today and it's just full of guys frantically trying to find gifts. the godiva chocolate store had a zig zagged velvet rope outside full of guys in line looking very distressed. I feel so badly for people who know they will get in trouble for not having read their SO's minds and bought the PERFECT GIFT.
I bought myself a flower and decided to give it to my mom in addition to hers. but happy valentine's anyway.
oh and to give you an idea of any time before any holiday.. here is what happened at work YESTERDAY. worse than christmas, i tell you.
it was very, very odd, and i had to make a list of every odd thing that happened so i could remember them all.
first off, we have these pens that we sell. theyre up at the registers, so every assholew pickes them up and looks at them "oooh ahh! " the pen is clear and the hadle is filled with water, with this little see through... thing in it. like a goldfish, or a dolphin.. or a heart. and theyre so stupid loooking and i tried one out and i didnt even hold it by the water part, so its defective to me. anyway everyone was obsessing about these stupid pens. the worst part is that the pens are $9.95..NINE NINETY FUCKING FIVE!!! and some people actually bought them.
now, not only was it hectic at work yesterday, it was really packed. the line never seemed to end, nor the requests for gift wrapping, which usually ended in " how come you guys dont have any VALENTINES DAY PAPER?! " wha wha wha, youre getting someone else to wrap a gift for you, and they HAVE to do it, because youre too lazy. so shut the fuck up.
and then there was a guy making a racial issue out of our selection of valentines day cards, saying they were only for " one kind of person. " i didnt know they HAD holiday cards that said " hey youre black! have a good holiday! " or " HAPPY BLACK VALENTINES DAY! " fuck man, we dont have race related holiday cards. how could we! we suck. [ i really had NO idea that holiday cards could come race specific. ]
then i had a dude who wanted to return a book without a receipt [ do - able ] except that he didnt have any ID with him which is required. so i told him we couldnt take his book back, and just like i expected, he asked to talk to the same manager that told me that we couldnt take the book back on the phone. but then another manager person was there so i just asked her since she was close and she let him do it " but just this once. " i really hate it when managers let customers get away with anything, they really shouldnt. especially when i just said the opposite. humbug.
since it was so crowded and busy, the line was pretty long most of the day. at one point this lady walked into the front door and right up to the line near my register ] she, like many others, must not have realized that the line extended much far back than where she cared to look. ] and when she did finally realize how busy we were, she threw her hands up and yelled " I ONLY HAVE FIVE MINUTES TO WAIT@!!!@ I CANT WAIT IN THIS LINE !!11 ILL HAVE TO COME BACK LATER!! THIS IS REDICULOUS! " i really wanted to laugh in her face, bu she probably would have punched me. bah. rediculous indeed. its funny how the oldest people seem to forget theyre old and act like children.
then later that evening, we had a dude with alzheimers come into the store looking for cabaret, and claiming he had put it on hold. i was able to avoid contact with him until right at the end, when i had to ring him up. i rung the dvd through and told him his total, and he asked for a recepeit from there on. i told him hed have to pay before the recepit would print, and he called me a liar. then he called me a liar over the price of the dvd, which was marked as $14.99 but then the tax came and that upset him a lot. he didnt understand why the price on the dvd was different than the price in the computer. i tried to explain it to him and he just called me a liar loudly and walked away. whatever, the man was sick. just.. whatever.
oh and to give you an idea of any time before any holiday.. here is what happened at work YESTERDAY. worse than christmas, i tell you.
it was very, very odd, and i had to make a list of every odd thing that happened so i could remember them all.
first off, we have these pens that we sell. theyre up at the registers, so every assholew pickes them up and looks at them "oooh ahh! " the pen is clear and the hadle is filled with water, with this little see through... thing in it. like a goldfish, or a dolphin.. or a heart. and theyre so stupid loooking and i tried one out and i didnt even hold it by the water part, so its defective to me. anyway everyone was obsessing about these stupid pens. the worst part is that the pens are $9.95..NINE NINETY FUCKING FIVE!!! and some people actually bought them.
now, not only was it hectic at work yesterday, it was really packed. the line never seemed to end, nor the requests for gift wrapping, which usually ended in " how come you guys dont have any VALENTINES DAY PAPER?! " wha wha wha, youre getting someone else to wrap a gift for you, and they HAVE to do it, because youre too lazy. so shut the fuck up.
and then there was a guy making a racial issue out of our selection of valentines day cards, saying they were only for " one kind of person. " i didnt know they HAD holiday cards that said " hey youre black! have a good holiday! " or " HAPPY BLACK VALENTINES DAY! " fuck man, we dont have race related holiday cards. how could we! we suck. [ i really had NO idea that holiday cards could come race specific. ]
then i had a dude who wanted to return a book without a receipt [ do - able ] except that he didnt have any ID with him which is required. so i told him we couldnt take his book back, and just like i expected, he asked to talk to the same manager that told me that we couldnt take the book back on the phone. but then another manager person was there so i just asked her since she was close and she let him do it " but just this once. " i really hate it when managers let customers get away with anything, they really shouldnt. especially when i just said the opposite. humbug.
since it was so crowded and busy, the line was pretty long most of the day. at one point this lady walked into the front door and right up to the line near my register ] she, like many others, must not have realized that the line extended much far back than where she cared to look. ] and when she did finally realize how busy we were, she threw her hands up and yelled " I ONLY HAVE FIVE MINUTES TO WAIT@!!!@ I CANT WAIT IN THIS LINE !!11 ILL HAVE TO COME BACK LATER!! THIS IS REDICULOUS! " i really wanted to laugh in her face, bu she probably would have punched me. bah. rediculous indeed. its funny how the oldest people seem to forget theyre old and act like children.
then later that evening, we had a dude with alzheimers come into the store looking for cabaret, and claiming he had put it on hold. i was able to avoid contact with him until right at the end, when i had to ring him up. i rung the dvd through and told him his total, and he asked for a recepeit from there on. i told him hed have to pay before the recepit would print, and he called me a liar. then he called me a liar over the price of the dvd, which was marked as $14.99 but then the tax came and that upset him a lot. he didnt understand why the price on the dvd was different than the price in the computer. i tried to explain it to him and he just called me a liar loudly and walked away. whatever, the man was sick. just.. whatever.
oh and to give you an idea of any time before any holiday.. here is what happened at work YESTERDAY. worse than christmas, i tell you.
it was very, very odd, and i had to make a list of every odd thing that happened so i could remember them all.
uglyart
Danville, VA
January 2004
FEB 14, 2004 02:54 AM