This is P*ssing me off!!!

RIP

People panic when a “storm” is coming and buy a months worth of groceries. F that I’m not waiting a hr. in line. Meanwhile I laugh while checking out in sporting goods, electronics, or jewelry.

Last year for my birthday the weather was great so I gave my truck a good washing and spent the evening bending my elbow around my fire pit. This year, it's cold. Too cold. I'll claim my free appetizer from Texas road house and spend the day inside.

Brah. I worked in a grocery store for a few years and any time the word snow was uttered by a meteorologist, my heart sank into my stomach. I worked the deli counter and holy hell, forget the price of everything we'd sell out of bologna, white bread, American cheese and salami, anything completely artificially made that could survive a damn apocalypse we'd sell out of.

And that's just if they say snow and it's barely a dusting expected. When we got that Snowmageddon in 2011, the three days before up until the night before...our entire store was bare. Now THAT I understood. That turned out to be a nationally recognized state emergency, five feet of snow and ice fell overnight in like five hours. That's fine and understandable.

But to spaz for an inch? Nah fam. That's stupid. I get not wanting to drive in the snow if you don't have to go out, but if it's that little...you live in the Northeast. We've seen snow in June before. You should be used to it by now.

I had this album when it came out. Not bad.

Here's one. Annoying vapers.

I mean, I vape. "The Visionary" Eldniw and I frequently have talks about vaping. I don't know his reason, but I started vaping to quit smoking cigarettes. I'm no health professional, but I know my physical and cardiovascular health has improved ten fold since in quit in 2016. But what I hate are the people who vape that go out of their way to give it a bad rap. Sure, maybe they started because they wanted to quit smoking, which I'm all for. But there's a difference between a vaping and trying use your mouth and the device as a damn fog machine. Or vaping indoors where smoking isn't allowed, distracting other people around you.

Another one thing I hate is customers at a store that assume you're an ATM. I cover shifts at a local gas station frequently. And, for obvious safety reasons, we don't keep more than $100 in our drawer at a time. It's especially true when you just start a shift and your drawer is at $100 even. A customer comes up and says they want five bucks on whatever pump and toss down a $100 bill. They throw temper tantrums when I say my shift just started and I can't really give you $95 in cash change, unless you're willing to take almost $20 of it in unwrapped dimes, nickels, and pennies. I've had countless customers cuss me out, saying stuff like "you're a gas station, you should be loaded." Uhh...no. We choose not to be as to deter robbery.

Speaking of customers, anyone who works retail at all knows this one. I HATE when people throw tantrums because you're following policy guidelines. Like, the gas station I work at has a fuel perk savings reward program with a local grocery store chain. When they buy a certain amount of stuff, they get money off of gas. Simple enough. If you have the rewards card I can scan it and you're good to go. But if you don't have your card, I can look you up by number but if you're using the money off I'm required to see ID. "But I don't have no ID." First of all, that's a lie because you're driving. And if you're driving without your license that's an even bigger problem than not getting your money off. We also changed, about a year and a half ago, that we can't just turn pumps on and let people fill up first then pay. Too many people were stealing gas. So now they have to prepay. "I just wanna fill up I don't know how much it's gonna take." "Sir, I can't physically turn the pump on. I need a payment. I can always refund you if you're overestimating." "I don't care, I don't know how much it's going to take!" "I. Can't. Turn. It. On. Even. If. I. Wanted. To."

And these guys are regulars too, which kills me.

People on TV shows that wear shoes inside homes.

We make a variety of customised items such as shirts, mugs, posters etc at work. It requires us to take in the order and then the customer will come back later to pick it up when it's ready. Could be anywhere from 20 minutes to a few hours. Some of them will come back and just hand us the receipt and say nothing as if we know exactly what they're there to pick up. Most of the time I will recognise the customer and match them to the order that way, or see the price on the receipt and figure out what it's likely for (our receipts don't have the item names on them.) But sometimes I have to be like "what are you picking up?" Would be a lot more helpful if you'd just say what you're here for like most other customers do.