Asshole of the Year Award! and more

oh my god, I am not even kidding. We had the RUDEST customer come into Brooks tonight. Honestly the worst customer I have ever seen and after being at Brooks for like 5 years now, I've seen a lot of awful people. But no one was as blatantly asshole-ish as this guy was.

See, we have this rule that everyone-- EVERYONE-- that buys cigarettes must be carded. Yes, it's a pain in the ass, especially when the person in question is obviously over 18, but it's company policy and we can be fired on the spot for not complying (damn the mystery shoppers, hehe).

As you can imagine, about 98% of our rude customers get in a huff over this very issue. You'd be surprised how many people don't have an ID on them. And as I said, if we can't see something official with your birthdate, you can't get cigarettes. Yes, it's a small annoyance, but I don't see what the HUGE deal is. ::shrug::

Anyway, I was busy facing the toy aisle when I heard some guy talking loudly up at the registers. I decided to go up and see what was going on. Some dude, despite a lot of other customers being in line was going completely insane because Todd wouldn't let him buy cigarettes since he didn't have an ID. I mean he was swearing and getting all up in Todd's face and yelling and shite. It was so bad that even the customers behind him in line started talking back to him. One person, a regular customer, was like "There ARE signs posted everywhere saying that it's policy," to which Mr. Asshat replied "You know what? BLOW ME." Then he was like "If you're telling me there's no fucking difference between me and a fucking fifteen year old--" and so a different customer interrupted and was like "Excuse me, there are *children* right here." And there *were,* like real young too, but the guy so politely responded with "Fuck the children!" Well, let me tell you, it's a good thing he got his ass out the door right after that cuz I was going to go get Lora and chances are she would have called the cops on his ass. Seriously. I can't quite express how ridiculous he was being. Like I said, I've seen a lot of terrible customers over the years, but this man was something else. I don't even understand how people can BE like that. Ugh. Makes me want to vomit. v_v

The rest of the day was actually pretty good. I got my schedule for the summer all set up. It's a lot of afternoons, unfortunately, but it was either that or nothing on some days.
Monday, 1-9
Tuesday, free for now, but 3-9 after my class ends
Wednesday, 3-9
Thursday, OFF
Friday, 1-9
Saturday, OFF
Sunday, 1-9

I have to come in this Friday, too, cuz they needed someone and I *did* miss both Sunday and Tuesday this week. I might just go in 3-9 though. A long as I'm there for some of the afternoon.

I think it's funny that they re-posted the "dress code" again. I remember the last time they did this cuz I was all pissed off that we "had to wear" khakis cuz I didn't own any and didn't want to buy any, haha. I paid very close attention to the wording this time though. 1) The only rule about hair is that it is neat and combed. There is NOTHING about hair color having to be "natural" so I better not hear it if I dye my streaks purple. 2) Khaki/beige is the PREFERRED pants color. . .so as far as I'm concerned, my black pinstriped pants are just fine. :p And nothing else was worth nothing, but I thought those two points were interesting. I've never gotten beef for anything I'm done or worn in the past though, so I'm not about to start worrying now.

Did I ever talk about my friend Jen's graduation party? I don't think I did. It was last Friday and Rich and I went. It was a good, low-key time. Exactly the type of get-together I prefer. It was just her family, her best friend, her boyfriend, and Rich and I. We ate, and we chatted, and hopefully we will be able to get together during the summer. You know that's the one thing I hate about college-- how easy it is to lose touch with people. There have been so many people, even just from my few years at URI, that I have been pretty friendly with but just never heard from again once the new semester started. I just find it kinda depressing. And you also know how weird I get about contacting people once I haven't talked to them in awhile, since I don't like seeming all stalkerish.

On a similar note, I wonder if anyone from the Facebook reads this. I mean, I know a few people on there, and I'm sure others have come across my profile but yikes. Well, you know I'm never one for censoring. If someone's gonna know me, they might as well know the real me and I pretty much talk about it all in here. On the other hand, it might explain *why* people get scared, haha. O_o