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Sunday, December 05, 2004
Tired
I'm really tired. Tired and bored. The worst two things to be on a weekend during holidays. I suppose I'm tired because I was forced to get up early on a saturday morning. Grr damnit. It's a saturday morning, I haven't been awake early on a saturday for a long time. Fair enough though, I got to get up and make money, so that is an addition to it. But still. Oh well, I suppose everyday in the holidays are going to be late sleeping (or early, depends on what time of the day, or day after it is) and late wakings. Hooray for that. But oh well, if I'm asked to work, I'd probably say yes, because that would mean that I'm going somewhere to do something during the day and get paid to do it. Not all things that glitter is gold.

Speaking of work, I said I'd work because I wasn't going to be doing too much work. Well, normally when I work, I'd be doing palattes of shit and I'd have to run around the store for like 5 hours. But today was more like, get a boxes and process them. Filling basically. Even better was that I was allowed to wear plain clothes, so I wasn't to be bothered by stupid people asking questions. Though I did get asked one question, only because I was sitting there with a trolley full of christmas hampers and I was playing around with the display of them. Who knew that customers would be smart enough to realise not all workers wear the kmart shirt. I think I scared the chick that was at the front desk when I walked in though. I had to work at 8:30, and the shop doesn't open until 9. Though, people were roaming the store earlier than that, but whatever. Anyway, so I walked through the half open doors inside the shop, and because I wasn't wearing my kmart shirt, and only my namebadge (which is hard to see when you don't look), the chick at the front desk gave me a really worried look. I mean, here is some guy walking into a store wearing plain clothes, before the store opens, what would have been worse for her, was that she didn't know who I was. So I ignored her and went to work.

It's the 5th of december and the shops were already littered with a lot of people. It may have been that it was saturday morning, and I had never been there on a saturday. But still, there were shit loads of people. No wonder I wore plain clothes, there were a lot of stupid people there. Ha! Speaking of, I was standing around looking for some toy thing on the shelf, when I heard some woman say "we have to find someone that works here, now". By god she sounded angry. I quickly hid my namebadge and walked off and waited for her to leave to continue my work. I wasn't ready for some angry woman to scream in my face at like 9 in the morning. I seriously would hate if I had to work there during the day, everyday for about 8 hours. I mean pfft on that, I'd get so pissed off at all the people coming and abusing me. Like this one woman that was at the front desk abusing one of the managers. Of course I stood around and listened to her babble on (I was waiting for a key.. really..), but I got the idea that she had tried to pay off some layby and that there was a queue there a mile long and she didn't have time to wait for it, but she had time earlier on to get some kind of haircut (she had a whine about it taking too long, I laughed at her misfortune) Who cares woman? Seriously, if you have to wait, wait, otherwise come when it wasn't so busy. Or maybe don't come back at all! YES! Get the fuck out of kmart and darwin forever.

The walk around casuarina wasn't any better. Well, for one, I didn't have to do it in my kmart shirt, and all I had to do was take off my namebadge to look "normal". I was going to wear my sexy half life 2 shirt there, but I thought that would only announce that I was a nerd. Anyway, there were ten-fold the amount of people in casuarina. Have these people not heard of losing their life and staying at home and sleeping on a saturday? Nooo, they had to be walking around casuarina being fools and taking up space. I'm sure they have better things to do. Much like the security. The one guard at kmart looked like he was completely smashed, not that he was walking around all stupid like, but his face had a "I'm-completely-smashed" look on it. Besides the stone security guard, there were more retarded-looking people wandering around casuarina. I was one of them only because I had to go out look for shoes (ended up in a complete mess, darwin is such a shithole). Instead of really looking for shoes (the onle good shoe shop in darwin is swarming with kids that want to be "hip" and "cool" and is very generic - or really, everyone is wearing the shit from there - stupid city beach monopoly!) I kind of spent the half an hour I had before I left just wandering around going in shops, looking at one or two things and exiting only seconds later. I'm sure I pissed off a lot of shop-people, because I'd walk in a shop, play with something, acting as if I really want to buy it. Even having the "thinking" face on, and then leaving. Hehe. They would have gotten over it. Originally clair was suppose to join me in my efforts to find some shoes, but I didn't find her until I was about to leave and by then I had already searched a whole two shops for shoes. In the mean time, I had found more christmas presents for mum to buy me. Well.. actually, it's more like a cd, I can't remember what else I saw that I wanted, but all I know is I'm going to have to convice mum into buying the new ministry of sound cd (it includes a dvd with video clips!).

Coincidently, I'm going to be working from 6-10 and then 5-10 on monday, so I'm going to be absolutely stuffed come tuesday early morning. Right about now my eyes are starting to hurt. Maybe I should eat this mentos that I have left over from my shift.. mm, it's starting to smell really good. I shouldn't eat them and save them for my early waking on monday. Damnit, I have to get up at 5 to be at work by 6. I so hope that I'm going to save lots of money only so I CAN SPEND IT ALL!
posted by jarryd at 12/05/2004 12:30:00 AM
2 Comments
Taz said...

Yes... saturday mornings are ALWAYS like that in gayart. and yes... you ALWAYS get screamed at by retarded people that think that everything is you fault. and yes, i would ALWAYS choose repeatedly poking myself in the eye with a key than going back to work there... unless of course it was guaranteed that Liam would ALWAYS be working on the same register block as me! *sigh*

So you didnt get shoes then? Get my bro to help... hes a good lil salesman!

8:31 PM

jarryd said...

I always seem to have trouble trying to find shoes, they always seem to look the same, or they are all just ugly. Hopefully I'll get a better look on monday maybe, when it isn't so crowded and I don't set off the alarm thingys.

Oh well, hopefully I may have to endure more days on saturday, it is much more easier (and more fun) than doing work during the week.

9:03 PM

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