The Meltdown.
A puddle at my feet. What is it?, I thought. I cleaned it up. It had been raining all day so I assumed the roof had a leak. Twenty minutes later I was again standing in water. I quickly cleaned it up. I decided to put a bucket under the alleged leak. It was forty-five minutes before I got back to it. Now I was standing in lake Ti-Ti Ca-Ca. I inspected the ceiling. I couldn’t find the leak. I thought maybe it was coming in from the window sill. I stuffed the sash and jam with rags and cleaned up the mess. More customers came in. After three hours I went to do my side work and get ready for the next day. An ocean awaited me. Complete with tides and currents. On the distant island of Label I spied a bedraggled bug. Once more I cleaned the water from the floor. Now I was aggravated. Where was all this water coming from? I finished all my side work except for stocking the ice-cream cooler in the front. I opened the walk in freezer and a tidal wave of melted ice-cream knocked me on my ass. The wave was followed by a flash flood of various meat juices. I called my boss to let him know I was going home to get in a shower and why. He told me I would have to wait for the repair man, and that he would be there as soon as the game was over. So, I should stay until the boss-man arrived. He finally showed up two hours after the repair man went home. He asked me what the repair man did and how much it cost. I told him. He looked me square in the eye and said to me, “You need a shower, I don’t know why you didn’t go home”. So…….I PUNCHED HIM and QUIT!!!!
SO now I’m a postal worker and you better watch your ass.
Most of this story is true, accept for the part that I punched my boss and quit. Yes, I am a seasonal postal worker!
ali on October 26th, 2007
Wow! Cheers for quitting, you didn’t deserve that crap.
Jenny on October 26th, 2007
“Flash flood of various meat juices”… that is so bad on so many levels that not a jury would have convicted you if you had punched him.
AdventuresInWaitressing on October 26th, 2007
Great post.. thanks for stopping by my blog. Were you referring to the pictures on my actual blog? Becausr they all show up okay for me. Thanks for the heads up though.
Manuel on October 27th, 2007
Funnily enough I did a bit of seasonal postal work one year. It was bloody awful……
Upset Waitress on October 27th, 2007
Yeap Manuel, the season is just around the corner. 3 months out of the year. That’s about all I can handle. Have done it for years now. Money is fantastic, however I would rather crawl on a dirty floor with my tongue. Ahh I am so loyal.
Tony on October 27th, 2007
My turn to be off topic…
I’ve been wanting to do the choose your ending thing for awhile, gladyou are interested! The other sites who said they would do it lostinterest…know anyone else who would want to participate?
My thought was to have us collaborate on an opening pararaph…then we
go from there…any thoughts?
Tony
p.s., i’ll get you a link on my page too! thanks for linking to me…love your blog btw
Waitress4Life on October 28th, 2007
I cannot tell you how much I LOVED this blog. Do you have any idea how many times I’ve desperately wanted to punch somebody and quit?? Of course you do!
It feels like a win for the team when one of us “gets out”. So you didn’t really get to do it…For a brief moment, I thought you did - and you made my night!!
Upset Waitress on October 28th, 2007
As a waitress I have learned to be a master of illusion. In much the same way I made you believe I punched my boss, I make my customers believe I care what they want. =)