Drunk Men, Mad Men and Taxi Drivers

You get all sorts in this place. Tonight was a Saturday, (if you hadn't noticed), and therefore signalled the craziest night of my life, ever. Most of the customers were drunk, mad or taxi drivers or a mixture of all 3, although I am not suggesting that taxi drivers drink and drive ... wait.... I am. Oh well.

Along with my usual duties, I had a whole host of drunkards coming up to me asking me if we sell alcohol at 3am and the answer to that is solid "no!" before they start insulting me.. That was about 3 of them and I have a self-made response ready, every time. "I've heard worse on a football pitch mate", before they stagger out wondering what's just been said to them.. Brilliant! However, my main concerns lay with the co-worker I have been unluckily paired with. We communicate a bit more now and things are a bit better, but he takes forever with his tasks meaning I have to do more work towards the end of the shift, where the manager turns up. Luckily today, he turned up half-asleep and maybe hungover, although I was never going to suggest such a thing in fear of my head being chainsawed off, so we got away with it. It won't happen all the time though, especially when the more scrutinous managers turn up and bollock you for leaving a packet of cookies at a slightly strange angle in the 2nd aisle.. Man, I hate those people..

I hate those people nearly as much as the taxi drivers who come in and pay for their petrol in coins. You get 4 types of customer:

1) Kind and polite and happy to make conversation = Fantastic
2) Come in and go out ASAP but still relatively polite = Good
3) Come in, throw their money at you and walk out again = Poor
4) Come in, shout at you, pay in pennies and walk out in a huff = Despair

There is a 5th but I haven't experienced a gun to the forehead yet.. I'm waiting for it though. I think through how I'd react if that really happened and I envisage a picture of calmness and relaxation while handling the incident with upmost professionalism and solidarity, but in reality, I'd be bricking it. It won't happen I'm sure but I have all the training in the world to deal with it! Or maybe I'd fallen asleep during that particular video... Who knows..

Anyway, I only have 1 more shift to go till my 6 days off! Result! Time to relax, play a lot of cricket and golf, (depending on how much money is leant to me...) and of course our cup final and the first match of the cricket season! I actually can't wait! All week I've been reminding myself of this week off and it's kept me going. All is well. Apart from not being paid.. Every sun has a lining of ash.

Changing subjects completely, relationships. If you've read the whole blog back to front you may have picked up on a couple of references on my view of relationships and they are not so positive. I believe relationships make people one-dimensional and make them think about only their relationship and their partner, and not other people. It is common to see a guy get a new girlfriend and then fall out of favour with other friends. People always say they are so so happy in relationships, but I'm not so sure.. Maybe it's because I haven't found "the one", but that's just my opinion.. I'm talking of this because a couple of friends recently have "found love" and they've instantly vanished off the face of the Earth. Not a glimpse or word of them since they're relationship status changed, (I didn't mean it to sound like a Facebook term!), and it doesn't half annoy me.. I prefer to be single. I'm happy with it that way.

Anyway, enough of my procrastination. Time to end. One more shift to go. Next time I blog, I will be as happy as Larry, (whoever Larry is), unless of course I get shot.

Ciao x