Self-righteous people
So there will be no dumb ikea customer post today, because they just didn’t get outta bed today…or I just couldn’t be bothered paying attention to their dumb antics.
Either way, I DID overhear this conversation today which kinda disgusted me, while I was eating lunch. Without going into tooo much detail, this is kinda a recreation of what I heard:
- That’s so exciting you’re getting married soon!
- Oh yeah, I know, like I just can’t wait. It’s so stressful and I have SO much to plan for!
- Oh cool, you know what you’re wearing yet?
- Yeah, but the dresses are so expensive. I had to pay for it all coz my bridesmaids don’t have the same boob size so the alterations just cost heaps. Like, one of my bridesmaids has SUCH a flat chest and the other has huuge boobs so yeah, its annoying! [annoying annoyed laugh]
- Ahh yeah. Haha. [5 minute conversation about boobs and how they are annoying for dress fittings. "eye-roll"] How many people are going?
-Well a few… Like, there is no way I’m inviting all my single friends coz they’ll just bring random boys that I don’t know and I’m not having that at my wedding!
- Oh ok..yeah….true….
- I just think, like, you kinda need a partner if you’re gunna go to a wedding and I don’t want my single friends there coz they’ll just ruin everything.
-Fair enough. I’m sure it’ll be a great wedding, sounds like you’ve planned it well. Now I feel like such a loner.
-Yeah it’s funny coz like all my friends are like ‘I don’t think I could get married this young! What are you doing?!’ And I’m just like ‘Well I’ll be having kids by the time you’re getting married so whatever!’[annoying self righteous laugh]
-Haha …..
-Yeah, my wedding [IS SO AWESOME AND I'M GETTING MARRIED AND I'M GOING ON HOLIDAYS AND IM GETTING MARRIED AND DID I MENTION I'M GETTING MARRIED?!? BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH]
Yeah. I suppose its easier to understand if you were there in person. I mean, I was trying SO hard not to snicker at their conversation because some of the stuff they were saying was just so disgustingly annoying. It was like listening to two 15 year olds talk about marriage. Figure that one out.
Jakki posted @ 6:08 pm
Time
J. Alfred Prufrock measured his life in coffee spoons. I used to measure my life by the time.
I used to have a watch, and it would be on my wrist 24/7. Until the day some person from work threw it in the bin by accident, knowing the time was pretty important for me to know what to do and when. Kinda sad …but it got into a habit, and it just made things easier.
Now that I don’t have a watch on me 24/7, I’ve gotten so used to the fact that time can pass by so easily or so slowly it’s like a relative non stop day to day series of activities that consume my LIFE. I mean, losing my watch at first was hard because I had no idea what I should have been doing but….I got used to it pretty quickly because I realized, time isn’t the only thing that’s important.
I guess what I’m trying to say is, time is annoying. Time shouldn’t define where you should be or what you should be doing….so here I am, sitting here at 4:30 in the morning typing this. Even though I should be getting up in 5 hours to go to work. 
What can I say, I get distracted pretty easily!
I wish I could just stop time for a moment and just catch up on things I should have done or should be doing. I wish I could stop time to fix up the things that are wrong, and make sure things that are started are finished. And I wish I could stop time so I could spend a lot more time with the person I care about the most. 
Jakki posted @ 4:31 am
Retic People
Man, people are dumb.
I used to believe that everyone had a rudimentary understanding of basic mathematical concepts, a decent grasp of logic and common sense.
Then I got a job in retail.
I am at my retic store right now, and I had a customer earlier that really annoyed me, and I decided that if I still felt irritated after eating food and waiting a bit, I would write about him.
I still feel irritated after eating food and waiting a bit.
So normally when customers come in the store, I help them with everything. I have learned that it is best to treat them like two year olds who do not understand much about how the world works, but have a general willingness to learn.
For once, I decided I would provide a customer with information, and leave him to his own devices. Now, what he was asking for was not complicated, he wanted some sprinklers that would ‘go two meters’. So I took him to the sprinkler section and I explained that on each shelf are different distanced nozzles (for example, the top shelf has nozzles that go 2.5m, then under that is 3m, then 3.5 and so on). This is clearly marked with big lables, I put them there myself!
I then took extra care to explain the different nozzle arcs (like quarters, halves, fulls). These too, are clearly labelled.
So after arming him with all the tools he should have needed to get his bits and pieces, I went back to cutting some pipes (which I was also doing for this same guy).
A few minutes later, he comes up to me and says ‘So this is a half that will go 2 meters?’.
It was not a half that would go two meters, it was a full that would go 4.
Not only did he get the nozzle arc wrong, he also got it from the complete wrong shelf (keep in mind I showed him which shelf the 2 meter ones were on).
I ended up doing what I normally do and asking question after question and figuring it all out for him.
Why can’t people do these things themselves? Why? EVERYTHING (and I mean everything) in this store is CLEARLY LABELLED, yet people still can’t figure stuff out.
I was thinking of drawing a comic about this… but I can’t be bothered. Woop!
Cam posted @ 2:28 pm
Timezone Parties
So I also work at Timezone (yeah, I work at a reticulation store and an amusement arcade! Go me!)
Don’t get me wrong, I also love working at Timezone, the manager is a very good friend of mine, as are all the staff. It’s very fun.
However, a big part of Timezone is kids’ parties, I often come in to help with these (as I live literally 2 minutes away from Timezone). I’ve had to clean the party room a few times, and from what I have seen and heard, this is what kids do with their food (they sure as hell don’t eat it):
Every time I have gone in there after a party, it’s as if the kids decided ‘You know what, I don’t want to eat this delicious McDonald’s, I want to throw it all over the room’.
And that, is horse shit.
Cam posted @ 3:33 am
What is wrong with you people?!
The Black Eyed Peas continue to steamroll their way into the record books this week. The group’s “I Gotta Feeling” surpasses Flo Rida’s “Low” as the best-selling digital song of all time, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
…”Feeling,” which spent 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart last year, has now sold 5,561,000 million digital downloads, ahead of “Low’s” 5,536,000. The latter had been the biggest selling song since March 2008, when it trumped Soulja Boy Tell’em’s 2007 hit “Crank That.”
…Do I even need to write anything else!? The jokes just write themselves.