My reading for this morning was titled ... Make a decision to be excited every day. So I read it, let it sink in and then contemplated on how I was going to approach this challenge. Then I posted to my Facebook page my mantra for the day "Today is another day that has been given to you ... Make sure you take time to enjoy it."
Coffee in hand I headed, out to the car, for work. When I pulled through the gates I noticed there were no cars in the lot I park in. Strange. I pulled into my slot, looked around, then glanced at the dash board clock. 7:12. Usually there are at least 4 or 5 cars already here. They are all people that work with me. Where were they? The other assistant manager was missing, the head cashier wasn't here, both of these people are at work before me unless they aren't coming...
There are 24 of us and I see 2 cars. My boss's up at the building and mine. There is no way we can accomplish our mission with two people. Is it a Holiday and someone forgot to tell me? At 7:21 just as I was seriously thinking about sitting there in my car and calling in sick another car pulls up, then another ... Till all but four people are there! Thank you. My first bit of excitement for the day.
Finishing up the first assignment of the day and there comes an uproar from the cafeteria floor. Has to be a fight. Keep on finishing up and the noise gets louder and more excited. Not good. Go around the corner and peek out onto the floor and my second bit of excitement happens. There are kids, teachers and police standing on the tables. There is yelling, food throwing, tasing, ripping off of clothes, fighting, pinning down, handcuffing, etc ... You get the picture. Total disarray.
They call all male staff to get things under control. They finally do and haul everyone off. Breakfast is over and we are officially on lock down. More police arrive wearing flack vest and carrying big bug can sizes of pepper spray. Rumors start spreading there has been a shooting and parents keep calling to get there kids. Finally things calm down and about half of our 2400 kids leave early and go home. So ... Lunch is now an interesting mission.
With folks out I worked a specialty line on the floor after having cooked, my second assignment of the day, for a totally different line before lunch. I would venture to say that there was some small amount of excitement in that. Though I did make a pit stop at my desk during my lunch and read my serenity prayer ...
“Give me the peace of mind to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
It made me smile and realize there wasn't anything I could do but keep on doing ... So I did.
Coming down to the end of the day and I have this new area that I am not use to cleaning to clean. I empty the soft serve machine and as I am rinsing out the three compartments I am disposing of the liquid down the sink drain. All goes well until the person next to the sink goes back for the mop bucket. They return as I am just finishing up my machine. They gasp, gripe and inform me you can't dump stuff down the drain. What the hell is the damn drain for? I see the huge puddle pooling on the floor in front of the sink. The sink has some sort of shut off button and they had shut it off before they left to get the mop. Again, what the hell!
I semi clean up excitement number four, the mess, and finished dismantling the machine. Only to pull the head off and have another two streams of water shoot out and hit the floor ... I consider this FIVE ...
A this point I am sick of looking for excitement and just want to go home and sit on my couch and have a beer. Which is exactly what I am going to do after I finish this post.
I was suppose to give blood today, well actually for the past three work days. I tried Friday they were closed. Yesterday I was too tired from a sleepiness night and worried the blood won't flow fast enough, been there done that, so I decided to just go today. Well I am going to try again tomorrow. The place will probably close early or something...
Have a great day and I wish you just a little excitement and not too awful much more.