Saturday, June 25, 2005

First box shift and one tired bastard

6:49PM Yeah the tired bastard is yours truly of course. Just got home from work, listening to some Cradle of Filth and Killswitch Engage, and typing up stuff for all you people...*insert cricket chirps here*. Though I'm really hungry. I havn't eaten anything since Friday afternoon. Well, last night was my first night of working box office. It was ok, but kinda sucked at the same time. I unfortunately was stationed to a till with a non-working microphone. We did fix it later though, about one hour before I had to leave. Anyway, so most of the night I had to talk through a little hole at the bottom. It really sucked becuase people can't read (I had a sign that specifically said that my mic was broken and to talk through the little hole) and will talk through the mic and I'd have to yell to them to talk through the hole. Then they'd started acting like major A-holes for the remainder of the time. Also, not to mention the fact that my neck was killing me. Though I felt more sorry for Micheal becuase he's really tall and his mic didn't work either. But the power you get in box is pretty cool though. For example, I always ask customers if they have student or military IDs so they can get a discount. Usually I'll be a nice guy and give them the discount if they forgot their ID, but when someone starts being a complete ass I'll charge them the whole eight dollars, heh. So yeah, let this be a lesson to all who read this *insert cricket chirps here*... I also do the same for people who don't have ID when they want to see Land of the Dead, but it's also the law so *shrugs*. It's pretty easy to lose your sanity when you're working in box office. My co-workers along with myself were going crazy when there was no one outside. I saw the crazy sides of people that I've never seen in them before. For the hell of it one of my co-workers, Pablo, made a make-shift chair and I made a make-shift toilet, both made with the little trash cans inside. Today wasn't that bad though. I was working usher today, but I got called in to work box office for a few minutes. While working I saw Becka again (the girl that my friends want me to ask out). We said "Hi" and I hugged her while scratching her back. Like me, that's one of her little weaknesses. And one time I decided to eat some popcorn 'cause I was really hungry and didn't eat breakfast. While eating someone came in and yelled "Claire's coming!" All of us ran out of the back of the concession stand as soon as we heard those words. I shoved all the popcorn that was left into my mouth, randomly threw the cup into the air, and ran out of the room. I shouldn't have shoved the popcorn becuase I then had those little shells crammed in my throat. Anyway, it's not like we hate Claire. I'm acutally pretty cool with her. It's just that she doesn't like it when people are in the back of the concession stand. The fascinating thing about working usher is that you get to see how messy people are. It's amazing how people will just leave stuff on counters when there's a trashcan in plain sight a few feet away. Also, they'll make a huge mess right in front of your eyes and they'll just walk away without saying anything. Well, enough of my ranting. Sayoonara for now.

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