“You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
— Mandy Hale (The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
FRIYAY!
There are 112 forest fires and a town had to have an evacuation notice already.
It’s not even May!
Friday was one of those days.
I walked onto my shift.
“Here she is, the show stopper! The woman of the hour!” Steve greeted me.
I started laughing. “You know!”
Steve rolled his eyes.
One of my coworkers; who had been taking my place on Second lane, asked.
“Becky, why aren’t you here?! How come Steve put me on Second lane! I don’t want to take orders anymore!”
A slow evil grin curved my lips, “because you were asking for donations!” I crowed “now you are stuck there until the fundraiser is over. Or he likes how you take orders!”
Her eyes widened “what?!”
I laughed maniacally “good luck! That’s why! I hate drive thru! It’s your time to shine!”
“Switch with me!”
“Nope! He is enjoying the mess ups! And he is enjoying the peace and quiet!”
I wave goodbye to my drive thru team and walked back to the front counter. Watched as drive thru went down to hell!
The presenter kept serving the orders too fast, so the runner (assembler) didn’t know what order she was assembling. Which then meant the presenter was handing out wrong food.
Steve was getting frustrated. “Hand that order out. Stop serving the order until the vehicle gets to the window” he told her.
The presenter stood there with food in her hand reaching for the serve button.
“I said hand it out. You already served it” he explained. She tried to tell him otherwise but he hit the recall button and told her to look at the recept. “That is the order! You were going to serve the next order! I’ve been doing this for 30 years” he snapped “so when I asked you to make sure the vehicle is at the window before serving? It’s so mistake don’t happen!”
I was enjoying myself immensely. I was relaxed and enjoying my conversation with chelle.
“It was busy, but then customers found out I was working and they were like, nope nope. I scared them off with my sparkling personality!” I remarked.
Everyone laughed.
“Yeah ok. Your friendliness overwhelmed them” Steve replied. he was getting a few funny shots in. I was laughing.
“Keep it up, I will be your best friend!”
“How about I put you in the gas chamber (cash booth) with your best friend?” He asked.
I smirked “no, she will be the one hobbling out. My gas is pretty deadly and can peel paint off the walls!”
Everyone groaned in disgust.
As the morning progressed, I was making coffee, brewing coffee when the McCafé person made a snarky remark about how I didn’t have enough coffee made. “No I just threw out the old coffee you were using. You don’t need 3 pots of coffee when we are slow. Just two.”
I returned to the counter, assuming she would keep up on coffee. Oh no. She was down to one pot of coffee during the morning rush.
The manager went ballistic. “Three pots of coffee! Why didn’t you have three pots of coffee!”
“Because Becky said I only needed two”
My jaw dropped. Whatever. can’t fix stupid.
“But I am the manager not Becky I’m telling you 3 at all times!”
Again my jaw dropped. If you were the manager, I thought,train them properly!
So the manager went told Steve how I “out-managed” him.
Steve sighed “she is not the manager”
Again the mcCafe person was flummoxed over coffee, sometime later. It frustrated chelle, who was saying something to me.
I shrugged.
The manager saw and marched over to us. “Becky? Becky?! What?! What?!” He demanded. “What is it this time? Is it the coffee? Is it? Because I told her 3 pots of coffee”
I sighed “3 pots of coffee during a rush. I explained 2 pots when it was dead. She was serving expired coffee”
He blinked.
“Yeah, so hard to watch coffee when you’re staring off into space”
“Oh.”
Friday was pretty slow I was allowed to go home early.
Tabby was waiting for me and my dad saw the cat, he was actually happy to see him not Daisy. He doesn’t like Daisy much. He picked up Tabby and held him for a bit then left.
I finished my chores and went to bed early.
I woke up to the cats acting funny in the living room so I got up to investigate. I couldn’t figure out why. Tabby, Daisy were just staring at Fluffy as he went bananas over catnip in the chair. I petted Fluffy.
I noticed Daisy hiding in the corner and again I couldn’t figure out why. Maybe I should put on my glasses. I returned to the living room. By now all cats were howling at each other.
“Daisy tabby stop being rude to fluffy!” I finally turned on the light.
It wasn’t fluffy. It was the new tuxedo cat who visited us last week 🤦♀️🤣
I sighed and let the cat go out without being attacked. I closed the door and went back to bed.
I rolled myself up like a burrito lying on my side, and fell asleep.
Sometime later I woke up to find Tabby sleeping ontop of me and Daisy on my legs. tabby was stretched atop and Daisy sprawled on my legs!
I was nice and cocooned by cats!💕💕
ITS BUTTERS
Forest fire season has begun!
Grumble! Each year it starts earlier than the last.
Of course by humans!
I had an ok day.
I was in a wonderful mood.
“Oh my god, it’s Butters!” Steve greeted me.
“Hi cartman!” I shot back (reference to South Park) “hey Margarine!“ I greeted the other manager.
I walked into second booth. “You just ruined my day!” Pamelo groaned when she saw me. I laughed
“My day was going fine until I saw you!” I teased.
Steve turned to stare at me “Becky, how are we going to greet the customers?” He asked “hi welcome to blah blah May I take your order”
I blinked. I started laughing. “How about no” I muttered “I’m not going to take 10 minutes to get an order.”
“You better ask for donations”
I sighed.
I was back in drive thru, I realized how much I disliked drive thru. on front counter I really didn’t have to direct anyone on how to do their job properly. I just did it my ownself.
I got so tired of being nice and using my manners to direct someone in proper procedure. “Start using timers when making coffee”
The McCafé person stared at me. “I just brewed it”
“How do I know that? You didn’t put a timer on it”
Whenever I would put a timer on the coffee she would erased it and number it. “You really need to get out of the habit of numbering the coffee. Time it!” I persisted.
“It’s easier for me to number it”
I blinked. “This will be the last time I will say it! Time the coffee! It is procedure. We just had head office here! If she saw you not using proper timers?” She was staring at me with vacant space in her eyes. I was really pissed off now. “Look at the timer that’s how you know which one to use!”
I marched off into my corner! “Fucking idiot! I hate drive thru!” I muttered under my breath.
I did have fun bugging the rest of my team. I asked a customer if he wanted ketchup with his muffin!🤣🤦♀️
APOCALYPSE OFFERS HELP
Oh my heart!
I almost started crying when I read this panel!
someone as powerful and villainous as Apocalypse has been given asylum; a home and even a place on the Quiet Council (the governing body) on Kroakoa.
He offers assurance, guidance and help to those who are afraid.
Yes this touched me.
I read 3 hours of X-men trying to keep up with the Fall of X and I am not even close to finishing
ITS A GOOD THING SHE IS NO LONGER A FAN
I was about to login to my Instagram, when I noticed two other profiles.
Who the hell are these people?
I instantly deleted the profiles then logged in on my account. I searched for the profile names wondering if somehow I had been hacked.
No, they were my niece’s. When she was a fan of Billie Eilish and Zoe Laverne. Every time she would forget her password she would make a new account.
These profiles were created years ago and I couldn’t figure out why they were suddenly appearing now? Because of my iCloud.
I couldn’t figure out why that name sounded so familiar
Oh no. Oh no no!
Well it’s a good thing she is no longer a fan of Zoe.
POV ARE HARD TO WRITE
This made me laugh. It brought back fond memories of how my friends and I would huddle in the stacks of the library in junior high. We would exchange our stories. Handwritten, of course. We would read them out loud in hushed tones.
It was scandalous!
I don’t think we even knew about fanfic. We wrote about our crushes, vampires and werewolves.
My one friend Jodi, was such a great writer! I loved reading her stories.
Oh my gosh, just thinking about the one embarrassing moment that happened! Eek! The stuff of legends!
We were reading one of my stories, about my crush. I hear a noise coming from one of the aisles beside us. I peeked between the books. There he was. Sitting with one of his friends.
His eyes locked with mine. He had heard every word of the story!
I was so mortified!
The bell rang signaling end of lunch. I got up grabbed my story tried to hurry out of the library and promptly collided into my crush!
POV are so hard to write and so hard to like. however I find it’s easier to write a backstory. The only problem? It’s monotonous and tedious to read!
I don’t know whether or not I like reading a book that has multiple POV.
What makes you nervous?
What makes you nervous?
What makes me nervous?
Men. Speaking to men. I don’t mind having a conversation but if I am on a date, lawd have mercy! I don’t do well! Luckily for me I don’t have any problems with that now. I don’t need to worry about trying to hold a conversation or make do with small talk because no one appeals to me 🤣🤣🤦♀️
Public speaking. Isn’t that ironic? I am in customer service. I speak to people all the time. However, having to make an appointment? Talk to my doctor? Forget about it!
LIFE WOULD BE WONDERFUL
It’s a beautiful Saturday!
I’m relaxing enjoying the sunshine and the cool breeze!
I love days like these!
Reminds me of summer days when I was kid spread out on a blanket with all my books and my ghetto blaster!
I was thinking about how much I used to love reading! How much I would read! 25 books from the library (maximum one could borrow) then I would buy 8 books a month. I would crush those books! Crush it!
Social media killed me! I have to seek my dopamine high somewhere else because I would get so bored reading!
Lately I’ve been determined to read more!
Last night I bought a $185 worth of graphic books! I had to buy the X-Men Hellfire Gala Fall of X! I couldn’t resist buying the most amazing traumatic event in X-Men history!
I also found my books that I was saving for a rainy day!
Now if only I could have my bubble bath so I could soak and enjoy a book!
Life would be wonderful 😘
How do you use social media?
How do you use social media?
How I use social media?
I use Facebook only for friends. Without it I wouldn’t be interacting with anyone.
I love TikTok because of the comedic value. When my niece was “babysitting” me during my treatment we would watch her favourite videos on Vine and YouTube. It was wonderful bonding moments.
when Vines shut down she got me addicted to TikTok. I really only enjoyed the Douyin counterpart of TikTok. The fashion and stories.
I enjoy X for tweeting about my favorite shows. Following favorite stars. I suppose I use the same for Instagram.
When I was a spring chicken I would spend hours online chatting with people! It became tedious because carrying a conversation was boring.
Perhaps now that I am ancient I dislike any form of chat!🤣
DMs IMs any kind of online conversation. I reply to readers through blogging. But I find online conversations are tedious. I don’t even enjoy texting.
CHAOS WHEREVER I GO
Yesterday morning, I was abruptly awakened by an unexpected knock on my door. Peering through the peephole, I was greeted by the sight of the mailman holding a couple of packages. It struck me as odd – when did mail carriers start delivering directly to apartment doors?
Accepting the packages, I closed the door, only to be interrupted moments later by the ringing of my phone. To my surprise, it was Purolator, informing me that I had a package at the depot.
Hours later, I eagerly delved into my deliveries, which included goodies from Bath and Bodyworks, Shein, my new iPhone 13. The anticipation of setting it up quickly turned to frustration when I encountered the dreaded E-sim setup. Who in their right mind thought this was user-friendly?
After a futile four-hour battle, I surrendered. Exhausted, I crawled into bed.
I had a rough sleep and was finally able to sink deeper into a blissful rest when I was jolted awake by my ringing phone. Panic surged through me – had I slept through my alarm? Turns out, it was just a pesky telemarketer. An hour before my alarm was to go off!
Grumpy and sleep-deprived, I trudged to work, only to find chaos! Kitchen hadn’t started lunch! Orders were backing up, and Steve was not pleased.
Apparently, there had been an inspection the day before – news to me, as I had conveniently missed it. Or was the inspection deliberately planned on my day off? I am beginning to think Steve plans it that way! 🤣
One of the drive thru team pouted that Steve threaten the team he would Promote me to team leader. I laughed.
“Must have worked” I remarked “you girls didn’t overstocked today! It actually looks good in here”
“Becky it wasn’t funny! He was upset!”
I laughed harder “yes it is! It must’ve been bad if he threatened to make me team leader!” I smiled “you don’t want me as team leader”
“That’s what Steve said!”
SNOW IN APRIL
Waking up to snow!
Lots of it!
That just means I get to sleep in.
It’s my day off!
A GIRL OUT OF THE ORDINARY 