HAPPY GRADUATION TO THE CLASS OF 2005

Oh, so I went to Monterey High's 100th graduating class. The school has been around since 1905. The mayor of Monterey, who also happens to be an alumni of Monterey, proclaimed today is Celebration of Monterey High Graduates Day. *shakes head* Big deal for Monterey! It was an overall nice graduation. Lots of jumping, hugging, moving and such from the graduating class. MY class wasn't that jittery at ours. *shrugs* Oh well. It was still nice. I saw a lot of people I haven't seen in a year so that was nice. It also brought back memories of my graduation. The walking to get your diploma...the sitting, etc.

My grades so far...are all A's except one B (from Chem). I still don't have my ASL grad yet. And...I was able to register for a class I really wanted for the fall! I just happened to check the class schedule today to see if there were spots open in that class and there was TWO! So I went and instantly registered for it. I'm excited...

For now...that is all my news.

Another story. This one is from Wednesday

This lady called us and I picked it up. I ended up being on the phone with her for at least 20 minutes if not more. Why? She was going through all her VHS tapes and was trying to get them all on DVD. And I mean she wanted the exact ones. Like...she wanted Miracle on 34th street in COLOR on DVD and they only make it in B&W on DVD. It was a nightmare....because I had to switch programs to see if the DVD was in color or B&W and then to make sure we had the right actors or actresses for each movie. *rolls eyes*

Oh...I have to say this one...it's just...interesting...Happened a few days or so ago

Grumpy/weird customer in our cafe.

So I'm over in our PaperChase area (gifts and stationary) and I walk by our cafe because I was a little bored and Paul asks where Nate is...I tell him I don't know and then points at this older lady in a white t-shirt saying she's "crazy" and she just spilled a bunch of coffee all over the place. So I tell Paul just to find Nate himself and we find Nate and Nate's talking to these two guys and these two guys are complaining about Paul with the lady Paul was talking about about 3 feet away from them. When you look at this lady...she has coffee spilled all down her front...and it's a white shirt so you NOTICE it.

This is Paul's side of the story:
The lady ordered a latte. He made it for her and she drank about half of it and wanted a refill. He explained to her that it's 50 cents for a refill...she did some complaining thing and eventually she got her refill. In this moment...Paul went to help another customer and she spilled the coffee down her front and was running to the bathroom. She comes back...takes the rest of the coffee that's in the cup and throws it at Paul, complains, and then takes her cup and walks away...

The two guys said that Paul should have put a lid on the coffee and that she burned herself and Paul was rude and giving bad customer service...Nate's response...we don't PUT lids on our coffee because of the whole McD's thing with the coffee and the lid wasn't on all the way and someone went to drink their coffee and it spilled and burned them. Nate just basically ignored the two guys and telling the employees it wasn't Paul's fault (he's the nicest guy) and that the lady wasn't acting in her right mind...a little out of it. She stayed in our store with coffee spilled down her front to read and even asked Nate what she was suppose to do with a coffee stained shirt...*rolls eyes* Nate said "Go home and change?"

So yeah, that was exciting when that all happened...

Happy June!

I should write all my work stories into here (the ones that are PG). It'd be funny and a good way to record them all.

So...Tonight's story of the night....

A dog. A dog that just WANDERED into our store. A dog that was lost and REALLY friendly.

So this dog walked into our store (someone must have let it in) and was wandering around our store. It decided it liked our cafe and went and sat in the seating area with some of our customers. Of course, it being a cafe, that's not sanitary. So we litterally dragged the dog out of the cafe and got it onto the carpeting area and the sat sat/laid down with one of our employees (she had to watch the dog to make sure they didn't go back into the cafe). It was almost an hour that this dog was just chillin' in our store. We called animal control (no one ever came), we had customers who would adopt the dog, we had employees that would take the dog home for a night. The dog was super friendly. Kind of looked like a Golden Lab, but it wasn't. One of the employees was calling all the stores around us (Target, Ross, Pets Mart, Boston Market, Burger King (yes, BK), etc) to ask them to announce over the PA that we had a dog at our store and to please come and get them. We also called the number on the dog's tag, but it was for the Arizona Humane Society and the place was closed. Then...one of our customers LET the dog out of our store. We couldn't really do anything so...the dog went outside. We don't know where the dog went. Then...disaster hit...The owners came and wanted their dog about 20 minutes after the dog left! When we told them we didn't have the dog anymore they got UPSET with US! Then we found out that they were actually sitting in our store reading while their dog happened to also be in our store and the dog got out of their car because they have a "soft-covered" Jeep. *rolls eyes* For some reason...our store attracts weird things...They thought we should have kept the dog. They left the information for the dog at our information and they left. We told them to go check the other stores around us, but we don't know if they found her or not. My co-workers and I were trying our best not to get upset that they 1) left their dog untied in their car 2) that they LEFT their dog IN a car for an hour so they could read and 3) the gall that they had to get mad at us for not having their dog.

So, yes, that is the story of my night...the joy it was...