What I Learned Today

Another eight hour shift at the clothing store today.  I learned a whole bunch more stuff.  Here are the highlights.

I learned how to dress manikins today.  They were only torsos, but it was still interesting.  I had to follow the guide the company put out as best  I could, even though we didn't have most of the clothes that were supposed to go on them.  Manikins are heavy.  Well, actually the metal bases are really heavy and they want to fall off the bottom while you are carrying the manikin down a very tall ladder.

Old men are strange.  I helped an old dude today find some briefs.  That should have been easy, but the ones I gave him had grey and black briefs in the package.  The geezer shook his head and put them back, informing me that he could only wear grey undies.  I spent 10 minutes rifling through our stock of gitchers to find a package of grey ones so they odd duck would have the correct colour.  I wonder if he was planning on wearing them on the outside?  Oh, I nearly forgot that the reason he was getting new undies, was that his wife is in Ontario visiting their daughter and with their recent move he couldn't find more underwear in the house, so he decided to come buy some to get him through.

Finally, I learned that responsibility sucks.  When I was hired, the manager let me know that she had given me a position where I would be a keyholder and be able to close and open the shop.  Apparently, it would make my shifts longer.  Well,  I guess she forgot to tell me that with a key (which I haven't even caught a glimpse of yet), comes a 27 step process for closing.  There are so many steps to cashing out the register and writing down the amount of money in at least three different places, that I just want to stick all of the money in a shopping bag and stuff it in the safe for the next person to deal with.  I don't think the manager got the memo that I really don't need this job and that the whole point was that I can have an easy and carefree way to earn some extra cash.  Responsibility is not what I do during the summer.