MLAARE -Bye Bye Voice

It's never good to get sick.
Especially when I have to work.
Especially when sickness involves me loosing my voice.

Because at my job.
I talk a lot.
I have to.
I have to ask questions, explain situations, answer customer questions, direct them.
When there are people in the store, there's a lot of talking I have to do in order to make sure that what the customer comes for, is what they get, or at least, they get what is best for them.

It's not easy to do that,
When your voice starts disappearing.
And I don't have a loud voice in the beginning.

It started happening today.
My voice began getting deeper, I couldn't hit higher ranges anymore.
Then it started getting squeaky.
And now...well I can still talk,
But I don't think I'm going to make much progress tomorrow.

I can only hope that I'll wake up and my voice will be fine.
Or else, I won't have to help as many customers in the store tomorrow.
Because really, I don't think I'll last that long.
:S Guess we'll see.

-Sarnic Dirchi

MRS -Wrong Time

I'm rather annoyed at my roommate today.
Why?
Because she decided to take a shower.
RIGHT WHEN I NEEDED TO GET READY FOR WORK!

I mean, I've had this problem before, now.
It happens when the sink and shower are in the same room.
(Note to self, make sure next apt has separate areas for this so it doesn't happen again.)
But usually it's later in the morning.
When I have a shift that starts an hour or so before my work opens.
and she needs to get ready about the same time to go to her work.

This morning though?
Not so.
I had a shift that started even earlier in the morning.
A shift that started at the same time as the last two days.
Yet, for some reason, this roomie decided she needed to take a shower right then.
An hour earlier than usual.
O.o
I barely managed to slide in and grab my contacts before I got locked out.
And unfortunately....
I stayed locked out.
>.< So I wasn't able to fully get ready for the day before I left for work.
Totally annoying.
Especially because I'd been so confident before that this shouldn't happen. Not unless I get scheduled for a particular shift. >.<

Which makes me wonder....
Did she do it on purpose?
Or was it just an accident?
Was she being vindictive for some reason?
Or just decided to get ready earlier in the day?

I dunno, but if it happens again, I'll be sure to ask her if her work schedule has changed or something.
>.<
But I don't want to be late to work just because I couldn't get in to grab my contacts so I can see for the rest of the day.

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -No More Barking

I love dogs,
Truly I do.
But there are moments when I just can't stand them.
Take work earlier today.
There I was, doing my tasks, scrubbing fish tanks, helping customers.

When I became aware of a dog barking elsewhere in the store.
Bark Bark Bark
pause.
Bark Bark Bark
pause.
Bark Bark Bark.

Over and over again.
It got to the point where I could hardly focus on what I was saying to customers because the dog's bark had become so irritating.
To the point where I really wanted to hit something.
Or at least, go find the owner and politely tell them to leave.
Because this dog WOULD NOT SHUT UP.

Unfortunately, the dog was in a training class of sorts.
So I couldn't really interrupt it.
But, seriously. It got on EVERYONE's Nerves.

And it went on for like AN HOUR.
Because that is how long the class was.
And seriously.
It was irritating.
I felt bad for my coworker who had to be so close to the dog for that long.

But I do wonder.
What were the owners doing?
Why weren't they trying to keep their dog at least a little more quiet?
Were they just sitting there like bumps on a log?
Deaf to their dog's barks?
Does he do this all the time?
O.o

Seriously though.
Do not let your dog keep barking!
It's annoying!
Try and get them to stop, because seriously, it was one of the most irritating things I experienced.

-Sarnic Dirchi

MRS -Garbage

Sometimes I wonder at my roommate's logic.
I mean, placing a full garbage bag, on our couch...
Where's the logic in that?
Sure, it's a nice big obvious sign that someone needs to take the garbage out.
But if it just sits there.
What then?
We get a smelly couch.
If the bag has a leak (I sure hope it doesn't) Then we have a smelly, stinky, sticky, messy couch.

Surely, you would make it just as obvious that the garbage needs to go out by placing it on floor in plain sight.
No need to smellyfie our furniture just to make a point that, yes, the garbage does need to be taken out.

>.<

-Sarnic Dirchi

MRS -Mail

It's always been there.
The mail key.
On a handy dandy little hook in the kitchen.
So that whenever someone needs to get the mail,
They can just grab it,
Go check,
And then it will have a place to be put back so it doesn't get lost.

It's been there the last half dozen times I've needed to check the mail.
Except tonight.
Tonight, I discovered that one of my packages had been delivered (better late than never right?)

And I'm not one to wait patiently until Morning.
No, I wanted to check it out right now!
To actually make sure that it was delivered to my address.

Only, when I went to grab the mail key.
It wasn't there.
()_() WHA?!?!!?
Why isn't it there?!

>.<
I have no idea, but I am annoyed. As none of my roommates are home.
And they are not answering my text.
And I have no idea when they will be back!
I mean, it is Christmas Break.
They could have gone home!
But why would the abscond with the mail key!?!?

Really.
Really.
I hope that they come back and get it to me.
As I want to grab those packages before my friends who are in town head back out of town to go to school. :S
Come on roommates....
Respond!
Come home!
Now!!

-Sarnic Dirchi

Update: 11:06pm -Roomies finally returned with mail key so I was able to grab the package! Yes!

MLAARE- ScrapeBurn

I can't believe it's happened twice now.

So, like a week ago, I was cleaning out the bird cages, placing in fresh bedding for the bottom of the cage, and ended up getting a scrape along my arm when I went to grab more bedding from the bin it's contained in.
The edges don't look sharp at all, but if you hit them at just the right angle.
It gives you a nice scrape plus a rug burn that will ache for days afterwards.
Especially if you get such a scrape on part of your arm that brushes against like....everything.
Yikes pain.

Definitely something I didn't want to repeat.
But guess what?
Yah.
>.<
I was doing the bird bedding change.
And what do you know,
I happened to scrape the same arm once more!
This time, the marks are closer to my wrist,
Which isn't a good spot either as my watch tends to rest right in that area, and so...rubs against the wound.

I really hope that there isn't a third time next week.....

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Dog Tags

The Dog Tag machine has become one of my favorite places to help out at.
Why?
Because the last two gentlemen -grandfather aged- who needed help with their tags were very complimentary to me.
^^
It feels great to help out when people express their appreciation for the help,
When they're positive about their short comings and are willing to seek out others to help them complete tasks in less time with less hassle.

I love it when people are so expressive and positive.
It helps me to go back to the rest of my duties with a more positive bounce to my step.
A happier attitude.

Thank you gentlemen, for giving me one more reason to love my work. ^^

-Sarnic Dirchi

Crowded but Alone

The crazy has arrived.
Sure, it arrived, like on Saturday as it was the final weekend before Christmas.
But on Saturday I had like three other coworkers with me to help with the customers.

Today.
I did not.
Today, I was scheduled by myself in my department for my 8 hour shift.
Usually that is not a bad thing.
As morning shifts tend to not be busy.
And I didn't expect it to be busy today either.

But as lunch time hit.
So did the crowds.
I found myself having to tell customers that I had two or three, even four customers before them.
I had to apologize for taking forever to get to the next customer waiting,
Telling them that I was the only one scheduled right now.

It was crazy. Not too crazy as I was able to keep my head a float.
But it definitely left me wishing that I had a coworker to help me out.
As I really do want to make customers happy.
And there is no easier way to make them unhappy than for them to wait for forever to get help.
I had one person go up to the register twice to ask for assistance before I could reach them.

*shakes head*
I hope tomorrow isn't like this.... I really do.
But if anything it's going to get more crazy. :S
Guess we'll see.

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -White Elephant Don'ts

There is one thing I don't like about this time of year.
It's giving gifts.
More importantly.
It's the giving of animals as gifts.
Especially when the giving of an animal takes place in such an event that the person has no control over who gets the gift.
Say, like in a White Elephant Gift Exchange.

Even more so.
I don't like it when people try to fool us. Play the system.

>.<

We had a customer come into the store, and ended up getting a rat from us.
Due to a variety of circumstances with said rat.
We wouldn't be able to extend our usual time frame for returning said pet.
And said customer filled out that paperwork, understanding that they could not return said rat for any reasons once it left our store.

But then, a couple of days later.
A gentleman walked into the store with the paperwork in hand, to return a rat that he had gotten at his work's white elephant gift exchange.
He couldn't take care of the rat, didn't want it as a pet, so he returned it to our store.

The manager on duty accepted it back.
Thinking it was our rat.

Only.
For one. We couldn't accept it back because the paperwork that the person gave us back stated explicitly that we would not take it back!

But the bigger reason. Two.
IT WASN'T OUR RAT!!

No. The little chit who adopted out the rat switched the rats!
We adopted out a full grown rat.
The one that was given back to us in return?
Wasn't full grown, wasn't the same coloring.
And most important of all.
Wasn't the SAME GENDER.

To prevent breeding from happening in our stores we only sell one gender per location. So one store would sell females, while the next store would sell males.

I can't believe her! What in her mind possessed her to even THINK that this was a good idea?
That she could fool us? That she could just give away another rat an expect us to take it back.
WHEN SHE SIGNED PAPERWORK SAYING WE WOULDN'T?!?!

Obviously she wasn't listening, or chose not to remember, or thought we wouldn't question it.
Certainly the manager didn't question it.
Because they didn't know that the rat that was brought back wasn't our rat because they don't work in my department, so they wouldn't know what animal was or wasn't ours.

Yet, I also couldn't believe that she would just give away a rat in a white elephant gift exchange!
Who knew how long the rat had been without food or water, trapped in a tiny plastic tote that gave it no room to turn around?!
Ugh, there are so many words and actions I would like to do to this person.

Animals deserve GOOD FOREVER homes.
They shouldn't be given in a spur of the moment thing.
Let people choose the animals they want to have as pets when they want to have it.
Don't go forcing responsibility on them when they don't want it.

In the end, it's the animal that suffers because of it. >.<

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Small Space

I had a customer come into the store today,
To try and bring their bird back.
(Even though it was over the time frame for returning live pets)

Why did they want to give their bird back?

Because he wasn't singing. Chirping. Making any noise at all really.

Though, it was obvious that his voice was fine.
Because the little bird was chirping like crazy in the store.

They wanted to exchange this bird, for a bird of a different color.
To see if that bird would make noise for them.

But I could already see that it wouldn't solve the problem.

As you see, they brought the bird in, in his cage.
And the cage was TINY!
Honestly, I can see why he wasn't making noise.
Who would be HAPPY in such a tiny space?
I mean, spreading out the wings he hardly had more than an inch or so on either side to move around.

Would YOU be happy to be stuck in a room like a tiny bathroom?
Sure you can LIVE there.
But you wouldn't be HAPPY there.
Because there isn't enough space.
All creatures are more happy and more likely to be vocal when they have space to move around.

So I told the customer that getting a different bird wouldn't change the situation.
What they needed to do was to get a bigger cage.
And maybe get the bird a friend once they did have a bigger cage.
Then there would be more chirping and singing in the house.

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Companion Problems

I came into the store one morning,
To discover that we had had a hamster returned the night before.

Why?
Well, apparently, it had eaten it's companion hamster.
And for some reason, the owner didn't want to keep the surviving hamster anymore.

(In a way I can understand that, in others....not so much.)

What bugged me though,
was that the 'owner' didn't listen to my coworker's words, not to put two hamsters together.

Because they aren't a social creature.
They LIKE being by themselves.

Will even kill to be so once that instinct kicks in.

The are exceptions of course,
Like if the hamsters grew up together in the same litter.

But putting two completely different types of hamsters together?!

Oh no.
There will be only one survivor.

>.< I hate it when people don't listen to us.
Because then the animal ends up coming out the worse of it.

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE - Let Me Answer That Again

There are times where  I wish we were able to put signs up in our stores to save us from having to answer the same questions over and over again.

Of course, there is that thing where people don't read signs, and so we'd get asked the questions anyway.
But it would be interesting to see. Just for a week or so.
If we put up a couple of signs, if those particular questions would decrease or stay the same.

I would put up three. To answer the three most common questions I get in a day.

1. Where are the bathrooms?
Sign: If you are in need of a restroom they are in this corner of the store.

2. Do you have any turtles?
Sign: Turtles are NOT by the Fish. Please go look in the reptile section.
(why would you think turtles would be by the fish? I understand that they're both creatures that need water, but turtles are not fish, wouldn't you place like with like and put turtles with other cold blooded reptiles?)

3. Do you have any dogs?
Sign: Dogs are only in the store on Weekends, please come back then for them.

Yah....
I know it won't make a difference if there were signs.
But I would like to think there would be.

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Lurkers

You gotta love the "Lurkers" that hang out in our store.
Why do I call them Lurkers?

Because they're the customers,
that drop their pets off to get a bath/groom.
And don't proceed to go shop around the store.

Instead, they stand behind items, with their heads sticking to the side/above them.
Staring in the direction of their pet.
Watching the groomers do their work.

Why do they stand behind something?
So their pets won't see them and 'freak out'

Apparently 'out of sight out of mind' works quite well to ensure good behavior.

Though it makes the owner's behavior a little odd on occasion lol.

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -A Customer Scene

I wasn't in the main part of the store when this took place.
I had finally gotten the opportunity to take my lunch break to recharge so I could finish with my departmental tasks.

But apparently, we had a customer come into the store, an older lady, who was looking at our animals.
Particularly our hamsters.
And one hamster caught her eye.

I don't know if she was looking to cause trouble, because really...I doubt anyone else would have 'noticed' anything at all besides that the animal was sleeping.

But to her. This particular hamster looked like it was dying.
Of an upper respiratory infection.

-I don't even know if she knew what she was talking about, from later conversation it seems like she never had a hamster as a pet. At least, not a male one.

And instead of finding one of us and quietly telling us something along the lines of "I think you have a sick hamster."
She decided to stand by the cages and yell.
Yes. Yell.
In the direction of our cashier
-Who btw, can't leave the register and go 'see what's wrong.'

That we had a sick hamster, that it was dying, that it had an upper respiratory infection and that someone should come see.
And....when no one came right away.
She began to yell out that 'no one in this store cared about the animals.'

Basically, she was causing a ruckus.
-I'm surprised I couldn't hear it from the break room. O.o
But our cashier called help over to go check it out.

Which, is about the time I got off, a little after the other help had arrived.
And I came cluelessly onto the scene.
She was being quiet then, I thought my coworker was just helping her, talking to her about the hamsters.
-I heard this whole story after the fact-
And my coworker asked if I could check out a hamster, as it wasn't looking 'good.'

That was a bit surprising to me.
As I had been working around the hamsters all morning. And had not noticed anything out of normal.
They were all looking healthy and fine.
But I willingly came over.
Hamsters are my obsession animal in the store. And I hate to see them unwell. (Hence why I am ranting about this. As I do care about my animals health, and I hate it when people make it seem like I'm not doing my job correctly when in fact I am.)

First glance at the cage.
Wasn't good.
It did look like something horrible had happened to this particular hamster.
As he was lying on his side.
And his eye...well at first glance it looked like the eye had 'popped.'
At least that's what came into my mind. As for a little bit it did look 'dead.'

But guess what?
Animals sleep in funny positions.
I opened the cage, and he stirred.
To the woman's surprise.
"Oh! It was sleeping?"
Cue me mentally rolling my eyes. YES! Hamsters are NOCTURNAL. They SLEEP during the day.
*shakes head* (I'm surprised he slept through all this yelling you were doing.)
Seeing him moving I could see that his eye had not popped, that the eye itself was perfectly fine. Yay)
Instead, pulling him out of the cage for a closer look,
I saw that he had scratched himself -can happen with hamsters- causing a small red scab right around the eye. (giving it a that brief 'popped' look because it was red, and the eye was closed.)
Nothing major. He was healthy otherwise.

Seriously, I doubt anyone else noticed it.
She reminded me strongly of another coworker of mine, who will constantly come to us in the department concerned that an animal is sick, when in reality, it's just fine. Which is bugsome as it takes me from other tasks I should be doing to ensure that the hamster is fine. (notsomuch if the animal actually isn't healthy, but when it is...)

In any case,
I helped the lady out. Showed her the hamster was fine, that he had just scratched his eye, but he was fine. And also pulled out a couple other animals that she was 'concerned' about to show her that they too were also fine.

I only heard about the events leading to everything a while after she had left the store when the cashier told me.

And it's seriously bugging me.
It's a personal offense to me to have people criticizing the state of my animals.
To know that this woman was yelling out, so many other customers in the store could hear, that we had sick hamsters and that we didn't care about them? (especially when it wasn't true!)
It's offensive. It's irksome. It's bad for business.

Seriously, lady.
Why could you not have come to us quietly about your concerns?
What possessed you to make a scene?
Did you have a moment of 'activism' or something? Did you need to have some attention brought your way?

Personally....I'll probably never know.

And I feel offended.
On a personal level.
How many people left that store thinking that we weren't doing our best to care for the animals?
How many opinions of our care of the animals have changed in those few minutes.
When that lady decided to take matters into her own loud obnoxious hands and make a scene?

>.<
Let it be known though. That we care about the health of our animals. If we notice something wrong, we don't sell that animal! We take it off the sales floor and make sure it's perfectly healthy before bringing it back out.
Do not criticizing our care.
Do not criticize my coworkers.
You have no idea what we've been doing all day before you came in,  you have no idea what tasks we may be in the middle of trying to complete, or customers we may be helping.

Think before acting.
Speak softly for others not to hear so that in case the problem is nothing to worry about, it doesn't become a concern for others. Even if the problem is something to worry about, there is no need to draw everyone's attention to it.
Especially if it's your FIRST time noticing the problem! It could have been an isolated incident. Sure, if it happens repeatedly I don't blame you for letting others know. But a one time thing? Speak softly to a coworker about it. We are willing to go check out the problem as quickly as possible and make sure things are alright.

Causing a scene doesn't do anything but harm. Especially when you don't have all the facts.

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -In the Cage

O.o
I had a customer today,
Who asked, while I was heading to get them their new pet bird,
if she and her child could come into the enclosure with me.

-As we have a small room connected to the bird cages that allows us to get them out without the chance of them escaping and flying out of reach of our tall ceilings.

I have to say heavy emphasis on 'small.'
As in, having two people in the cage is rather crowded.
Seriously, its really only a one person place.

Yet this customer acted like this was no big deal. That she had in fact done it before.
I don't know why she thought she could watch me catch her bird from inside.

And personally, I didn't want these two strangers in a space small enough for them to be breathing down my back the whole time I was trying to catch their pet.

Additionally, I had no idea if they actually could, or if it was against policy.
So, I stammered out something along those lines.
It was small, only workers could go in.

She gave me this look that convinced me someone before me had let them in. Whether it was in this store or a different I don't know.
Because her words were "Come on sweetheart, we can't watch this time."

At least she didn't push it. Because really.
That space could not have fit the three of us with any comfort at all.

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Tortoise

I cringed when I saw him walk into the store.
Our Tortoise Customer.
An older gentleman, who, for like two months strait,
-nearly everyday for two weeks at one point-
Came into the store.
Why?
As by the name.
It was with questions about tortoises and what they needed to be cared for.
It would have been fine, I like customers that have a lot of questions.
But this gentleman.....wouldn't ask new questions.
He would ask the same questions along with new ones.
As if to quadruple check that we would still say the same thing.

Which is difficult if one talks to different employees, because overall, we will say the same thing, but once you get into specifics, opinions can change.

In any case....it's always a hazard to approach this particular customer,
Because you can find yourself standing there 'helping' him for over an hour.
As the way this gentleman talks, it's hard to break away from him.

So, when I saw him come into the store today.
I cringed.
Because I did not want to have to go over the whole Tortoise conversation again.

But finally, after approaching all the other customers nearby to see if they needed help first, I asked him if he was doing alright.

And he simply said "I'm fine, Thank you." and left it at that.

O.o Huh?
What happened to the million questions?! (it's been forever since I've had that short of a conversation with him.)
Apparently...he's finally relaxed about the newest member of their family.

Still, it left me feeling a bit....weird.
I mean, I was relieved to not get stuck with him,
yet I can't help wonder if there was something else underlying his short response.
Maybe he really was content.... I hope so.
But something felt....incomplete....about not talking to him for so long this time around.

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Provoking the Animal

There I was,
It was basically close.
And a customer wanted to look at a hamster.
Sure, no problem.
I'd spoken to them a little earlier.
Knew they wanted one,
but they'd been dithering for the last little bit about whether or not they wanted to get said hamster tonight.
They'd settled on one.
I was waiting for them to decide.
When one of the customers decided to stick their finger in front of a different hamster's mouth.

I have no idea what possessed them to do that.
Because I'd told them at least twice before that point in time.
That if you stick your finger in front of a hamster's mouth.
They WILL bite it.

Perhaps they didn't believe me.
But it's true.
Stick something in front of their mouth and hamsters will naturally try and see if said object is edible.
Thankfully, the bite is usually a gentle one. A first taste.

"Don't stick your finger in front of his mouth, he'll bite." I said, right as the hamster did just as expected.
Bit the finger.
Lightly, not enough to draw blood.

But instead of pulling away from that 'warning' bite.
The customer kept their hand there.
"He will bite you." I warned again to deaf ears.
As on cue, the hamster bite the customer again, a little harder, and then right after, bit again, this time drawing blood.
Finally the customer reacted, pulling their hand straight up.
With the hamster hanging on for another second and a half, before letting go.

"Ow! It bit me!" the customer cried.
"I told you they would bite you, if you stuck your finger in front of their mouth." I said. Wondering if this person was perhaps deaf. Because they hadn't heard me the first half a dozen times I'd warned them about it!

Again, customer didn't seem to hear me, focusing only on the blood coming from their finger.
I offered to get a band-aid, but they declined.

And then.
They commented. "I don't like that hamster, It's demonic."

()_()
Ahem.
NO ITS NOT!!!

You cannot call a hamster 'demonic' 'monster' 'aggressive' or anything like that
WHEN YOU FOOLISHLY STUCK YOUR FINGER IN FRONT OF ITS MOUTH WHEN YOU WERE WARNED OF THE CONSEQUENCE!! (at least a half a dozen times.)
THEY BITE!

You set yourself up to get hurt there.
Do not blame the animal for your stupidity.  

>.<

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Secret Room?

I overheard two of my managers today,
Talking about how one told one of my coworkers,
that There were Secret rooms above the office space.
And that if they told how to get into the this secret room, it would not be a secret.

And I'm actually not sure if they were serious or not.
It's not implausible that there be secret rooms, an attic of sorts, the ceiling is high enough to have a second story. And there is a portion partitioned off, that area that holds the ground floor rooms that aren't seen by most customers.

Now I'm really curious.
Are there rooms above?
Can they only accessed from a certain part of the store?

Who knows.
I would think that there aren't though.
I hear enough about the store, that I would have heard of these rooms before now.

The only access I know of, heads right up to the roof, no exits from there.
What would be stored up there anyways, everything we need is already in the main store.

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Curves

I saw a customer come into the store today,
Wearing super tall heels.
Like the 5-6'' high variety.

Which isn't always something to remark upon,
Except,
She's an older woman,
with a back that is pretty curved, making her lean over like a candy cane.

Which gave off the impression that she was about to fall over.

It still boggles my mind a little.
How she can wear heels so high...and have a curved back, and be so rock steady on them.
I can hardly walk a straight line normally in heels, yet here she is...doing it.

I totally admire her. :)

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Bird Bath

The 'helpfulness' of kids can move into a scary level sometimes.

Take the children of a customer who came in to replace two of her birds she lost.
Apparently, soon after getting the birds, all the family went to bed, exhausted.
Or so it seemed.
For the two smallest in the household, both younger than 3.
Snuck out of their beds while the rest of the family slept.
With a mission in mind.
Their birds you see,
Needed a bath.

So, they somehow managed to take the birds
(whether it was the whole cage, or the birds themselves)
And gave them the said bath.
In the bath tub.

The little ones...had drowned the birds.

O.o 

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Water

Water declared war on me at work today.
I have no idea what I did to offend it so.

There I was pulling a cart that had a variety of things including a couple pitchers of water on it.
Minding my own business.
When I took a turn at a nice gentle curve.
Nothing jerky that's for sure.

And a Clatter/Whoosh was heard behind me.

What was it?
You guessed it. One of the pitchers had fallen off the cart to spill water everywhere.
Not cool.
And that necessitated me going back to the back of the store to get a mop to mop up the water everywhere.
I returned the mop back to it's place once the spill was clean,
and not even thirty seconds later, with me pushing the cart this time, the second pitcher decides to fall off as well!!
The cart was being a bit bumpy...possibly causing one or both of the pitchers to fall off the cart....
But seriously!!
I had to go back to the back to grab that mob again,
To clean up the next spill!
Ugh.

At least it didn't happen a third time or I might have called it quits for the day then and there.

-Sarnic Dirchi 

MLAARE

I love my customers;
Especially the ones that have interesting trademarks about them.

Today, we had one of our 'crazy' cat ladies come in.
You know the type; that buys a lot of cat food to feed all her cats and many of the strays in the neighborhood.

What's unique about this one;

Is that she writes down all they types of cat food that she needs and the quantities she needs on a paper plate.

Yah. You read that right. A paper plate.

O.o
I have no idea why.
Why not a pad of paper?
Why not on your phone?
Why a paper plate?

Who knows, personally I think it's round shape is easier for her to hold. :)

-Sarnic Dirchi

MRS Dishes

I finally took some action tonight.
Regarding a situation in our kitchen, that has been long over due for a takeover.

For you see, since the day I moved in,
There have been dishes -clean ones mind you- in the dishwasher.

I originally thought that they were my first roommate's as she moved in before me.

But apparently, they are from far longer than that.
For they have remained untouched, unmoved, for months.
And considering that particular roommate....and like all the roommates like to handwash their dishes.....
-Perhaps they too have been waiting for the 'owner' to empty out the dish washer.
it is unlikely that the dishes are any of theirs.
So therefore.

I have claimed them as my inheritance!
Yay for obtaining a random assortment of dishes from who knows. :)

Amongst them, my proudest item to obtain.....is a popcorn bowl. ^^ YAY!! :D

Now hopefully. The Dishwasher can be used more regularly....as long as I remember to take out my new dishes once they're clean. ^^;;

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Patterns

No one will ever realize how much entertainment I get out of arranging the animal habitat's, especially the hamster cages, so that patterns are made out of the houses, wheels, and water bottles.

They also won't realize how disappointing it is to try and get everything into a pattern...to have it not work out. So frustrating.

-Sarnic Dirchi

My Roommate Struggles (MRS)

MRS.

Dealing with Roommates who like to have the apartment warmer than 76 degrees.

A silent war is taking place.
As I can't sleep when it's higher than that.
Preferably I'd want it lower than 74 in order to sleep...yet they feel it's too cold.

But Compromise is the name of the game in this house.
Or more aptly.

The Silent War of Wills has commenced.

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -How We Met

One of these days it's going to happen.
It's like a story waiting to happen really.

I had a gentleman come into work today. Older sort, white hair, kindly Grandfather attitude.
And he, like all other gentlemen of his generation, said that someone needed to scoop me up.
As in -Marry me.-
Because I'm. Sweet, Cute, Adorable, Helpful, Nice, any of those other good descriptive words.
And there has to be a young man out there for me.
Lol this one actually looked at my hands to see if I was still single, and seemed a bit flabbergasted that I was.

One of these days....these kindly Grandfathers are going to get it into their head,
That they have a good grandson who is my age who is not yet married,
and they'll set us up, with the rest being history.

Or well a story for the books.

"How did you guys meet?"
"I had a customer in my store, and one day he decided to set me up with his grandson."

Totally going to happen, just wait. ;)

Maybe the story will get more interesting in that I rescued him from a biting animal.... ;) lol

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Sleep

Sometimes I'd like to be able to sleep in any position.
Especially after working a long busy shift.

My Life As A Retail Employee

Here and henceforth known as: MLAARE

You have no idea how giddy this news makes me.
Surfing the internet, I discovered that the smallest Hamster in the world is the Roborovski Hamster.
It only gets to be 2 inches long at the most.



And I sell them in my store.

I get to play with the world's smallest hamster everyday at work!
So. Awesome!
What's even better about these pets?
They almost never bite!
Seriously. I've yet to be bitten by them. Which makes them great pets!

What doesn't make them great pets...is that with their small size, also comes a ton of speed.
They're quick, and if you relax at the wrong moment.
Whoosh.
They're gone. Lost forever in the cracks of your house. 

But still super duper Adorable! :)

-Sarnic Dirchi