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2003-08-16 - 8:11 p.m. |
Listening To:You Don't Know... Cyndi LauperTMI and the blackout
That is too funny. What a silly quiz, SO raunchy. I look at a lot of these quizzes on Quizdiva and I think that perhaps some of the results of these might be more information than most people will want to know. Perhaps posting that you are a �moan� might be too much information for the average person visiting your diary/web log/journal, especially if you have family visiting your site. Or maybe you can be just like me and think it�s too funny not to post regardless of who might see it. I survived the blackout. Like Portia says, the big question is �where were you when the lights went out?� I was at work, and I was stripping down the iced cappuccino machine and getting the girls to sweep the floor, when the whole place went black. I had to ask all the customers to leave and lock the doors and turn everything off. At the time, we didn�t think it would be more than ten, fifteen minutes before we had power again. It was still light enough to see for the most part, so I started the girls cleaning some things up- I told them that we might as well keep busy in the meantime. We got the floors cleaned up and some things stocked up, and as time passed� we started to become a little more worried because it seemed like SUCH a large area was without power. When the girl working in the chip wagon nearby stopped over and told us she�d been listening to the news and that there was no power in the whole city� the girls started to get a little worried. I know all of us had thoughts of possible terrorist attacks� with this being an industrial city, it would be a potential target. Eventually, when it became clear that no-one in the area was getting power back soon, it was decided to move everything perishable into the back where it would stay cooler for a longer time, and send everyone home. While it was kind of nice to get out early (I still felt kind of crummy), the whole thing was kind of a pain. It was difficult to reach anyone else on staff to tell them what was going on, whether or not to be at work� crazy. We did manage okay, and got everything taken care of, and things are pretty much back to normal now. It was funny going in last night and reopening- people kept asking us why we had so few donuts, muffins, no ice and so on� try telling these people that it�s difficult to produce things with no electricity. How much ice did your freezer make during the blackout, dumb*ss? The one guy actually had the nerve to say �You should fire your baker, he�s not doing his job�, My response to that was �We�ve had hydro for half an hour, I think she is doing a great job catching up.� The guy looked embarrassed and clammed up, thank God. I wasn�t rude to the guy, but I don�t feel I have to stand there and listen to some moron criticize someone who�s doing the best they can with the resources available to her. Reading:nothing yet... start a new book this evening Wishing:the last of my cold to go away
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