The
other night I was having a pretty bad night.
As
you know, my workers are quitting in droves. The ones who are sticking around
are pretty new so it’s a little difficult to manage them right now since I have
to keep fielding questions from them at all hours of the night.
Anyway,
I ended up with a shift on a Wednesday night. It was about 8:58 and we hadn’t
seen anyone for about an hour, so my partner and I started closing up shop. At
9:00 a family came in and asked if we were closed. Most nights I would tell
them to f*ck off, but they had kids. So I let them in. They didn’t take too
long, but by the time they got their ice cream, it was about 9:05. Not so bad.
Then,
descending like the hordes of pests that they are, an entire floor of students
came in. I could have told them to leave, but there were about twenty of them.
Good sales on a slow day. Plus, aside from the first girl who was a rude little
bitch (promptly got told) they were really nice. They emptied out their change
into our tip jar so that was very kind of them.
Finally
we were done. All students out. I go to grab the sign…and another small group
of friends is trying to walk in. I told them we were closed, when a little
voice asked me if she could please get ice cream for her interns because they
were working all night.
Having
been an intern (student teaching) I understood. So I let them all in. And when
I found out that the intern girl was paying out of her own money and not a DU
credit card, I gave her a discount.
So
yeah, I’m a little nice. Sometimes.
Challenge
to my Readers:
Sometimes
when you have a bad day, you need to do something kind for someone else to make
yourself feel better. It works. I promise.
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