Lesson Five - Tempers, Belts and Peanut Butter

Today was a busy day at work today. My boss was really grumpy. To be honest he has a pretty short fuse and can get mad pretty easily at the smallest of things. Today was no exception, however I could tell he was already having a crap day when I got in to start my shift.

Lesson: Don't cross the boss.

Whilst for the most part I find my boss approachable and such, he has a shocking temper. I didn't really cross him today, but after seeing him react to certain people today (which was justified) I know that if you piss him off, you seriously have to watch out. Our assistant store manager is cool though, she actually is good at keeping his temper in line. Too bad she wasn't here today.
Today a guy came in with a problem with his PSP. He said his son couldn't upload any video files onto his PSP, whereas his other son could. Now he seemed nice enough and I tried to help him, but it was an exceptional situation... I could not see what could be the source of the problem. I offered him the phone number to Sony, so he could call them and find out from them (after all, they are the manufacturers, they have people for this sort of thing). But that wasn't good enough for him, and he insisted I do something. What? What the hell am I supposed to do? I can't think of anything new to offer other than the phone number of someone who can help. Then the inevitable came, 'Let me speak to your manager.'
'Oh great...'
Well I went out the back and got my manager and he was not happy. The guy was demanding to know what my manager was going to do about his problem. He offered the same suggestions that I made and that was not good enough. He then eventually left but not before saying, 'I'll be coming back for you.'
Seriously, what the hell does that mean? Honestly what a tool.

Today was also irritating because I wore my old belt, it is almost snapping off completely. I don't know why, I am actually smaller than I was before. It's quite bizarre. Needless to say things were pretty uncomfortable, I was always worried that it might break off completely leaving me with a busted belt and pants that would keep falling down.

Lesson: A good belt can be the difference between good day and a crappy one.

I guess it's a bit like having a stone in your shoe. Imagine having a stone in your shoe during a run and you can't stop, yeah, that bad. I was sort of walking on egg shells so as to not break my belt. At the same time, I was also walking on egg shells around my boss who could explode any minute because of the crap day he was having. Yeah it was like that. But my Dad bought me a new belt today, so I don't have to worry for a while. It's leather (but then again so was this other one). Oh well, let's hope this one lasts. :P

I also tried something that I saw on Family Guy. There was some little cut away where two guys were in a car accident, one was drunk and eating chocolate and the other was drunk and eating peanut butter. Well after their head on collision, Officer Reeses (like in Reeses Pieces) can to the scene. After he asked them what happened, one barely said 'He got chocolate in my peanut butter.' Reeses tried some and it was delicious, then he killed the two guys and the rest is history. They don't have peanut butter cups here in Australia, so naturally I was curious. We had some cooking chocolate in the fridge and some peanut butter in the pantry and well... You do the math.

Lesson: Chocolate + Peanut Butter = Delicious sweet snack

It is really really nice! But I wouldn't have it too often, it's really rich. I can't have anything more than maybe two or three pieces of chocolate with some peanut butter. Oh, so nice. But oh, so rich. As you can tell, it has been a pretty mundane Sunday, but it was not without it's lessons. I have the day off tomorrow. I will be cleaning my room again, I'm going to try and make some room for some of my things.

Take care of yourselves.

James