Alone

It was things not going to plan at work.

You see, I had expected my coworker to show up around 11:30 today, to be my second in the dept.

But 11:30 came and went....with no sign of my coworker. We called, but just got a voicemail.

And at that moment, when my coworker should have been there.

It got crazy at work.

Customers.

Endless customers.

It wasn't a bad rush or anything.

In retrospect it was pretty slow for a Saturday.

But the fact that I was by myself.

When I'd been expecting help.

The fact that I had to deal with the customers alone, with no backup expected.

It made it worse than it should have been.

Made it rather tense.

As it wasn't the plan.

The plan was for the coworker to show up.

To relieve me so I could go take a break.

So that we could work together to help all the customers.

Instead.

I was called in all directions at once.

And had to help customers as quickly as I could so I could get to the next customer in the never ending line of customers that seemed to be filling the store.

So it's not surprising that I got stressed out from it.

That I got tense.....

And ended up with a headache.