The Small Problem

"It's an outrage!" She yelled, waving her receipt in front of my face with enough vigor I could have used it as a fan. "The last time I did a return they made me pay a dollar! A DOLLAR! Why did I have to pay more for the same item? I mean, it was broken. And I was just getting a new one. Shouldn't I be able to get it for the same exact price?! It doesn't matter if it was on sale then but isn't now. I shouldn't have had to pay more money!"
I let her tirade wash over me as I quickly gathered together her order, double checking that everything was in correct because I really didn't need this crazy lady to come back for a round two. It wasn't like I could do anything about her problem. I wasn't a cashier. I wasn't a manager. I honestly didn't know why she was trying to convince me that I needed to be the one to solve her problem. I had no power over it. 
Sighing quietly in relief, I tied up her order and held it out to her. "I'm sorry about that." I said offering her a smile. "But here's your order, let me know if I can do anything more to help." Which, I really really hoped she wouldn't take me up on that offer. I didn't need another fifteen minute long rant ringing in my ears. 

-Inspiration from a customer at work

Can I Get Some Quiet?

Her voice grated on my ears. It was too soft, holding just the wrong amount of caring emotion that I'd grown to associate with fake feelings. It set my teeth on edge and she'd been speaking in that manner for the past twenty minutes. I again glanced at the time on my phone, my fingers tightening around it. Not even a minute had passed! Gah! I felt like just standing up and screaming at her to shut up and be quiet or at least storm out of the room to get away from it. Why did she have to speak in such a tone? Why? It grated at my nerves like nails on a chalkboard. Someone else should speak, someone else should interrupt, yet she kept talking. Uninterrupted as the others just sat and listened to her. 

-Inspiration from being in church today.

Brain at work: I'm awake! All the ideas!!!! We'll do allll the ideas!!
Brain at home: *yawns* Sooo sleepy. What is words??

New Ticket Please

I darted up the stairs, skidding to a stop in front of the ticket desk, the bag I had slung over my shoulder swinging wide to hit the desk with a loud thunk that seemed to echo around the semi-quiet room. "H-Hey!" I managed, trying to catch my breath. I shoved my hand into my pocket, searching for my ticket. I flashed the receptionist, a woman with shoulder length black hair that curled inwards towards her. "I ne--nee...sorry." I took a breath as she raised a cool eyebrow at me. "I need to exchange my ticket." I placed the slightly crumpled form on the counter. "I believe my agent called to explain the situation?" 
Her eyes flicked up and down taking in my appearance and apparently choosing to weigh and judge me for every little wrinkle in my clothing in the process before she deigned to respond to me. "Only two carry-on's are allowed on the plane at a time." She stated in a voice dripping with ice. 
I glanced to the four bags I had slung about my person. "Right. Right. I'll consolidate I promise." I assured her. Slipping my smallest duffle off my shoulder. "But, the ticket?" 
She continued to eye me before slowly, acting like I was making her touch acid, pulled the paper towards her. "You crumpled it." She frowned.
"It was just in my pocket, I'm sure it reads just fine." I said only managing to keep my smile in place. What was her deal? 

-Inspiration from a dream I had from my nap today.

Still Here

It's unfortunate....that heading to bed last night didn't take the headache away like I was hoping it would.
No, the evil thing decided to wake me up just after 230am pounding like there was no tomorrow.
Taking Meds and heading back to bed allowed me to sleep for a couple more hours...before a bad dream woke me, which in combination with my aching head and the fact that I would be needing to get up in like an hour anyways...
Kept me up.
I took a shower to try and get rid of the pounding pain.
But no go.
The headache was like a white hot poker in my skull. Behind the left eye.
And usually the only solution I've found to help it....
Is to actually go to work.
Even though I felt horrible as I drove in today. With my skull pounding like there was no tomorrow.
Mostly because when I go to work, I end up moving my arms a lot, using the tense muscles. Relaxing them. Because most of my job is cleaning. 
So cleaning helps to relieve the tension and helps to make the headache go away.

Which it did for the most part...
The thing is still lurking about, but thankfully it's faint and hopefully a good night's sleep tonight will soothe the beast of a headache away from me. 

The Wrong Group?

So my roomies and I were out Pokemon hunting. More specifically we were out looking for  raids that had legendary birds in them. Specifically the Zapdos as I hadn't yet had the chance to go catch one and the bird is only in the gym for like a week or so....and the week was already half over. :S 
Today was my first day of having time to go venture out. So me and the roomies (who've already caught their birds) went out hunting.
And found a gym that was under raid that had a ton of time left on the clock for us to be able to wait and gather a crowd of people in order to fight the legendary bird.
-As you can't take on these birds by yourself, you need a lot of people to help-

And let me say....the group that ended up gathering, like 9 of us....
Had such a weird energy/aura about them.
It was just an odd mixture of people.
That wasn't quite the nails on a chalkboard feeling, but I was definitely looking forward to fighting the bird and leaving because I didn't want to stick around too long.

Unfortunately...hanging out with that group for the time that we did....
Must have been too much for me because I've ended up with a headache. Which is NOT fun. 
*exhales* 
It may also be partially caused by me actually attempting to take a nap after work, after many days of being unable to get enough sleep....

But I'm thinking it's mostly the odd energy of those people that just caused issues.

Frustrating People

I had to deal with a rather irritating customer at work today.
Which was made slightly worse by the fact that the store had barely been open 30 minutes when she walked in the door with an attitude that didn't bode well.
The next twenty minutes were spent with this customer with me quietly growing more frustrated with her because she was acting like she expected me to know nothing about the products that she wanted to know about and wanted me to go get the 'expert.' which considering how long I've worked at the store....I'm basically the expert.

But when I get asked weird questions like: 
"Does this hairball preventative gel have calories in it? How many?" 
or "Can you recommend something to give my cat so that he'll drink water?" 
"Is this litter scented or unscented that comes in the disposable trays?" 
"I don't care what brand of food it is I just need to find beef flavored cat food where is it?"

Then I'm totally thrown for a loop.
Because a) they're weird questions and b) why in the world would it matter? or c) how did you even think there would be something like that?

It's like....I know the answers to a lot of things, but because you asked me questions I don't quite have the answers to, it makes me feel dumber and look dumber in your eyes because I 'don't know everything.' 

XP bleh. 
I could totally feel a tension headache coming on because this woman was sooo difficult to deal with and help because she was very particular in what she thought her needs were, but she wasn't giving me enough detail to be able to adequately help her meet those needs.

Thankfully, a little bit of Excedrin taken after that encounter helped to head off the headache I could feel forming.
Because I did not want to have to suffer through an 8 hour shift because of one customer.