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Sunday, March 27, 2005

Full Moon

I knew there was a full moon out tonight. I have been getting weird customers. 1 Yesterday, I had a guy add on a reservation an hour before he came. His credit card declined and I think it was a debit card even though it did not directly say that. I concluded that from him saying that he will just go to an ATM to deposit enough money to rent the car. Sure, I close 4 hours from that time so that would be no problem. Well later I saw him picking up his person, but did not come over to pick up his car rental. Oh well, I did not feel like canceling his rental for him. Sometimes, I want to be a bitch and not do the nice thing.
2 Also yesterday, lady rents a car and I gave her easy directions to the interstate. Yeah, she calls and asks about missing a sign to the road she wanted and was headed to something else. She describes herself as the lady with the Sunbird when I gave her a Sunfire. She asks what does she do, she is in the boondocks. The way I sent her was through the city. She says she can pull over into a gas station to ask for directions since I can not figure out where she is located by her descriptions of road signs (she called Norwalk, Norfolk). I then ask her if she turned left when she exited the airport. No, she turned right. I must have a speech impediment. She figures out she needs to turn around back towards the airport. After she finally gets to her destination, she calls again. She wants to know how to get the window back up, how does she turn on the dashboard light so she can see how fast she is going, and then wants to know how to lock the door. While she is asking all these questions she figures it out on her own and hangs up.
3 3 minutes before I close at midnight, guy wants a spare set of keys since he locked his keys inside his car. And there is extremely loud music in the background. I find the spare set after digging through a bucket full of keys and explain his options. Option 1 would be I sending the spare set in a taxi and he pays for the cab fare. He asks how much it would cost. I don't know, especially since he never told me where he is. Also I drive a car, not ride in a taxi. Option 2 would be coming tomorrow morning to pick up the keys at the rental counter since I am closing, but I could wait for him if he needs them now. He asks his buddies what to do and he decides on coming the next morning. I come in to work today to discover he never came by to pick them up. Maybe he found them in his coat pocket after leaving the bar. About 8 tonight I place the spare set back believing he is never coming.
4 Today I had a lady add on a reservation using a coupon brand I hate. It's not the coupon itself I hate, it is the fact that these customers don't actually read the rules and stipulations. All the coupons of this brand must be used with a reservation only (no walk ups), on certain days, for certain time periods (like a weekend rental or rent for a week), and certain cars can these coupons be used with. All the customer reads is $15 off or free upgrade or free day. Customers who break those rules upon returning early void the coupon used (which they can't understand since we are suppose to kiss their ass) and they don't just get the coupon back once it is voided. And no we are not digging through mountains of paperwork to find their stupid coupon. Hopefully she won't be a problem. She acted a little dingy asking immediately what the price is. Did the reservation operator not give her the total? Then she got all confused over what she was signing. There is that speech impediment again. And where the car was located.
I also shopped tonight online but my stupid cell phone has problems going to pages within a website. So I reordered stuff on my computer. I got some books on fairies and elfs and um, spells for witches. Don't get me wrong I am researching for my fairytale book. I read books on gods and goddessess in cultures spanning the world. I studied Japan, Africa, France, Celts, and Native Americans before and after Columbus in college. I have yet to be converted to any religion despite my Mom's fears. I even took a summer class on the end of the world ending at the stroke of midnight of the year 2000. That was my favorite class, especially hearing stories of people of stockpiling supplies because the world is going to fall apart and only they will be saved.
Funny, it is now 2005 and I am still here. In fact, I went to work at Walmart on January 1st, 2000 and it was just another workday. What a shame. I was hoping the computers would crash and electricity would shut off so I could go back to bed. Oh yeah, also knowing I could stop paying my student loans because of Y2K. I'm just not that lucky. I also ordered a cute ring not in the catalog at work. They actually had my ring, 5. Walmart has very few size 5 rings. I know from experience. Anyhow, post later. Happy Easter. Bye!

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