Busy week

Wednesday picked up niece from daycare and found her schedule on the fridge. Guess my sister doesn't like me distrupting it. Watched a movie and ate dinner when it was over, otherwise she won't eat at all. Went outside to play and then she colored hearts on scratch paper for her preschool friends. No heart picture for me. She chatted on her friend Eli who is her best friend. I asked what they do together; draw pictures, stack blocks, play with clay. Yes, yes, and yes. They play on the playground together, they like the slide. Then she got distracted tearing the paper off the crayons so I stopped asking questions. She was awake when sister got home and niece jumped up excited to tell what we did.

Thursday was sorta busy at work. Told a guy about my impending trip to California and he freaked that I was never coming back. Such a trauma it would be if I quit and moved away. Well, so far I am just going to be gone one week and there are things called email, phones, and letters to keep in touch with if I found something better.

Friday I was highly stressed for a few hours. Had customers calling to extend their contracts and arguing the extra cost while I got 10 people standing in line in front of me and the phone calls gets very upset if I put them on hold for 20 minutes (they want to argue to the death). Then my coworkers come by asking how many cars I need. Every minute I get to breathe, I get busy again cause I'm the only person working the counter. Then the bossman shows up unexpectedly and unravel with my stressful night. He will get me someone to work with me. I try to be composed and on top of things when man who gives me raises arrives, but I cracked under the stress. When I visited the restroom, I come back to find yet another customer at the counter waiting to return his car. He joked how he bribed the outdoor workers standing at the counter to return the car, but they refused. Yes, I said, they would refuse because they don't know how to return cars in the computer. Besides that, they don't know my password and I like to keep it that way. He laughed.

One extension customer actually threatened to take his company's business to our competition if I didn't do exactly what he wanted. He can try that b.s. someplace else, it doesn't work over here. And after his argument, I actually I wouldn't cry if he never came back. I can not reset our computer system to fulfill his wishes no matter how important he thinks he is. I have other customers besides him to attend to.

Then I get the woman who begged for help cause she needed a car to get to her hotel in another city, but she has no means to pay for it. She does have her son's credit card, will that do? No, credit card and driver's license must match the same person. Besides that, I have no cars available. Then she wants directions to a Walmart to have her son wire money into a temporary bank card she has, cause now the account is empty. Can't accept a bank card that does not have her name on it. I got four customers lining up behind her and she won't leave. I said, I'm sorry, I wish I could help her more, but I can't. She didn't get the hint that was her cue to leave. She doesn't know what to do and she needs my help to tell her how she gets a car rented when she has no means to pay for it. Finally, the customer waiting right her starts asking about the club member shuttle location and I explain we don't have one, thus started helping him and ignoring the lady. She finally grabs her stuff and walks away.

No DVDs tonight cause I was busy reading my new Oprah's Magazine on Love. Not the most insightful though. It took a few authors a few marriages to figure out people don't change just because you believe they should be just like you. Apparently they didn't figure this out during the first marriage. Told a new gal about finishing my book for my niece. She got all excited that I'm going to be rich and famous and never have to work again. Um, that's not how it works. I mean, how many career novelists can you name. They all have jobs like journalist, teacher, politician, entertainer, athlete, etc. She saw my point.

Well, better go. Gotta sleep to wake up tomorrow and get ready to leave. Later.