The Reader Board

I am exhausted.

About five minutes after I clocked in, this guy came in with a huge bag of 8mm film. I think there was twenty-two rolls. Some of them were still in the boxes they came, and they came from our store! The address on the box didn't even have a zip code! We talked about the coming of zip codes and area codes arriving in our lifetime. He was really nice, even though I admitted I wasn't sure what exactly I was doing. I hope his coupon code goes through. I tried to get him to fill out the survey to give me a good review, but I couldn't even find the web address for the damn survey. The reels are from the 60's, and he told me his estranged brother is probably in a few of them. But he is willing to deal with that, because his parents are in their 80's, and there is a film-watching party coming up. When he told me that, I thanked him for not coming in a few hours before the party and then freaking out when realizing that it takes approximately three weeks to process. It was a nostalgic and interesting conversation.

In the stationary aisle, I found some ripped up flowers. And lots of paper from the Sharpie display that said stuff like,
"Alana wuz here."
"Turn up"
"Turn down".

I had to do the reader board. It was a freakin' disaster. I had to go up and down the stairs a bazillion times because I kept forgetting letters. Most of the letters were mixed up, and it took me a long time to find all the ones I needed. I hope I don't have to do that again. And I hope I didn't misspell something! I know I forgot the decimal in "$2.49". But who would think a case of water was $249?