Friday - 9/25/09, My PDA sucks

I may have lost this morning's stuff already. I'll have to wait until I get home to check it. Anyway, people really drive me nuts. There is the group that brings various mentally challenged people into the zoo. Whenever they are here they always eat from my stand. They usually spend between $75 and $100. So it boosts my sales when they come up. The problem is the chaperones with them are a pain in the butt. They don't read signs. We don't have fries again today, and they ignored my sign saying that. Then when I told them they got mad. Then they ordered 8 hot dogs, and I only had 4 more made, but they take less than 2 minutes in the microwave. Well I guess that was too long of a wait, although I got other things together while they were cooking. I usually don't sell a lot of pretzels, so I only had three in there. I had made 4 and sold one. She wanted all of them, and asked how long it would take for more. I told her about 5 minutes. She didn't want to wait that long. So after she left I made some new ones. I figure she'll be back for more. Then like usual, she had a fit about the total price. They've only eaten hear almost every day for the past two weeks. You would think by now that they would know the prices.
I wish my fryer was working. I got a lot of requests for fries, and could have made a lot more money, but maintenance can't seem to figure it out. A guy was in, and he turned on the fryer. Then he took the hood apart, and concluded what I already knew. The buzzing I heard was just the electronic air filter. What he didn't know was that if you left the fryer on for any length of time it would set the hood alarm off. I told him this, and he didn't believe me. He turned on the fryer, and sure enough, two minutes later the alarm went off. He looked at me, and asked if that was what I meant. I told him it was, and he asked me how to stop it. I told him the only way to do so was to turn off the fryer. Shouldn't he know this, he is the one who was here to fix it. Well, he took the hood apart; banged on a few things, put it back together. Then he turned it on, and yet again the alarm went off. So he turned it off and told me he didn't know how to fix it, and left. That sounds about right for maintenance.
I got home Friday night, and got things ready to go up to the bears game. Once Cathy got home and changed we left. We met Josh and his mom there. It was a rather depressing game. They ended up losing. If this is what they are going to look like all season there is no way we will win the cup this year. One thing to remember though is a lot of them are only here for preseason, and then the Bears will cut them....