Monday - 09-21-09 - The last day of summer

Today is the last official day of summer, and I'm more than ready for it to be over. I had one last fun weekend. We spent all day on Saturday at HersheyPark. It was a really fun time.
My sister, Ang, and her family met Cathy and I at our house around 9:30 that morning. They checked out the animals, then we headed up. We didn't get home until after 10 that night. It was a long day for everyone, but I think over all everyone had a fun time.
Sunday I stayed home from church. I was just too tired to drive up. I did some things I needed to get done around the house, and rested.
Today was a bad day from the start. I came in to find out that somehow they messed up my load box, and it is now $20 over. I guess that's better than being $20 short. Then I got to the stand to find it extremely dirty, and unorganized, which I should have expected. I can't seem to take more than a day off and not come back to a mess. Then I read the log book, and found that there is another register error. It’s not changing the Date of Business (DOB) each morning, and if it was wrong I had to call IT.
Well the DOB was wrong, so I called IT. The guy called back a few minutes later, and he went in remotely, and got it updated. He told me that if it doesn't start updating itself then they will have to put in another new register. The funny thing is they just gave me a new register on Thursday of last week. But if that's what's needed to fix it, then I guess that's what they will have to do.
So after I got off the phone with IT I started setting up, but with all the things that were wrong set up took longer than usual. I was barely ready to go at 10:00 when it was time to open. Once I got the stand open I started doing the needed cleaning I had.
The first thing I did was the back room. I figured I wouldn't be too busy first thing in the morning, and could go back there without missing too many people. I was able to get that done without any known guests. I don't think anyone came up. The next area to work on is the pizza/dish area since that is in the back of the stand.
While doing the pizza/dish area I could tell the zoo was getting a little busier. I got two guests that came up to buy things. The next area I needed to do is also in the back, but its closer to the front area, and I can look really easily for any guests.
I got all the stuff done that required me to be in the back, and it was about lunch. I was going to take my lunch then, but decided I should wait just in case I got any guests over the lunch hour. So instead I started working on cleaning the pretzel oven that wasn't cleaned properly last night.
I was able to get the pretzel oven, and some other needed cleaning done, with only one interruption. So I figured since it didn't look too busy I would eat my lunch. For once I was able to eat without getting a customer. Surprisingly by about 12:15 I was almost done with all the cleaning I could do before closing today.
The end of what I had to do took me until about 1, but that was also with stopping to wait on guests. That gave me about an hour until it was time to start precleaning, and at that point I could clean the rest of what wasn't done last night.
Today turned out to be a slower day then I thought. Although if you looked at the overall day's sales you wouldn't think that. But that's because the register combined yesterday's sales with todays. I decided though since I was so slow, and since no one had ordered fries, that I would close the fryer down early, and clean it good. The hood, and filter, needed cleaned. Since I know they weren't done on Sunday, and most likely weren't done on Saturday either.
While precleaning I got one of those guests that I really hate. I'm the only person here, and I can't be in front of the window at all times. Well, I had a guy come up and was yelling in the window, "Hello, is anyone here!" The thing is I had just checked the window less than a minute before he came up. So he wasn't there all that long. Well, he acted like I had left him standing there for hours. Then while trying to get his order together, he was throwing his money at me. I don't see why people can't wait until I'm ready to take their money instead of trying to force me to take it when I'm not ready to finish the sale.
It was a pretty quick closing, and I got home fairly quick. Surprisingly we went to funks for dinner last night, we haven’t eaten there in a while. I got liver and onions. It’s one of the few times I was able to eat liver, since Cathy doesn’t eat it. We then came home, and just watched TV for the rest of the night. I’m actually waiting for NCIS tomorrow night.