Thursday - 9-24-09, Season Ticket Pickup

As the above title indicates, tonight is the Season Ticket Holder's Pickup night for Hershey Bears tickets at the Giant Center. It should be a fun night.
Today started out kind of interesting. I got another call from Cathy. Her supervisor's daughter is going to try taking in the cat. So we may not get a new pet now. If it works out at her daughter's house then they will keep it. If not, then we will be taking it in. So I guess I have to wait and see on that.
I got to work this morning, and there was no one to open the key box for me. So I had to ask Paul to find someone. Brandon from the warehouse got it for me. I also had to let Paul know that I couldn't work on Monday October 4th due to a doctor's appointment. He didn’t seem too happy about it, but he said he would put me down. I'll get two points for calling off five or more days in advance. Then if I bring in a note, I'll get two points taken off, so I’ll end up with zero points for calling off that day.
I got to the stand, and saw that the DOB was wrong again on the register, so I called IT. At about 9:50 the safe still wasn't opened for me, so I called up to the office and Paul said Tony would be out to open it. He got here at about 10:00. So I was open shortly after that. But IT still hadn't changed the DOB on my register. I asked Tony about it, and he said he would call their boss, and have it fixed. I figure if it isn't fixed by the time I get my first customer, I'll just ring them up, and if it messed anything up, oh well.
I got my first customer at about 10:30, and the DOB was still wrong. So I don't know if that will cause problems if IT changes it. But I called them, and Tony said he was going to call them. So I'm sure they know about the problem, they don’t seem to care. They will say they have too much to do for tonight if you ask why they didn't do it.
Today looks like it is going to be a busy day. By 11:00 I already had a small line, but all they wanted were drinks and a few pretzels. I did have one lady that came up and was a little upset with the answer to her question. She asked how to get onto the Monorail, and I told her she could only get on through the park, and that the park wasn't open today. That didn't make her to happy, but there's nothing I can do about it.
People can be really annoying. Around 12:00 I got another small line, which wasn't too bad. The first people in line were a father and his two daughters. They weren't too bad either. They asked for pizzas, and I told them that the pizzas would take about 5 minutes to cook, and they were ok with that. So I put the pizzas in, and got the rest of their order together, and told them I would let them know when they were done. Well the next couple in line were really annoying. They couldn't decide on what they wanted. Finally they ordered a pretzel, and a large soda. This came to $7.10, and the guy threw a five dolor bill on the counter. Like that should pay for it all. So I repeated the total, and the lady was like, "Do you take Discover?" I told her we did, and she snapped, "Then use this, and give me that back," and she threw her discover card on the counter. By this time the timer for the pizza was beeping, and I was trying to get back to it. One of the daughters was here waiting for the pizza.
I finally just had to run back for the pizza and make the next people wait. Well they got upset that I made them wait. But oh well, I didn’t want the pizzas to burn. It turned out that the line of old people were together, and that’s why they didn’t want to wait. Well, next time they should hurry up on deciding what they want.
Around 1:30 the phone rang, it was a rick somebody, from the safety office. He wanted to talk to Marino. I went to check if Marino was in his office, and he wasn't. So Security radioed him, and he said he would call him back. The guy on the phone didn't seem too happy about this, but Marino was out in the parking lot, and there was no way he could get back in quick enough to get the phone.
The day didn’t go too bad from then on. I was able to start my precleaning by 2:00, and by 4:00 I was ready to close. I got up to the office and out pretty quick. I then headed to pick up Josh for the season ticket pickup. He came back to the apartment while I got ready, and waited for Cathy to get home. Once we were all ready we headed up.
He had an extra ticket, which he gave to a friend that met him up there. As soon as we got in, we kind of slip up. His tickets were one way, and ours the other. So we got out tickets, and then decided to go down onto the ice to get some autographs, and ice skate. The only problem was I forgot socks. I had worn sandals. So since Cathy wanted to get the season ticket holders pin, we picketed that up too. It took us about a half hour to get through the gift shop with all the people.
We skated for a while, and got a bunch of autographs. Cathy came up with an idea, and we go a bunch of them to sign out season ticket mug. It was really a good idea. But some of the names started rubbing off a little. I just hope the hold through the season.