Monday - 10-12-09, catching up again.

I can't remember what day I posted a blog post last, so I guess I'll just recap the last week, and today. I was really expecting last week to be really busy. It was antique Auto at Hershey. That usually brings in tons of people from all over the world. Then not only do they walk around over there, they usually come to the zoo.
Tuesday was the first day that people could show up for it, and the overnight lots seemed to be filling up quickly. But I wasn't any busier on Tuesday then I normally am this time of year. Wednesday to Saturday it was open to the public.
Both Wednesday and Thursday were kind of slow days. I was a little busier, but it was nothing to be concerned with. One of those days I got a lady that was kind of strange, and a pain. She ordered a pretzel, and was getting a credit card out to pay with. Without me saying a thing to her, she snapped at me, "What do you have a problem with taking credit cards?" I told her we didn't, and swiped her card and gave it back. Some people I guess are just strange.
On Friday I got a little busier, but with the threat of rain it didn't get as busy as it could have. Saturday morning also wasn't too busy with the rainy AM, but as the day went on, and cleared up, the business picked up. It turned out to be a pretty good day over all.
Sunday I was off. I went up to church, which was a normal day there. On the way up I tried talking to my dad on my 2 meter amateur radio. We wanted to use the one repeater that was close to where he lives, but I couldn't pick it up until I was only about 20 minutes from where he lived.
Sunday night was disappointment. We went to the Bears game, and pretty good seats. We got section 111, row C free for HERCO night. That part was good, but the way the Bears played was horrible. They just didn't seem to be into the game until about half way through the third period, and by this time they were losing 2-0.
They were able to score one goal, but that just wasn't enough. They just couldn't get the puck in the net. I know they had bad ice, but that shouldn't be an excuse. I do have a problem with the end of the game, but there is nothing I can do about it. The puck went in basically as the time ran out. Myself and several other people I talked to, all felt that it was in, and should have counted. If that would have happened, it would have been tied and forced over time. But the officials decided it wasn't in in time, and the Bears lost 2-1.
Today hasn't been that bad of a day yet. Cathy's car has two tires leaking, so he drove my car to work today. I took the motorcycle. It was a little chilly riding in today, but wasn't too bad with my cold weather gear. She will have my car at least today and tomorrow.
When I got here Harry was outside the foods office talking. It was almost as if he was waiting for me. As soon as I came out of the office he walked with me over to the zoo. He told me that the stock order that I never got in last week would come in this week. He was over at Antique Auto all last week, and not in his office. So he was unable to enter the order. He told me he put it in Sunday, so I should get either today or tomorrow.
I somehow got the stand set up in about 20 minutes this morning, and had a ton of time to kill. So I got a little caught up on the book I'm reading. Since I'm not as far in the book as I wanted to be, I renewed it this morning so I have an extra three weeks to read it. I'm figuring that I will just borrow books from the library until after Christmas. That way I can ask people for the books that I want for Christmas. I know there are several out that I wouldn't mind getting. I don't know if there are enough out though to last me another year. If not then I’ll go back to borrowing them from the library.
By about 11:00 the business was picking up at the zoo, but not yet at Timber Treats. I hadn’t even had anyone look at the menu yet. And no one was buying. It was mostly moms with their kids. A few of them had what I assumed to be the dad's of the kids with them too.
Around 11:30 I got my first costumers. The first one was a guy with his two kids. He came up and ordered three hotdogs. That was all I heard from the order because at that point his son started yelling in a really high pitched annoying voice, "I want a hot dog, I want a hot dog." I had to keep asking the guy to repeat what else he ordered, which turned out to be just a medium drink, but with the kid screaming I couldn't hear him.
The second customer I got was a lady with her son. She ordered a kid's meal, but wanted me to make it to go. All I have to even try to do that with is foil to wrap the hot dog. So that's what I did. She was just standing their staring at it. Finally she was like, "Oh I guess I can put it in my bag", and then she put the wrapped hot dog and chips into her back pack, picked up the soda, and left.
The guy with the three hot dogs came back a little later and asked if we had any kind of wipes. He said that his son had ketchup all over his face. I told him I could wet some paper towels for him, but that was all I had. He decided that that would work, and took them to try to clean his son up. If you know your child is such a messy eater, then you should be prepared for it.
Around 12:00 I actually got a small line. This was started off with a lady ordering a "cheese pizza hot dog." I asked if she wanted both a cheese pizza and a hot dog, and she said, "No, just the cheese pizza hot dog." So I asked if she wanted a pizza, and she said, "No just the cheese pizza hot dog." So I though ok, she wants a hot dog with cheese, and asked her that. Her response was, "I don't want cheese on it. I just want the 1/4 pound cheese pizza hot dog." So I decided she was getting a plain hot dog. This seemed to make her happy, and she paid and left.
The next person wanted a hot dog and a regular bucket of fries. I hate when people order that. So I asked which she wanted, the regular or bucket, and she only wanted the regular. At least her and the lady behind her were kind of smart. When I said that I would have to cook the fries, the next lady said I want to get a regular too. So I was able to put enough for both of them down. Then the first lady said she would be getting a Large for another lady, so I added more to it so I would have enough.
Most of the line seemed to be together. It was a group of kids ranging in age, with several adults. I'm not sure if it was some kind of day care for all ages since schools are off or what it was. Most of them also wanted hot drinks. It started off with hoot chocolates, but then I got 3 coffee requests. I didn't want to lose the sale, so I brewed coffee.
Now if anyone reading this has worked at Timber Treats towards the end of the summer, you know about how the coffee machine leaks. So I put paper towels down under the coffee pot, and started it brewing. It got about halfway through the pot when it started its leaking. Plus after filling the three cups, and the coffee pot, it still filled two and a half more buckets with coffee. It should have only made the three cups, and maybe the one pot, but probably not even that much.
Today was like most days. I waited until I didn't have a line, and then decided to take lunch. And what happens, my 15 minute lunch break gets interrupted several times. When this happens it’s hard to know exactly how long you were on break. So I usually just guess. Once I'm done eating I figure I have time to read a little, then go back to work.
After work we didn’t do too much. We just ate dinner, and watched some TV shows we needed to get caught up on.