When someone asks me if I need help, majority of the time I say "no" because I can do it myself. I rarely ask for help and if I do need help, I sure as hell won't ask one of my customers, especially if they a "thing" for me. I rarely feel uncomfortable with anything and anyone but gee golly whiz, this guy really makes me want to choke him. He is nice. He is considerate... but seriously dude, no means no. When someone says no, take it into consideration and honestly, this doesn't only apply to the laundromat, it applies to everyday life. Just because you think it's the right thing, stop and think if the other person agrees with it. If they don't, move the fuck along. The only time you can pressure is if they are your friend and you KNOW it is for the good and they don't know it. Following me? If yes, GREAT! If not, you suck =)
So I am NOT a morning person and we have established this a while back. I woke up this morning to open up store and then go get more soap and stuff to vendor. I come back, with 7 boxes of heavy stuff so I do what every logical person does, grab a laundry cart to cart them in. This dude that has the thing for me, he is the dude that wants me to go the park with him. Before he came running out, my dad asks me if I need help and I deny his request. Two minutes later, the park dude comes running out and starts to ask for help. We literally had a 2 minute argument over him helping me. I was close to telling him "DUDE LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE, I CAN DO IT ON MY OWN" but it went down like this instead:
PD:*with a Spanish accent* I take for you. Let me help you.
Me: No, I'm good thanks.
PD: No no no, I take its okay.
Me: No really, I'm fine. This is why I brought the cart out so I won't have to carry them.
PD: Come on. You sure? I can help.
Me: Yes. I'm sure. I can do it. Thank you for asking but I got it.
PD: Okay I help if you want.
Me: (I raised my voice a bit) NO I can DO it!
PD: Okay, if you need help you call me.
Me: I won't but thank you.
Face roll across the counter in 3...2...1...
Honestly though, he is a nice guy and a good customer. His mom is the nicest grocery store owner I have ever met. It's just that, I am starting to get annoyed by him. When he comes to bring quarters, he always brings a snack for me. An act of kindness but really, I can do without the snacks he brings me. I don't even eat them and I tell him not to but he still does... He keeps bringing me a coke can and Oreo cookies. One, I don't like soda anymore. I stopped drinking it. Two, I don't like Oreo cookies. They are too sweet for me and give me a tummy ache. Once he brought me a granola bar... Natures Valley? the green package... I don't like those. If I want to eat cardboard, I can easily do so by the supply boxes. I don't know. I am nice to him in return but today he managed to annoy me.
I AM STARTING TO MISS MY NIGHT SHIFTS. I WANT MY NIGHT SHIFTS BACK!!!!! I never thought I would have said that...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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Random story finally happened to mine...nothing big though but this mother was doing laundry there and her daughters and their friend walk in all ready for the beach. The mother had like 5 dryers going full of laundry and they kept whining about how they're going to be late for the beach and telling their mother to hurry up without even helping her. She gets them to help them and adds "The other teenagers here do their own laundry, why can't you?" and she was referring to me and my brother.
ReplyDeleteSo the girl goes "but that girl is at least 20." Despite someone finally getting my age bracket right, I kept my mouth shut since it turned out the mother left them alone the rest of the time I was there. I was gonna say though "That's why my brother's been doing his and my dad's laundry since he's 10, right?". Meanwhile the girls are just complaining about how much clothes there are and how much folding they have to do and they're not even folding right. And among them, three idiots and and no one can find the one dryer tumbling the one dress they were told to retrieve. On the brightside...I pwned the top scores on the video game machine there. 80,000 in word search and 310,000 in monster mash. :)