One thing in my life that's been something of a constant that I've always found a bit amusing is my knack for having the deepest, most philosophical conversations with the seemingly most unlikely of people. This showed itself yet again today, as I found myself waxing poetic about the area in which I live and the people in it with my 19 year old metalhead coworker(We make a strange pair, the kid fresh out of high school and I. But we've forged a bond over a love of baseball and football and an appreciation of Beavis and Butthead, the Ace Ventura movies, and various other forms of ridiculous humor. Tyler, while not popular with the higher-ups, is all right with me- if not pretty damn immature, but we all have our drawbacks... And quite frankly, the opinions of the higher-ups are vapor to me.) Anyhow, long story short we agreed wholeheartedly on these points: 1) The people here seem to have nothing better to do than create drama, 2) there's an undercurrent of anger and negativity among the population of this area, and 3) given what we both have seen of the world outside of the southwestern lower Michigan/north central Indiana area, it seems like folks elsewhere are a HELL of a lot more open and friendlier than they are here. Tyler then mentioned he's contemplating a move to Denver where his buddy lives, as he thinks he needs a change of scenery. I, obviously, was supportive and encouraging of this idea(shit, I'm plotting my escape myself, so why wouldn't I be?). And truthfully, this conversation came as somewhat of a relief to me... To know that someone else hates this way of life just as much as I do. When you're surrounded by people who live this way day in and day out and see absolutely nothing wrong with it, it's kind of hard to get your point across as to just why you're not happy. It was actually kind of nice to be reassured that I'm not alone here.
People laugh at me when I bitch about the stupidity I'm surrounded with on a daily basis. I truly wish some of these people could shadow me at work some days. Today, for example. I was dreading today for a couple of weeks... For today was the opening day of gun season for deer, and about half of the staff at work was absent today so they could go sit in tree stands in the woods. (Yeah, I know, hunting is a huge pastime in Michigan... I gave it a go once just to see what it was about. I was bored as fuck, so... Not for me. I'll stay behind and work, you all just give me some of the meat when you kill something.) Among those that were absent: My boss, his wife(YAY!!!! Boss' wife is a raging bitch from hell, so I wasn't exactly crying over that one...), and the kitchen manager... Leaving me as acting manager in the kitchen. AKA: Everyone's stupidity is my problem today. There were two main culprits who were a source of frustration today... One was a dipshit server who is technically the problem of the dining room manager, but since she feels it necessary to bombard me with questions related to her job(a job that I don't have much of anything to do with, so I'm not sure why she feels like she needs to ask me.... Although I do have the answers most of the time and think it's pretty fucking pathetic that I apparently know her job better than she does...), I count her among my problems as well. The other is a fellow kitchen staffer who does NOT know his ass from a hole in the ground. He gets confused when there's more than two orders pending at the same time, so he needs to be babysat constantly(translation: I usually don't get anything done that I need to while working with him), and some of the stupidest shit comes out of his mouth. You'd think I'd be used to it by now, but no... I continue to be in awe of his sheer ignorance on a daily basis and it's a source of great wonder to me just how in the hell he's survived 29 years without doing something completely idiotic to get himself killed. And today proved no different: I had to explain the difference between the two lunch specials on several occasions, had to help him with the most basic of orders as he is severely ADD and can't focus on shit to save his life, and perhaps my favorite part of the whole day... Having to explain to him, upon his announcement that he's going to Ireland, that he's going to have to shell out a couple of thousand dollars in airfare alone- relevant information as he's always bitching about how he doesn't have a pot to piss in(insert shocked expression here), and then I was asked to explain where Ireland was. Even in my attempts to dumb it down the best I could, I was still unsuccessful.
Along with this, I also got to see Crazy Dumb Server Bitch ignore the phone repeatedly when it rang, make a pot of coffee without an actual pot in the coffeemaker, repeatedly fuck up orders she rang in, and ignore us when we informed her that her orders were done.
Today was definitely one that tested my patience for sure, and we weren't even really all that busy... Thank God. Some people find stupidity from others amusing... I'll admit that it is, when it's not affecting me. But I've discovered that I just don't have patience to deal with it as much as I have to anymore. Today erased any residual guilt I may have had over taking this Saturday off to indulge in MY personal favorite fall pastime... Football. (I say I might have a little guilt because I'd already taken off a Saturday a month ago to go to a game- I did say I'm starting to take more time off now than I once did, but learning to do so without the certain guilt trip that will surely be placed on me is still an ongoing process. But a buddy of mine had this ticket that he couldn't use and he offered it to me... How could I refuse?)
Baby steps towards my pursuit of happiness...
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