so it begins.

saturday was my first day of work. it's not too far, very close actually. only 6-7 minutes away in pearl river. hmmm.. let me say my first day was interesting. i made a whole bunch of mistakes, not to mention my various speech impediments that carried on into sunday when i pronounced cvs as "cay vay s" in some sort of western accent that i never knew i had. to top it off, i'm preeeeetty sure my coworker heard me. then came all sorts of problems with the cigarette counter that i'm horrible at. i can't seem to find the cigarettes whenever a customer comes in and asks for it real fast- like i'm supposed to just grab it off the shelf. last time i checked, i'm not a smoker, so i wouldn't know. so far, i've got down the locations of just a few - the marlboro lights, the marlboro red, the virginia slims, the newports, and the parliaments. beyond that.. i don't know. if i could, i would tell my customers not to come to my register if they're planning to buy cigs. oh well. did i mention i put this man's change into the bag only to realize that hey! i'm not supposed to do that! i then struggled to find the pennies that fell to the bottom of the bag, all while turning bright red and probably making a very constipated face. i'm sorry mr.. then there are those grumpy customers who half the time are on their cell phones yelling at the top of their lungs at a very unlucky person on the other end. these people manage to slip the name of the cigarettes they want in the middle of their phone conversation, then expect you to hear and gracefully get it for them without interrupting their convo. i think we all know that didn't happen to me. ohhhhhh i hope days get better. just one more training shift and then i should be off to the rx. goodbye cigarette counter and chain smokers! hello grumpy, sick and possibly contagious people.