Hahah! It’s a Bank Holiday and I’m not at work!
Knackering stuff, is working in Spar. The council’s pretty decent, to be quite honest, because it’s an evening thing, and fairly gentle stuff. Spar, however has some major failings, the first of which is most certainly the lack of any bloody chairs for me to sit on, with the result that I’m standing for 7 1/2 hours on a Sunday, and 9 on Saturdays.
Add to that the fact the till is dimwittedly placed about 6″ below a decent height, forcing me to stoop for most of the time I’m serving people, and I get a mix of aching knees, an aching back, and heels that’re killing me (not least because my shoes are now totally devoid of any real lining – there’s an eighth of an inch of synthetic foam between my foot and the hard rubber on the sole, and you have no idea how that starts to cut upwards after the first five hours…
Still, soon I will be paid, and there will be new shoes! Huzzah! Also, I’ve just e-mailed Drizabone in the hope they’ll be able to suggest another coat for me (the green shabby thing I picked up in Aberaeron last year is now very dead indeed, after an impressive year-or-so of use) which’d be super… I’ve been angling for a Drizabone for about eight years now (yes, I was a very strange twelve year old. Get over it) and this is probably my last chance to get one until several years after I graduate, and finally start making money, so I may as well blow the Student Loan on something with a whocking great guarantee on it, especially with the wear my coats take…
…So yeah, hoping they’ll e-mail me back with a suggestion of something shiny, and I can grab that. Some of them have leg straps to stop the coat blowing away from you in the wind. How clever is that? It’s like Linux in a coat. Except it’s expensive, so it’s probably more like UNIX, now I come to think of it. Heh. But it isn’t windows, because they don’t develop a bunch of holes that need patching every…
…I’m going to shut up, now, else some bugger’ll go and call me a geek again.
Have fun!