The Joys of Work

Irregardless of how it all boiled down, work on Saturday was Hell. I started by going to the Old Store (1556) and got redirected to the New Store (4342) to work on a, and I do quote, "Huge Copy Job." Here's where the fun starts. I leave the store and am at the edge of the shopping center to pull out on State Bridge. I look left and see 2 cars, both in the farthest lane (Actually, lets designate these Frogger-style. So the lanes are 1-4 and start with the closest one to me as 1 and work out from there). So I look left and see 2 cars, both in Lane 4. I look right and see two cars. One is off in the distances tons tons is a truck in Lane 2. A slight bit closer is a car in Lane 1 with her Left Turn Signal on (yes, I'm sure it was a her, you'll see why in a moment). Since the only car even remotely close to me plans to be turning in and away from me, I pull out. I'm slightly before Lane 3 (Ie: in the median between Lanes 2 and 3, but also in LAne 2). I'm looking right to make sure that I don't pull out into on of the cars from Lane 4 since they might possibly have merged over. I look back to my left and see the Lady in her car, not only not turning, but in Lane 2 AND trying to pull around me on her left (aka: my front). That's right reader, not only did she not turn, but she also, in response to my pulling out, moved into the same lane I moved into rather than slowing down (since by the time she got near me, I had already moved through Lane 1 leaving it clear for this maniac), and worse still, she had decided to pull around me in the direction I was moving (last time I checked that would be the stupidest thing possible, but oh well, people are idiots. So I figure that had I kept going she easily would have hit me dead on in the Driver's Side door, going at least 60 (since to get to me that fast she could not have been going the speed limit), so I figured during my time of tedium at Work (we'll get there in a moment) that that was hopefully as close to death as I was going to get for awhile.

Now, of course the fun does end there. I drive down State Bridge, and get stuck in traffic (extraordinarily slow traffic, with some maniac trying to pass cause they are in a hurry, when they realize that there is not going to be any second lane in a few more yards they hastily merge in, and in doing so, cut me off. I almost get to the Intersection of State with Kimball/Abbotts, but I'm like 4 cars back, which is 2 cars before the last turn in to the shopping center before the intersection. So as I'm sitting there, this car just stops, and the driver, a girl of roughly 19-20 years, just glares at me. It wasn't a glance or a stare, it was a searching and angry look. Now I still cannot figure out what she was hoping to achieve, because she had enough room to drive, and beond that I can't think of anything she could be angry about, since I'm fairly certain that she was younger than the femine idiot in our first traffic catastrophe, though it would be keeping in her IQ to turn around just to give an angry glace (if I get called to court then oh well, cause I was not at fault). So I finially arrive at work, somewhat shaken, but ready to do some copies (which is mostly a waiting game). Well, the copies had already been done, so all that was left to do was take the resulting 2744 sets of copies (each were 2 pages, triple-folded, and stapled), place them each inside their own envelopes (though all the copies were kinda stuck together), then to place an Adobe label on each of the envelopes (though about 1/70 lacked a zip code so we had to check for those). Fortunately I didn't have to do the full 2744 alone. My manager and (eventually) his fiancee were there to help, and poor Ting had done a significat amount of envelopping yesterday while she was at work. So, after a freaking six hours we finially finished the madness, and I went back to 1556 to finish out my last hour of work, sometimes I wish I had more room on my Work during the school year section to talk about this type of dedication.