Saturday, November 27, 2010

The After Holiday Blues

I hate going to work the day after a holiday.

Why?

Because then I have to answer a million questions that are all the same: "How was your Thanksgiving?"

At the beginning of the day I start out all smiley telling customers how my Thanksgiving was. By the middle of the day I give shorter answers but ask them how theirs was so I don't have to talk much.

By the end of my shift I'm giving one-word answers, and not even asking them how theirs was.

It's not the customers fault (this time), I just get tired of answering the same questions all day long.

It's like when I say 'Good morning' to people and I hear 'What's so good about it?'. I hear that about a thousand times a day, too.

It's gotten so that I just say 'Morning' to people just so I don't have to hear that comment.

It doesn't help that I hate the holidays too. I hate having to be all smiles during the Christmas season. And Christmas music? Don't even get me started on it.

I hate a lot of things, don't I?

3 comments:

  1. I'm not overly fond of much either...

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  2. Sigh. This same thing happens when people relentlessly ask: Have you picked out names yet? Do you know it it's a girl or a boy? Do you know where you're going to college? Have a job yet? And on and on and on. They think they're being so insightful.

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  3. That was totally driving me crazy both Thursday and Friday this week. Our store was open for a few hours on Thanksgiving and nearly all my customers were asking why I was working on Thanksgiving. One woman was actually kind of insulted that I was at work rather than at the high school football game.

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