Today is fucking awful. Even as I’m doing my best to pretend that today is just another day and not think about the fact that it is our 7th wedding anniversary and I am alone everyone seems out to destroy any piece of good mood I may have been able to clutch onto.
I came in to work to find all our milk was frozen thanks to the single digit temperatures and my boss not having a heater on.
Me: Just so you know our milk is a bit frozen so it is taking just a bit longer to heat it up.
Customer: oh ok
Two seconds later as I’m pouring the milk…
Customer: WHY is the milk LUMPY!?! HOW DARE YOU TRY TO FEED US SPOILED MILK!
Oh. My. Gawd. A repeat of my explanation and 5 drinks later no tip. Grrr.
Scenario #2
A Special Ed van pulls up and orders 10 small hot cocoas, a 32 ounce 12 shot latte, and an Italian soda. Nothing I can’t handle. I explain that our milk is somewhat frozen and it is taking a tiny bit longer to get it hot. The driver says ok. Because I don’t have a carafe large enough for 120 ounces of milk I get what I can going fill up the drinks and start handing the finished ones out the window. Mainly so I could free up my work space, but also to get something done while I was waiting on more milk. Well the ‘special’ kids in the van start wigging out because not everyone got a drink right away, but as they hand the 5th one back I’m at the window with four more and have more milk steaming. I hand the driver the four drinks in exchange for a dirty look and tell her I’m heating the milk for the last cocoa and her latte. As I’m pouring the milk into the last cocoa she snaps out the window “You only gave me 9. I ordered 10.” And of course I get no tip on a $25 drink order.
Fuck my life right now.
Matt will be home in 5 days. I hope he will take me to buy a new snowboard and then to Silver Mountain for snowboarding so I can clear my head. Actually I don’t need snowboarding, I just need him; once he is home all will be right with the world.
Happy anniversary baby. Thank you for the last 7 years. They haven’t been easy, but no matter what I love you.
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A bad day at the latte stand is still better than a good day at H&R Block?
Happy Anniversary
hay my names courtney im newly married to my husbend whos a mp in the ariforce i just wanted so say happy anniversary and thanks for lets me read ur blog its great to know tht so many military wives r out there and the fact we r so strong when r mans gone…just hang in there a few more days and ur reword is goin to b just amazing