So, it's been a while. Ten points if you can tell me where my title is from.
Work has been pretty busy over Christmas and NYE, and it's starting to shit me. Spunky recons because I'm not being challenged mentally, and that's why I'm messing up. Or, as he puts it, "it's beneath you." Maybe he's right, but I think he might be overly praising me.
Of course, the radio doesn't help. We have Vega 91.5 in the Cafe, and Triple M on in the kitchen. As a result I hear the same songs up to three times in one day, and many of them aren't particularly good. The next time I hear The Veronicas played on a 'Rock' station (which is what Triple M advertises itself as being, and what it used to be) I will be forced to take a very hot freshly dishwasher-sterilised knife to the station manager's gonads. Every time I hear that annoyingly pathetic result of corporate market research excuse for a song called 'I Kissed A Girl' by Katie Perry, I take it as my cue for a bathroom break. I might have liked Pink's new album had I not heard the same two songs from it twice every shift, but the worst tragedy is that they are starting to make me sick of The Living End. I love The Living End. I think that their new album 'White Noise' is fantastic, and when I heard the first single from it played on Triple J, 'How Do We Know,' I couldn't wait for the album to be released. Triple J is the only station that plays the track, and it's now on low rotation. Two more singles have been released, one of which I love, another which is not as good. Which one do you think the commercial stations have on high rotation?
Triple J is the best. It keeps many tracks on high rotation, but only for a few weeks so you dint get sick of the songs! Whats even more amusing is that when I'm washing dishes and trying not to go insane, I hear the words 'new music,' preceding a song which I had heard on Triple J six months ago.
So, once I finally get the hell out of there, I catch the train home. Because I haven't started my uni course yet I am ineligible for a concession card, and I'm living at home so I may or may not be able to get a health care card. Long story short, I have to fork over twenty bucks of my hard earned cash per week just to get to and from work without incurring an over-zealous fine. So much for trying to save. Why do train fares cost so much?? Yeah yeah I know, running a public transport network costs money, more and more each day due to rising inflation, and people not buying tickets, but more people would buy tickets if the prices weren't so high. Lower the prices and you'll make more money - more tickets will be bought and you wont have to hire as many ticket inspectors. Simple.
I've decided that I don't like ticket inspecters much. Well, one. Don't get me wrong, I'm not pissed at him because he caught me with a concession ticket without a concession card (it's a fair cop, I'll wear it. In fact I probably won't be fined as its a first offence and I was more than compliant), however there was one thing he said that did smart. He called me 'Ma'am."
Ma'am. Both before and after he asked me my age, he called me Ma'am. I am 18, I'm not a Ma'am. I'm a Miss, or even a Ms. Ma'am is for women older than yourself by at least 10 years. Who does that? I don't care how polite he was trying to be, he wasn't right.
ATTENTION TO ALL MEN AND STUPID YOUNG WOMEN - Women don't like being called Ma'am. It makes us feel old or, in my case, confused and patronised. I'm young. It's Miss. Or even Mate. Or you could call me by my name.
Well, you can't. As far as you're concerned, my name is Lou.
An eventful weekend
15 years ago
2 comments:
cafe work, now that is dull, however sometimes you just have to suck it up. thats part of what got me about my old job, dullness, but if you can find some fun in it, say, joking around HEAPS with all the staff, it gets kinda more bearable.
trust me, finding a job that isnt beneath you, to do _part time_ will be a challenge, plus, one word: recession.
as for the quality of music, just check out the rolling stones top 100 singles. beyonce's shit song got number one *vomits*
oh i know what the title is from!
its from the theme song of azumanga daioh!
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