September 7, 2004 - Tuesday

September 7, 2004 - Tuesday

one of those weeks..
You know, the world is doomed. but mankind wont destroy its self by the Earth exploding, or by nucular war, or by extreamist trying to get shit to go their way. No, mankind will end its self in its own mindless acts of selfish stupidiy. This is what i have learnd from this week of work. The general public, my mortal nemisis, has shown acts of stupidity beyond all means. And selfishness. Example. Closing time at work. Im leaving, some woman and like 3 "children" come up to buy tickets for a movie that had started 15 minutes ago!!! (they had the odasity to ask if the movie had already started) So she want to pay with her credit card, as like most upstanding upper middle class people prefer to do, because they dont belive in carrying around real money. So the boss tell her theres a $1, a $1 dollar charge to the total amount of the tixs. So if its 20 buck, itll be 21 bucks. Well she gets all offended and takes back her card. She tells my boss that she's teaching her kids to save a dollar, and will be rigth back, and proceeds to walk next door to the atm. (mind you, she was proably charged a $1.50 for a service charge using her credit card at the atm) well, she comes back with a couple of 20's and asks for 1 adult and 3 children. Mind you the "children" were either old enough to shave or were of child bearing age. So my boss kindly asks "how old are the children" Her reply "well, how old do they have to be?" (the prices were right abover her head, indicating the age for admission, but did she look, Nope) My boss simply replys "how old are they" Well the woman asks again, "How old do they have to be" in a irritated voice. and once again, my boss asks "HOW OLD" Finnaly she gives him the ages of the "children" 12, 13, and 11. So my boss simply replys "ok, you have 3 adults, and 1 child" now the woman was purtty pissed off about that, but the mear fact that her trying to teach her kids to save a doller, which i guess, by any means possivble, even if it is lying, pissed me off. This sort of thing happens all the time. people go out of their way to save a buck here, or 2 buck here. The diffrence at my work in addmission is like 2 50 cents in the evning. its still only 7 bucks. Yet these are the same group of people who drop off their kids, GIVE THEM almost 60 bucks, CASH, to spend. The kids spend 20 of it on candy (mind you, through out the whole movie, they dont belive in buy everything at once) another 30 of it on the crap in the shitty vending machines with the 1 cent toys and shit, then they just scatter all of it on the floor and leave it. and the kids are stuipd too. Most of the time, they drop huge wads of it, and i take it as compensation for the shit they put me though. but yeah, this is how the world will end, people will become so selfish and idotic that we'll just die out naturaly from not doing anything. that was my first part of the week. The rest of it seems to have gone on in slow motion, just endless crap, no sleep, a an ego blow (see previous blog), but it wasnt compleat crap, insted, it just felt like i wasnt moving at all, and nothing around me was really moving either. just lost in an endless exsistnace that seemed worse than hell or limbo combind. And not to mention, i think im hallucenating, WITHOUT THE USE OF DRUGS MINDYOU, cause i keep seeing shapes, like people or animals out of the corner of my eye all the time. Hell i though i almost hit something in the road earlier, but there was nothing there. so. yeah, thats my week, hows yours?

This was a terrific moment in my life. My time at the theater was a learning experience that no school could give me. I really saw a good spectrum of humanity and the shit people would do to save a few bucks. This woman had me laughing for about an hour after she threw a fit about the prices.