Throwback Thursday: First Job

It's time for Throwback Thursday again with The Life of Bon. This weeks theme is First Job.

My first real job was at Hardee's. I hated working there, then, but I'm not so sure now. Can you imagine having a job that didn't really matter? You could do what you wanted when you wanted and it was forgiven because you were a "stupid teenager." There were so many positives and negatives to working fast food.

Positives:

Free food, when I was sneaky.

Worked with some other great kids.

I basically chose what shift I wanted to work.

Negatives:

I always smelled like grease.

People are rude to fast food workers.

My car always smelled like grease.

Here are three of my funniest stories from my 2 years there. 

Slap box champion

As I worked there longer, I wanted the open shift on Saturday and Sunday. I was a teenager and could still stay out all night and not be tired (those were the days) but then I was getting off work when my friends were waking up. Bonus!! I had already earned my money for the day while they slept. Anyway, I opened and instead of working the cash register, I was the biscuit and chicken maker. This was great. I didn't have to deal with the rude customers. I would go in, start making the biscuits, and at a certain time I would start the chicken. (Side note: I hate to touch raw meat) The chicken breading was a dry powder, a liquid mess, and then the dry powder again. After those three steps, the little chicky would fry. It was during this time that the cooks and I would slap box in chicken powder. We had tons of fun, always made a mess, and usually got in trouble. But we were 17, who cares, right?

9-1-1

My next awesome story is a doozy. One of the cooks and I were having a discussion. I said I was right and he said he was right. He then says "if you don't stop arguing with me I am going to call 9-1-1." Being that dumb teenager mentioned before, I continued to argue. He picked up the wall phone (the kind with push buttons, not electrical, and had a cord...it was 1993, what do you expect) and dialed 9-1 and hung up the phone. After he hung up, he picked it right back up again, dialed the last 1, and hung up again. Of course, being the awesome GCPD, they called right back. The looks on our faces had to be priceless. We were scared to death, so naturally we took off running. We decided to hide in the freezer. After discussing what to do and the shift manager opening the freezer door and yelling for us, we had a plan. We thought it would be smart to go out the little freezer door that goes outside the store that's used for deliveries. When we opened the little door, we saw the police car pull in. Oh, shit was our thought, what do we do now? Hide, of course. The shift manager ended up finding us and we had to get a serious scolding from the nice police officer. We were both written up and were not allowed to use the phone anymore!

Winner, winner, chicken dinner

My last story is just great. A man came through my drive thru and ordered a bucket of chicken. We were out so we had to cook it. Once at the window, this man was severely intoxicated!! He was slurring his words, telling random stories, and was quite entertaining. Everyone got in on this fun. The cooks came up to chat with him and egg him on, other cashiers were talking to him, and the shift manager was my age so she even got in on it. At one point while he was waiting the power went out. No power=no chicken fryer. He was getting frustrated but not violent until he says "I'm going to have to get my gun out." We all laughed, of course because we live in a town of 8,000 people, gun violence is not an issue. He reaches under his seat and whips out his gun. I'm not sure how we did it but about 10 teenagers fit on the floor, and quickly, in the drive thru area. The manager crawled away and called the police. Of course, since "gun" was mentioned we got all of the PD's finest. City police, a couple of county sheriff's, and a few state police officers (they mush have been chillin' together at city hall) fly into the parking lot and run at this man's van with guns drawn. Pretty sure GCPD had never drawn their guns before, it was a humorous site. The poor man was arrested for public intox and had to leave without his chicken! The poor police then had to ask 10 teenagers their story and had us all write it down. I bet those were interesting. 

Hope you enjoyed my crazy stories. What good first job stories do you have?

That's me, back row center! I had to take a snapshot of my yearbook!

Winesday Wednesday

It's Wednesday and I am not feeling well. I am very nauseated, thank goodness I don't work over the summer because today is going to be an awful sick day :(

So, here are a couple of funnies to help us laugh through the day!

Kathie Lee and Hoda call today Winesday Wednesday and you know how much I love them:

But as I mentioned here, I love this hump day commercial:

I hope you have a better hump day than I am!

I'm a busy little bee

I haven't blogged in awhile because I have been a busy little bee.

When summer started I had a list of household things I wanted to accomplish and I have been slaving away trying to get one finished.

The hubs and I have been working on redoing the kids bathroom. Just some paint and cosmetic changes, nothing major. I have been in a hurry because we have a friend coming from out of town to visit on July 10th and I wanted to get as much done as possible. 

I have repainted, scrubbed everything, got some new artwork/decorations, new shower curtains, and new light fixtures. I attempted to do this with a very small budget and that mission was accomplished. The only projects left for today and tomorrow are framing the mirror (the boards are cut but need hung and painted), hanging the new TP holder, and getting the towel holders up (I have 2 old crystal doorknobs for this job).

I will post before and after pictures next week after everything is finalized. The bathroom looks like we have spent tons of money and we didn't!

It feels so good to get something accomplished.

What have you accomplished this summer?

Happy Summer!!

Throwback Thursday: 4th of July

Linking up with The Life of Bon to bring you:

Today's theme is throwback Forth of July and mine is short but super sweet!!

When I was in my early twenties my friends and I used to camp out at our city park. Even though it was illegal, there was LOTS of drinking going on and as long as you didn't cause a ruckus the cops just let it slide. One morning some drunk hilljack a few campsites down stepped out of his tent and bellowed:

"Happy Birthday America! Thank God the North Won!!"

Soak up that one ladies. Pretty sure he was unsure of the wars that American's have been in and what we fought for. I'm also pretty sure that the Forth of July is a holiday for him to be off work, drink lots of beer, and light lots of illegal fireworks he bought in Tennessee. I would love to hear his rendition of The Star Spangled Banner and The Pledge of Allegiance.  If you even want to know where our education system is lacking, check the history department in Indiana. 

On a better note, here is my pic of the day. The theme is 4th of July:

Quickly done patriotic nails!

The day I turned into a 13 year old

Yesterday was a very long day. It wasn't warm enough to swim and I basically sat in my jammies all day. I didn't even leave the house. I told the hubs that I was trying to save gas but I'm pretty sure he knows that I was just lazy. What turned me into a 13 year old was that I believe I said "I'm bored" 2,458,987 times. 

It's not that I sat around and was a lazy lump all day. I did laundry, unloaded/loaded the dishwasher, cleaned the kitchen, worked on a Pinterest project, and washed the walls and ceiling of the bathroom in preparation for me to paint. 

It was the down time in between those activities that made me crazy. If Indiana didn't feel like it went from June to October then I could have done some outdoor activities but NO it has to be 70. WTH? 70? HEY INDIANA, IT'S JULY, WARM THAT SHIZ UP!! This girl wants to swim in warm water and get some sun not worry about rain and freezing my booty off!

Being bored means something else, as well, it means that I ate constantly. It's a problem. If I'm bored, I eat. So, of course, yesterday I stuffed my face all freakin' day. 

I thought it would get better when the Hubs got home from work but he had to work late and then played video games after dinner!!

Today is supposed to be warmer so if I get my painting done then I can swim and catch some rays!

Speaking of catching rays, this is my pic of the day for the photo challenge. The theme was "heat" and since we haven't had any heat for awhile this one is from last week:

Hopefully, I'm not bored today. I don't think I have enough cookies left in the house!

Pintastic

For some reason Indiana decided to go from June to October. It is supposed to only be 75ish all week with rain. Boo rain!! I can't swim, tan, and relax if it is raining!! I will be spending the week painting my bathroom so we can get the remodel done.

After finding this pin on Pinterest several months ago, I decided I wanted to try it:

While going through my moms garage I found an old, wooden Coca-Cola bottle crate. I remembered that old pin and asked my mom if I could have the crate to make a spice rack. She said yes!! I brought it home and cleaned it up. I had room above my stove and hung it there. I love how it turned out. Now I need to find some cute spice jars to hold everything!!

Any suggestions on cheap spice jars?

 This is my pic that I am going to use for today for the photo challenge, I took it with the hubs camera that I discussed trying to learn here. Today's challenge is Flowers/Garden.

I love that you can see the raindrops!

Kids, Koncerts, and Kats

This was a busy weekend. Eve's softball team won a trophy for placing 1st in the regular season. Unfortunately, they lost in the tournament. We tried to tell the girls that the other teams and coaches went into the games against us in the tournament with a goal to beat us. We had a big target on our backs for only losing 2 regular season games. Eve wasn't phased by it though, she was super excited to win a trophy, her first one. 

Hubs and I went to a concert in the park. This was on my list of summer fun things to do but the only thing planned for the summer was christian music and classical music until a local band that played hard rock was added to the lineup. The hubs used to work with the lead singer and the drummer so he was excited to go. The kids didn't go, though, even though it was their summer fun list :(  We took the golf cart, which is what a lot of people do for concerts in the park in our small town. Unfortunately, there wasn't a huge turnout because we had some awful rain storms on Friday.

My cat, Purry, LOVES to drink from a faucet. Anytime we turn the kitchen faucet on she thinks it's an open invitation to drink. Well, there was a water pipe issue at the corner of my block and when I went to turn on the kitchen faucet to check to see if we had water pressure, someone took it as permission to drink. Luckily, I had my phone in my hand to catch her in the act!!

Finally, today I started a photography challenge from www.missindieblog.com, which I found at Adventures of a Misfit Librarian. Here is the challenge:

Here is my sunglasses pic: