Further Tales from the Desk

hinakiba777 · #1 02-21-2009, 03:34 PM

Sorry I haven't been around lately. Spring Break started yesterday, so it's been midterm season. However I am back with some lovely stories

SC= Sucky Customer
Me= The lovely amazing, looks her age, totally cool hinakiba777

That would make me 12
As I've stated before people have a tendency to think of me as younger than I am. Everyone likes to tell me that when I get older I will look back and say "Wow when I was 20, people thought I was 15." I don't see it that way. I get carded everywhere like crazy. Sometimes i get double carded. Anyway, I was working the other day and i got a new age comment. Keep in mind I actually know this SC as a classmate.

Me= May I have your ID?
SC= Why?
Me= To exchange for the key?
SC= Oh right. *hands me the ID*
Me= hehe. Your driver's license photo is adorable.
SC= Yeah, hina, check out the date.
Me=

1996?
SC= *in a mean way* You were 2 then right?

Then don't lock yourself out
Everyone is a little unreasonable about waiting to be let in when you are locked out. Most of the time it's because you aren't properly dressed. There are a lot of middle of the night lockouts with students just in their robes or undies. This boy was in his boxers.

SC= Hina, I'm locked out
Me= What's your room?
SC= You know my room. Come on I'm in my boxers here.
Me= Actually I don't.
SC= it's 555!
Me= Okay, well I'll just call security. *does so* they'll be here in 15 minutes. Just wait in the common room.
~Two minutes later~
SC= They aren't here, can you call them again?
Me= They said they'd be fifteen minutes.
~five minutes later~
SC= Can you call them again?
Me= They are busy. They'll be here as fast as possible

So this continues for a while until he informs me that he's been waiting 30 minutes to be let in. He asks if I can call Security again, and I was about to when Security arrives. I honestly felt like a parent of a child saying "Are we there yet?" Not what I want to deal with at 5am

Hina isn't handy
So yesterday at lunch I discovered my left wrist hurt. Severely. It's better now, but I had to wrap it because the pain was too intense not to do so. Anyway, my left hand is my dominant hand, and to make sure the wrist didn't move i had to wrap up my hand as well. So I had no use of my dominant hand at all. Later I picked up the ending of someone's shift.

Me= *slowly writing desk log with my right hand. Wrapped wrist resting on the desk*
Student= You writing is really messy. (This is a double piss off because it's rude, and students aren't allowed to look at the logs)
Me= *bubbly smile* Yeah, I know. But I'm not right handed.
SC= So why don't you write with your left hand?
Me= *waves wrapped arm*
SC= So?

And those are my stories for the week. of SCs, I also have some general work chat stuff I might post.

RetailWorkhorse · #2 02-21-2009, 06:30 PM

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Quoth hinakiba777

Me= *slowly writing desk log with my right hand. Wrapped wrist resting on the desk*
Student= You writing is really messy. (This is a double piss off because it's rude, and students aren't allowed to look at the logs)
Me= *bubbly smile* Yeah, I know. But I'm not right handed.
SC= So why don't you write with your left hand?
Me= *waves wrapped arm*
SC= So?

RW: *Smacks SC with the clipboard* I'M NOT RIGHT HANDED YOU JERK! Try LISTENING.

Actually, I'm a lefty who was taught how to write with my right hand because all my teachers were rightys and that made them "superior" than me. -_-' So I'm ambidextrous!

otakuneko · #3 02-21-2009, 07:04 PM

I'm left handed... and even writing with my left hand, it's still horrible. The right hand is right out. I'd take up a whole page just to write my name. Badly.

Irving Patrick Freleigh · #4 02-21-2009, 07:52 PM

I'm right-handed and my handwriting looks like a pen projectile-vomited on the paper.

Writing with my left hand---no. Just...no.

Moggie · #5 02-22-2009, 12:53 AM

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Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh

I'm right-handed and my handwriting looks like a pen projectile-vomited on the paper.

Irv, you just have the best mental images to share.

Hina, if your wrist is still bothering you it's easy to get a cheap but useful wrist brace at Wal-Mart. When I had a round with pre-carpal tunnel I wore those things like crazy and they helped.

hinakiba777 · #6 02-22-2009, 01:40 AM

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Quoth Moggie

Hina, if your wrist is still bothering you it's easy to get a cheap but useful wrist brace at Wal-Mart. When I had a round with pre-carpal tunnel I wore those things like crazy and they helped.

Thanks Moggie. My wrist is all better now. If it comes back and is persistent I'll look into a brace. Right now I just love using wraps, since I can use them on multiple injuries. Either wrist or ankle, and i think other places.

Tonight is my last shift (12am-8am as alway) before I go away for my break, so since the rez is mostly empty I'm looking forward to a quiet night. Or, the people left over will be extra crazy because they think there's no one to bother.

DGoddessChardonnay · #7 02-22-2009, 03:37 AM

I can write with either hand as well. I actually started out as a leftie, but due to a fanatical 1st grade teacher who thought I was possessed by Satan, made me switch to my right hand.

Within a year of my graduating high school, I started writing with my left hand again. My handwriting isn't quite as pretty as my right, but it's there.

Practice makes perfect . . . so I'm hoping one day my left writing will look prettier.

SpyOne · #8 02-22-2009, 03:59 AM

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Quoth hinakiba777

Sorry I haven't been around lately. Spring Break started yesterday, so it's been midterm season. However I am back with some lovely stories

SC= Sucky Customer
Me= The lovely amazing, looks her age, totally cool hinakiba777

That would make me 12
As I've stated before people have a tendency to think of me as younger than I am. Everyone likes to tell me that when I get older I will look back and say "Wow when I was 20, people thought I was 15." I don't see it that way. I get carded everywhere like crazy. Sometimes i get double carded. Anyway, I was working the other day and i got a new age comment. Keep in mind I actually know this SC as a classmate.

Me= May I have your ID?
SC= Why?
Me= To exchange for the key?
SC= Oh right. *hands me the ID*
Me= hehe. Your driver's license photo is adorable.
SC= Yeah, hina, check out the date.
Me=

1996?
SC= *in a mean way* You were 2 then right?

This wouldn't make YOU 12, would make HER 12. And her guess that you were "2 then" would make you 14 in her estimation.

So ... people think you are younger than you really are, and your classmate is much younger than you thought? Is that it?

smileyeagle1021 · #9 02-22-2009, 05:21 AM

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Quoth RetailWorkhorse

Actually, I'm a lefty who was taught how to write with my right hand because all my teachers were rightys and that made them "superior" than me. -_-' So I'm ambidextrous!

actually, as a complete off topic, there is some cultural background to that. If I remember correctly it is certain Middle Eastern tribes (I know it's some tribes, I want to say Middle Eastern) have the tradition of using the left hand, and the left hand only for the *cough* dirty jobs *cough* and therefore anyone who could only write with their left hand must be dirty... there, that's Professor Blake's Intro to Sociology explanation behind why right handed people in the past were considered superior... sadly, that's about all I remember from Professor Blake's class.

hinakiba777 · #10 02-22-2009, 07:57 AM

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Quoth SpyOne

This wouldn't make YOU 12, would make HER 12. And her guess that you were "2 then" would make you 14 in her estimation.

So ... people think you are younger than you really are, and your classmate is much younger than you thought? Is that it?

No. His lisence was issued in 1996. So he's 29.

Also, yes, my math was off sorry.