I HATE the 4th.

[Rapscallion]

Oh? Whyever not? I figure you'd be glad to be rid of us

Only the pilgrim fathers. We had a bit of a whip round around the office and bought them a boat.

Money we raised, we expected it to sink halfway across...

What? What?

Rapscallion

[BookstoreEscapee]

non-perishable employees.

I'm sorry, that just made me laugh so hard.

Glad to see I wasn't the only one.


We went to the fireworks last night; my mom and I walked over to Starbucks and I noticed the bookstore had closed at 6:30. As we were walking out I saw some guy walk up to the door, pull on it, then peer in the window...right next to the sign that said "Hey we closed early!" ('k well, it didn't say that exactly...).

We parked at my parents' church about 1/4 mile away, and walked over to the racetrack; when we were walking out the traffic was stopped in both directions on the street the track is off of while everyone was walking out of the parking lot. No police directing traffic or anything...but people kept honking their horns...did they really think it would do them any good?

[DerangedHermit]

For some reason this year Corp decided to NOT close the store earlier. We stayed open to 11PM as normal. In the past they closed the stores at 8 or 9 while closing the bakery, meat and seafood at 6 leaving just deli and non-perishable employees. I had a CW text me at 7:00 PM saying that were asked if they wanted to leave as there were literally maybe 15-20 customers in the entire store.

That's a bit weird. The first two years my store was open ('05 and '06), it closed at 9, then for the past two years, it closed at its regular time (midnight). This year, it closed at 10.

I had a 5-10:30 shift, and it was a moderate crowd until sunset. It completely died afterwards, so my CDH had no problems getting stuff done on time, and we left half an hour early since everything was done.

[depechemodefan]

I try to not go to the store on a holiday. Mostly because if there are no customers, then corp. might actually give the working drones the day off.

I did go Sun. Unfortunately, none of the 4th of July cakes were on sale

[Sammy7s7]

I work in the meat dept as the maid now and we were only allocated so many ribs for the 4th weekend. We sold out by 10:00 AM on the 4th. All day till 7:00 PM people hit my buzzer every five minutes asking for ribs, even if I just told the person next to them we sold out, even if I went threw the motions of looking in the back for the last person they ask me to look for them (referencing the magic backroom thread I saw a long time ago). Seriously, can't they see each other?

[Ironclad Alibi]

Only the pilgrim fathers. We had a bit of a whip round around the office and bought them a boat.

Money we raised, we expected it to sink halfway across...

Pity it didn't. Contrary to the Thanksgiving mythology, they were not nice people.

[EricKei]

Seriously, can't they see each other?

Sure they can...they just figure that THEY'RE the special ones, and that you wasted all that time going thru the motions just to throw the guys before you off. They know very well that you have another ton or two of ribs back there waiting just for your fave customers, and nobody else can have them