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ARRGHH! I have sacks of this stuff from Christmas packages! Who will take it? Thanks!

So, I'm a 21 year old female who wants to be a rock star when I grow up. I want to start an ALL GIRL band with members (please be between 18-29yrs old and female).

My music interests span into the great unknown (Ani DiFranco on the same ipod with Ladytron and austrian death machine?), but I would like to play some indie-rock/alt/punk. I want to do something like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Death From Above 1979, The Kills, Dead Weather, The Sounds, Girl in a Coma, and Bikini Kill meets Be Your Own Pet and they all have a crazy good time together. Think something like Screaming Red meets Scarling meets Joan Jett. Does that work? I think so..

I can sing, as well as play guitar, bass and I'm teaching myself piano. I've been teaching myself & playing guitar since I was 14. I've been playing bass since I was 15. Piano is the most recent thing I've started learning. I've been playing piano the past year and a half and I'm addicted, much to the dismay of everyone trying to sleep when I wake at 8am and wander towards the front room with the old thing in there.. the piano is ancient (1800s?) and out of tune, but I really couldn't care. It still sounds better and is a lot more fun to play than my keyboard.

I really enjoy making music. I love making jokes. Thus, I really don't have too many girlfriends (the girlfriends I have & are reading this -- you know I love you to death, but know you are few in number)--- and I really don't have any in Austin. If you want to hang out and jam sometime, let me know. I'm used to practicing 2-3 times a week, so it's preferable that you would want to put some time and effort into something if we work well together. I know a lot of girls are really into the singer/songwriter thing (because of necessity?) and I'm hoping I don't fall into that category. I write songs, sing, can play instruments, etc,.. I would rather not be the back up for another singer/songwriter chick. If you're really serious about the songs you write then learn an instrument and make music for it yourself. Not every girl can have her personal backup band. I want to meet other girls who can play something well and we can make music together. Girls who can sing are a dime a dozen, get used to it...

Maybe you want someone you could make jokes with and play music with, maybe you want something serious, maybe you're bored and you never really had a band before but you've always wanted one... then you should maybe message me! My first real band was in the 8th grade.. and then I played with random kids throughout high school & college.. now I'm 21. My last band broke up a month ago... It's more fun running in the desert than playing music in Austin..? riiight.. =P
I really don't think the number of bands someone's been in or their sample recordings or number of shows played matters. If we work well together, awesome. If we become friends, that's great. If we try jamming and it doesn't work out, I wont get pissed at you and I expect you to not get mad at me.

At the moment I'm not too interested in joining anything that's already been established. I want to make a band where everyone can feel like equals. I don't like coming into a band and feeling like I can't speak up, then feeling left out of the creative process because of control issues and/or established relationships. So thanks guys, but no thanks. I want to make something new and fun and I don't want to be pressured to be caught up to speed on music that's already been made and set in stone.


message me with what YOU can do/ like to do/have done and we'll set something up. Relevant recordings or previous experience is nice, but not required.


xx niss

I'm a lobby hostess in a McDs.

Today, a bunch of teenagers were in.  They were swearing a bit, I asked them to stop, they apologised, and seemed alright about it. I got gradually more suspicious of their behaviour, especially when they started taking handfuls of straws.  Every time, I'd ask them to give them back, with my "teacher" tone of voice (I intend to be one someday, so I like to practice it).  They took a few leaflets too (and by 'a few' I mean several handfuls).

They hung around outside for a bit, swearing and so on.  When I went out, I thought I felt something go over my shoulders, but I dismissed it.  They came back in, and when I asked one of them not to swear, another one got me with a spitball in the back of my head.  I went and asked the manager to kick them out, but they ran away in the few seconds it took me to get to the counter.

I finished my shift a few minutes later, and I saw them again when I went outside.  One of them threw an egg at the window, then another one threw an egg at me (it hit).  I went back inside, warned the next hostess, asked the managers to call the police, and rinsed myself off quickly under the tap (they got my hand, which was in my pocket, and my hip).

They've come in before.  If they come in again, I'm kicking them straight out.

My calm tone is a result of a very simple choice; that or shouting.

Rotten little cunts.

Help finish this sentence:

If I was having really bad acne, I would go to ________ spa for a ________ facial.

I'm leaving town on New Year's Eve so I need to be able to get an appointment/have my face in makeup-wearing condition again by then. Thaaaanks!

Hey folks -
I was wondering if you have seen any stores with the "Sweets" brand Orange Sticks - (chocolate covered orange jelly stick things)
( Image behind LJ Cut )
I have hit a few places that should have them but have come up short...seen any around town lately? Id rather not order from online...

As always, Thanks. :)

As I've mentioned before, I work at the largest employer in the state of Florida. You know, the one who has a world-famous Mouse for a mascot? Sad to say, I no longer am employed at the largest Mouse-related retail store on Earth. I transferred to one of the resort hotels to do Housekeeping, and basically after 1 horrid month I LET them fire me, in exchange for the ability to be re-hired right away. Miraculously (perhaps even magically?), I WAS re-hired, and now work in a Kingdom of Magic, slinging cash and coins in a Land of Tomorrow.

But enough about me.

( I always like my Kodak Photo Paper with a little Swiss Miss... )

( Could you do about 10 things for me AND make it snappy? )

Overall, I'm overjoyed to be back with the Mouse and thrilled to finally be working inside the Kingdom of Magic...but I know to expect an increase in the amount of sucks and crazies. Oh well, fodder for here, I guess.

There was a huge influx of people ordering online and having their order screwed up somehow or another....by THEM. This is the one that made me lawl so hard: one guy ordered anchovies (BLACHEWWYUCK) on his pizza, then called and complained that WE screwed up his order and WE purposely did it to piss him off. Long story short, I'll get banned for typing the rest...lol :)

Also, ordering pizzas + coupon = mucho discounts. Ordering pizzas - coupon =/= mucho discounts. Yes ma'am, I really do need the physical coupon to give you the deal. And to be quite honest with you, it was another pizza chain that had a 1 large 1 topping pizza for $10, but I'm tired, and I don't feel like arguing. I did get a bit agitated with her, but damnit! She kept INSISTING on this certain deal that I cannot  just give out! We have coupons for a free 2 topping large pizza. I just can't give out discounts willynilly. I. NEED. THE. COUPON! FFFFUUUU----

Today I was working in the bistro, watching customers browse and getting them their cinnamon rolls, hot dogs, and various other items they were picking up in the market. I see plenty of families with their children stroll through. But today, I watched two parents with their child wander and realized that the kid was holding one of our packets of cookies - basically a roll of them -

( like these )

( Letting your kids chew on cookie packages and then attempting not to pay for them is not cool )

I seriously felt my brain hemorrhage at the end of that transaction. Just...who does that. Who thinks that would be ok. Just...what. The. Hell.

There is a difference between 'through' and 'Thursday.'



No, for it being so confusing you can't have the coupon discount today.

No.

You can't.

It says it's valid Thursday, December 31st.
In the right corner in very large letters it says "NEW YEARS EVE SALE"


Today is December 26th.


IT. IS. NOT. VALID.

Why do we have them out if they aren't valid yet?

It's so you people come back when they are valid and spend more money. THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF DATED COUPONS.



Second.

Wilton things HARDLY EVER GO ON SALE MORE THEN 30% OFF. How do I know this? I've worked here since this store opened its doors.

You've never seen me before and I just have to be new?


The sign on Wilton states. "Wilton HOLIDAY SUPPLIES ARE 50%"

That would mean, that special cookie cutter that is in the shape of a x-mas tree, or that red and green sprinkles we only carry at Christmas is on sale.


NO, IT DOES NOT MEAN ALL WILTON IS 50% OFF.

No, it isn't deceiving. No, it's not false advertising.

Do you people even know what false advertising means?


Do you know what reading ability and comprehension is? The skill you are lacking.

I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and joke about autopilot mode, it's been a long month.
You lose this benefit of the doubt when you're mean to me about the 'misunderstanding.'




But yet, I smiled through each customer who just HAD to be right today.

I think I hate Dec 26th more then Nov 26th.

Hah.

Since the dawn of time, the carnival thing in town has been stationed at the parking lot at Reagan High School between Christmas and New Year.

THEY ARE NOT HERE THIS YEAR!!!

Where are they?

Or

Where else can I get my funnel cake fix? And I mean where they funnel the dough into the fryer. There are some places here that have nasty frozen "prefunneled" cakes that they just reheat. Those end up tasting like tires.

I'm moving to Austin soon and I'm looking to find an active craft (sewing, knitting, crochet, ect) group, preferably college aged, I can join. I won't be living on campus, so I'm trying to force myself to be social so I don't spend all of my college life hanging out with my cat.

Also, any really great yarn shops? I'd be willing to drive an hour from the UT campus. My cousin, an avid knitter, will be coming to visit from New Hampshire and asked about yarn shops.

I have 3-4 old CRT monitors I'd like to recycle. They all work, so I'm also okay with giving them away. Range in size, I think the largest is 20".


Are there are places around town where I can recycle these? I'm okay with giving to charity as well - I just want them gone, and don't want to have to pay extra to have them out of my house.

I-35 has radar working behind just about every hill and on all the frontage roads, both north and southbound between Parmer & the upper-deck split. Drive casually.

I guess Art wants to make sure to meet his quotas for the year.

I know where I can donate non-perishable food items, but where can I donate perishable food? I have about four pies I want to donate, but all Google searches lead me towards places accepting only non-perishables. Any help?

so two things

1. I have been at this job since like...late september.

2. when you write a check its POLICY we see your ID/license

The system wont even let us continue on if we don't put one in. If you have the number and not the ID/license that wont cut it and we still need to see your ID/license.

If not then I have to get my manager to pass it by. 90% of the time he wont let you do it, 10% of the time your spending like 2 dollars and he doesnt care.

OR hell check HIS system(that I do not know about and no one told me about, and Ive never been told how it works) thats ONLY AT THE CUSTOMER SERVICE and only he probably has access to it. If you COULD do this every bloody time then (this only ever happened once with me and a customer) then im sure all the cashiers would have been told about it.

okay so lets get to the real rant. A lady comes in and she does have her ID, but when I ask for it she does the whole "I shop here ALL the time shouldn't you have it in your system?" speil. Now I understand maybe if you've come through my line a MILLION TIMES (and the people who actually do don't hesitate to show me their ID/license) but HELLO? THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IVE EVER SEEN YOU. and I know you know that I'm new, but the fact you shop here OMG EVERY DAY means I should magically know who you are and your license number. No matter how NEW I am.

Im sorry but in my job description they never told me I had to memorize all the regulars account numbers and license numbers. No matter how long I work there.

I am looking for a therapist who specializes in Logotherapy. It would help if they were centrally located, but Ill take what I can get. Thanks!

Don't get shitty with me for not speaking your language, when you've made no attempt whatsoever to learn mine. Last I checked, I was the one speaking the official language of this country. I haven't done anything wrong. Enough with the scowling.

Oh, and I'm not stupid, either. I'm aware that you're cussing me out even though I don't speak the language you're cussing me out in. Some things are universal.

ETA: I apologize if this came off as racist, that wasn't my intent. My issue wasn't with him speaking another language, it was with him getting shitty at me for not speaking his. I can complety appreciate language barriers. A lot of our patrons have difficulties, but there are ways and means of getting your point across - pidgin English, simple mime, heck, I'd even work with interpretive dance. It was more the way he made no effort to communicate whatsoever, then got angry at me for not either speaking his language or reading his mind. I should have made that clearer in the original post but I'm posting this from my iPod lol.

Finally... the Christmas Music has gone off the air for the next year...

Anyway. Blue-shirted sometime cashier where It Means A Great Deal.

Dear older couple,

Yes, we are aware the road in front of the store is very, very icy. We've got courtesy clerks posted outside warning people to take the long way through the parking lot, because our driveway is solid ice.

Telling us that someone is going to fall and die on said ice is just being overly dramatic. We're handling it.

Thanks, but no thanks,
slash_puppy.

Also FFS people, it's SNOWING LIKE CRAZY outside. Could you at least bring back in the cart you took out there so they don't melt snow all over our floors once they're brought in?

First snowstorm in recent memory and Texans lose their effing marbles. >

Recap: Cashier/Self-checkout attendant in Midwest grocery store chain.

Dear customers,

Yes, people have been asking all day what time we close, it's at 5PM. Saying "that's wonderful, you guys deserve it!" and wishing us the happiest holiday really makes our day. However, dear customers, when we announce half an hour before we are closing soon, please don't try to take your sweet time shopping. We'd like to be outta here right around closing. To the customers who try to walk in our open door (which we were actually about to lock up), please leave. We have about three employees (two of them store managers) telling you to get out, especially since it's after 5 and we'd like to go home to celebrate the holiday with our family and friends. Saying "but I just need this ONE thing" or "I NEED cigarettes" is not going to cut it. If you REALLY need cigarettes, there's still about a dozen gas stations open, go to them.

Thanks for your time,

invaderscythe

You know it's going to be a bad transaction when someone starts bitching the moment they walk up to the counter. This past week, at your friendly local long-distance train station, a real treasure of a man walked up to the ticket counter. On a relevant side note, we are located on the second floor of the building. The sign when you enter the building says "(RRCompany) 2nd Floor" with an arrow that points up the stairs.

ESJ = Entitled, Selfish Jerkwad
Me = Ticket clerk of Awesome :P

ESJ: You know, you guys should really have a sign that you're open.
Me: *boggles* Huhwha?
ESJ: The window downstairs is all locked up. The window that says Ticketing.
Me: Oh, you mean the bus counter?
( Part the first, in which ESJ proves himself inobservant of our copious signage )
ESJ: Well I couldn't find it and I'm not stupid.
Me: *trying very hard not to contradict him on that* So, do you have a reservation?
( Part the second, in which ESJ's $2 discount is more important than my job, apparently. )
Really?? That kind of temper tantrum over less than $2? Dude, grow up. I'm pretty sure keeping my job is going to win between that and your $2 discount. Just count yourself lucky you came on a day that I was working, and not one of the grumpy old curmudgeons who would yell right back at you.

Edited to close italics XD