Stupid Guest Tricks

Following are a few things I've been meaning to post but didn't feel were worthy of their own threads by themselves.

First, I work at AutoZone so my basic uniform is a red shirt and black pants. I was also wearing a black AZ cap at the time. On my way home today I stopped at Albertson's to grab a few things I needed. I was coming down an aisle carrying some cereal when a woman asked me "where do you keep your cheese?" I shrugged my shoulders and told her I didn't know (I really don't know) and that I didn't work there. She apologized and went on. I don't see how she could have confused me with an employee. I was wearing a red shirt while Albertson's employees wear purple with the Albertson's logo on the sleeve, I'm wearing ball cap while they don't, I had no nametag on (my AZ one was in my pocket) though even with it on I bet she wouldn't have noticed and still asked, my shirt was untucked, and I had a Bluetooth earpiece on my ear. I've been confused with Target employees before even when wearing my nametag but I can sorta see that as they also wear a red shirt and that's why I avoid going there in my work clothes. I guess just because I was wearing a solid color polo shirt she assumed I worked there.

Second, the other day I was on my way to work and was stopped at a red light near where a Lowes is being built. I heard a very low flying helicopter and was wondering what was going on. As I passed by the Lowes I saw a helicopter over the building with a cable hanging from the bottom. The copter then went up a little bit with nothing on the cable and flew towards the lot. I assume he was going to pick up another load. I'm thinking they must have been using a sky crane to put A/C units or something on the roof of the building. I've never seen a sky crane in real life before so it was kinda cool.

Lastly, earlier this week I was at work when a man wearing a LifeFlight flight suit came in. I helped him find the wipers he needed and installed them for him. We got to talking some about LifeFlight and after I installed his wipers he gave me a pin commemorating 30 years of Baptist LifeFlight in the area. That was pretty cool. I've had people give me tips before (which I always tell them isn't necessary, that I was glad to help but will take if they insist) but nothing like this.

End rambling.

Shorty82 wrote:Following are a few things I've been meaning to post but didn't feel were worthy of their own threads by themselves.

First, I work at AutoZone so my basic uniform is a red shirt and black pants. I was also wearing a black AZ cap at the time. On my way home today I stopped at Albertson's to grab a few things I needed. I was coming down an aisle carrying some cereal when a woman asked me "where do you keep your cheese?" I shrugged my shoulders and told her I didn't know (I really don't know) and that I didn't work there. She apologized and went on. I don't see how she could have confused me with an employee. I was wearing a red shirt while Albertson's employees wear purple with the Albertson's logo on the sleeve, I'm wearing ball cap while they don't, I had no nametag on (my AZ one was in my pocket) though even with it on I bet she wouldn't have noticed and still asked, my shirt was untucked, and I had a Bluetooth earpiece on my ear. I've been confused with Target employees before even when wearing my nametag but I can sorta see that as they also wear a red shirt and that's why I avoid going there in my work clothes. I guess just because I was wearing a solid color polo shirt she assumed I worked there.

Hmmmmmm.............. usually people check to see if yo have a name tage before asking, "Excuse me ,do you work here????" :D

AGHH!!!! DAMN windows in this apartment!!

The windows in my living room (two side-by-side regular slide windows) haven't opened right in a long time. The one on the left (from the inside) wouldn't unlatch and the one on the right would sometimes be hard to unlatch and be hard to move. I haven't worried about them as it has been to hot to open them but now that it is starting to cool off I decided to get them fixed so earlier this week I arranged to have the complex maintainance man come by and fix them. He came by Friday and was able to get the right hand window working better by replacing the spring bars though it is still hard to close. He has to order the parts needed to fix the left window and fully fix the right one. No big deal, I can live for a while with how it is now.

Due to all the rain we've had the past two days it has cooled off a decent bit tonight so I decided to open my windows. Open the right one in the living room and the one in my room, which has always worked fine. I noticed in my bedroom that the little plastic pieces that clip into the top of the windows, one by each channel (part of what he has to order for the living room), were broken and that the left spring bar was all the way up instead of hidden by the window where it belongs. Reached up behind the blinds to try and pull it down but couldn't so I decided to open the blinds the rest of the way to try and get more leverage on it. Instead of going up the blinds (standard plastic blinds) decided to fall down totally. I pick them up and see that the bar along the top where the workings are hidden and that support the blinds was broken.

So I had to dig up a blanket to hang over the window to hide the view in. Of course the curtain rod I have (but not using right now) is to wide to fit in the window frame so I had to use duct tape instead to hold up the blanket, which I just noticed is trying to fall so I'll have to add more tape, damn it.

Looks like Monday morning I'll have to go by the complex office and arrange to get my bedroom window fixed now and see if I can get another set of blinds to hang up, hopefully all before I go to work at 11:00. If I happen to see the maintainance man around tomorrow I'll let him know and see if he'll be kind enough to get a set of blinds from the storeroom even though he doesn't work weekends, or at least get me a set first thing Monday. He's my neighbor so I might see him though I won't go knocking on his door or paging him as broken blinds and a messed up window which is closed aren't emergencies. Come to think of it the manager has been having to work Sundays lately (corporate orders) so I'll check to see if she's in tomorrow and get the work order taken care of then if I can.

My room was a royal mess (hey, I'm a bachlor, pack rat, and nobody ever comes over anyway) so I got the "fun" of cleaning it up tonight (mostly paper trash so not to bad but took a while) so whenever he comes by the maintainance man can actually get into my room and fix the window. It needed cleaning anyway but 1:00 in the morning is not when I would choose to start but I didn't want to put it off as I don't know when I can get him in here and the excitement of the blinds and covering up the window woke me up some. Then when I was trying to close my closet door (two bi-fold doors) to hide some of the mess the one on the left decided to come off of its pins. The door has been open for a long time because of the mess in front of it so I never noticed the problem before. I had a lot of trouble and wound up having to get out a wrench to adjust the bottom pin shorter to get the door to go up. It's still not quite right and feels like it is binding on the wall a bit but I got it shut and will worry about adjusting it better some other time.

I still need to vacuum tomorrow. Apartment needed a good cleaning anyway, I just haven't gotten around to it till now.

It is now after 2:40 in the morning, I'm real tired, and I'm off to bed. Just needed to vent, sorry for the rant and thanks for reading.

Shorty82 wrote:I had to use duct tape instead to hold up the blanket

aaaahhhh, good old duct tape! Best invention ever! Duct tape & bungie cords. The complete staples of life! Your rant is so normal Shorty. Gave me a good laugh. :D: Hope you get all fixed. If not just buy more duct tape. ;)

LMMEO....poor shorty is having a bad week.

I get stopped in stores all the time (with my coat on and a kid in tow) to ask where something is. Maybe I just look approachable. Donnie gets stopped all the time and asked car parts stuff even without his Advance shirt on. Come on ppl he is not getting paid for this.

WOW...sounds like your apt needs a major renovation maintenence wise.

I agree...a few staples in my tool box....Duct tape, packing tape, and now I have included glue dots....did you know they will fix broken shoes? LOL

Most of the time the shoppers know more than the employees. I get asked where stuff is all the time and I usually wear jeans and a t-shirt of my choosing. I guess that makes me an expert as to where stuff is hidden.

what kind of apartment do you live in?? It sounds like most everything is falling apart. Kind of sounds like my last apartment. The stove top only worked on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. I thought that this was an interesting trick for a stove. We also had water that would pour all over the kitchen floor when the upstairs neighbor would wash thier dishes.

It's a complex of single story apartment buildings. Across the complex everything does seem to be falling apart but it getting fixed. We had a maintainance man for a while who didn't do crap and when he did he didn't do it good and then for at least two months there was no onsite maintainance person and the manager had to borrow from other area complexes. Now we have a good maintainance man who knows what he is doing and does it right but there's a lot to do and only so many hours in the day, plus he is getting borrowed by another complex some. I was just talking with the manager and she was telling me there's one apartment that has a roof leak but the company who owns the complex doesn't want to pay for the work needed to fix it. When I was in the office just now the manager was working on a budget to give to the district manager to try and get the money needed to fix everything that needs fixing.

A number of the outside lights didn't work for a while but they're all working now. The landscaping has been fixed up some but there's still some work to do with that. The gutters and roof have been cleaned out but the gutter over my and the maintainance man's door (neighboring units) will overflow and become waterfalls in heavy rain. He thinks the downspout might be clogged but hasn't had time to do anything about it. He's working on fixing up the vacant apartments so they can be rented out while at the same time fix what breaks in the occupied apartments. A few weeks ago he replaced my dishwasher which hasn't worked since I moved in back in December.

A LOT of rain came down on Thursday and Friday, upwards of 12 inches in some places. So much rain that he had to set up a sump pump under some of the buildings, including ours, to get rid of water flooding under them due to the overly saturated ground and raised water table.

The complex was neglected for a while but the manager and the maintainance man are working hard on correcting that but there's only the two of them, there's only so many hours in the day, and there's only so much funding.

I could have sworn I replied to these posts hours ago. Must have forgotten to hit submit or something.

Main Streeter wrote:aaaahhhh, good old duct tape! Best invention ever! Duct tape & bungie cords. The complete staples of life! Your rant is so normal Shorty. Gave me a good laugh. :D: Hope you get all fixed. If not just buy more duct tape. ]
I love duct tape and you can never have to much of it. Opened a new roll to tape up the blanket and have another unopened roll.

vixen101485 wrote:LMMEO....poor shorty is having a bad week.

I get stopped in stores all the time (with my coat on and a kid in tow) to ask where something is. Maybe I just look approachable. Donnie gets stopped all the time and asked car parts stuff even without his Advance shirt on. Come on ppl he is not getting paid for this.

Forgot to mention what happened Friday. Didn't go to bed the night before until about 2 am as I didn't need to get up real early. About 7:30 am my phone rings, waking me from a good sleep. It was a coworked seeing if I could come in from 8 to 1. As I was dead asleep at the time and had an apointment with the maintainance man I told him I couldn't and went back to bed.

Then a little after 9 there's a knock on my door. I scramble into some clothes and answer the door. The lady next door (whom I've seen around but never actually met) was there. She had heard from the maintainance man (my other neighbor) that I work at AutoZone and asked if I could help change the headlight in her car, they were to busy at the AZ she went to that morning to buy the bulb to do it. Turned out it was the kind of bulb held in by a wire clip (an H7 or similar bulb, your hubby should know the kind) which I HATE, I've never had an easy time with them. Thankfully there was decent access to the bulb and it wasn't to bad, by far the easiest bulb of that type I've changed. Tried but couldn't get back to sleep after that.

I agree...a few staples in my tool box....Duct tape, packing tape, and now I have included glue dots....did you know they will fix broken shoes? LOL

Gotta have duct tape. I hate packing tape, not good for anything but fixing boxes and the like IMO. I'm not surprised glue dots fix shoes.


Great, now it is raining again. As if we need anymore, the ground is still sarturated from last week. Go up to Alanta area, rain. They need it up there and we don't.

Shorty82 wrote:I
Turned out it was the kind of bulb held in by a wire clip (an H7 or similar bulb, your hubby should know the kind) which I HATE, I've never had an easy time with them. Thankfully there was decent access to the bulb and it wasn't to bad, by far the easiest bulb of that type I've changed.

Gotta have duct tape. I hate packing tape, not good for anything but fixing boxes and the like IMO. I'm not surprised glue dots fix shoes..

LMMEO....I read him what you said about the bulb and he was just sitting there nodding his head agreeing. LOL

I hang up my window decs for holidays with the packing tape, have used it to hang up my curtains with too on the metal back door. (Cant nail those suckers in there) and it is great for putting up my tombstones every year.
As for the glue dots, I had them with me at MGM (where I fixed my shoe) and we were at the shop outside of the backstage tour and there was a little Dorothy figure in the case that had fallen over. Since I was just chatting with the girl I told her and she said it always falls over--they have tried everything to get it to stay up---"what about glue dots?" Well if we had some....SOOOOOOO what do I do but dig in my backpack and pull out the box. Hey they came in handy and I now will not travel without them....LOL

Comes in handy living next door to the maintainance man. I thought I heard his door open so I looked out and saw him seeing his girlfriend off. After she pulled out I stepped out front and said "I'll see you tomorrow morning" and explained why. He said if all I needed were some blinds he could get them right now. So we walked up to the shed getting wet in misty rain and I got a new set of blinds.

He's ordering the clips needed for my windows tomorrow and when they come in he'll fix my windows fully. What these clips do is hold the spring bar in place but are designed to break if the spring bars jam so the window can be closed. They wear out and get weak from exposure to the sun over time and break easier than they should and that's what happened with my windows. Exposure to the sun is also what caused my blinds to break.

I'm going to go bathe to warm up from the rain (and because I need to anyway) then I'm going to install my new blinds.