Hands On Experience Pt. II

So I have gone to about 7 or 8 24 hr fitness locations recently and have asked all of them if they have a pump to put air in my basketball. Everyone except for the one off the 105 have told me that their pump has just broke. "Like just the day before..." The one off the 105 told me that people brought in their own pumps and to go ask somebody in the gym. Haha really? I guess thats the standard answer to not allow members to use it. Maybe its a liability thing, haha. Last night Team Symantec came through in the clutch to win and clinch a playoff spot. I was on fire... during the shoot around. During the game I was- not so much. I need to shake off that San Diego thing of not performing well under pressure (Trevor Hoffman and Nate Kaeding I'm talking to you and fear joining you.)

I have been up in LA since Monday, trying to get acclimated to this new routine. I think once I start work on 12/16 it will be more structured, but for now, I'm just I guess enjoying the little time left I have off before getting back to the grind. And really its in between looking for a second job. Yesterday I applied at borders online, apparently they have hiring opportunities around here somewhere so hopefully I will get lucky.

I remember back in Monterey I had refused to get a job any where else other than the wherehouse that was by my apartment. So that was the only place I bothered applying to. I got it within after one interview and didn't understand back then why people had such a hard time getting a job. Now having been through it, I would like to take it all back.

That job was cool, the best story from there sounds like a retail store urban legend and I wouldn't have believed it myself if I wasn't there but- and go ahead and skip this part if I had written about it before- our store also rented videos. Anyways one day, a very upset white lady in her early 40's comes in upset. She demands that we pay for a new VCR for her because a tape she rented from us got stuck and the cost to repair hers was more for a new one. I mean she is cussing up a storm demanding to speak with the manager. I was busy stocking videos having won the honor from the other guys that day- it was usually empty during the day in that part of the store so you got to pretty much restock without being bothered. From that part though, I can hear her screaming and cussing about how she didn't need to provide the video back and that the estimate from the repair store and the receipt for the new one should be sufficient. The person trying to help her kept asking that all they would need would be the video that caused it for inventory and to verify. She was refusing to provide the name and the actual video to the person helping her out. All the workers including me tried to calmly explain we would need the video back anyways, but nope, she just kept cussing away. Finally my manager comes in and they end up going to his office. He comes out looking all serious and advising the customer she would get reimbursed and apologizing. As she's leaving the parking lot, he turns out with the most ridiculous smile goes to the back and produces the video that had caused her to be so damn upset...

See, We had an adult section. Yep, between the guys that worked there it was always a battle to see who would get to restock the adult section because we all would take our sweet time in perusing through the sweet titles and covers. Turns out the video that had gotten stuck in her VCR was from this section. We ended up proudly displaying it in the back room by the punch in clock. She deserved it for the half hour ridiculous scene she had caused- I mean she yelled at all of us at one point in trying to get us to just take her word for it. I mean we would have eventually found out what movie she had rented by looking up her account, but I guess she didn't want to be there when we did.

The name of the video? I wanna say it was either,
White Men Can't Hump, or American Booty, but I can't remember exactly...