Let me Tell You

Today was a Day. More different than any day I have worked EVER!!!!
I was promoting Polish Kielbasa from Evergood products of San Francisco, Evergood has been a market staple since 1926.
To begin with as I cut and set out my products, I would be asked, "where can I find these, they are wonderful?"
At one point I had my knife in hand and I turned and waved the knife in the direction of the Sausages, and told them which counter to locate them in.
I noticed my error and made a joke to the customers, "Whoops I guess I should not wave my knife like that."
Later, I was placing the foot long Kielbasa in the skillet when I was asked again.
I had a sausage in my right hand. Again I begin waving in the direction of the Meat Case.
Several of my customers and I began laughing as we saw what I was doing.
Hey I do this for fun, remember. My statement, "I guess I should not be waving the weenies around either."
That brought gales of laughter.
Suddenly they knew I was southern, One question came out, "Where are you from?"
"Arkansas" My son says I am CIA, California Improved Arkie"
I added, "But I don't say Y'all as often or I should say,  I  Seldom say Ya'll."
Yep I am Arkie accented and so are my children, I was  told how Blessed I am to have that kind of relationship with my children. (one they can tease me with) Oh I have the same with my two DIL's and my Favorite Son in Law. We all can tease back and forth.
Yeah I am blessed. . I love my Babies. OK I love my adult children but I still gave birth to them as Babies.

"I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be."

 Later, I heard a loud voice say, "Sir you better back on out of here, You were rude to my daughter, Just because you are in a wheel  chair does not give you rights to be rude."
He kept yelling  "Back  out yourself, I am not moving." (his basket was blocking the elder gentleman from going forward.) The elder man sat there looking as Mean as anyone I ever saw.
The younger man just could not stop with the loud voice, He even told the gentleman He should just get out of Redding if that is how he acts.
Of course at that point my Heart is aching for the older man. I wanted to walk  over and hug him, or somehow cool the situation but that may have been an even worse scene. The young man needed to open his heart, I thought of many ways to end this but I could do nothing.

Now who was right? I saw the young mans point, I saw a handicap man wanting through but what did he say to the child? Who had rights being violated?. All around me stopped what we were doing to see if it was going to be OK.
I wondered how to get Security. The wife was saying., "Justin, Come on, he is an old man,"
He was saying, "No matter, it does not give him a right to be rude to the girls"
That old man needs his ass whipped by a young man" (That I can say Was WRONG!!)
 Finally the old man backed out, The young man went the other direction.
All was well but we had three young girls totally embarrassed by the situation.
Again I ask, "Who was right?"
I asked a warehouse worker later "What should I have done?"
Answer, "Run to the Meat counter and get one of those Big Butchers"
Oh Yeah, I never thought of that.

So another time, Watch was all day, I was trying to get my product out in a timely manner.

Theory:: You cut your product, place 8 on a tray and have another tray of 8 ready to replace that one.
(Yeah that is not happening) You NEVER get that far ahead of hungry people.

At one point, I finally put a full tray up front, suddenly  a lady picked up the said tray and was passing it to the people behind her. LOL LOL

Gary, (one of our leads was waiting on his sample) I looked at him, rolled my eyes, and laughed.
He said, "Hey Lady, You can't do that, serve people." He was nice when he said it, (Gary is a Great Lead for our troop, I love his laughter)
I then added. "Hey you may ask to be paid to serve"
See there are ways to handle difficult situations without making the customer feel bad.
I thanked her and all was well.
Later I walked over to Gary's display, (Angus Burgers) I said, "Hey Gary, would you love for me to pass these around for you?"
We again laughed.

OH OH OH another time, Alan walked over, I was taking Chibatta rolls,cutting them in half lengthwise, then again cutting to the back without slicing all the way through. I would then place half of a half of a kielbasa on the roll and cut it into 6 pieces. As Alan walked up he said, "OH Sue you are serving whole sandwiches today." Nuff said, A lady reached over to take an entire sandwich. I suddenly said, "OH no he was kidding, I would  love to, but I will give you half of that one you touched. She only touched the edge but I give it to her or throw it away.
I did not want her feeling  bad so I gave her half a sandwich. No big deal to me,
Alan, on the other hand walked away as he realized he had set the scene in motion.
Again while on a break I walked over to him and asked if I could have a full bottle of gummy Vite's.
You never know what is around the next corner to make the best of.

My best part was a little man of about 2 or 3. He was given his "Hot Dog" and promptly dropped it on the floor.
His Mom picked it up and put it in the garbage. That was not going to work, He wanted HIS Hot Dog, not another one. HIS out of the Garbage. She tried and tried to explain.  The baby was crying and not standing still. (very upset)
Suddenly I asked, "What is his name?
 " MATT" 
 I bent down to his level, with tray in hand,
I said, "Hey Matt, would you love to pick your own?"
Tears stopped, He reached over and took his hot dog. All Smiles,
Mom said, "you saved the day."
Yeah, I am good like that.
If only we all took time to still a sad heart.
So as you can see, I never have a dull moment.

I get to joke, talk, laugh, and Give away food.
 Giving is my favorite thing to do.
Smiling is my favorite thing to do.
 Singing is good always.
So as we cleaned up. I began humming  a song by Kansas,
 "I close my eyes, only for a moment and a moments gone," Gary joined in.

A demo lady came back and said one sentence, I said that has another line to it, she said "Oh " I said, "And you got a doo wacky doo, wacky doo wacky doo" Then we all joined in, Next came Yellow Submarine.
Yeah you can have fun and work and take the blows as they come, Just roll with the punches.

And I get paid to do all the above. Not a bad life. Hard on the old body but fun, fun, fun and stressful ,stressful, stressful.