While waiting for my magical journey on the cruise ship to begin I started working full-time at my part-time bakery job. There wasn't a really big need in me to audition and (i got promoted and i actually ended up liking it!)
I could write a chapter in a book (yes, not a book, but a chapter-maybe 2) about my experiences while working in a bakery. Here are some solid points.
1. I overall enjoy working at a bakery because people come to get dessert so they are generally in a good mood!
2. Other people come to get dessert, on assignment from the office, so they are generally in a bad mood.
3. People are stupid.
I am too. Really air-headed, some of the time. It's getting worse and worse the older I get.
When I say people are stupid, I mean asking a question when the answer is right there in front of your face. How much is this? $5.75 IT SAYS SO RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE!
What kind of cupcakes do you have? THESE ONES! They are all carefully labeled, priced, described and organized in front of you. okay bye.
4. In New York, people come from all over the world to talk to me. We converse in half English. I squint a lot and ask them a lot of different descriptive questions and use a lot of silly gestures.
I just KNOW I am going to annoy the crap out of every salesman I meet when I go to India, Turkey, South Africa, Mauritius, Lisbon, etc.
5. I get a lot of great stories to come home with!
Here is a classic example of the language barrier:
a Red Velvet Cupcake
Customer ordering this asks for:
I could write a chapter in a book (yes, not a book, but a chapter-maybe 2) about my experiences while working in a bakery. Here are some solid points.
1. I overall enjoy working at a bakery because people come to get dessert so they are generally in a good mood!
2. Other people come to get dessert, on assignment from the office, so they are generally in a bad mood.
3. People are stupid.
I am too. Really air-headed, some of the time. It's getting worse and worse the older I get.
When I say people are stupid, I mean asking a question when the answer is right there in front of your face. How much is this? $5.75 IT SAYS SO RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE!
What kind of cupcakes do you have? THESE ONES! They are all carefully labeled, priced, described and organized in front of you. okay bye.
4. In New York, people come from all over the world to talk to me. We converse in half English. I squint a lot and ask them a lot of different descriptive questions and use a lot of silly gestures.
I just KNOW I am going to annoy the crap out of every salesman I meet when I go to India, Turkey, South Africa, Mauritius, Lisbon, etc.
5. I get a lot of great stories to come home with!
Here is a classic example of the language barrier:
a Red Velvet Cupcake
Wed Belbid
Wedda Bedbit
Red Carpet
Red
Banilla y Red
Well Bellbid
Regular cupcake
I guess... this..?
That one
My job doesn't do much for the bank, but does LOTS to cure boredom, sugar up my love handles and keep me entertained for the next 3 weeks. That's all?? Ahhh! I am SO EXCITED. Neither of us are done with our paperwork- Doctors offices, Post offices, Police offices, any kind of office, They are not making it easy on us. Oh well, things always end up getting done somehow!
In the meantime, I have my part-time job :)
xoxo- Melissa
Haha How do you keep a straight face?
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