From June 21 Onward

Another Exciting Evening

June 23, 2002

         The Palace West Theatre isn't exactly
the most yippy-skippy place in the world to
work. Today was a Saturday, so it was busier
as usual. This isn't enough, however, to count
the day as not being boring...But something
else did happen.
         Everything seemed to be going well
(as in, nothing unexpected happened), until
suddenly some of the soda fountains stopped
working in a very annoying way. They shot
drops of syrup out instead of pop, and loudly
made the following noise (as best described
in letters):

RGGRRHRHGRRHH!!!

         Try to imagine that. Anywho, one
by one the soda fountains stopped working,
until eventually all you could hear was the
sound described as employees and the
managers ran around frantically explaining to
angry customers the purpose for the wait and
trying to figure out what the heck made all the
pop miraculously stop flowing as normal.
         Well, some of the customers had it
figured out before we did. "Looks to me like
that thar thangamajig is outta CO2." Of
course. Now the answers to the universe's
most perplexing of questions were being
unravelled before me. We needed CO2.
         So just to ruin the once-in-a-lifetime
excitement we were having, the manager
called up a Pepsi maintenance man down
and had him fix it all up. Customers had their
soda and peace was restored to the land.
Now we had nothing left to do but the usual.
         Closing time finally came at midnight.
Today was also unusual in that everyone on
my side of concessions was new to the job.
Thus, it took us forever and a day to close. I
didn't leave until 1:20am. That's about the
longest time ever spent, especially
considering there were three people to get it
done.
         Oh well, I get paid, no matter how
meager the sums.
         Now that I'm finished complaining, you
can get on to something in life you enjoy
more. Go ahead, I won't be mad.

~ Dris ~