For Those Curious
Here's how I spent this past last-weekend-before-Christmas.
Friday, I involuntarily had to work from 9am to 11:30pm, for a grand total of 14 straight hours of retail labour. I now understand why they call it "Moonlight Madness", considering the delerium I was in by around ten that night. I have also come to the conclusion that were he alive today, the Marquis de Sade would have applauded the whole cruel & unusual concept. Especially since I'm pretty damned sure it's to blame for...
Saturday, which was spent doing the following 3 things:
1) attempting not to pass out/collapse during my 9 hour shift
2) attempting not to vomit
3) failing miserably (and repeatedly) at #2
Despite my sister and a few friends stopping by for a brief visit later Saturday night, I barely saw any of them between paying my respects to the porcelain god (who obviously felt I'd not given him enough tribute as of late) and crashing in the bedroom from exhaustion.
Sunday saw yet another 9 hour work shift, although it fortunately saw a lot less vomit. Plus I also got to spend a few hours of consciousness where I wasn't actually at the store. Sure, I maybe had two or three surviving synapses left, but hey! At least I still had them.
Which brings us to...Monday. Where I worked. Again. Which makes this the 10th straight working day in a row, with no end or off-day in sight until Christmas.
On a related note, the next person who so much as hums a few bars of "It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" around me will find that the ensuing incident will ultimately end with me saying, "And that, your Honour, is when I ripped their spine out and beat them with it."
I think that once Boxing Day is over, I'm going to sit back with a few other mates sadly trapped in retail, and we will toast to the holiday season: "To the holidays! May it suffer every last possible hell and damnation offered by each level of Dante's Inferno."
Hoo-rah...
posted by Phillip at 9:14 AM
