I thought today was going to be “one of those days”, but it actually turned out to be OK. I was able to get the newsletter done and ready for proofreading. But then David called and said I needed to go straight out to work, and get a deposit ready. Since we didn’t work last Thursday and Friday, which is when I usually work up the checks, we really needed to get it done. Plus, I needed to get the cash receipting done — something I usually do on Wednesdays. But I didn’t do that last Wednesday because for whatever reason, the electricity kept going off. Yes, it was cold and rainy, a bit of snow in the air. But it wasn’t bad enough for power failures. I would say that the electricity went off 8 or 9 times. About 10 minutes apart. After awhile, we just gave up trying to do anything computer related. I felt sorry for Ethan. Busiest day of the year for the grocery store that he works at — he is a checker. And this power thing was county wide. If we thought it was frustrating at the trucking company — I can only imagine what was going on at the grocery store. But, it sounds like they got through it OK.

Better than tonight:) Ethan said they had an irrate “customer”. He wanted to cash a pay check, and the courtesy desk told them they didn’t have enough to do it — and he got really “in your face” with them. So much so that the cops needed to be called. He was drunk for one, so that didn’t help the situation. But he also was making vague threats. He tried going through Ethan’s line with some grocery items (and the checkers had already been told not to cash his check, at this point, just on principle). But, Ethan didn’t have to “deal with it”. The managers were keeping an eye on this guy, (they were waiting for the cops to get there), and when he went through Ethan’s line with a few grocery items and wanted to cash his check, one of the managers said “Mr. Hoover has already told you that we were not going to cash your check”. Because of the vague threats, Ethan was really nervous about him being that close to him. Enter the cops and the gentleman was escorted out, and subsequently arrested for disorderly conduct.

Ethan says he will do a blog entry about this, so once he does that, I’ll link it here, so you can read Ethan’s account of this. Sounded like quite the evening for him! Give me my nice quiet uneventful evening any day!