Fuel -- Bad Day

It has been a bad day.  Right now I'm on Nellis A.F.B. for at least another hour or two.  I am supposed to have collected $280 from the delivery here, but I told them I would talk to the boss to see what kind of discount we could get them since I basically showed up at the  base when they were expecting to start.

I am waiting for that party to end so I can get it without worrying about how to get back on base.  The fun part of it all is using my brother's phone to type it all up. I have not really told anyone but family, but my blackberry has a busted screen and I am not upgrading (contract is up) so I am just not using a phone (I never call anyone really and no one can reciprocate what is not happening),  but I would still have an easier time typing with the screen busted all up than this thing.  I do not love the Samsung Galaxy and/or the touchscreen keyboard. Yet, despite all my hatred; dealing with this is still the better part of my day.  Here allow me to explain:

One Lady wanted to set up two bounce houses for 11:30 this morning; only she did not understand we arrive early to have it set up by that start time.  I started calling about 9:00 am hoping to drive right over, she was only 10 minutes away. No answer at either number, left a message on one number, voicemail full on the other.  I go to breakfast and stop in a goodwill, just to give her some time to call me back.  Twenty minutes later I try to call again.  Twenty minutes after that I am knocking on the door, just hoping they open that!  I have no more time to wait for her, but I will have to wait anyway.  After about 5 minutes and ringing the door bell twice and thinking about a third time (I heard voices inside, come on people) they finally ask, "Who is there?"  I explained who I was through the door and they said, "Oh wow, you are early!" Well not really ma'am if your party is at 11:30, arriving at 9:00 might have been early; but after waiting until almost 10 to show up I am no longer early.  They do not currently have a key to the back gate and again they are shocked that I would show up at almost 10:00 for an 11:30 party, so early, how dare I?  Seriously though, this guy was genuinely upset (I could hear it in his voice) that I was early.  Well he could have been upset at the gardener, but he was projecting it onto me.  See the gardener had broken his key to the gate off and that was why they did not have they key and he was supposed to be at the house at 6:30 am and here I am so early at 10:00 and the gardener has not been there!

The phone is really acting wonky now so going to finish this and fix at a computer later.  Time lapse; two hours later:  I am at a computer now the phone was not letting me scroll down, and the cursor was stuck blinking about halfway.  Additionally, my willingness to make typos had increased as I went along.  Anyway I have cleaned everything up now (hopefully before anyone saw this).  We return now to the story of a Bad Day already in progress:

Since, I had to wait for the gardener, I threw what I could over the gate, but the customer was still apparently upset about me arriving early that he was not ready to let me start setting everything up.  All the while they were eating into my next customer's time. I am finally permitted to enter into the forbidden land by walking through the home.  However, the problems did not end there.  I tried explaining to the customer both bounce house blower motors would need to be on a different circuit otherwise it would likely trip the breaker.  They did not understand and asked me to try to put them both on the same outlet!  All I could do was hope that circuit could handle that kind of voltage.  It could not and I soon found out that almost every plug on the front of the house was on the same circuit none of the outlets could handle it when both blowers were plugged in.  Finally we ran one of the extension cords to an outlet at the back of the house.  By this time I had been there nearly an hour and a half and 10:00 did not seem so early to them for an 11:30 party.  The problem was my other party started at 12:00! I was supposed to have been there at 10:30, which is why I was super frustrated by all the shenanigans I ran into at this first customer.

Well my day has gotten a lot better.  With the help I had from the party-goers at Nellis we had their party rentals set up super fast.  Also got them taken down pretty quickly with their help.  Gave them a little more of a discount than the boss approved, but I got a tip from the first disaster, err customer, to cover the difference (Shh don't tell).  This post sucks and I am done with it, get over it.

Now go enjoy the song (click here -->) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHnYD2y-44">Fuel -- Bad Day</a>