My Job

I have a very, very part-time job as a food demonstrator at the local grocery store.  I bold the "part-time" because when I actually get to work I am working 6-12 hours a month, and these last 5 month i have been averaging a whole zero hours a week.  That is because the company I work for went bankrupt and had to merge with a new company, so my boss pretty much changed all of a sudden, even though I really never knew who my boss was anyway....  Well with this job I get to go to the store and prepare food for the customers to sample so that they will want to buy said food.  It's a good job, if you don't mind standing in the same exact spot for 6 hours, sometimes not having a customer come up to you for up to 30 minutes depending on what you are sampling.  It gives me a lot of time to think actually, which I kind of like.  If I remember correctly, I wrote most of the book that I am planning to write there, but it's in my head, and I am unsure how to put it on paper...  Also with this job I get to meet a lot of interesting and sometimes strange people while there.  I believe the most common thing that get said to me is "You look tired" or "What a great job! You just stand there all day and they pay you".  It gets hard on the feet after a while...  I think I will always remember the time that one of the shoppers mistook me for a mannequin.  I was in the produce section demoing a bleu cheese dressing on a salad.  Because not very many people actually like bleu cheese, traffic was quite slow.  I found it interesting to watch how often the workers at the store had to restock the bananas because of how fast they were going.  So there I am staring at the shelf of bananas, sort of day-dreaming, when an elderly lady comes up to my table.  When she is right in front of me I cut out of my trance and look at her.  She jumped!  After she got over the original shock, she was laughing that she thought I was just a mannequin sitting right next to the food stand.  She then proceeded to walk away.  I thought that was an odd thing to say, because I know of no grocery stores that have mannequins in them.  But I took that episode into consideration and started moving a little more while I work....

I'm going to cut this post off because it is getting quite long, but there is more I can say on this subject, so I will most likely come back to it, especially once I start working again.  I actually work this weekend (score! Thank you mom) so I might get more interesting stories from this.

-- CK