21:26 Jun 12 2009
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This is going to be very random... like a lot silly stuff that I need to get off my mind. So...sorry.
We started yesterday at 5:00 am, stopping at the little place we always eat at when we make the 3 hour trip to Ft. Knox. Drove in a flooding, wind blown rain to get there but still...
A lady owns and runs the morning shift called Kay. We have been going long enough that I just get our drinks if she is busy, and help with refills it is that kind of Mom and Pa place.
She ask me as I pay the bill "How is it going?" I know what she was really asking- how it is without dad. Funny as we all ran into the place out of the rain the boys took the small boths- two each and I slide into the third...alone. I looked across from me and where there should of been Dad- nothing. It is like my partner is gone and in a way it is.
I should of know she caught those tears in my eyes as she took my order. Sometimes that control slips and it just happens. I mean... He is all around me. From the job, the family, the office.
I told her I was different but the men was helping me deal. We talked of how work is slow but getting a little busy now. "We you was here last I watched you pull out in that truck and I was thinking- Her daddy taught her what she needed to know to make it." And Ohhh that did not make me cry at all. :(
Then on to the Lt. C bitch wife. We unloaded one of the trucks, into her three story home, and had one thing damamged. Not anyones fault really. When we loaded we parked the truck that the back was was higher then the front of the truck. I am sure at that angle the rear doors was in a bind, and a small amount of water got into the truck, wetting her single matt that was in a carton in an cornor edge about the size of a football. She wants it replaced. I offered to have it cleaned by carpet cleaner.
We are dealing with that Monday...yes...Monday.
Then we ended the day around 3:00pm there time, 4 ours. Boys had been at work since 5:00 am so we ended the day and went to the hotel withe the ok to start our work day at our normal 8:00 am our time. Hotel- Another place that I am alone. But that did not bother me as much last night. Dinner out with the boys and back to the hotel to watch the weather as bad storms hit the area. First time I had hotel staff knocking on my door to tell me the safest place to go to in th hotel.
Then the boys calling me to see that I knew the storms was coming, hotel had also warned them. Was I ok? Did I want someone to come stay with me? They being on the second floor smoking and me on the main floor. My guys...such mother hens some times. Instead I went to bed and slept, screw the storm. I was worn out.
Enough so that the woke up late, the wake up call never coming to wake me. I woke up and minus the hour time difference and holy hell- it was 7:18. We was to leave the hotel at 7:30. I hit the lobby at 7:28 am to find the boys sitting there drinking OJ and watching the news, already having ate a very nice hot meal the hotel had. Well hell....
So off we went to work, my arms getting filled with cartons of milk, apple, some packaged donuts, and what ever else they could shove at me. Along with the "It's bad when the boss is late to work now. No out of town stays if you can't be on time to work." They threw my own words back at me... dang them. lol
Another 4 hours unloading, unpacking to find NONE of her high vaule items damamged. We moved things around, kissed her ass, and left with her buying us lunch and saying we was the best move she ever had. :) How freaking cool.
3 1/2 hour trip home and here I sit. BUt not for long as it is dinner out with the girls, steak and at least one drink for me. This move has just been hard on me- and I know it is because I am sick. Have to say I felt better the last two days then any of the first three of the move but still... we ALL was glad to see the last of this customer.
Ok.. random but that is what I have been up to this last week. :) It has some great spots, some good, some pissing me off, and some "IF she opens her mouth one more time to me..." times but all in all a great job, great crew, trucks ran good, no damage that can be blamed on us, and all home safe and sound. And the boys got some good hours this week.
It could not of went better really. Now- off for my drink.
COMMENTS
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DarkDestiny
00:14 Jun 30 2009
Oh shoot sis, I'm sorry that's insult to injury! Yep this weekend we got to have some fun please, please please :)
Elemental
02:40 Jun 30 2009
It was fun......and don't forget to tat my tit either!!
meeper
21:10 Jun 30 2009
Got to love the people in your life who can take a bitching mood and turn it into a night of humor. Tits tats tittie tat and all that.
Sinora
11:40 Jul 01 2009
Now I'm depressed, I can't for the life of me remember the last time anyone titted my tat.