Last year was the most money we ever made in four hours. It’s time to break the record.
Saturday
In case you haven’t figured it out, Murphy (the register, for you newbies) is behind everything wrong that happens, directly or indirectly. Like by telling one of those two-piece snowmen attack a customer. Remember I told you about how I sold just the top half once? Well, that customer who was attacked offered to just buy the bottom half.
We also have this random Spiderman 3 hat. Anyone interested?? It’s only a dollar. (No, it was not lost and found; we brought it in, and there’s only one left.)
Manager’s Pick
A little girl came in and asked if we had any more “Randolph” candy canes. Kim told her seriously that we never had any Randolph candy canes – just Rudolph ones.
Ok, I’m not a huge fashion person or anything, but sometimes, people wear the craziest stuff. For example, a guy walked in, and I thought he was joking around by wearing a dirty craft sponge on his head. But no – it was an actual hat.
The Coolest Thing Ever!!!!
Kim hit the menu button on the TV security cameras, just to play around. That’s when I saw a motion option. So, curious to see what it did, I went to it, and hit <ON WITH BEEPER>. I went to the back camera I had put it on and told Kim to watch. I was planning on waving my arms and see what happened. As soon as I approached the camera, lights and beeps started going off everywhere: the screen, the camera, and every other camera in the store. The worst part was it didn’t stop. I ran up to the counter, hitting “off”, “mute”, “volume” – I eventually had to go back through the menu to get it to stop. Now, it’s just on motion only: which is pretty awesome. If someone moves and the camera catches it, it automatically flips. If there’s a few different cameras at the same time, it goes to a quad screen. Little did I know how much it would save the day ….
Record Day: Sunday
I’d been joking that no one was gonna come, just to jinx us out – sure enough, it was raining – which affects the crowd.
The day started out pretty crazily. Murphy bit my pinky. (What else is new? I swear he’s out to get me sometimes.)
I was ecstatic though when someone bought a Finding Nemo balloon!!! Finding Nemo is the best Disney movie ever (well, in my opinion 
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But back to the stories. I was opening some gift cards we sell to put into groups for the preschoolers coming this week. The weird thing was they kept reproducing. It was a 15 gift card package – and 7 packages had 16. Pretty weird.
And who knew garlands were flame retardant? I wore one today as a scarf, and sold quite a few. The best part was when I got to give a little girl an extra piece. Her eyes lit up, and I knew I had made her day.
Oh yeah, random Giant guy number 1 was in today (aka Josh). It was pretty funny, because we both greeted each other with, “Hey, I heard about your car crash.” (We both totalled our cars – but not on each other.)
I’m always amazed at the amount of people who ask me what I’m watching on TV. Hello, it’s a security camera system!!!
And today’s “grand merchandise flaw” was that half our dog leashes were painted shut. No joke.
I saw the strangest thing today. It was an older car (typical of older drivers), with graffiti on the side that read, “Yep, I’m an old man!” It had a billion bumper stickers, flames, and more graffiti all over. And the driver really was an old man. It was pretty bizarre.
Ultimate Chaos Story of the Day
Yeah, the first ever. It was pretty empty until 3pm. There were just two people in the store, then 5, then 12, then 18, then 22. So, that’s pretty nervewracking to begin with. Then Murphy malfunctioned. He said he was out of paper and he wasn’t. I have no idea what happened. But he stopped working for 25 minutes, despite any button combination I hit. Meanwhile, the handy dandy motion detector picked up a shoplifter: who I confronted. She hid the stuff she lifted, but another customer brought it up and told me that she saw it happen. (Yay, my first shoplifter caught.) So, yeah. First one’s the hardest. At the same time, for every one person that left, five came in. Pretty insane.
To finish off my day, I brought the balloon from the sign over to random Giant guy number 6 – who actually works at Subway. He let go of it by accident, and got it stuck in the fan. So, then, they had to go turn all the fans off so he wouldn’t cut his hand off trying to get it down. Which then led to them realizing no one had cleaned the fans in ages. So, random guy 6 cleaned the fans while it was just me in the store. The funniest part was when another customer walked in, and the dust was still floating down. He (the customer) starts frantically brushing himself off, wondering where all this random dust came from.
Did we break the record? Sadly, no. 
It is saved for another day – and hopefully a day with no shoplifters. Don’t worry though – I’ll keep my eye out for them.
(Stay tuned – new update coming Tuesday.)
