The Murphy Conspiracy Returns…

It all started when I showed up to work one Friday afternoon, to find a very strange spider in the communication log. It was larger, with a yellow cross in the middle, made of plastic – but yet, something about it didn’t quite fit. I wondered why such a spider would be hiding in the communication log.
  [I later found out that the spider had been behind the desk for a longer period of time, longer than anyone knew. This made me even more suspicious.]
   After much stocking and thinking about this very subject, I came to a hypothesis: perhaps the spider was Murphy’s way of communication with the new registers. If the spider was taken away, the registers would stop their fussiness. However, I was afraid of the revenge – so I kept my mouth shut and left the spider there. This was the first day the register in Murphy’s place stopped working.
   The next day, the spider was gone: “thrown out”, I was told. I breathed an uneasy sigh of relief, hoping that our troubles would soon be over. But alas, the problems were just beginning. That very evening, the same register broke again, along with the cameras. I was lost.
   The following day, I was hoping the last two days had just been a coincidence. Ironically, the other register broke that afternoon. That night was also the night that random beeping began. The register would beep oddly for no reason at me: long, warning beeps that made me want to run and hide. Everytime I entered a transaction, I prayed that the register would work: especially around the last two hours I worked. The registers work, but not without a fight.
   Kim and Dave laughed, saying that it was only me. I believed them too – until Tuesday, when I walked in and Kim told me that all the monkeys had strangely jumped off the counter at different intervals.
    Murphy has returned, and he is ready for revenge.

Random Question of the Day
   So we have a gumball machine, which is awesome. My question is, why is there something to hold a lightbulb on top of it?

Another Random Murphy Event
   So there I was doing balloons. I had just finished tying the strings to a weight, tossed the string out of the way, and turned to give them to the customer. They smiled and life continued on its merry way. That is, until I turned around.
    Upon my turning, I found that the ribbon had somehow ended in Kim’s tea. It’s Murphy’s fault, I swear.

Random Item of the Day
 Shower Candy [*cough* caddy]

Oh I thought for sure it was February – Valentines Day confuses me

So I have had several complaints that I have been not been updating the blog regularly enough. I would like to defend myself with the following (useless) excuses:
     1. I’m currently working two days a week. Less work, less stories.
     2. Snow does play a factor (evidently)
     3. I have suddenly noticed that the numbers in this list are a bigger size with each new number
     4. I am still doing school (although thats not much of an excuse at all as I’m almost done)
     5. I begin to wonder if I’m developing an addiction to this blog.
     6. I just found out the underline no longer works!!!!

Oh and for the record, my last entry was a huge sucess (in a contradictory sort of way, as it was about the bad things that happen). I had a new record number of visitors that day: 49.

Random Items of the Day
  So as it is a new year, we are going through the store and changing everything around. As such, I have found several new items that someday I would like to buy (someday could mean today):

•    A ceramic frog bank!! They are available in green, blue, orange, and yellow. I have a sad addiction to these ceramic banks, as I currently have both a cat and a dog ceramic bank. You should buy one – it’s so cool, it makes you want to put money in them! [Just don't buy too many for yourself - you run out of uses faster than you realize.]
• Laser pointers for your fingers. A great addition to any party, and it always helps if the power goes out.
• My favorite: a windchime that is shaped like a teakettle, with little cups and sugar containers, of which all the items are made of little ceramic bananas!! Who would’ve thought? Bananas.

Murphy is Back in Town [I Can Hear Dave Yelling Now]
    So, if you all remember, Murphy is the evil cash register who tries to take over the store. (For more info, click on the link next to this post that reads The Characters.) Dave says that Murphy no longer has any control over the store. I beg to differ.
   When Murphy was the main register, our biggest issues were with him and his friend-in-register/enemy-against-evil, Charlie. Beeping, the cash drawers falling out, eating money, you name it, Murphy was at fault. Now our new registers are mysteriously beginning to shut down without reason. Sometimes just for credit cards, other times the whole thing! The scariest part? Murphy is beginning to branch out to other stores: yesterday, the bank; tomorrow, the world!
 [Contemplation: we do have either Charlie or Murphy sitting next to the new registers. Which one? And is Murphy using Charlie to his advantage?]

Aliens!! Yes, I Really Mean Aliens!
   The other night I walked out of the store to see strange lights floating in the clouds. They were circular, white, and very organized. They seemed to be taking notice of the entire valley. It was silent as the aliens looked around.
  [It had to be aliens. The only other thing that is even close to that is a light show that is an hour away.]

Random Tag of the Day
  Warning: Use of certain tablecare for sale in this store will expose you to lead, a chemical known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. Patterns identified with this symbol: [an upside down triangle] displayed on or next to the product are the ones for which the warning is given.
   [Ironically, there is no triangle on the heart box this warning came on, nor on any other item in the store. I would have noticed.]