Saturday, September 6, 2008

This Isn't Funny Anymore

I think I'm trying to break my own record. Today I woke up at 4 am with no chances of going back to sleep. I stayed in bed for a little over an hour and then decided to start getting ready for work. I hope there aren't any major problems today because I'm already over tired and it's not 6 am yet. Speaking of problems - the other day I was trying to think of my biggest pet peeves at the cleaners. Here they are not necessarily in order:

1. someone sees me at the counter and waits to ask for change for a large bill until I walk to the back and get into doing something.

2. People who leave their trash on top of the machine in stead of putting it in the trash can 2 feet from them.

3. Tanners that lotion themselves up by spraying every possible surface in the tanning room and press themselves up against every surface in the STAND up tanning booth.

4. Very demanding middle age women who act like they have never done laundry a day in their lives and you know they have been doing it for at least 30 years.

5. People who clean out their laundry baskets by dumping everything on the floor.

6. People who manage to flood the place by washing a tarp or something like that and then shaking it out on the floor (hello??). Then they stand there doing nothing as you frantically try to clean this major hazard up with 20 other customers swarming around you.

7. People who happily bring in a wash dry fold and let you discover there are big chunks of vomit they didn't even bother to shake off or a dried on cat poop.

8. People who use 3 laundry carts to store their detergent, purse and other things when we only have 8 total.

9. People who bring in a rug that hasn't been cleaned in 40 years and throw it up on the counter leaving big hunks of dirt and dog hair for the next customer to check in their cashmere sweaters.

10. People who bring in wash dry folds with big balls of human hair distributed through out their dirty clothes

Top things I love about the cleaners:

1. Bella, Ruby, Alex and all the other children who like to come in with their parents and hang out.

2. The regulars you look forward to seeing every week and wonder where they are if they don't show up

3. The community support for a small business

4. The things people tell you

5. Meeting people from all over the world

6. Doing business with other small businesses who understand the struggle

7. Summer coming after a long slow winter

8. Winter coming after a very busy summer

9. The weird stuff you see

10. The student workers we hire from Central/ Eastern Europe

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