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12TH JULY: KARMIC RETRIBUTION

I think the reason that I get all the stupidest and rudest checkout girls is a form of karmic payback for4 my 2 years of disgruntled work in the customer service industry. Yes, from the age of 15-17 I worked as a checkout chick, and not very happily well either. That is I wasn’t very customer friendly as I didn’t like saying the required “Hello, how are you?” It felt perfunctory and the reply was always the same. To this day I hate people in customer service asking me.
Last week while shopping the girl who served me succeeded in putting my mushrooms at the bottom of the bag, under a myriad of much heavier fruit and vegetable. This week, the girl seemed a little too offhand. She gave me a disgruntled look when I said that I would put all the heavier items into my backpack- one of the ways that I am trying to be more environmentally conscious. However this was slow going as I had not unpacked my groceries from the basket and she simply stood there and waited for me to do it, like doing something customer friendly would have been a serious crime worthy of hanging!
So I finally got them all out, feeling awkward as there was a line, and started packing the heavier things into my backpack while she placed the fruit and vegetables into a bag (which I use as rubbish bags rather than buying them), placing the mushrooms right at the bottom. Okay, so I am starting to find that excusable because it has become obvious that no one knows that they can be crushed! However she then placed my bread in the same bag as the meat followed by some heavier items that I was waiting to put in my backpack! If that wasn’t bad enough, she placed them ON TOP OF THE BREAD! Duh!
Added to this was the sour look that adorned her face the entire time, like serving me was something she would rather avoid by sticking bamboo shoots under her nails. It really must be payback of some kind.
On better news, when I got on the scaled this morning I had lost 3kg (6.6lb). I put on the pants that I bought and they did up much easier, not the most comfortable as I think they were designed to sit lower than I like to wear my pants. Yet today is my day off which means that I can already feel the weight gain and the bloating. Oh well, tomorrow I eat and exercise properly again so not to fret!
Missy is lying down at the moment and if she dozes off then we’ll wait until she wakes up to walk to Birdtown. I couldn’t complete my groceries because I couldn’t carry them all. Also there is a meat special up in Birdtown and I have to return some videos. Oh well, cheers people.

489 WORDS POSTED BY SAMANTHA AT 1136HR. COMMENT.

IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN

I have been meaning to write about this since I first saw it on the news. I have to admit that I burst into laughter when I first heard it, despite how horrific the act really was, or could have been. The reason that I found it so amusing, because it was bound to happen one day, in fact I am surprised that it took this long to happen. I wrote once in my old journal that I wanted to blow the up, but that I ought to be careful saying that because though it is something that I never would do, someone was bound to do it some day and I would be on the list of suspects. This is what happened:

July 8- Police fear a man who started a fire in a western Brisbane Centrelink office today may be armed. Three people were injured in the fire at Inala. Police say a man doused the office counter in a flammable liquid and set it alight around 11:30am. Two people suffered minor burns and an elderly lady was taken to hospital in shock. The office was evacuated and the fire put out but not before it damaged the building's furniture and carpet. Police are looking for a man aged in his thirties with shoulder-length black hair and wearing dark green pants with a cream jacket tied around his waist.

July 9- The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has called for an immediate review of security procedures in Centrelink offices after police were forced to use capsicum spray to restrain a man at a branch in Salisbury, Adelaide, today. Two staff required medical treatment after capsicum fumes went through the air conditioning system and the office had to be closed for the rest of the day. The move follows another incident in Brisbane yesterday when a man doused a Centrelink office with petrol and set it alight causing injuries to three people and damaging furniture and carpet. The South Australian CPSU president, Karen Atherton, says there is concern over the risks to staff and customers in Centrelink offices. "The office is re-opening tomorrow and we'll be visiting the office first thing and talking to local management about what happened yesterday and also the need to review security procedures there," she said. "We're most concerned that this sort of thing is happening in these offices, it's a risk to both the public and to our members and we need to make sure all steps are taken to prevent this type of thing from happening in the future."

742 WORDS POSTED BY SAMANTHA AT 1232HR. COMMENTS.