- Jan 23, 2001
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/rant
I pretty much always control my temper (which is a good thing, because when I lose it I really lose it
)
I work part time as a custodian at a church (I also work at McDonalds).
Most of the time I just am by myself and clean. Listening to my ipod. Pretty decent job as I am left alone and get to listen to music.
But tonight there was an event. These are USUALLY even easier as I am supposed to be "security," which basically means stand around and do nothing but listen to my ipod, because there really isn't any security to be done.
But tonight was different.
Tonight there was a "battle of the bands." I didn't even know what was going on except that "there was going to be an event." So I show up and all these bands start showing up to set up in fellowship hall. Fine, no problem. Except these seem to all be "Goth" bands (dark makeup, guys with seethrough clothing and womens underwear underneath (no joke)). These tend to attract some unruley crowds. So I set myself for a hard night.
Sure enough, a bunch of teenagers show up and the litter immediatly begins to pile up around the grounds. I am only one guy so I can't keep an eye on everything.
Smokers go right outside the door, smoke (the Church is a no smoking area btw), and throw their butts on the ground right in front of the church door! What is with these people? I have to watch the whole building so I only catch some of them and so have to constantly clean up cig. butts.
There are cans and trash everywhere.
Some guy starts setting off fireworks in the parking lot.
A couple of girls start cutting roses off the rose bush, throwing them on the ground, and proceeding to the next rose. The bush was half ruined before I got to them :|
When I ask the smokers to please smoke somewhere else and pick up butts and throw them in the dumpster (a whole 15 feet away), they roll their eyes and complain.
And what almost broke the camels back:
Some people snuck in water balloons and started chucking them IN THE CHURCH!
I was pretty pissed at this point, but I kept my temper (barely). But I started kicking people off the premises for infractions. Luckily, the event got over about 20 minutes after the water balloon thing. If it had gone much longer heads would have started rolling.
More stuff like this went on the whole time but I won't list it all.
All in all, I don't ever want to have to deal with inconsiderate people for 4 1/2 hours again.
/end rant
I pretty much always control my temper (which is a good thing, because when I lose it I really lose it
)I work part time as a custodian at a church (I also work at McDonalds).
Most of the time I just am by myself and clean. Listening to my ipod. Pretty decent job as I am left alone and get to listen to music.
But tonight there was an event. These are USUALLY even easier as I am supposed to be "security," which basically means stand around and do nothing but listen to my ipod, because there really isn't any security to be done
.But tonight was different.
Tonight there was a "battle of the bands." I didn't even know what was going on except that "there was going to be an event." So I show up and all these bands start showing up to set up in fellowship hall. Fine, no problem. Except these seem to all be "Goth" bands (dark makeup, guys with seethrough clothing and womens underwear underneath (no joke)). These tend to attract some unruley crowds. So I set myself for a hard night.
Sure enough, a bunch of teenagers show up and the litter immediatly begins to pile up around the grounds. I am only one guy so I can't keep an eye on everything.
Smokers go right outside the door, smoke (the Church is a no smoking area btw), and throw their butts on the ground right in front of the church door! What is with these people? I have to watch the whole building so I only catch some of them and so have to constantly clean up cig. butts.
There are cans and trash everywhere.
Some guy starts setting off fireworks in the parking lot.
A couple of girls start cutting roses off the rose bush, throwing them on the ground, and proceeding to the next rose. The bush was half ruined before I got to them :|
When I ask the smokers to please smoke somewhere else and pick up butts and throw them in the dumpster (a whole 15 feet away), they roll their eyes and complain.
And what almost broke the camels back:
Some people snuck in water balloons and started chucking them IN THE CHURCH!
I was pretty pissed at this point, but I kept my temper (barely). But I started kicking people off the premises for infractions. Luckily, the event got over about 20 minutes after the water balloon thing. If it had gone much longer heads would have started rolling.
More stuff like this went on the whole time but I won't list it all.
All in all, I don't ever want to have to deal with inconsiderate people for 4 1/2 hours again.
/end rant
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