Had an Interesting Day Yesterday

First off, it's well into spring now, and things where I am are starting to heat up. Yesterday, it was 84 degrees and relatively humid, but nothing that bad. The sun felt strangely hot for the conditions, though. I was working a 10-7 shift and the second guy wasn't scheduled to come in until 5, but that's no big deal. In fact, it's pretty normal (not that I like it, but that's another story). So I did my job normally, and when 5 o'clock rolled around, he wasn't there. Knowing my managers, I knew what was up, but went inside to confirm it. Sure enough, the managers pulled the other into the back to help unload a truck. Let me make something perfectly clear: this is not a random occurrence that they pulled him back there spontaneously because they really needed help. No, they do this to him almost every day we work together, so much so that I can almost plan my day around it. In fact, the managers plan their day around it (or rather, they plan to pull him back there hours ahead of time). Naturally, they still get mad at me if I fall behind in my work, because logic. So the other guy got pulled to unload a truck. Fine. I'm used to it. I'm hot, sweaty, and tired, but it wasn't something unexpected.

Then I got a customer that was probably the first overtly jerky I've ever had as a cart pusher. Let me lay down the situation.

I was bringing in about 10 carts by hand through the front doors since that's the simplest method for stray carts in the handicap parking areas, right? When I brought them in, someone had left a cart facing the wrong way in front of the line of carts I was going to connect my 10 carts to. It was left like this. Imagine that ">>>>>>>" is the big line of carts, and the "<" is the wrong-facing one:

>>>>>>>>>>>><

No big deal, happens all the time. I turn the cart around and connect it properly, then walk back to the front of the 10 I was preparing to push. Then along came the woman who stopped her cart exactly where the previous wrong-facing cart was. She was about to leave it like this:

>>>>>>>>>>>>V

So I said "Ma'am?" to get her attention before she left it. She saw me and asked, "You want me to leave it?" To which I replied, "I need to to move it. I'm about to push these right there." In response to this, she blatantly and purposefully left the cart exactly where it was, making me take care of it again before finally dealing with the 10 that I brought it. As she walked away, I think I heard her mumble something like, "Talk to me that way..." What way she meant, I'm not certain, unless she thought I was using "move it" in the rude sense that people sometimes do. I don't know why she'd think I meant it any differently than she meant "leave it," though.

So yeah. That was a bit irritating. Anyway, after work, I drove to my aunt's house to get some swimming exercise in. The last time I swam a week ago, I swam 30 lengths of the pool, which left me so tired I was barely able to stand. This time I swam 48 lengths and aside from muscle fatigue, I didn't really feel all that tired. I decided not to go for 60 though and ended it at 48 (I do it in sets of 6 lengths, or 3 laps). They recently had their pool lining replaced and haven't put the stairs and ladder back in the pool yet, so I have to jump out of the pool. That didn't turn out so well this time. When I jumped out, my left calf muscle seized and cramped like hell. On the bright side, I made it out, so I didn't have to deal with it while still in the water. I stretched the muscle out for a few minutes and it slowly eased up and relaxed. As it was doing so, though, I saw something interesting and really quite entertaining: the calf muscle started wriggling and writhing. It looked sort of like a heart beating with the way it moved, or like when that alien was about to pop out of that guy's stomach in Alien. xD

Everything ended up fine, though, so no worries. The calf still hurts a bit today, sore from the cramp. But walking seems to ease it, so I'll be fine for work. And that was my interesting day.



Also, you may be wondering why I'm sharing some random day of my life.



Nah, I just wanted to use that. :derpe: