Right. I'm still alive, despite not posting.

[saphyria]

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English Genius

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Other topics! I'm on an Agatha Christie kick, currently. It is lovely. Sadly, I have little time to read if I'm not at the gym, or something.

The cause behind me not having time to read much, or sleep much for that matter, is my summer job. You wouldn't think that eight hours and fifteen minutes of banking a day would be so exhausting, but I find myself severely disliking my job as a teller. People are amazingly stupid, and belligerent when I try to tactfully correct their mistakes. And they get unnecessarily vocal when you try to tell them that you can't cash their check because they have negative dollars in their account.

"No sir, that's not your account number, that's how much you're overdrawn. No sir, we can't waive your overdraft charges because you made a mistake." We know you've made a mistake. But, as your mother told you when you were little, you pay for your mistakes. Best to learn from them. I hope you enjoyed that $35 sandwich from Sonic. Have a nice day.

People are amazingly stupid in their assumptions, as well. To the point of shoving a whole spaghetti strainer full of loose change at me. Telling me nothing. I'm all "um... you want to deposit these?" and they get snitty, saying "NO, silly! I want to get cash for them. Duh!" So I grab a handful of each type of coin wrapper, and a pen, and cheerfully shove them at her. We can only take rolled coins, and they must have a name and phone number on each wrapper. :D! She was so pissed, but it's bank policy. And you don't bring twenty pounds of loose change in a spaghetti strainer to the bank. Wtf.

Someone today shoved a thousand dollars at me and told me nothing. I was tempted to simply say "Thanks!" and pocket them. I had no idea who it was or what they wanted me to do with it, and they were on their cellphone, gabbing away and looking at me like Why aren't you going ahead and doing what I obviously want you to do? Eventually they got the hint (from my tactfully helpful and patient smile) that gabbing on the cellphone will not tell me what they wanted done with their money, and that I was prepared to sit there until they decided not to make outlandish expectations regarding my ability to ascertain their identity and their whim.

Bleh. People. I only have so many ways that I can tactfully remind people that I am not psychic. I've been out of town for four years, and I didn't know many people I didn't go to school with, even then; I don't automatically know you. If I ask for ID, it must be a state-issued photo ID. Your student ID from 20 years ago, from before you got married, doesn't work. And why the hell are you driving through the drive-through without your driver's license?

PEOPLE.


Moving on.

In other news, I may have brain enough to RP tomorrow afternoon, since I'll have it off. Then there will be Doctor Who. And I should have enough time and brain to play Luxord. For milliways_bar, I'm hoping for a Vincent-Lucretia thread soon, specifically so I can have Yrael be in the bar, singing "The Heart of the Matter" by the Eagles. Because I am evil. Clearly.

Vincent-mun has already given me a few song titles that would get Yrael summarily shot.

Which mean they must be sung.

:D



How're you all doing?

Comments

[cupenny.livejournal.com]

Assumptions-of-mindreading-abilities is not limited to the bank. It gets even worse when people want caffine of some type or another.

"Gimme a caramel."

"... A caramel what?"

(Though, I wish I could smack them upsides the head until they use both manners and proper sentence structure. The day someone comes up and says "May I please have a (size) (drink)?", I will cheer and give it to them for free.)