rec center

So I was thinking of all my wonderful rec center stories... I'd like to share a few of my favorites.

This lady came in one day because she had a meeting with one of the Managers Cory. Well Cory is not known for his...punctuality or remembering things for that matter. So naturally she was upset but she took it to the extreme. She demanded to see Cory's supervisor. Of course the day she came in all of the managers were gone ALL 4 of them. She kept saying she needed to talk to Cory's supervisor and I kept saying "John is not here. He is out of town."
Lady: "Well who is John's supervisor?"
Me: "John, is our executive director he is it."
Lady: (screaming) "There has to be someone above him!"
Me: "I'm sorry but there's not, John is the guy in charge of the whole rec center."

more of this went on

Lady: "I want both John and Cory's home phone numbers! I need to talk to someone now!"
Me: "I'm sorry it's against our policy to give out employees personal information."
Lady: is now livid and screaming at me about my incompetence
Me: "I'm sorry all I can do is offer you their voice mails"
Lady: more screaming about my incompetence
Me: "If you want to leave a voice mail I can help you. Other than that there is nothing I can do" and I walk away.

She eventually came back and asked for the voice mails and apologized for her actions.

When I worked the morning shift 4:45am-9am most of the time people are pleasant. Well actually they don't talk to you. No one is awake. Except, one morning....

These 2 guys came in about 6:30am and came up to me to check in for the racquetball court reservation.
Man: "We're here to check in for our 7am racquetball reservation"
Me: "Ok well you are a little early..." (I was about to say, 'but your court is actually available now if you guys want to go up there early' but he immediately cuts me off)
Man: (in the rudest most condescending voice possible) "I know! I'm not stupid. I can tell time."
Me: (I just stare at him in disbelief and in my least friendly voice.) "Court 5"

The men proceed to scan their cards and the rude man's card doesn't work so he stomps over to me and says "This happens everytime! This is ridiculous!" along with other mean things...
Me: "let me take a look at your account."
man: "will you just buzz me in and let me go to my court!?"
Me: "No... It'll take just a minute."
The man acts all put out. I look up his account anyway and see that something is wrong with his expiration date and I fix it.
Me: still in my unfriendly tone "it's fixed now."
He scans his card and goes on his way. Then I very immaturely look up his account again and put his membership on hold with the reason as "JERK!" yeah...you probably shouldn't tell my work that....

And last but not least...another racquetball incident...this happened last night. First let me give background really fast. At my work you can't reserve 2 racquetball courts under the same name name at the same time. You can call back and give another name but you're not supposed to reserve 2 courts in one phone call.

man: "we have 2 courts reserved at 6pm for Allred"
So I cross off the first court under allred.
me: we only have one court for Allred. whats the other name it could be under?"
man:(annoyed and talking slow like i am stupid) "no... we... have... 2 courts... under... all-red"
me: "right. I only have one court reserved for allred. What is the other name?"
man: (even more annoyed) "There is no other name."
me: "we don't reserve 2 courts for the same name. Let me show me show you... (i show him the book) is it...Ryan, Jenkins, or Kim?"
man: "Oh yeah...Ryan."

I love my job. ha. Just remember people who work at front desks don't make the rules. And 98% of the time it's not their fault and they usually know what they are talking about :)

work work work!

It's only like 10am ish Saturday morning and my weekend already sucks. I have been/will be husbandless all weekend :( My great and stupendous husband is working ALL FREAKIN WEEKEN...D. I'm sorry I wanted it to rhyme.... He has 3 jobs! 1-2-3! Granted it's only 1 full time job, one is seasonal but the "season" is like 6-7 months long (Jr. Jazz and it just started... lame), and the other one is random work he does with the Church Office Building catering, he does it every conference and usually at least once or twice more during the year. I'm really grateful that he works so hard for me it just sucks that come conference weekend I barely see him. This being our 3rd conference together I should be used to it but I'm not. He worked his regular job yesterday at 8am and got off early at 1pm and went straight to the Church Office Building and didn't get home until 9:30 and then had to wake up and leave at 3:40am to be back to the church office building by 4am...and will come home at 9:30pm and do it all over again tomorrow. L-A-M-E.

I miss him and his gross camera faces.

no one knows

I got my necklace in the mail today!!!! super cute! worth my money! and definitely nice that she was offering free shipping for the month of september! You should check the lady out who made my necklace at Etsy. BelaKoiDesigns. I think her stuff is really unique and totally cute! Anywho... not what I was thinking about blogging about. I was just SUPER excited.

Last night I was watching the movie Blood Diamond. If you haven't seen it I sincerely recommend it. Even though the story line of the movie is fictional I think it's incredibly eye opening to a very real situation. It makes me so grateful to live in the U.S. we really do have it good here and sometimes I think a lot of people complain about our country unnecessarily. Even though I've seen the movie before, a line in the movie really struck me....

"No one knows which path will lead him to God."

The context in which the line was said was while Leonardo DiCaprio's character was talking to a man who had taken in victim children of the wars going on in the country. These children had horrible things done to them, many of the children had missing limbs or even had done terrible things because they were forced to join the rebel armies. These kids had been brain washed and had killed men, women and children or cut off the limbs of others. I know the movie is fictional and the man who spoke the line (the man who had taken in the children) is also fictional but I believe there are people out there who truly believe and have faith like him. Bad things happen to good people and people can do horrible things. But that's what is so beautiful about the atonement. You can return to Heavenly Father. I do believe that we go through certain things and trials in our life to draw ourselves closer to God. I also know it sounds so contradictory to say that sometimes people do things that are wrong possibly to become closer God. It is a very fine line. It has to be. But I also believe that some people need to learn things the hard way. For whatever reason it may be. I'm not even going to pretend I know why. I just look at it this way... In the beginning, Adam and Eve were commanded two things..."multiply and replenish earth and don't eat the apple. But here's the catch you can't keep the first commandment without breaking the second." Well something to that effect. I'm not a seminary teacher give me break!

I'm not looking into getting into a big debate about whether or not people sin for a reason. It's all confusing and something I don't think I'll ever comprehend. And I believe it's an incredibly FINE line. I just like that quote a lot, "No one knows which path will lead him to God." So we shouldn't judge. We don't know where people have been and we don't know where they are going. All we can do is love them and encourage them to head in the right direction and trust that Heavenly Father knows what he doing.... Definitely a goal I should work on :)

Inventor

I'm feeling rather ambitious today. I'm not sure why...probably because I've had time to rest and relax today. Troy and I barely got to see each other this week because we've both been so busy! And this weekend has been jam packed as well! Friday I worked an 11 1/2 hour day..that was a long day. Then Saturday Troy worked an 11 hour day as well. Today we both decided we just wanted to rest and actually BE with each other so we ditched church and have laid around in our PJ's all day! it was great until about 2pm when I started getting antsy from lack of activity. So I made us go out for a walk to Millcreek Junior High where we "played" football. It was more "see if we can make it passed each other to the 10 yard line" needless to say I didn't make it to the 10 yard line once.

Back to ambition...I want to open my own business! Don't ask me what I want to do though. I have no idea, I just think it would be great. I think I'm feeling this way because I have regenerated enough to think passed homework and work AND because I'm scared I'll never graduate at the rate I'm going...so I need a back up plan in case no one wants to hire me because I become a college drop out.

I just need to invent something cool. and then KA-POW! I'll be rich and famous and all of y'all will be name droppin "I knew her before she was famous."

I can't sleep.

Troy is fast asleep ON not IN our bed. Poor boy worked all day on his day off! He's so great. So I can't sleep and I'm browsing Etsy.com (which I love) and decided...

i'm getting this.

Limp Bizkit Song.

I will refrain from the actual lyrics of the limp bizkit song I'm thinking of because they are pretty crude.....I'm having one of those days where everything bugs me. Where the slightest sarcastic comment from my husband makes me want to cry. School and work feel daunting and overwhelming. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with today. Today has been pretty normal. Woke up at 6am. Went to school. Got there ON TIME. Went to work. Came home. Did homework. Went back to work. Came home and KA-POW! bad mood. Guess that's what happens when you are a girl.

LAME.

I wrote him

Remember how I told you guys that Troy and I wrote "Adam West" joking about his rude comment and then asked "How is California?"

Well, Adam West wrote back. Saying something stupid about me again. And completely ignoring our California question. Which only some how confirms even more to me that this "Adam West" is in fact X. I think that if Adam West is some weirdo stranger who likes to add strangers on facebook make fun of their wives and pretend they are "old friends" then he would go along with the California story...Saying at least SOMETHING about California. Like "it's great." Or "I don't live there." I could be wrong. I've never been in this situation...

Troy didn't want to give X the satisfaction of anything. Troy is obviously the bigger person in this situation. But I've seriously been the bigger person for almost 2 years! And I'm just plain annoyed. So I got on my very own facebook account and wrote "Adam West." Tell me what you think....

X-
You are pathetic. I don't know what you are thinking still hanging around. We've been broken up for almost TWO YEARS. I've tried to be nothing but cordial with you. You have issues. So stop calling. Stop texting. Leave my friends alone (i.e. Michelle). Leave me alone. Leave Troy alone. Even if you ever SINCERELY feeling like apologizing (unlike your last phone call)...DON'T. Because I don't want to talk to you. Ever. If you were sincere you'd be gone by now. I don't care what you are doing with your life. I will never call your "business line." I don't care if you become the next Bill Gates and I end up living on street. I will never ask myself "What if?" I am the happiest I have ever been. Not even you can take that away from me. So go away. Grow up. Stop acting like a complete psycho and do something with your life.


So? What do you think??? I wanted to tell him off without sinking to his level. I had very VERY many choice words to say. Yet, I refrained.

Why do I get the odd feeling that I may have just opened Pandora's Box? Suppose it's too late...