2000-07-30 - 01:42:17

Still The Manager filling in for the Uberhamster. Most of the stuff is moved. The Uberhamster and Lily are very tired. So I�m still here to entertain you.

I had one hell of a long day. Busy from start to end. The day at the store was filled with the regular collection of customer types. Mostly good, some bad. Since they are here to give us money we try to love them all, but some are just so damn difficult to enjoy.

Today�s special joy was a forty something guy who popped up about five minutes after opening, and then spent the next three and a half hours wandering about the store deciding what to buy. After his multi-hour shopping spree he brought his pile of comics to the counter. Three books from the quarter bin. 75 cents plus tax. Eighty one cents total. He digs about in his pockets for a minute or so and extracts a nickel, than a quarter, then two pennies. He then grins at me and says �That�s all I�ve got!� With a goof ball look on his face. �Well then you can only have one of the books then.� I politely replied. After a few more conversational rounds, eventually he chose one, paid his twenty seven cents and left the store. I watched him go, he climbed into a shiny new silver Lexus and drove off.

Customers. Gotta love them.

�I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.�

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow