You may have noticed that I haven't posted in over a month. Sorry about that.
I don't have any pics or news to share, except that I finally seem to be out of the weeds financially (or will be in a week), and the second newsletter just went out, of which I am now officially the editor.
Couple of cute stories should tide y'all over, though....
1. Co-worker at the movie theater tells me of a phone call he received from a guy who was thinking of seeing a movie, but only if a certain girl (we'll call her Sam) was going to be his server. He had a crush on her, he admitted. Then, an hour later, a man and his little boy come in, but the man stops in the doorway to the theater, directing the boy to the counter to ask for the guy he spoke to on the phone. It seems it was the little boy who had the crush on Sam, and he came to deliver her a present. It was a plastic bag with two Rockstars and three bars of chocolate, with a paper taped to the side that said, "I love you, Sam."
2. Man comes in with his kid and asks about the age policy. I tell him that kids need to be 6 years old and up, unless it's a kids movie, in which case 3 and up. Babies can come only on Baby Day. He leaves, then comes back 20 minutes later, saying, "Two Adults and a kid for the Grease Sing-A-Long." I ask him how old his daughter was, and he says she just had her sixth birthday. Being that it was super busy and I didn't remember what the kid looked like, and she wasn't in front of me, I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I later discovered that she was 3.
So a manager later asks me to get a number for a taxi ready, as she was planning to offer to call one for a man who had several martinis and seemed intoxicated. I found out it was the same guy when he started yelling at the manager, saying he had been harassed ever since he walked in. Then he started in with legal jargon, saying that the age policy was not handed to him in literature form, and that he could sue us. He also threatened us by saying that he was with a local news station (I won't say which one). Nevermind that our age policy is on the website, the marquee, and it was explained to him BY ME. And the fact that he straight up lied about his child's age to get around said policy.
But all that stuff was the tip of the iceberg, because after he left, no less than five seperate customers came up to us and offered to give us their emails, in the event that they may be needed to testify on our behalf that the guy was actually just a jerk. It was then that I found out that he had actually been very disruptive, broke a glass and let his kid walk on it, demeaned our servers for laughs, and the only reason he didn't get kicked out was because no one complained until late into the movie.
Oh, and he got into the car drunk with his kid, and drove away. We got the license plate and called the cops. All in a day's work.
3. A little over a month after I give up energy drinks, Monster comes out with a line of Monster Milk energy protein shakes. And I wept.
