The day started off rushed or in some sort of disarray. I am running behind on everything but I manage to head out the door at 4pm and go to pick up my cousin William to then head off to the show. We got at the venue at 4:30pm and we had about 2 ½ hours before the doors open and we were waiting for Kylie and Katie to come and meet us for the show. I decided to take my cousin to Starbucks instead of waiting with the fans in the small line because we were both thirsty and I really wanted to wait in line with my girlies.
After we had our drinks and a series of text messages later we go back to the venue to meet up with Kylie and Katie. We get a semi-spot on Dean’s side. I say semi-spot because it was so tight I had to put one arm over the rail and that was all I could fit.
Tyler Read came on right on time. Honestly I wasn’t expecting much from them but they surprised me. They were pretty fun to watch and I found myself dancing to their music, one arm over the rail and all. They had some parts of their set where they would all head bang in unison. It was pretty amusing but I had a really good time during their set. They were very gracious and very happy that we were there to support them. I think their set went by too quick for me because the next thing I know they were walking off the stage and they were making way for the next acts.
2 Cents is the next band to take the stage. Now, they are a completely different style of band from Tyler Read. They are HEAVY! But, this is a rock show is this not? The singer is also the drummer. He had his drum kit positioned sideways. It was an interesting setup. But, they were one crazy band. They really got the crowd amped up and got them moshing. The singer was pretty amusing most of the time and the music was good for the style it was.
Soon Chevelle came on to the stage and then I finally managed to squeeze my other arm over the rail. The crowd was pretty hard to get moving around. It is usually like that for Chevelle in Anaheim. Well, at that venue that is. But, at the House of Blues in Anaheim it is livelier. Now, This is not in correct order this is just what songs I remember.
Antisaint
Brainiac
Vitamin R
Comfortable Liar
The Red
SMA
Straight Jacket Fashion
Forfeit
Still Running
Saferwaters
I Get It
Send The Pain Below
The Clincher
Well Enough Alone
Closure
There was no encore but you know Chevelle always goes a great job. I got a pick from Dean so that made me happy.
After the show we went to the bus and waited for Chevelle to come out and I started talking to some Chevellions outside then low-and-behold a woman, I am SO Sorry I forgot your name!, was looking at me and she asks “Are you on the boards?” and I responded “Which ones? The official one of the ChevelleOnline one?” and she said “Either. Are you Geneva? The one with the Birthday shirt?” and I said “Yes I am.” We greeted each other and she said her name but I couldn’t hear her too well. She is a lurker of the board. So if she is reading this then HI! And please let me know your name again. :X
Pete was the first one to come out and talk to us. He walked straight up to me and I started to explain what the birthday shirt was. I had already taken it out and Pete was looking at it. I basically told him that the fans from the ChevelleOnline board came together and put down a bunch of birthday messages for him. I showed him it was on the front and back and then I told him that some of the messages were hard to read so I made a booklet for him to read them. He was very surprised but very thankful for it. He just said, “This is for me? Wow, thank you very much.” He took them and let me know he was going to have his friends hold it for a bit because he was going around talking to everyone and signing autographs and taking photos. My sister Janice and her boyfriend Alfredo had arrived just before Pete came out with us. So they got to meet him again as well. Pete was saying how it was really hard to wake up the crowd there at Anaheim and out at the House of Blues in Anaheim they are no longer taking rock acts. Then Janice mentioned something about Britney Spears and Pete talked about the drumhead. He was just like “Yea, I don’t even know who won that…” Pete then started talking about how he recognized all of us from the audience and Janice decided to call him out and said “Oh yea? You remember me?” and poor Pete was like “Oh yea! I remember you!” and then we were all like “She wasn’t even there..” and Pete was then like “Well, that’s why I was so pissed… You better be rocking out in the front at tomorrow’s show then!” He said more but I can’t remember but we were all laughing with eachother.
I later asked Pete what the guys were doing for Halloween and he said he wasn’t sure but they had a day off in Vegas but he was sure they were going to do something fun. Then I asked him if they were going to do a pre-Halloween bash at the Hollywood show and he was just like “I don’t know… But that’s a good idea!” He stayed out and talked with the fans for a while and he even signed Alfredo’s guitar for guitar hero. Kylie and Katie asked Pete to take a photo with them. They didn’t like the first photo they took with him and he was like “I think it looks fine…” but he took another one. When it came to mine I knew he was making a funny face so I was going to make one too but they took the photo too fast so I wasn’t even looking at the camera. But Pete seemed to enjoy it a lot.
A little while after Pete left Dean came out and we started talking. Then we started talking about his baby and when he would see her again. He just seemed to light up when he talks about his baby. He didn’t show any photos cause he didn’t have his phone or camera on him. I asked Dean if I could take a photo with him and he said “Sure!” and when we were taking our photo he said, “Smile!” and then after he saw the photo and he said, “Aww I am not even smiling! You took it just before I was going to smile. Let’s take another one!” and we took another one and he asked to see that one and he then smiled and said “Nice!” When Kylie went to take her photo with him she was like “Get me on my good side!” and then Dean was like “Oh this is my good side!” and he put his head down and told Kylie to do the same and I took a photo. And then he was like “Ok another photo!” He did the same thing for Katie. When my cousin William took his photo with him he was like “It looks like I am stealing something! Better check your wallet!” Alfredo got him to sign his guitar as well.
A short while after Dean left Sam finally came out. We talked for a little bit and I asked for a photo. We took our photo and Kylie was like “OH NO! Your eyes are closed!” and she showed him and he said, “We can take another one!” And we took another photo and this time his eyes were open haha. Sam was asked about the music video for I Get It and he said it would be coming out in two days and he spoke a little bit on it. Then someone asked him when they were coming out with a new DVD because the Norva one is getting old and he was like “I would love for us to make another one but it costs $100,000 to shoot that.” I then asked Sam if he still kept the shirts he asked for on the Nickelback show and he said he kept some of them. Since it was Alfredo’s shirt I sent he asked him if he remembered his Spartan shirt that was green and yellow lettering. Sam said, “Yes I do remember it. It was perfect! I still have it at home” He then explained how he is still collecting some but that he hasn’t gotten any shirts in a while. So you know what that means people… Look for his post about the rules and guidelines for what kind of shirts to send and send it to him! He was talking about how he got some in Australia and was very surprised it reached that far. He then explained how he couldn’t keep most of the shirts because they were either too big, white, bright orange, yellow or green, or they were from different company logos on them so he can advertise for them or something. He told us about one shirt that he got that was 1. White, 2. Had the bands faces on it and 3. Was and XL. He said, “I just thought ‘Did they not even read my post?’” Sam then left to go get something to eat.
After Sam left we all stuffed into Alfredo’s car to drop Kylie and Katie at their car and then Alfredo started doing spins in his car it was pretty funny. We were going to go eat at Denny’s but William had to get home because it was already after 1 am and he still had homework to do. So we got Carl’s Jr and we called it a night. I had a blast and I loved every bit of it. On to the next night’s review!
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Confessions Of A Cashier
What really goes on in their minds as they ring you up.
Now, I have been a cashier for about a year now. I just have to say that even though I may be smiling and crap I am really thinking, “I hate you all” as you bring your two immense shopping carts full of who knows what up to my register.
I don’t really consider myself a bitter person but after a year of working this job it does something to how you look at people. I very rarely get the very good customers; I usually get the average customer that just wants to buy their stuff and go. I would really like to get them out of there as fast as possible as well. Then the majority of the time you get the assholes that love to try and make your day as horrible as possible.
A little advice to anyone who has and will go shopping in the near future, please for the love of all that is holy make sure ALL of your items have a barcode or UPC# on it. I cannot tell you how many times people have brought up items without those two items and they get upset at me because I can’t ring it up. I’m sorry but if your lazy ass couldn’t bother to make sure there was something there then how can you expect me to ring the stupid thing up. It would be common courtesy for the customer to do that much for the cashier.
Another thing that just annoys the hell out of me is the fact that the customers act like it is my fault their item has no barcode on it. Or when they don’t make sure an item costs what they think it is. I hate how the customers think that we have control of how much an item is. Like we would purposely put the item so high. Double check the prices genius and we wouldn’t have to do the price checks and end up proving you wrong anyway. Another thing that would be lovely is PLEASE take all your crap with you. Don’t change your mind on items when you get to the register. Also, if you really can’t put the item back and you really can’t buy it please don’t go shoving it in the isle somewhere. We cashiers will find it and that is just another load of crap that we have to lug back to the courtesy desk. And if you have perishables, BUY THEM! Don’t leave them in the isle! That is one of the rudest things you could do. I am sorry I can understand if you don’t have the money but at least have someone go put the perishable back or at least put it in a drink cooler or something! Just like you don’t like touching the raw chicken or beef, we don’t either!
Please put any and ALL items on the register belt please. Don’t assume that just cause some items are all priced the same that we can ring one of them up. Yes, four different items may cost the same but they all have a different barcode and it messes up the inventory when we scan one item and not all of the others. Please no jokes about how you ‘printed’ your twenties, fifties or hundreds that day. We get it all the time and it never gets any better. If you have large HEAVY items, please take them off the bag carousel as soon as we scan them. They just take up space and makes it harder for us to bag the other items. While we are on that topic, take your shit off the carousel as well when it is full. I know I will stop ringing up your items if you don’t take it off. I don’t know how you expect us to finish scanning all your crap if you don’t remove the bags. Cases of soda, twelve packs of soda or bunches of Gatorade or large things of toilet paper or paper towels DO NOT need bags! Please do not waste bags for those items. We do go through bag shortages so please don’t take more than what you need. Also, if you are just going to re-bag what I just bagged you should have gone to self-fucking checkout. I try to bag things in an orderly fashion and when you just go and change it up it just annoys me.
DO NOT turn the carousel as I am still bagging your items. That is so unbelievably rude! You may think you are helping speed things along but you are not, so don’t! Back to self-checkout, no I will not scan your stuff for you. It is called self-checkout for a damn reason. YOU check YOURSELF out! I am more than willing to help you with a problem but I will not scan your stuff. Also, if you scan something twice don’t leave the item in front of the scanner and act surprised when it has scanned 50 times! If you don’t move it of course it will scan a billion times. Most importantly if you really don’t know how to use it don’t go to it.
If we turn our light off and say we are closed then that means WE ARE CLOSED! Why? We need a break sometime you know. We have to eat lunch and go home at some point. Some of us would rather not get overtime and get fired. Even if you have one item go to a 10 items or less line. Please don’t be a sneaky dick and get in the line anyway.
I think that is all for now because I can’t remember all of it at the moment. I am sure while I am at work on Friday it will all come to me and I’ll make a part two or something. So in summary please do these simple things and we cashiers will not hate you in the end.
- Cashier Geneva
Now, I have been a cashier for about a year now. I just have to say that even though I may be smiling and crap I am really thinking, “I hate you all” as you bring your two immense shopping carts full of who knows what up to my register.
I don’t really consider myself a bitter person but after a year of working this job it does something to how you look at people. I very rarely get the very good customers; I usually get the average customer that just wants to buy their stuff and go. I would really like to get them out of there as fast as possible as well. Then the majority of the time you get the assholes that love to try and make your day as horrible as possible.
A little advice to anyone who has and will go shopping in the near future, please for the love of all that is holy make sure ALL of your items have a barcode or UPC# on it. I cannot tell you how many times people have brought up items without those two items and they get upset at me because I can’t ring it up. I’m sorry but if your lazy ass couldn’t bother to make sure there was something there then how can you expect me to ring the stupid thing up. It would be common courtesy for the customer to do that much for the cashier.
Another thing that just annoys the hell out of me is the fact that the customers act like it is my fault their item has no barcode on it. Or when they don’t make sure an item costs what they think it is. I hate how the customers think that we have control of how much an item is. Like we would purposely put the item so high. Double check the prices genius and we wouldn’t have to do the price checks and end up proving you wrong anyway. Another thing that would be lovely is PLEASE take all your crap with you. Don’t change your mind on items when you get to the register. Also, if you really can’t put the item back and you really can’t buy it please don’t go shoving it in the isle somewhere. We cashiers will find it and that is just another load of crap that we have to lug back to the courtesy desk. And if you have perishables, BUY THEM! Don’t leave them in the isle! That is one of the rudest things you could do. I am sorry I can understand if you don’t have the money but at least have someone go put the perishable back or at least put it in a drink cooler or something! Just like you don’t like touching the raw chicken or beef, we don’t either!
Please put any and ALL items on the register belt please. Don’t assume that just cause some items are all priced the same that we can ring one of them up. Yes, four different items may cost the same but they all have a different barcode and it messes up the inventory when we scan one item and not all of the others. Please no jokes about how you ‘printed’ your twenties, fifties or hundreds that day. We get it all the time and it never gets any better. If you have large HEAVY items, please take them off the bag carousel as soon as we scan them. They just take up space and makes it harder for us to bag the other items. While we are on that topic, take your shit off the carousel as well when it is full. I know I will stop ringing up your items if you don’t take it off. I don’t know how you expect us to finish scanning all your crap if you don’t remove the bags. Cases of soda, twelve packs of soda or bunches of Gatorade or large things of toilet paper or paper towels DO NOT need bags! Please do not waste bags for those items. We do go through bag shortages so please don’t take more than what you need. Also, if you are just going to re-bag what I just bagged you should have gone to self-fucking checkout. I try to bag things in an orderly fashion and when you just go and change it up it just annoys me.
DO NOT turn the carousel as I am still bagging your items. That is so unbelievably rude! You may think you are helping speed things along but you are not, so don’t! Back to self-checkout, no I will not scan your stuff for you. It is called self-checkout for a damn reason. YOU check YOURSELF out! I am more than willing to help you with a problem but I will not scan your stuff. Also, if you scan something twice don’t leave the item in front of the scanner and act surprised when it has scanned 50 times! If you don’t move it of course it will scan a billion times. Most importantly if you really don’t know how to use it don’t go to it.
If we turn our light off and say we are closed then that means WE ARE CLOSED! Why? We need a break sometime you know. We have to eat lunch and go home at some point. Some of us would rather not get overtime and get fired. Even if you have one item go to a 10 items or less line. Please don’t be a sneaky dick and get in the line anyway.
I think that is all for now because I can’t remember all of it at the moment. I am sure while I am at work on Friday it will all come to me and I’ll make a part two or something. So in summary please do these simple things and we cashiers will not hate you in the end.
- Cashier Geneva
Monday, October 8, 2007
Thank you Giada.
Mmmm cookies.
Who is Giada? She is a chef on the Food Network that came up with these delicious Lemon Ricotta Cookies with Lemon Glaze! These cookies would have to be the fanciest cookies I have ever made.
It was a nice and relaxing day and I had my share of tasty treats. I never really noticed how relaxing baking could be until today. Yes, it makes a big mess in the end. Just somehow when I was scooping the cookie dough out from the bowl to the cookie sheet I could feel myself calm down. I was so proud of how they came out. I found myself offering them to as many people as I could.
I wish I could venture out of the world of baking though. I want to try my hand at actual cooking. I want to make some lavish dinner or just some roast like my mother. I can cook eggs, pancakes, waffles, soup, man n’ cheese and all those simple things. I yearn for some more adventure in the kitchen. I’d rather not stay within the safety net of baking. Not to say that baking is really easy, it is just easier for me to bake than to cook an actual meal.
Have a good one folks, until next time!
Who is Giada? She is a chef on the Food Network that came up with these delicious Lemon Ricotta Cookies with Lemon Glaze! These cookies would have to be the fanciest cookies I have ever made.
It was a nice and relaxing day and I had my share of tasty treats. I never really noticed how relaxing baking could be until today. Yes, it makes a big mess in the end. Just somehow when I was scooping the cookie dough out from the bowl to the cookie sheet I could feel myself calm down. I was so proud of how they came out. I found myself offering them to as many people as I could.
I wish I could venture out of the world of baking though. I want to try my hand at actual cooking. I want to make some lavish dinner or just some roast like my mother. I can cook eggs, pancakes, waffles, soup, man n’ cheese and all those simple things. I yearn for some more adventure in the kitchen. I’d rather not stay within the safety net of baking. Not to say that baking is really easy, it is just easier for me to bake than to cook an actual meal.
Have a good one folks, until next time!
Monday, October 1, 2007
RE: I Am Happy
A response to Chelle’s list of why she is happy.
I have decided to post my list of why I am happy here. Here it goes:
1. I bought the new Foo Fighters album.
2. I received my concert tickets to see Chevelle three times this month.
3. I am listening to, old but new to me, music from my favorite French band, Superbus.
4. I get paid on Thursday.
5. I have seen a few pairs of cute earrings that I really want to buy.
6. I got to put some really cute hair clips in my baby cousin, Becca, hair.
I think that is all for now. That was pretty refreshing. ☺
I have decided to post my list of why I am happy here. Here it goes:
1. I bought the new Foo Fighters album.
2. I received my concert tickets to see Chevelle three times this month.
3. I am listening to, old but new to me, music from my favorite French band, Superbus.
4. I get paid on Thursday.
5. I have seen a few pairs of cute earrings that I really want to buy.
6. I got to put some really cute hair clips in my baby cousin, Becca, hair.
I think that is all for now. That was pretty refreshing. ☺
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