Tricks' Randomness

Well then. Today was a weird day. Mainly at work. As I have said, I work at a movie theater. I work the concession stand, so I stand there and sell people popcorn and get to hear them bitch (soon to be my next rant). So today, we are just opening, getting everything together and it's all going good. We have these machines, they heat up the butter/margarine/cheese and for the butter/margarine there is a pump to put it on the popcorn. They unplug so that we can clean them everynight. <-----Not fun.

So we get set up, and we start serving people there popcorn. About an hour in we realise that the becel (margarine) isn't heating up, why the butter has steam coming out of the top (I have worked there for 2 months and never saw that). Since we get paid minimum wage, we decided not to give a fuck.

A little bit later I had someone complain about it, and since I didn't feel like hearing more people bitch, I went to see what the problem was. I was working with one other person on concession (aka Bar), and they were serving the last group of people in a rush. So I go to pick up the becel to see what the hell is going on, and guess what? I get electrocuted. I don't mean like a little shock from a door knob. No, a full blown my entire body shook, tingly feeling electrocution. So I jumped back and waited for those people to leave while I am trying to figure out what the fuck just happened. They leave and I tell my co-worker (lets call her...uh...fuck what is a short girl name...Amy, yeah that's short ) So she starts freaking right the fuck out and won't touch either machine (becel and butter) because they are touching. SO I was like, oh great, I went and touched the top part of the pump which is made out of plastic and nothing happened. So I was like ok, we can still techinically use them, but we have to figure out how to get them out. Any idiot would have thought to unplug that one, but I was too much of a bastard and wanted to figure this shiat out. So I go grab some tongs we use for random things (they weren't metal, I am not that stupid) and push the becel machine. The butter machine went with it. So I said, "holy shit physics came in handy." The thing had turned into and electro magnet. So I tried to pry the machines apart with these tongs, no luck, these things were suck real good. Told my manager, and we unplugged them and I switched the becel (because that was the problem) with another one.

I took it to the back, and flipped it on it's side. What do I find? Exposed wires. There is a big rubber part that covers them, that extends into a gigantic cord. Then there are smaller wires that have a thin sheet of rubber around them. Inside that is the copper wire (so basically like an extension cord). Well guess what, I look at the wires and the big rubber wire part has moved down, and part of the small rubber is gone. It was on a black wire. Thanks to Auto class, I know this is the ground. So I said, "Great, I became a ground and could have fucking died if I weren't wearing rubber soled shoes." <----Yep, I was wearing rubber shoes, and this still was the biggest electrocution I have ever had. Think about that for a sec.

So once that was over with, we notice the person who rips tickets is gone, and the person who is supposed to be there at 2 isn't there. We ask the manager what is up, he said he sent the doorman home, and told the other person not to come in. He figured it wouldn't be too busy. Boy was he wrong. So between four of us, we managed to semi-run the place. We also got about 200 more people then expected. It was fucking hell. Nearly ran out of everything at the same time. So to make up for it, he gave us all 5$ gift card to wal-mart.

That was my eventfull day at work. hehe