Assignment Completed!

I am so completely exhausted but I just have to blog . . . I know I'm an addict!

But thank God . . . I made it through today! Wow! In all my life that was probably right up there in all my work history as one of the worst work days, at the top with blueberry raking (video linked for those who may not know of this wondrous industry!) and McDonald's (a teenager's rite of passage into the working class).

Upon arriving I was greeted by a girl with spiky red hair complete with tight jeans, biker boots, and a cut off Harley shirt and another girl who looked perfectly normal head-on, but when she turned around she had blue streaks in her hair. It was going to be a loooooooong day . . . and there was no way I was going to blend in here.

They paged the manager, who greeting me asking me if I've ever been to their store before as we walked toward the back?!?! Do I look like a Harley girl? Then he set me up for my assignment: entering name and emails from a online sweepstakes they're currently running into a database. No problem, that was the easy part. What wasn't easy was listening to a cuss word every other word and then hearing about some old dude talk about how he's been drunk for a week straight!! Yikes!

Shortly after typing away on my project another dude had to rushed to the ER since he fell off his bike in the parking lot and bashed up his face. . . . um, why are we selling these things again? . . . I hope that guy's okay. But I'm glad I was in a windowless office.

Then I was moved into the business office. Thank God for that. Two Harley mama's worked in there. They were very nice and helpful to me. So thing's were pretty sane, expect when the occasional service man or sales person would come in. Then the potty words would flair!!

Besides people looking at me like I was from another planet, my getting lost when leaving for lunch . . . (I popped out this door in the service center. It was like right out of a movie, because just as weird as someone coming through that door was someone like me: a straight-laced little mommy like myself. I quickly apologized to those men, who looked all disoriented and went on my way, snickering about how comical this day was becoming) . . . I made it through.

Though I wasn't laughing all day. I think as I was sitting in that room doing data entry, I felt every emotion know. I don't think I've ever felt so out of place in my life. And even though they all we're cordial, it was very uncomfortable. One time I was so overwhelmed with self pity at what life had brought on me, my eyes started welling up with tears. Then I just tried to think positively and push through the day. I waited until 1:30pm to take my lunch break, knowing the afternoon would go by slow. It sure did. I think I looked at the clock 12 times between 3:00pm and 3:30pm. Uuuggg!!

Then I got a burst of energy and pushed through and before I knew it, it was 5:00pm. Of course, nothing changed at that point. Finally about 20 minutes after 5 one of the nice ladies asked if I was knew when I was supposed to go. I was told 5pm, but as much as I wanted to walk out that door at 5pm, I waited until I was officially released. So they went and got Mr. Manager.

I was released!! Yay! Yippee!! That was probably one of the happiest moments of my life, literally! Can't really describe in words how awful I felt there and the relief when that guy checked that "assignment completed" box!! And trying to explain it Dave wasn't accomplishing anything. I mean and even reading this blog, you think, how bad can anything be for just one day? I know it's like anything in life, it's your mindset.

Though I made it through and there were a whole lot worse situations to be in life, I have a new mindset . . . I'm not a Harley girl and I'm not going to ever work for Harley Davidson again!!