DSRage's WWYD Journal

This is DSRage's Journal for Ed Bellis's What Would You Do.

Chapter 1
Another Day, Another Five Hundred Coffees

I Woke up this morning at 5:33am. Knowing that another day of work was less than 30 minutes away, I leaped out of my inflatable bed, tore off my pajama pants and put on my Tim Horton’s uniform. I started with my pants today, though on cold days I will put on my shirt first to warm up my body as fast as possible. Anyways, after my shirt and pants, I put on my name tag, belt and visor. Like any hygiene-oriented person, I apply deodorant to both pits. I mentally compliment the scent of this new Axe flavour (not the spray stuff, the actual stick which is actually good) and run up stairs to brush my teeth. Noticing the time on the microwave (5:40am) I decide to phone the Taxi first so that I can brush my teeth while they are on the way- This ensures that they come earlier (Smart, eh?). Today, the Taxi was extra quick and by the time I got out of the bathroom they were outside of my house. With this in mind, I rush to the door, put on my shoes and rush out to the Taxi. “What’s the rush?”, says the Taxi driver(Who just happens to be the one who picks me up most mornings.). “I like to be out right away when I see you guys!” I reply.

And off to work I go. The ride usually last 5-7 minutes and it’s a good time to stop worrying about being late for work because it’s out of my control. Today, the ride was extra quiet and the only conversing that went on was a comment about a black driver from the driver and my counter giggle which seems to be my self-defence when I don’t have a good enough reply. We arrive at Destination X (Tim Horton’s) and I pay the usual $7.50 toll (I should’ve woke up early and walked!). I go in and see that I still have 10 minutes to be on the floor, my rushed pace then is converted to a leisurely one. I hang up my coat, go to the bathroom, put on a hairnet, tuck in my shirt and go to check out the schedule of events for the day.

“Yes!”, I scream as a response to my position and duty of the day. I am on drive-thru with Charlotte (My favourite person there. She picked my copy of Brawl up while I was at work and if not for that, I probably wouldn’t have it yet). Also on drive-thru with us is Shelly (An old funny lady who I like a lot,. She is really short and I tease her. I think she likes it.). Usually four are on drive-thru, but today there was only three. I tell myself that it’s because we are three of the quickest, which is a true enough judgment. My daily duty is sweeping (Which I end up not doing! I hate it anyways!). It’s time to go out on the floor and start my usual 6am-2pm shift.

I love drive-thru because it’s fun aiming for the highest hourly customers and lowest hourly average window-service time. There are four positions on in the drive-thru area; Window, Coffee, Orders and Runner. Window hands stuff out and takes money (This position has the most impact on our service time while the others just support it.). Coffee make the coffees, teas, various cappuccinos and must constantly keep up with the never-ending flow of customers. Orders takes order over our intercom’esque system. Runner runs for donuts, muffin, Iced Caps, etc. When we have three we drop the runner and order-taker gets stuff.

I started the shift off on Window, handing out order after order. Our time for the hour was 81people/38sec which is better than average but nothing jaw-dropping. For the record, I was on window during our stores best hour. Anyways, the shift was pretty boring for the most part. The two girls were talking about vaginal exams or something so I felt inclined to make sexual jokes all day long (They were really funny!). During break one I ate a triple-chocolate muffin, a bagel with 2 cheeses and a sausage and a bottle of water. Break two was more of a snack, consisting of cucumbers, orange juice, caramel chocolate donut and something healthy that I honestly can’t remember.

The thing that kept my spirits up today was the fact that I had tomorrow and the next day off. Just thinking of my two free days of brawl was sex in the head. 2pm strikes and I make myself a 12-inch deli trio for home. I stock p drive-thru and catch a ride home with Charlotte. She wanted to go look at the turtles at the pet shop since she loooves animals soooo much as do I, so we went together. The turtle was pretty lifeless and we didn’t bother it. The Pomeranians were the best things ever and the bird that sounds like a car alarm was possible the worst part of my day. Anyways, we make our way to my house and I give my “cyas” and “thanks” and walk inside. 2:44pm...

I jump in the bathtub and after I play Brawl for a while. I just play around in random things and copy CDs onto my new laptop simultaneously. And that is pretty much all that happened until 6pm, when I started writing this. What will happen tomorrow, I wonder? It’s a day off so almost anything is possible! I can’t wait to see what tomorrow will throw at me, whatever it is, I hope it doesn’t wake me up!

Chapter 2
Oh Lord, Land Lord!

After getting about fifteen hours of sleep the previous three days, I knew that this day off was an opportunity to catch some extra z’s. Yeah, I was hoping for at least one and a half days worth of sleep (twelve hours), but instead the combination of knocking of the land lord at the barking of the dogs woke me up prematurely. I ignored him hoping my dad would get it, but apparently he was sleeping like a rock. The land lord just walked right in and shouted “Anybody home?!” and then shouted again “SHUT UP DOGS!”. “What an arrogant prick..” Is what I thought. He woke up my dad and began arguing like a crazy person. I kept falling in and out of sleep during all of this, but I did catch some of it. He is here because my dad was supposed to pay the rent last Friday, but failed to, bad on his part. We all know how ridiculously unforgiving this guy is and boy, did he show it.

“You know that you pay to get your garbage taken out but you don’t even move it to the bin in the back”, said the land lord as I tried to fall back into dream world. I kept thinking why he was bringing stupid stuff up. Was it to make my dad feel like a bad person or something? Whatever. Soon later after approximately twenty more minutes of sleep he said “Why must you lie to me all the time?” My dad kept trying to cover himself up and as much as I hate this land lord crazy guy, I knew he was right. He had a reason to be mad, though not a reason to start Hurricane Katrina Canada Edition. Geez. Other stuff was said, but I can’t remember much, just what made me think while I was in my half-sleep state.

So I woke up about four hours after the storm. I was thinking about what to do today and I arrived at one (common) answer- Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Board 8. It’s hard to really think up something which allows me to be active or something outside of my room when I have no good local friends. Tomorrow should be a change because a friend is coming home for the weekend (yay). Anyways, I played around in stadium mode to try to top some of my various scores, finished a few more characters classic mode to get their trophies and I unlocked Snake and Lucario. It’s weird how I am only unlocking these characters, but I like to take my time doing stuff so I’m not so bored in the long run and besides, I am saving my Subspace Emissary playthrough for tomorrow when I have a friend to do it with.

After all of my Brawl play, I went on board 8 and bumped a few of my topics, checked to see if anyone solved the oplock problem (so I can play brawl online. Nobody did, by the way. Sucks a lot.) and then added codes from my brawl challenge of the day topic. My day pretty much was this cycle on repeat with a few other little things happening in between, like my snack of another deli trio sandwich and a Monster energy drink (I don’t drink these things for energy, I have plenty and don’t need it to sit around. I just love the taste and I’m probably addicted somewhat). It’s weird how I usually shower in the morning, but today I never. I guess I just wanted more Brawl time.

With my dad taking a snooze and his request of me going to the 7-11 to get him a phone card, I decided I would actually walk down to the store in this +5 Celsius weather. I begin my walk and neighbourhood dogs bark endlessly at me (Whatever, I like dogs.). When I was about 100 feet from the store, I saw this car doing really suspicious things. It turned into a strip mall lot and stopped before really coming into it, slowly drove forward then backed up really fast. I think the driver just didn’t know where the hell he was supposed to go to park, but I think he found the right way.

I walk into the store and see that the hot girl and old crack lady are hard at work, which is good to see! I do a quick run around the store and pick up some of the usual Items; King-Sized Snickers, All Dressed Ruffles, Reese’s Whipps and a Cheeseburger Hot Dog on a whole wheat bun. I also ask for the requested $25 phone card. I comes to $30.96 altogether and I pay with debit and head home. There wasn’t anything really fun to see on the way besides a gay jogger singing something. He was kinda cute ;)