Long Time No See
Written: June 30, 2007 at 11:27PM EST
Nice! So glad to see I am able to keep up with writing of ANY sort over the summer. Oh well. In a sad pitiful attempt to write the events of the last, oh say, two months, I will attempt to do this in one sitting (due mainly to my short attention span over the last few weeks).
Prior to Myrtle Beach: I became employed at Wendy’s, probably one of the better fast food places, but like everything today, still has it’s skeletons. Before I went away, I was scheduled for two days of training, which consisted of the following*:
- How to wash your hands.
- How to obey the overlord (manager)
- The customer is the most important person on the face of the earth
- You are the slime beneath the customers feet
During the 4 hours of watching videos, I met the other three trainees who, I would easily say were the most unique group I have ever met (at least who were eventually forced to work together). And as a result of this, I will probably be killed 
First off was Christina. She was a senior at my school. Prior to coming to Wendy’s she worked at Burger King so she probably had the most experience working with the slop which someone calls food.
Then was Tiffany. One word to describe her…. “Bubbly.”
I forget the other kids name Dustin was the final part of the interview group and I honestly don’t have much to say about him. During the entire course of training, he said probably 10 words. All I know is he goes to my school (what grade however, I have NO idea).
Once I arrived home from vacation, I was put to work on the fryer. I hate loath it. Nothing better than working for 5 hours over a 300 degree fryer.
But sadly, I don’t feel the need to dwell on that. </sarcasm>
Anyways, now on to the vacation. This year, like we have for the last two or three, we went to Myrtle Beach for week. This year, amazingly started out well. We made it to the airport on time, made it through all of the terminals and actually were there semi-early. An amazing feat for our family, considering the Andrus Family Curse (This of course is the constant inability to arrive to ANYTHING on time. No matter what it is; to give an example, one family member was late to her own wedding!).
After sitting in the airport for a little while we were allowed to board the plane. As usual, we played music plane seats and finally after a bit of rustling around we were all set to go. Just as the flight crew was about to shut the door, a man carrying a rather large “carry on” suitcase came aboard. I immediately got a strange feeling, which was further fueled by the large roll of red wire which fell out of the bag. Because of my completely uncalled for fear (which if I were to blame anyone, I would blame on the media) which left me white knuckling the entire flight to Charlotte, North Carolina. After flying for about 45 minutes my fear of the “terrorist” soon turned to disgust. For the entire flight I found myself looking over and seeing what he was doing. But towards the end of the flight, I was just too disgusted to look anymore. Of course, he began picking his nose, then rolling the “contents” around on his finger, then finally eating them… :vomit:
Upon arriving at Charlotte, my mom and sister met Gene Simmons and were freaking out about it the rest of the trip to Myrtle Beach. The rest of the day was rather uneventful. The days went by and I did some things I never dreamed of doing before. From para sailing, to riding a roller coaster (I don’t like the droppy felling in my stomach), and then getting into a huge fight with my uncle, which broke the almost non-existent relationship we shared. But overall the trip was a nice one, but sadly it hurt my chemistry grade because I “stopped working” (or so the teacher said).
Then every student in New York State’s favorite time of the year, Regents Exams! This semester, I had only two: American History and Chemistry. The American History one, I can only describe it as eventful.
June 19th was the day of the American History regents and of course it had to be close to 100 degrees when I have to take it. My school district decided when Regents first came out, that its students would take them in one of the two gymnasiums at the High School. This inevitably led to problems. Lets look at the flaw to this plan.
1. It’s 100 degrees. Gee, lets put all the kids in a room with windows that won’t open and lets not run any fans.
2. It’s 100 degrees, lets cram 250-300 kids into one room for three hours.
So the second the test begins everyone is sweating and the minutes begin to drag by slowly. I was able to get through the 50 multiple choice questions rather quickly and I began the first essay, which was a thematic essay. I had just finished the intro and all of a sudden I became light headed and my ears started ringing. Then the next thing I know I am being escorted out of the gym by the nurse and my American History teacher. Not at all fun. Then come to find out, the news of my trip to the nurse spread throughout the school and teachers were talking about me and other kids were talking about “the kid who passed out during the regents exams.” So nice to see the rumor mill at work because apparently, I had a heart attack and was escorted out by ambulance (when In reality, I went to the nurse, laid down for maybe 10 minutes and finished my exam.) The funniest part of the whole ordeal was the fact that I received a 98% on the exam.
Chemistry was the next day and that was a rather uneventful exam. I did ok on it and I think I got an 89%. Not the best grade in the world, but at least I passed.
After regents had ended, I officially began summer vacation. With work however, it seems as though its not really summer at all. I like working at Wendy’s, yet I hate it at the same time. I don’t know what I should do, but I have the rest of the summer to decide.
*By the way, that was sarcasm. I know for a fact someone will comment about that list…