Five

This morning I woke up to a yet another snowy day. This time of the year is the worst in this town, everything is cold and grey. I have always been partial to the warm sunny beach type not the snowy city type.But of course we participate in all of the christmas shenanigans to try and spice up this time of year. Today started off an ordinary day. I woke up, bundled up and headed off to work. The Casa de Waffle had a hot chocolate stand outside so i stopped by there first. I got to work and the inside of the place was covered in lights and christmas decorations. The boss called all of us girls in for a little meeting. Apparently, this year the boss decided that we would participate in the christmas theme. He bought me and all the girls santa and elve costumes. So we all proceeded to put on the costumes and start getting ready for the day. I ran out to get all the girls lunch before our shift started and when I came back the homeless man thats always wandering around town was dressed up like santa and had a bucket and a bell. So i walked inside and asked the boss if he had paid him to stand out there and collect a little extra cash, he said no. I guess the guy just assumed anyone coming into the Cafe would have a little extra cash on hand. The funny thing was that he was not asking for money he was just shouting lines from holiday movies. That night, me and the girls were going about our business, literally; when all of a sudden all of the lights and decorations from the celling fell all at once. I had to leap from the stage into a customers lap just so i didn't get smashed by the plastic reindeer that the boos had hung from the celling. If that wasn't bad enough, when I stood up all the money I had earned that day were gone. The customer had taken all the money I had. So much for holiday season, it almost killed me and robbed me.

Four

So today is going to lead to a very long weekend, due to the fact that I am sitting at home sick as a dog with the flu; thanks to the so called clinic who gave away flu vaccines with dirty needles which lead to me actually having the flu and no medicine. Not only has the whole town come down with the flu we are in the mits of tropical storm force stormes. My building hasn't had power since about three yesterday afternoon. The worst part about it is I still have to work. Power outages and big storms bring a lot of business from the bored and lonely men of the town. Isabella's Cafe is usually the only place in town during big storms that have power, a few years ago they purchased a big generator to keep business going when theres nothing else to do. Casa de Waffle usually brings over what ever the kitchen has to Isabellas and feed us before our power outage shift. I dont think Casa de Waffle can help fix my crummy feeling this morning. My boss said that I could just go for a while but that half his girls have the flu and he needs us in today.

So I went and worked for about three hours, the boss let me go home due to the excessive drunkards he was having to kick out anyway. Today's blackout party was lower than low of the blackout parties. Drunken men, mostly young boys and lonely men, the occasional unexpected guest that just wanted some electricity. The only difference about today is the cafe turned into a farm for the flu, with everyone coughing and sneezing by the end of the day everyone would be sick. The cafe also turned into more of a soup kitchen, people came to get the hot food left by casa de waffle. There was one group of young guys that came in, most likely drunk from the night before since all they had to eat was beer because they obviously cant feed themselves specially during a blackout. Well they came in all together went and tried to steal all the casa de waffle and sleep in the chairs next to the heater. Right before the boss was about to kick them out a guy walked in, the WTF radio host, Devon Tresp. He shouted "time to go fellas" and all of the guys stood up and walked out not saying a word. Devon was obviously the responsible friend in the group, probably the only one with a job. He seemed use to this situation by the way he walked in yelled and they all just listened and left.