Fried Green Tomatoes

Tuesday morning at the video store. I closed last night and opened this morning so at least everything was where I left it.

I'm watching Fried Green Tomatoes. It's hard coming up with movies I want to see that aren't rated R. Not that I only like movies with sex and violence, but let's be honest - most of the best are chock full of it. (I mistyped "cock full of it." Interesting. Maybe I am all about that.) AND at 8 in the morning, it's hard to get into a wacky comedy or serious drama.

A man just came in and ordered 12 coffees. Now let me just preface this by explaining that I have only made and served one coffee before. Ever. And that I had only brewed one container full. And that I had already taken a large amount of it out, expecting few to no customers. Apparently this is quite a morning hotspot for all the construction style workers.
I burned several parts of my hands while pretending that it was totally cool... I had to brew two extra things while the guy was standing there, and then when another guy came in, had to brew another and got coffee everywhere and, I'm sure, looked like an idiot. This is quite the learning experience. But I did get tipped! (awkward, yet fruitful).

And I STILL can't make foam! The 12 coffees guy had a hot chocolate in there.... I was trained on it, but only in the sense that my boss says "oh yeah, hot chocolate. There it is." ... So I made it up. I hope it tastes okay for whoever gets it.

This has been a hilarious journey of screwing-up-fulness and scrambling-to-fix-things. I sound kind of negative, but all this stuff is fun. I like figuring it out.


I'm really craving a breakfast egg sandwich right now. I need some sort of travel butler.