Today at work something terrific happened. A customer moved one of the employee ladders, unchained it, and climbed on up to look for a pair of shoes out of her reach. We weren't busy, there were maybe three customers in the store, including herself, and roughly four associates, none of us overly busy, and none of us intentionally not acknowledging her. I heard the ladder moving and assumed it was an associate but then I looked over and the woman clearly did not resemble any of the employees currently on the floor. So I went over.
Me: Excuse me, while you're up there can you get a size down for me?
Her: Oh, I don't work here.
Me: In that case, can you please get off the employee ladder?
It's one thing if stores frequently leave ladders about the place for customers to just mosey on up, but as far as I know, no store actually does that. The damn thing had the CAUTION EMPLOYEE ONLY sign chained across the front. She had to unchain it to use it. AND take the brake off. I feel like she's done this before. And I also feel that the unborn fetus she was carrying in her enormous preggo belly is going to be just as ditzy as her. God help us.
After work I went to lunch with mom and Kage, and afterwards I was going to stop at home to let the dog out and then go over to moms to hang out while her millions of poodles were groomed. But then I got home and the doorknob that's been giving us trouble for like, the past since-we've-started-using-it, said 'fuck it' and totally broke. I could unlock the door, turn the handle, but the door wouldn't open. The part that goes in and out, wasn't going out. It was just staying in. So I called mom and she came back and then I discovered that I had locked all of the windows that I can reach from the outside, because I'm super paranoid about people breaking into my apartment (we live on the first floor). Window I cannot reach? Bathroom.
You know where this is going.
I had mom pull her Jeep up the little hill on the side of our house so the hood was directly underneath the window and I climbed up and then went on through the bathroom window. Naturally before I did, I sang about it. You know the words.
Don't pretend you would have done any differently.
I'm just really disappointed that we didn't take pictures or video. I'm more than happy to do it again though, cause I like doing stuff like that. I like knowing what I'm capable of if I ever need to be capable of it. For example, my quick thinking told me that I had no ladder and no one was tall enough to boost me up so let's use the hood of the Jeep.
My quick thinking did not remind me that I still need to buy a ladder. Those things come in handy when you least expect them to.
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