setting up is hard to do...

As I type I've got this tune in my head...so I'm calling this setting up is hard to do, even though I know this will meander beyond setting up the pastry case to meeting a new "friend" but, here we go anyway!



It's not that the set up process itself is actually hard. it's just that it requires a lot of rushing around right away. Before coffee most days!

I generally work the opening shift. I like it because I'm done by noon on most days so I still have time to run errands and accomplish other things during the slow "business hour" part of the day. It also ensures I have time for some creative outlet (or a nap as I generally stay up late the night before because I'm actually wired to be a stay-up-late-sleep-in type of person!).

Back to the point...it's not that setting up is actually *hard* it's just that opening and setting up the pastries makes me so hungry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But instead, like a good little girl that is trying to be healthy and lose some weight not gain it, I eat a banana for breakfast instead.

Down, doobie, do, down, down, come-a, come-a down doobie do, down down...setting up pastries is hard to do (when hungry)!!

But beyond the sluggish set-up and instant hunger pangs, the pastries are irritating in other ways. At our particular coffee shop, we set the morning pastries out. All of them. In other words, if we have two types of bagels, we put both types out so customers in line can tell, just by looking at the pastries, what we have available. We had our two types setting out. A customer will always try to order some other type that we don't have, and that happened today.

So, I said, "We have plain or wheat, but no raspberry bagels. We do have a raspberry muffin, is that what you meant?"

And no, that's never what they mean, they want whatever specialty bagel they said in the first place. Most times, the customer will just change their mind to some other pastry. Most times I don't really care. Not this customer. This one was very upset that we only had the two choices. (Might I add there is a bagel shop directly across the street....which is extremely tempting to suggest in those situations...)


But I’ll take 50 people “double checking that I’m sure we don’t have other flavors” of bagels over someone asking me about the calorie content. Oh yes, you guessed it, Calorie Counting Cathy was in again.


And I am not even kidding here when I tell you her friend asked me about gluten content of a sandwich!!! I said, well since the sandwich is pre-made and pre-packaged, even if I take the bread off, there would be some residual gluten exposure to the rest of the sandwich, I suppose, but I have no way to know what that would be. Would you like it anyway? No. And, since I don't know the calorie content of the bagel, CCC doesn't want that either.

So, CCC’s BFF is Gluten Gloria. I fear I’ll see them both again. Boo.



Currently (de)Caffeinated, Dee