still sick...

and now that i've been sick for five days, not only am i sick, but i'm also cranky...and actually i'm not sure cranky is an adequate description - i'm so fucking mad i felt like killing the IDIOT at the service station...

and this is not the first time he has evoked such a reaction in me - see way back in mid march (and i remember coz it happened the night before i was driving to canberra for easter) i went to said service station (it's my local) to fill up in preparation for the drive the next day - it was maybe 9.59pm and i swear that it took nearly 10 minutes and in that time i only managed to get $9 of petrol in the tank (now you all know how bad petrol prices are right now, so you know how little $9 buys)...i entered into a 'what the fuck is going on' sort conversation with the guy at the adjacent pump - he said he'd been there 15 minutes and he only had $14 worth of fuel in his tank...not happy jan!

so i decided to pause as my hand was about to fall off - at that time i noticed that one of the so called attendants was outside and when i asked him what was going on he said (and i quote) 'we are closing' - i said 'not really sure you can do that when there are at least five people here midway through getting fuel - it doesn't seem very customer focussed' - he just looked at me, shrugged and said 'we're closing' - what a cockfag (thanks ben - good description)...so then i go inside and ask the older gentleman what is going on - he just says he has no idea and continues to turn the outside lights off....aarrgghh

so this is not the first time i have had issues at this place - in fact as i'm typing this i'm beginning to wonder why i go back there? well let me tell you why: it's close to home and i'm all in favour of trying to support local businesses when i can...go figure, i try and do something good and it gets me nowhere...

so i'm in there today - i went in to get skim milk a seemingly no other store in naremburn sells it and i wait for what seems like 3 minutes and the old guy (the same one who was inside that time) is behind the counter just faffing around - i actually thought i was going to put my hand through the so called security thing, grab him by the neck, shake him violently and say 'i've been standing here for 3 minutes, do you think i could buy my milk now?'...

probably a good job i didn't...but of course now i have all this residual rage...i'm tired, i'm sick and i'm over rude incompetent people - i have NO idea how they hold down jobs in so called customer service industries...have they forgotten what it is they are there to do???

anyway enough from me, i'm gonna go and drown my sorrows in a cup of tea, some dark chocolates mcvities and whatever topdeck is left...