Off on a tangent

Yeah so we saw ghost rider tonight. I liked it! A little bit hoaky here and there, but if you just snicker through it, the scene will pass and it gets better.

I was out back having a smoke on my break today and the ppl there were talking about teenagers today and their attitudes about money and work. It’s so true. I mean I do ALL the work there, and I get SO mad at the teenagers because their whole attitude is "I showed up, so therefore I stand here for a few hours and expect to be paid" So I’m stuck doing all the work. I hate it. Anyways so we’re all smoking and chatting and the guy says to me that they’re hiring and I should go apply! Then he does a second take, looks at me, and says "oh but you have to have your grade 12".

WTF? Do I honestly look like I’m still in highschool? I was all "umm, yeah, I HAVE my grade 12, have had it for 5 years now…"

He was all surprised and told me to apply. I get that alot. When I go out with my friends they all flash their ID and get in, I get asked for a SECOND piece. I mean I guess it’s a good thing because when I am older it will work to my advantage, but it’s still frusterating when ppl perceive me to be younger because then they treat me as such and it irks me. I get treated like shit ALOT by the customers, and it takes alot of willpower not to give them attitude back… because there’s no reason why anyone should treat ANYONE like that…like the dirt beneath their shoes. When I was growing up, I always figured I’d have a college education by now, and be a lawyer or a novelist or a cop or something. Here I am at almost 23 working at a fast food joint. It’s really humbling. Very depressing. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. Well I’m registered for college in sept anyways. I just always figured I’d be an intellectual elitist making a decent amount of money and having respect. I don’t know why I ended up… well actually I DO know why.

Out of highschool I was guilt tripped into going to Bible College, which I KNEW wasn’t for me, and after a semester I dropped out and ran to canmore to be with my then boyfriend. Who dumped me two weeks later. So I partied in canmore and had lots of fun anyways and had a few relationships, the last one being the most meaningful and he broke my heart. So after that, I moved back to three hills to get back on my feet and to save up money to get on with my life.

Then I met James, and we got married and we were all broke again from his debt and my inability to save money. Now we’re finally in red deer and I’m putting him through school and then he’ll put me through school. the process is hard though because here I am working at Arby’s and have nothing to show for my life. Oh well, at least I’m working an honest job and letting the goverment take my honest 99% and use it to fund all sorts of things I am completly against, like abortion. Hahaha.

Gah.

Goodnight!