Another one of those nights...

It's another one of those nights where I'm just too tired to think of anything to write. Rather than taking the same cheap way out, I'm going to try something new...ish. I think I saw it one an episode of Family Guy once. The positive sandwich. I'm going to say something positive, then negative, then something positive.

+ Joss Whedon was finally officially announced as the director for The Avengers. Since the movie seems to be on a tight schedule, it seems there is a fair chance that this will stick.

- A woman at work last night came in to buy networking equipment. One of our associates helped her and noted that she complained a lot that her coupons wouldn't work, so he said that there's an e-mail coupon going around that would work, so he prints it out and hands it to her.
The woman comes up to the register, where I've been scheduled for most of the week, and, before I'm even finished with the customer ahead of her, she starts yelling out her phone number. I have to assume it's for the loyalty card. Then she spends most of the first couple of minutes alternating between whistling and humming. Everytime I hear whistling, I always think of Red from That 70's Show, "You know what's the best part about whistling? You can STOP whistling." So at that point I was already pretty irritated with the customer. Like, I wanted to place a pane of glass in front of her, run up behind her, and do a knee drop into the back of her head, forcing her to go face first through the glass. But, I don't, since I'm such a nice guy.
I finish ringing her items through and scan the e-mail coupon the other employee gave her, and tell her the total. She says, "I have this coupon, too!"
Without skipping a beat, I reply, "That coupon isn't valid on any technology items."
With one of the most obnoxious smiles I have ever seen, she says, "Well, guess what. Your guy back there said it does..."
Again, without missing a beat, "Well, guess what. It doesn't matter what he said, it's not valid on any technology items."
Now, whenever that happens, there's one of two outcomes. The customer gets so pissed that I won't push the coupon through (on a lot of tech stuff, I couldn't even if I wanted to, which I didn't in this instance) and leave, or, they knew the coupon wasn't going to work so they grumble about how shitty we all are personally and they pay for their stuff and leave. It was the latter.
I didn't hear about the fact that the salesman had printed out the email coupon to be nice until after I called him up to the front (we have radios, but I think it's BS to call someone out over a public network like that) to tell him not to tell customers they can use those coupons on tech.
The only good thing about the whole ordeal was that it got her to stop whistling.
Then she came back today. Guess what she asked for?

+ After giving a customer a lot of help (as well as helpful suggestions on where to get product we don't carry, because we're an office supplies store, and what she was looking for wasn't office supplies), she turned to me and said, "You're amazing, you know that?"
Kind of weird, but ok, nice to get a compliment on a shitty day.

+/- A lot of things are being shown at Comic-Con. There, that covers the lot o' ya.

Also, one of the districts that I guest teach in is looking for permanent building subs...er...guest teachers. It'd only be a bit more money, but it'd be working everyday, which would be nice.

Also also (instead of PSS), some of my work is on a site for authors so they can get feedback and help from other authors (doesn't always work out that way, but hey, somethings better than nothing), and today I got a message from John Connor. Unfortunately, it did not contain anything about saving the future or going with him if I want to live.