Winter Travelogue #2 - High Times at Beer, Food, and Wine
Friday, November 16th, 2018: 24:15 AM
TODAY. WAS. HECTIC. In a big city on a snowy day with no idea where to park, two workers with no idea what to do or where to go began their journey. We wandered around this HUGE concert hall with at least 200 booths of different beer, wine, and liquors. It was a tad overwhelming.
Shortly thereafter, all coworkers met up and began prepping the food. The Head Chef gave us a big speech about cleanliness that didn’t ease my anxieties in anyway. Apparently, the venue where the festival is held had a bad outbreak of Norovirus a.k.a. the stomach bug about a month before. I HATE THAT SHIT MORE THAN ANY COMMON DISEASE; I’d almost prefer death. Due to this, the health department was on our ass about being clean, and I was nervous as fuck because I’m scared shitless to get it (no pun intended).
After a while, my nervousness faded out, and I found my rhythm of the job. I found a few familiar faces from Back-to-College Days, like Berniece the singing black lady, Robert the pun master, and a few of the older ladies I had lunch with at Grand Valley. I even met a couple new faces, like these two gamers from Indiana who play MTG and Overwatch. However, one girl who shall not be named came in and completely changed everything.
This really preppy, ditzy young girl came in to help us cut rolls for sliders and just started doing everything wrong - washing her hands in the wrong sink, cutting the rolls in unusable angles, and just throwing them into a box afterwards instead of actually being careful as instructed. I was so dumbfounded about why she was acting that stupid until I looked at her eyes. She was stoned as all fuck and not even trying to hide it. I don’t know if it was pot, acid, shrooms, or pills but she was OUT OF IT. She even took a 2-hour break and her reasoning behind it was she “got lost on her way back”. According to what I’ve heard, she’s getting reports written about her and potentially fired for being stoned at a big event. Personally, I believe you should keep that at home after-hours unless you can handle your shit at work. It’s like coming in drunk - only attempt if you can hide it well and still do your job. Keep it at a light buzz and not Slammed-I-Am.
The event itself was exhausting in execution but not incredibly busy. It was a lot of standing around and pacing. They say the next two days are supposed to be busy as all Hell, but this one definitely was not. The best part of the night had to be when this random drunk old lady came by and said (loudly) the man in black (the Head Chef) was a dick. We all died laughing for a solid 2 minutes. Otherwise, the night went by slowly but surely.
My team met up at the hotel afterwards, ordered a bunch of pizza, met up unexpectedly with the Indiana Gamers (one of them apparently had a voluptuous afro hiding under his work hat), and just hung out bullshitting about life in our hometowns. Today was exhausting, but very eventful and memorable. I’m anxious but excited to see what tomorrow holds. Hopefully not more stoned mistakes causing an escort out of the building.
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