Oh My Smideo Weezy Customers!

Well it's that time again, school holidays have rolled around for New Zealand children everywhere, so this means Smideo Weezy is busier then ever! Sadly this also means parents dropping their kids in the store and going away for an hour to have a coffee or do some shopping, so we have become an unoffical babysitting service too.

Now I hate when people do this during the year because my store is not in the best neighbourhood so leaving your kids alone around here isn't the BEST idea, but being the holidays im a little more tolerant about it because lets face it two solid weeks with kids who are bored out of their minds because the weather is still too crappy to go play outside is not fun, and yeah parents might need a break from them for a little while.

But!

Leaving kids alone in a store still presents a whole new set of problems, the biggest one being if they need to go to the toilet they are almost always too shy to mention anything to one of the staff members, and since our store doesn't have public toilets this often leads to little accidents which we don't mind cleaning up, it's part of the job. However, there are still a select few parents who KNOW their kids need to go to the toilet, and instead of doing anything about it they just keep telling them to hold it, and lets face it bladder control at a young age is dodgy at the best of times, so when these kids have accidents I always want to give the parents the mop and bucket and make them clean it up.

Along with toilet issues this holidays we have also had some weather damage to the store, on Tuesday night a HUGE storm hit Auckland and did all sorts of damage to the roof of our complex, so now we have a few new leaks in the roof of the store, which is never fun. The storm got so bad that the lightning and thunder set off the fire alarms and we had to evacuate the store for an hour just in case the roof went alltogether, thats one hour less work for me, so YAY! And I got to perv at firemen, which is always a nice surprise on a worknight.

Some of the dumber films are renting super well, which is always depressing. The temptation to just destroy all the copies of Epic Movie and the new Bring it on flick are very strong, but I enjoy my job so I wont. Also we are having issues getting some movies in because the Paramount distrubitor for New Zealand went into recivership so an arseload of Paramount movies we should of had two months ago (Watchmen for one!!) are sitting in a warehouse somewhere not getting watched or rented!

I love the holidays!