Word of the Week: Defenestration

de·fen·es·tra·tion [dee-fen-uh-strey-shuhn] noun
The act of throwing a thing or especially a person out of a window.

Voice

Posted: January 9th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Life | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

I’m putting on my jacket in the office and I’m about to leave to go home. This was at the end of my 10 hour shift and I’m pretty exhausted considering I didn’t get much rest the night before. As I’m zipping up my jacket I hear a customer scream.

“WHAT THE FUCK? LET ME OUT OF HERE!”

Man! I hope I can get out of here before she notices I’m in here. But no! She knocks!

So I go out and she tells me to get back into the booth to take her transaction. Of course, the minute someone tells me to do something, I say no. Then she screams that her credit card got canceled and she needs to find a way to pay. I told her use coins. She told me she doesn’t have coins and she has to pay cash. Well bitch, you’re shit out of luck!

If she had just asked me rather than scream and curse at me, I would have found a better way to help her. And her voice was annoying. It was like talking to a banshee. So I told her to push the help button, and she refused, so I was like, “alright, hold on a second then.”

I go back inside, turn off the lights to my office, punch in the security code, locked up. Then left. I was exhausted, I didn’t want to deal with her anymore and she just stood there screaming at me as I walked away.