Losing Power
Sep. 27th, 2007 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielGood first day substituting. Slow, but good. Yea, libraries.
But now I feel really stupid. A few minutes (5-10) before closing, after I'd locked the door but not flipped the sign, a kid and an adult show up wanting to pay for some lost DVDs. I, being the nice person that I am, let them in. But they need change, which we don't have, so they pop over to the grocery store.
Now the library's officially closed when they come back and I help them out, doing the best I can because 1) first day and 2) never done this before. It goes fine. (Except I might have screwed something up? Something about not deleting anything from his record, and I don't think I did, but when I looked there wasn't anything there.) Except then as I'm double-checking this, the power goes out.
So the computer just shuts down and I'm left going, "Huh?" And I hate when things aren't done correctly and now I'm feeling all mopey just because I didn't ignore the people at the door and take off at 5:30 when I should have. But I don't mind helping people and staying a few extra minutes. It is my time after all. Only now I'm all flustered or whatever because if I had just left everything would have been turned off and taken care of and I never would have known. Bah.
Why has this just made me feel depressed?
However, because I was there later I was able to help a woman whose car had died. And by help I mean she used my cell phone. Go me.
But now I feel really stupid. A few minutes (5-10) before closing, after I'd locked the door but not flipped the sign, a kid and an adult show up wanting to pay for some lost DVDs. I, being the nice person that I am, let them in. But they need change, which we don't have, so they pop over to the grocery store.
Now the library's officially closed when they come back and I help them out, doing the best I can because 1) first day and 2) never done this before. It goes fine. (Except I might have screwed something up? Something about not deleting anything from his record, and I don't think I did, but when I looked there wasn't anything there.) Except then as I'm double-checking this, the power goes out.
So the computer just shuts down and I'm left going, "Huh?" And I hate when things aren't done correctly and now I'm feeling all mopey just because I didn't ignore the people at the door and take off at 5:30 when I should have. But I don't mind helping people and staying a few extra minutes. It is my time after all. Only now I'm all flustered or whatever because if I had just left everything would have been turned off and taken care of and I never would have known. Bah.
Why has this just made me feel depressed?
However, because I was there later I was able to help a woman whose car had died. And by help I mean she used my cell phone. Go me.
