Day 25 - One of those days...

I left to head to work at 5:10p.m. (central standard time zone, for my east coast friends)

I didn't clock-in until 6:45p.m. CST.

Traffic was not friendly today...Click here to see why.

5:22p.m. I thought I was making great timing and when I made it past 170 while on 70, I heard the traffic report that there was a truck on fire downtown on 70 eastbound...they advised everyone to not take 70 eastbound at all! Awesome! I decided that I would take the expressway and get downtown really quick...ha!

5:55p.m. Only 1 mile to go till the expressway...and I'm crawling there...I never went over 10mph driving there...

5:57p.m. I call Sports Services to let them know that I would not be there by the 6:15 check-in time cut-off but i was on my way...they told me I had till 6:30 to show up.

6:05p.m. I have made it to the exit for the expressway only to find out that the expressway was shutdown...the sign showing how long till you reach downtown read: I-64/I-55 50 min. 7 miles. 50 minutes to go 7 miles!?!?!? I decide to take the next exit (West Florissant Road) and find my way downtown through the north side of downtown STL...

6:15p.m. After going through a part of STL that I've never been through before, I make it to Washington Ave. (thank you iPhone!)

6:22p.m. I know there is no way I'm going to be able to make it to the park before 6:30 even by the time I get parked and walk to the stadium...I contemplated not going in and working on many other things at home...I call to let Sports Services know I wasn't going to make it and they told me they were allowing everyone to get there by 7:00pm because of the accident on I-70. Awesome!

6:45p.m. I clocked in and got prepared to sell beerverages.

Even the newbies were out of the commissary before I got up there to get my stuff. I quickly got everything and headed out towards my starting point when I felt like something wasn't right...was it the fact of being late? no, I didn't forget anything...I finally realized as I made my first sale that I hadn't pulled my knee pads up yet...I took a knee and the feeling of concrete on my knee sent pain through my leg...that sucked...I was so rushed to go out and sell beer that I forgot to pull my knee pad up.

I think everyone was thrown off by the accident since the majority of the staff were late as well as the fans...but oh the evening was just as eventful as my drive to work...

I don't know why, but I sweat more tonight than I did last night...and it was much cooler tonight than last night. I had to stop before going down each section to wipe my face off because the sweat was just running down my face and dripping off of me.

I witnessed 2 guys that looked rather shady get pulled from their seats to have their ID's verified. Someone must have reported that they had suspicious ID's.

I had a girl (probably mid-20's) who was wearing something that was...well, i'll just call it 'slut-tastic' get up out of her seat and walk over to me while I was selling a beer. She looked at me for a second...I asked if I could help her. She asked where she could go to smoke. I told her she had to exit the stadium and smoke outside near the designated gates. She had a look of despair on her face and asked me if there was anywhere I'd let her go to be able to smoke...I replied, "no, you have to go to the designated areas." She kind of did a little whimpering face and asked if I'd let her go smoke anywhere else... I thought to myself, this is ridonkulous! Slutty McSlut Slut wanted me to allow her to smoke in the Stadium. I told her she could go to one of the designated areas...she stomped off and went back to the group of guys she was with...as she walked away, some of the guys I just sold beer to were making comments about her...comments I won't repeat because of how low and degrading they were.

I was walking down the steps in a section and noticed a larger lady kick a foot up into the air...then her other leg kicked up into the air...this lady was spread-eagle in her seat and the guy in front of her was motioning as if he were...(parents, shield your childrens' eyes)...well, performing oral on her...I'm not joking...I had to stop where I was...I used my best judgment to decide that they were better off not being served anymore alcoholic beverages for the evening...the two had stopped their sex-ed demonstration by the time I had walked past their row...after I made it to the bottom of the steps, I turned around to heckle out my beer-call and I was just in shock...I was in shock by the number people who were laughing at this while most of them had children sitting near by and how many families with young children were sitting directly behind them...I could hear the lady talking about needing another beer...I quickly got out of that section and told an usher about everything and to keep an eye on them.

I was worried when I started the night off because I have a sun burn...I thought that carrying that bag of peanuts and cracker jacks might be difficult...I just now realized as I type this that it only peeled off one layer of my burnt shoulder.

As I was downstairs getting ready to turn in my apron and towels, I pulled out my slip of paper that I had to turn in with my checked out apron and towels...I had sweated so much that the paper was soaked and nearly falling apart...the girls behind the counter asked me if it was raining...I said no, but it did earlier in the night. I didn't bother to tell them that the paper wasn't soaked from the rain...

I sold 3 cases tonight. A bit better than last night...I'm gonna push for 4 cases tomorrow night...and to make it to work on time.

Totals thus far:
33 Bottles of Water
38 Bags of Cracker Jacks
100 Bags of Peanuts
1386 Bottles of Beer