Day 60 - Disrespectful Rat

I've worked in several restaurants and a fast food establishment over my time...and I'll share a secret...no matter how much you clean and spray for bugs/rodents...I remember working at a McDonald's throughout my high school career and how there would be mice and roaches in the building throughout the 4 years of my time there. Several of the restaurants I worked at had mice too. No matter how many traps would be set, mice would find a way in and find food.

Busch stadium is an open building...there are several parts of the stadium that are enclosed....but for the most part, a mouse could make his way throughout the stadium and feast on spilled cracker jacks and peanuts.

While in my commissary, they noticed a box that had a hole on the bottom side of it, which looked like it was created by the edge of the box being dropped on the edge of a counter. The further it was inspected, it was noticed that there were "shavings" of the box on the ground around it. Yes. A mouse made his home in a box of cracker jacks. Guess who was standing there when the box was discovered and was asked to move the box away from the wall...yeah, this guy.

After moving the box, it was opened up and come to find out, the suspect had only chewed into one bag of cracker jacks. The entire box was still thrown out and everyone had to inspect their peanuts and cracker jacks. Everything was wiped down and sanitized before leaving our commissary, so don't worry about finding a bonus prize in your cracker jacks...everything is inspected before leaving our commissary. The suspect was still at large at the time of this blog and no mice were harmed during the creation of this blog.

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After being surprised by the few amount of tv stations covering the 8th anniversary of the attacks of 9/11, I figured that there would at least be a moment of silence observed at the stadium tonight. There was a moment of silence observed and it was the quietest I've ever heard Busch Stadium. It was very eerie feeling.

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As an employee of Sports Services, we are required to stop what we are doing, remove our hats and observe the singing of 'God Bless America' and the National Anthem. Some of the guys in the commissary have vocalized how they don't think they need to sing 'God Bless America' at every game, but still follow the rules and out of respect observe the song. There is one guy who won't even go out into the stands till both songs are completed because of his feelings against them being sung.

Last night, while I was standing behind section 251, the singing of 'God Bless America' was about to start. I took my hat off and stood there. As the song started, I could hear a beer man ask people move out of the way so he could get through. For starters, he wasn't following the rules and he was being disrespectful to the fans. I made his way up the steps to the area he usually sells in and was out of site while 'God Bless America' was finishing up...never once stopping.

As the songs were completed, myself and another beer man had numerous complaints from fans in that section, saying how it was very disrespectful and weren't happy with that beer man. Not trying to be a tattle-tail, but also being very pissed at this, I reported what happened to our supervisor and decided to let the beer man be dealt with by them.

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I had a guy who was sitting in one section that seemed like he was from a part of the U.S. that didn't have running water, electricity or know what baseball was...he was about as a backwards redneck as I've ever seen. He had a few random teeth missing in his smile, smelled like a rotten egg and had a twang in his voice that had to of been made up.

During the play at the plate when Holliday was called out...this man must have thought that he was an umpire....he stood up and was screaming at the top of his lungs. He was letting the umpire know that he made a bad call and they needed to update their benefits that covered vision because he needed glasses. The group of college students in front of him were encouraging him...so it just kept going on for a bit. The man went on for about the next 5 minutes. I don't think I've really witnessed a fan at Busch go that crazy.

For the record...watched the replay on SportsCenter...he was safe.

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I was carding a guy in one section, saw he was 26, sold him the beer and then looked around to see if anyone else wanted to buy one when the guy sitting across the aisle from him got my attention. He leaned over and said in a quiet voice, "that ID you just checked was fake. You want to know how I know? Because I just sold it to him." Now usually everyone is a comedian at Busch and likes to tell me how everyone's ID is fake. This guy kept a serious look on his face and I just laughed a bit and said I checked it and it was real. He didn't laugh back...I thought, 'well, damn, i'm gonna get fired if that was a fake, but that met all of the requirements of a real ID..." Finally this tool decided to slowly smile back at me. He then went on to ask me how my night was going...but he said it in a way as if he has known me for a few years or something. He carried on a conversation for a few minutes...and then didn't buy a beer from me...bad move dude...you just wasted my time.

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Totals thus far:
73 Bags of Cracker Jacks
141 Bottles of Water
250 Bags of Peanuts
3799 Bottles of Beer