Cold Hard Cash...or how none is made on icy days

And so it snows, and sleets, and rains, and freezes and soon the roads are empty and the schools are closed. The current conditions would suggest the necessity for most places of employment to close as well...right? Wrong. This little cashier still braved the roads and freezing temps to make it to work on time. Only to wander around an empty store for 5 hours and then drive back home in the sleet. Honestly, it amazes me that stores that don't sell necessities would even stay open when it's blustery and icy out. I don't know many people that would fight ice and snow to buy a $20 can of hairspray, but perhaps I'm wrong. Nonetheless, we opened, we walked around, and we watched as two, exactly two, customers entered the store and purchased something. Man, what a waste.

There's something about cold weather that makes people crazy. Not just crazy, but rude and petty as well. It's like the temperatures drop and suddenly a three dollar coupon is worth making an ass of oneself and causing the cashier to cry. It's as if the very act of bundling up causes people to prepare for battle, not chilly weather, and the parking lot becomes more chaotic than a war-torn country. Heaven forbid you have to walk a few more paces to the store; honking at someone because they got a parking spot closer than yours is simplify justified because of the weather. Seriously though, when the weather outside is frightful, the tempers inside places is far worse. It's enough to make most cashiers, managers, miscellaneous works, etc. actually wish they were outside; after all, you're less like to get verbally assaulted by a mother of three over the length of the line when you're standing outside in the snow. Give me summer heat and spring showers any day over dropping temperatures and raging customers. I don't know why everyone's so angry...I'm pretty sure the cashier who just rang you up isn't responsible for the 20 degree weather outside, nor did she steal your parking spot (we have to park farther away either way). The only thing she's responsible for is checking you out in a swift and (mostly) accurate fashion and sending you on your way so you can go verbally attack someone else. Some days just don't make sense.