'Tis the season for wrapping!
I haven't wrapped a single present yet. If I'm counting personal gifts anyway. If I am counting the number of toys I have wrapped for other families as part of my seasonal gig at the toy store, my numbers are probably somewhere around 100. Maybe 200. No lie. Needless to say, I'm becoming quite the wrapper. I'll always prefer the square or rectangle packages the best: board games, barbie dolls, lego sets, etc. They're easy. I loathe when someone brings me a giant ball to wrap (or balls of any kind to be honest), or a baby doll high chair, or an octagonal item. Not as simple. More complicated. Greater risk it'll come out looking like your 5-year old went to town on it. Happy Holidays! Here's your craptastically wrapped present! Hope you don't feel as embarrassed giving it away as I currently do giving it to you! But hey, it's a free service. And I do my best...most of the time.
I've worked retail for many a holiday seasons. Between the toy store throughout high school and part of college and the GAP during college, I've had the pleasure of seeing humanity at its finest during the holidays. Black Friday. Christmas Eve. And everything in between. And though it's been SEVERAL years since I donned the toy store polo and assisted customers with wagons or scooters or Elf on a Shelf, people haven't changed. While many treat you with kindness and sincerity acknowledging you're a person too! you probably want to go home when it's past closing! and your sole mission in life is not to be regarded as "the help", there's always those gems who just. don't. get. it. And they remind me that I'll never become that person. I'll always be grateful for assistance, be mindful of others, and practice patience. Virtues, people. They'll take you places.
Outside of the glamorous life of the toy store, I've had a nice weekend. A Christmas party and open house Friday evening where I had the chance to meet a lot of new people, drinks at Delachaise (a bar I'd been wanting to check out since moving here!) with Alex and Caleb, and dinner last night with Mark and David followed by drinks at Oak Wine Bar (another place on my list to try!) with Daph, Jenna, and Molly and her beau. I'm headed to the Christmas Service at Rayne this morning and weather permitting, traveling down to the Quarter with Daph to finish out my Christmas shopping. Then I can begin wrapping my own gifts. And don't worry, I've been intentional to avoid any misshapen items. Ain't nobody got time for that.
Cheers.
I've worked retail for many a holiday seasons. Between the toy store throughout high school and part of college and the GAP during college, I've had the pleasure of seeing humanity at its finest during the holidays. Black Friday. Christmas Eve. And everything in between. And though it's been SEVERAL years since I donned the toy store polo and assisted customers with wagons or scooters or Elf on a Shelf, people haven't changed. While many treat you with kindness and sincerity acknowledging you're a person too! you probably want to go home when it's past closing! and your sole mission in life is not to be regarded as "the help", there's always those gems who just. don't. get. it. And they remind me that I'll never become that person. I'll always be grateful for assistance, be mindful of others, and practice patience. Virtues, people. They'll take you places.
Outside of the glamorous life of the toy store, I've had a nice weekend. A Christmas party and open house Friday evening where I had the chance to meet a lot of new people, drinks at Delachaise (a bar I'd been wanting to check out since moving here!) with Alex and Caleb, and dinner last night with Mark and David followed by drinks at Oak Wine Bar (another place on my list to try!) with Daph, Jenna, and Molly and her beau. I'm headed to the Christmas Service at Rayne this morning and weather permitting, traveling down to the Quarter with Daph to finish out my Christmas shopping. Then I can begin wrapping my own gifts. And don't worry, I've been intentional to avoid any misshapen items. Ain't nobody got time for that.
Cheers.
Comments