Gaius in a Pickle

 Well I am at a loss as to what to do.

I have family from Wisconsin coming in today through Saturday and I am hosting the big family cook out Saturday Night.

This morning I get  a call from my brother in law who does some engineering work for KTM.

He has three of the new 990 Super Duke R's for a test run to Santa Cruz over the weekend. This is fucking great I tell you getting to ride new bikes that wont be available to the general public for awhile and then in very limited quanities.

Should I go ride or piss off my entire family and really dissapoint my mother?

Why does this kind of shit only happen when I have other plans?

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Dylan

 After the craptastic day I had yesterday I was looking forward to the Bob Dylan concert at Pechanga last night.

  In a word crap.   Dyaln had zero interaction with the audience zero zilch nada.  The sound blew chunks.

 I know ol Dylan is marble mouthed but when you have the band overpowering your voice it blows. Should have been an acoustic set. This could have been taken care of if the mixer was paying attention. 

  The older generation was out in force last night and they kept yelling for everyone to sit down. C'mon people it is a fucking concert if I want to stand up I am going to stand the fuck up.  IF you don't want to deal with the crowds stay at home and pop in a cd for fucks sake. 

   The drink situatiuon was pitiful one drink per person at atime and no doubles. They also won't let you order a drink without ice. WTF? I asked for some Wild Turkey and all they had was the 80 and not the 101 so the guys asks me how I want it and I order neat he is goes HUH? I say no ice he then informs me all drinks have to have ice I then ask him why did he even bother asking me. I did get him to just put in 1 ice cube. He then hooks the damn thing up to a pour measureer and I get this huge plastic cup with 1 cube and 1 ounce of Turkey all this for 6 bucks. Reminder to Gaius take your fucking Flask.

Here is to hoping I have a better Friday.

One more satisfied customer

Today started out great.

A customer brings back an automatic waterer that I sold him yesterday. He wants a refund because it leaks. Fair enough defective product get a refund or exchange.

I open the box and look at it and I see that it is put together wrong. I point this out to him. Bad move on my part. He gets all defensive and says he followed the directions included with it. I then tell him nope if you had it wouldn't leak. I take it apart in front of him and put it together the right way. It took all of 3 minutes. He looked flabergasted and still wanted a refund. I calmly tell him there is nothing wrong with it and I can give him store credit less 15 % because I will have to sell it as used instead of new. He tells me to forget it and he will never shop here again and storms out.

The customer that came in behind him asked wha that was about and I tell her he was trying to bring back an item that looked like a retarded 4 year old put together. She gets all red in the face and tells me her son is mentally retarded. I fire back don't let him put together waterer's.

Great day losing two customers in 10 minutes. Is it closing time yet I sure could use a drink.

I don't want to complain

   Why do people start off by saying I don't want to complain and then complain? Just shut the fuck up and don't complain.

     Today I fired up the smoker behind the my shop to smoke some ribs. I have been doing this for around 7 months now and do it a couple of times a week and on Saturday. I have had no complaints from anyone in the complex and it helps me sell the grills and smokers at my shop. I do hand out free food to anyone who asks.

   Well there is a new tennant in the complex and he came into my shop today and asked me if I could move my smoker so the smoke doesn't waft into his shop.  This is also the same guy who on Saturday raved about my Tri-Tip and was so happy that I cook at work. I asked him what the problem was and he said the smoke will stink his shop up and possibly cause smoke damage to his clothing that he sells. Well anyone who has smelled a smoker running most likely won't complain about the smell. He does have a point about his clothing.

   I ask him if the exhaust from all of the bikes he fixes cause any damage to the clothes? He didn't really have a reply to that. I then ask him when he is going to move the 30 foot flat bed truck parked in the lot and taking up 6 parking spaces I also ask him about the two broken down minivans I saw him drop off and then leave sitting there for 2 months.

  Well I agreed to stop smoking during the week as long as he moves his shit vehicles out of the lot and I will only smoke on Saturdays and he better close the fucking roll up door to keep the smoke out of his shop. 

  Don't ever let it be said I am not open to compromise.  Fucking people piss me off.

Hecho En Mexico

    Well it was a great day in Costco land yesterday.

    After a month of not having my Mexico Coca-Cola they finally got It back in stock

    It is made with sugar and not high fructose corn sugar.

    It makes a huge difference in taste the sugar Coke is crisper and well damnit I just prefer it.

    You can sometimes find the Kosher Coke and Pepsi around Passover that is made with sugar and not corn sryup.

    Do yourself a favor and find it will take you back to your youth when we were not deluged with the uber sweet corn syrup.