First night of work

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Haha, i just thought of that, clever, eh? Well i had my first shift of training at Cold Stone last night, boy, was that interesting. No sarcasm intended, it really was kinda cool. I mean, at first it was scary as shit, because our Coach, or person who guides us through our training, quizzed us on our knowledge of the Original's Menu. And before she quizzed us, she told us if we didn't know enough we would be sent home. Yikes! Well it turns out the other trainee and I did know our stuff well enough that we could advance to the next phase of our training. We were then showed the basic maintenance procedures of Cold Stone, like taking out trash, washing dishes, refilling ice cream, etc. It doesnt sound like much, but when you're thrown into a fast paced work environment for the first time, it can be really overwhelming. We went on break after a little less than 2 hours. Those 2 hours felt like an eternity! Me and the other trainee, whose fake name on my blog will be Maryann, went to Mcdonald's and started talking about how crazy the job was, and this was only the first day! We even joked about just bouncing and not coming back to the store.... haha, that would have been funny. But we didn't let ourselves get scared away, we went back. After the break, it wasn't so bad... i just kept replacing empty ice cream pans with new, full ones, taking out trash, replacing blender containers, washing dishes, blah blah. It was actually fun after a while because me and Maryann were sort of left on our own to maintain the behind the scenes of the store. Me and her got off to a good start yesterday, she seems like a great friend in the making. The rest of the night was still hard work, but it was entertaining in a way... i got to sing with the rest of the Cold Stone crew and sang along to songs coming on from the PA system, playing off of someone's iPod. I almost fell down about 3 times though, lol. You see, the floor behind the long, U-Shaped counter was very wet and slippery. You could literally glide across the floor like you were on roller blades, it was awesome, until i started slipping. Lol... but yeah and i didn't know this, but one perk of working at Cold Stone is that you can get a free cup of ice cream, any size, anything u want in it, after every shift! I got my fave original, Chocolate Devotion, to celebrate my 1st day of work. I started work at 7pm... and got out at 1:30 -_-. It was kind of nice though, to be honest. Everything is so peaceful late at night, I love it. I went to the train station with Maryann and was gonna wait with her until her train came, but she assured me that she would be fine, so I went to wait for my train. While waiting for my train, I listened to guy playing a keyboard sing songs. I wish i could have recorded him because he was such a good singer! He played some of my favorite songs, like All My Life by K Ci and JoJo and All I Do Is Think Of You by the Jackson 5. I gave him 50 cents, lol. The train went local, so I didnt get home 'til about 3 in the morning. But it didn't matter, I was getting really into a new book I've been reading.

Overall, my first shift at Cold Stone was positive.... I learned the basics of how to maintain the store, I learn how to mix ice cream tomorrow. I have to memorize the ENTIRE menu by tomorrow, or else I'm going home early. Wish me luck! See you guys later, come to Cold Stone one day and I might just serve you some ice cream =). Love, peace and chicken grease.