So, I normally work 12 hour days, no big deal, but today I get there half an hour late, which didn’t matter since I picked 12 1/2 hour shifts the next few days, and I stopped in the town right before where we station out of. There’s one restaurant there so I think I’m being clever. If I stay there I’ll only get dispatched those orders. It usually works out to a day of not having to do very much. Not today. Soon as I get there I get a delivery all the way across to the next town. So I go an pick it up and then I get another delivery, then another. Mind you, I hadn’t even had time to pick up the first delivery yet. So I called and they said the other two drivers are in a different town. Other two? Usually Friday we have ten. I look a the schedule and they have three drivers on from 11-2 and two for 2-5. 5 for 5-9, and 9 for 9-11:30 which makes no sense at all. So I call back and apparently what happened was they rejected too many deliveries and 5 drivers got suspended. 2 other drivers quit so we’re down 7 drivers. This is in an area covering 6 towns and about 250,000 people. For 3 drivers on the busiest block on the busiest day of the week. I almost quit. I shit you not I was so stressed running all over the place. Tomorrow doesn’t look much better. A little bit. Sunday looks fine, they scheduled enough people and next week I’m only doing nights, but I’m doing the other delivery service at the same time. That should be fun.
I didn’t schedule myself for Halloween so I can sleep late, binge watch scary movies all day, then go to a party with the wifey. And Sunday after Halloween I have off so I can recuperate in case I had too much to drink. Meanwhile, it looks like we may have won our eviction, the other party withdrew the action. If you recall our landlord didn’t pay the mortgage for 6 years and got foreclosed on so we all got eviction notices. i fought it and the other side withdrew the complaint. Three months later. They might be making a cash offer to move or maybe they’ll sell the house as is with tenants in it. We kind of hate our roommate so we’re hoping for the cash offer to go. AND we may have won our lawsuit about my wife’s Beetle these scumbags in New Jersey sold us. The lawyer called today and said he talked to the other side’s lawyer and thinks they’ll settle for $3750. It’s a loss of some money for us, but it’s a net gain counting what we paid for the car and towing fees when the tranny blew. And Chase honored a cash offer and is depositing $300 in my account in the next few days (I was a day late with the offer opening a new account). So all in all this week rocks!
Happy Halloween and stay safe if I don’t write again before that. I’ll try. I mean to do it every day but every day I get home and I’m like “I’ll do it tomorrow”. 6 years after taking all my notes to write my book I still haven’t really started that. lol
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