Work / Party / Concert / Party / Fire

Saturday, August 27th, 2005 | Uncategorized

Long day, feel free to ignore whatever part of the day interests you least.

Work:
Went to work today, DAMN are Saturdays at a car lot busy. So busy that there really wasn’t anything for me to do since there was nobody to train me. I have my own desk now, so I decided to try to sit down and read the product fact book. However I was getting easily distracted and ended up just trying to listen to what the other salesman were saying.

Now me, by nature tend to just start talking to people, and as it were I kind of started talking to a customer. I wasn’t trying to sell him, just talk to him. Well he started asking me questions about the CRV, and well… Lets be honest, my product knowledge at this point is low, VERY LOW.

He wanted a fuel comparison from his current vehicle to the CRV, and also wanted to know if perhaps getting a civic and a toe for it would be cheaper still. I had to fess up to him that I had only been working there for such a short time that I did not yet have a nametag. I went to find him somebody to help him.

My boss just finished helping a customer so I asked him if he could help this guy, he said sure and asked me to move one of the vehicles back to the lot. After I moved the vehicle I came back in to see my boss helping a different customer! So I run back over to the customer and he asks If I found somebody to help him yet. Apparently not….

Fortunately another salesman was just finishing up. I felt bad about it though. I mean I never realized how much there is to learn to sell cars. I mean not only do I have to learn everything about the cars we sell, but as much as possible about everybody else’s cars.

Party:
Well technically, I didn’t really go to a party. At an earlier date I had told some people that I would go to their party. However I am not one to keep a schedule so I just told them to remind me a couple days before. They did, however a few days earlier than that I told my friend I would go to a concert with him.

Well not wanting to break either commitment, I decided to “detour” to the party before I met up with my friend to go to the concert. I was cutting time a bit to close for my friends comfort, but I felt it should be done.

Since I made it to the party before there was a party I just said hi and talked to the people there for a few minutes and then left (apparently taking the long way to my destination as I have been since informed). This was definitely the quickest I have ever partied in my life, but the result was the same.

Concert:
So we had to go to Milwaukee for the concert, I being an idiot forgot that the Marcus Amphitheater is actually located in Summer Fest grounds, which I know DAMN well how to get to. Not realizing that it was the same location we wrote down map quest directions and ended up not being observant missing an exit right after an exit, and had to back track a ways. Once we hit the real exit I knew exactly where we were and realized what an idiot I was knowing exactly where the amphitheater was now.

We were kind of stuck in 1 way traffic and saw a lot to park in for $5 that I knew was fairly close, until we got very close to the entrance and somebody took down the sign because the lot was filled ;( So we split the $10 in parking and went in.

We then bought ourselves 2 of the most expensive (locally brewed) plastic bottles of beers ever ($5 bucks, for 2 miller lites). I mean come on, the damn miller plant is just down the street… grr…

The concert lineup was: Breaking Benjamin, Staind, 3 Doors Down. Seemed kind of an odd mix to me, but wtf ya know. We went to find our seats which Mark said should be pretty good since he won them from a radio station. Well, they were in the bleachers, not really impressive, so much so that I managed to convince Mark NOT to kick the people who were already sitting in our seats out. I didn’t want to sit between them anyways, so we went back another 10 rows or so where there was a big open space.

Good thing to, as we could see the entire time. If we had sat in our actual seats we would not have been able to see from the people who had lined the walls where our actual seats were. This was not your typical concert however, as even during Staind; there was NOBODY moshing! Not even the front row. Weird.

Anyways after Staind we left, I mean yeah 3 Doors Down might have been good, but I was cold, hungry, tired and honestly didn’t really want to be there.

Party:
Ok so don’t get your hopes up, I lied again, technically I didn’t go to this party either (it just makes for a more impressive blog title this way) …

While I was eating my Hardees food (and driving through a McDonalds drive thru), I got a phone call asking me if I wanted to go to a party, way the fuk far away from where I was at the moment, but not to much further than where I was going.

I checked with Mark and he didn’t really want to, so we both decided the best thing to do was go back to his place and start a fire.

Fire:
We sat down and drank some more Miller Lite, this time not in Milwaukee, but it cost us only pennies on the dollars we spent at the concert. So a much better deal, for some crappy beer.

The fire was not our usual impressive spectacle that attracts attention from satellites in space, but just a relaxed time to cool off shindig. It really wasn’t even that late, but alas I am still not used to this getting up early in the morning crap!

All in all I’d say it was a pretty good night.

               

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