A bad day

So now I've got this monkey in my head. I don't usually think about monkeys, especially not about one that threw shit at me yesterday. But those eyes, enh. Stephen King eyes. Exorcist eyes. And the icky feeling that it's still watching me.

But I've got work to do. A customer yells at me, pointing at his empty cup, "Hey honey, this coffee's not going to pour itself!" I'd spit at him, but It was hard enough getting this job at Pizza Hut, I'm not going back to McDonalds.

So I pour the coffee, thinking about the zoo and wondering what was up with the monkey. Of course, my hand slips and then I'm splashing hot coffee all over the guy in the checked shirt. "Kind of matches the table cloth" I think as my boss comes running over at the sound of girlish screaming. Him, not me.

After some deft dabbing (I'm ok looking, so I think the guy's enjoying himself) and a complimentary meal, I'm sent off to clean the oven. Ugh. Then to top it off, check-shirt guy with the boner blows me a kiss as he's leaving the restaurant. At least he's not a regular.

Finally the oven's pretty much degreased and I go change to go home. That's when jinglenuts, the manager, yells out to me just as I'm leaving, "That free meal's coming off your paycheck."

Stupid monkey.

The Zoo

So a couple of weeks ago, I'm in my car, a 1995 Sunfire that's seen better days... stupid thing doesn't even have a working CD player so I have to listen to the radio. Then this song comes on that I really like, I've heard it a couple of times, but I still don't know who sings it. Sounds like Coldplay maybe, except I have all their albums, so I don't think so.

It's a school holiday, I'm heading to the Zoo with my kid brother. He just saw "The Wild" and now has it in his head that he wants to see the koala bears at the Zoo. I tried to tell him our zoo doesn't have koala bears, but no worko. And the movie sucked too, so it's an all-round tragedy. Stupid Disney.

Anyway, I'm in my own world, humming away, then song ends and I switch stations - and the same song's playing on that station too. Cool. But then something new by Britney comes on and I delete that station from my presets.

We get to the zoo, of course there's no koala bears, so we end up spending an hour at the monkey cage, getting dung flung at us. Tyler thinks it's funny. It's gross. The monkey with the best arm is really getting on my nerves - always waits til I'm looking right at him, then fling, here it comes. You'd think I'd just look away, but it's got these really weird eyes. Kind of freaky, but I keep looking back. FLING. That one splatters a bit.

Finally everyone's bored and after another futile search for the missing koalas we make it back to the car and head out. One bright spot - the song comes on again on the way home. I hope I don't get sick of it.

Stupid DJ's.