Ever have one of those days?

It's been one of those days...

I thought I'd fill the pop machine at work today... so I loaded up my cart and headed to the 2nd floor prior to everyone's arrival at 8. As I filled the rootbeer "column," cans rolled out onto the floor due to a misplaced can in the first slot. I unloaded them all and started over... this time one slipped and I heard the dreaded "pssssssst!" as it cracked open a tiny bit. Rootbeer spray! I had to unload the column again to find the culprit. And then unload them completely to wipe up the mess.

As I was working on this fiasco, a co-worker came in to start coffee. She got the pot brewing and chatted with me while helping me with the mess I had created. We turned around to see the coffee pot overflowing EVERYWHERE. We had to empty the cabinet, sop up a "bucket o'coffee" with a roll and a half of paper towel. Clean off all the little froo-froos that go with coffee, wipe everything down... get all the drips off the cabinet and floor mat...

As I locked up the pop machine, I found TWO cans of soda on the floor. I had to open up the beast again and placed them in their appropriate places, and off to work I went.

But not so fast.

I barely sat down at my desk when the phone rang. A panicked voice saying, "We have a major leak coming out of the ceiling on 2nd floor." I grabbed a trash can and my keys and headed upstairs. As I left my office, I could hear the phone ringing off the hook. (Sigh)

Yup! MAJOR leak! It was Niagara Falls in the hallway! The ladies on 2nd floor had assembled 12-14 trash cans to catch the water. They were emptying them out as fast as they could. I took off looking around for the main water shut off for the building! You'd think being the building manager, I'd know exactly where that was. I figured it out, but not before ceiling tiles soaked and everyone got into a frenzy! (I know now and had the plumber give me a lesson on which levers were which - I'm prepared for the next disaster)

Water shut off in the building means NO RESTROOMS. Of course today was a meeting with all the top dogs... um, Heads of the Church here. Being bathroomless on such a day was not a good thing. They ended up packing up all their files and folders and moved their meeting to a church about 12 miles away. A church with working restrooms.

Staff left behind was beside themselves with "WHAT TO DO" if we need a restroom! Our office is across the street from a video store, which is next to a Burger King, which is a block from a McDonalds. Do we need to call a meeting to figure this out?

One person actually came to ask me how long the building would stay open without restrooms. My response... "SERIOUSLY?" She nodded.. me: "Seriously?"

All of this happened before 9 a.m. this morning.

HVAC guy was here (not his problem) and the plumber finally showed up around 11. A cast iron drain pipe had ruptured and is fixed. I think...

My phone just rang (2:54 p.m.): "Katie, there's water on the floor in the 3rd floor ladies room."

..................let me go home, please!

Email Subject Lines

I get email from a custodian-service type company... titles of their email always amuse me. Guess I'll start collecting some to share here. As I was logging on to write about my AMUSING day, I saw this one:


"Custodian assaulted with toilet paper."



The stories are never as interesting as the titles... I like to let my imagination run with something like this. :)

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Ok, I had to check it out... here is the story:


FRAMINGHAM —

A Framingham man threw a roll of toilet paper at a town custodian Wednesday because he thought he was inappropriately whistling in a restroom at the Memorial Building, police said.

Allen Kerner, 55, will be summoned to Framingham District Court for hitting the janitor in the head with the roll, police spokesman Lt. Ron Brandolini said.

Officers were standing outside, near the Memorial Building's parking lot, when they heard Kerner screaming and saw him being followed by the custodian.

"(Kerner) said he was angry about being whistled at," Brandolini said.

The custodian said he went into the men's room at the Memorial Building to change the toilet paper rolls and was whistling as he worked, unaware someone was in the bathroom.

As he was working in one of the stalls, he was pelted in the back of the head by a roll of toilet paper, the lieutenant said.

"He turned around, and (Kerner) began yelling at him about whistling and then he fled the bathroom," Brandolini said.

Kerner, of 3 Merchant Road, will be summoned to appear in court on a count of assault and battery. It is not known when he will appear in court.

The Other Side of the Rainbow

Girls night out! I went to see WICKED last week with my BFF, Jane (aka Ladybug the Clown)... We nearly had to fly in on our broomsticks as the President (THE President as in Obama) was in town. Traffic in downtown Madison was a nightmare.

WICKED was incredible! I am in awe of the performers, the stage hands, make up artists, lighting guys, costume makers, lyricist, musicians, producers, directors, author and EVERYTHING to do with this production.

I'm 59 years old and have seen The Wizard of Oz probably 40 times in my life. I will NEVER watch it without thinking of this story. WICKED explains the "behind the scenes" story of Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch... everything makes perfect sense to me now... but I think I need to watch The Wizard of Oz another 40 times to put all the pieces together for me...

Sticker Shock

Tricky apple grower/grocer guys! I was so excited to try a new "breed" of apples - Sweet Tango. Headed to the sink to wash it up and chomp into it, I peeled off the bar code sticker. Funny how it just happened to be covering a worm hole!

Funny.

or not so!