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Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. My knuckles. Ow. Skin is cracked and it’s so sore I have been applying (another) skin cream hoping to help sooth it. Anywayyyzzz…
Work was busy, well it wasn’t so bad up until lunch and then everything went crazy. 10 minutes into lunch the piper goes off and the senior answers it and rushes out the room. A few minutes later one of my colleagues pipers goes off, it was the senior, my colleague threw her tray down on one of the tables and fast walked out of the dining room, leaving me and one other colleague to serve a three course lunch to 60 tenants, including the flat lunches. Oh joy. It was manic and we were run off our feet. At least one staff member has to remain in the dining room when tenants are eating lunch incase anything happens (like, someone choking on a chicken bone or something…) so that left my colleague to do the flat lunches by herself which put added pressure on us.
It didn’t help that one of the tenants was in one of her moany moods, and moaned about the first course, the second course, the third course, oh, and the cup of tea, saying it was too weak when it WASN’T TOO WEAK. She put too much milk in the cup which resulted in the cup of tea looking like cats piss, it wasn’t my fault. Gawd she was just moany, gets days like that. Why do people put milk in their cups first? I just don’t understand it. How can you judge just how much milk you want in your tea? Surely you’d put the tea in first and then pour the milk in until it changes to a decent colour??
Anyway thankfully my boss came in the dining area just before we finished serving lunch so she helped with the teas and cleaning up etc. The two other girls hadn’t returned which meant something really wrong somewhere.
I found out one of the tenants fell in her flat, banged her head against the solid floor, hurt her back and neck and couldn’t move. Ambulance was called and it was put as a priority call but an hour later and the ambulance still wasn’t there. Cleaners and (some) home carers stick their nose in and were shouting at my boss and senior telling them what they should do trying to be helpful but the situation was under control, all they were doing was making the tenant more stressed out. Senior called the ambulance service back and I went down there to sit with the tenant on the floor, holding her hand and trying to comfort her, and the ambulance got there after another hour.
The crew decided to put our tenant on a spinal board so I supported the head as the crew did the log roll. The tenant was in a very uncomfortable position to be in the spinal board and collar are not the most comfortable of equiptment to be strapped down to and the ambulance crew said considering by the ‘traffic’ in the local A&E that morning the tenant was going to be on a trolley in the corridor for at least an hour, possibly two.
I had to leave work early today for my cars winter checkup, but I was fuming when I saw some inconsiderate fool parked their car RIGHT outside the car park gates blocking me in. For goodness sake… Why didn’t they just OPEN THE GATES and DRIVE into one of the many car parking spaces available?? Instead of blocking the flipping gates surely they saw my car inside them gates? Did it cross their mind how on earth the owner of that car was meant to get out? Anyway I went back inside the building and waited, there was nothing I could do, thankfully I didn’t need to wait too long and when I saw them reversing I politely asked them not to park there again.
I couldn’t find the garage, I went into a volkswagen dealership showroom place cheekily asking them where Vauxhall is. Hehe. After giving my car to the garage I went into the local shops looking for a dress, it would be a change to wear a dress at a few functions this month, but nothing suits me. I hate my body.
Anyway got the car back and there’s something wrong with the boot or something… *shrugs* Apartly the ‘boot’ is ‘adrift’ and I need a new ‘boot kit’ which is going to cost me £95, apparently… can anyone tell me what exactly this means? Is it really important? I did ask, but there was a lot of noise in the shop, 5 guys hanging around behind the counter I felt anxious and.. out of place.. I just wanted to get out of there, plus I don’t know much about cars at all and it goes in one ear out the next… >_>