Balance and the Hard Rule

Started out a glorious, sunny, 35-degree day with this week's yoga class. (After last week and the storm everyone else in the US got yesterday, I was just happy to be able to get anywhere at all!) Everyone must be feeling the effects of cabin fever. A very full class worked on hip and knee openers and finding what could make us happy...and how to get there. I'm still working on some of the more difficult balance moves.

Next stop was the Collingswood Library. They were quite busy today. I put away and organized DVDs and shelved a couple of non-fiction books upstairs. I didn't get out as quickly as I wanted to - I left my earmuffs at Yogawood and had to retrieve them. Good thing they left the door open for people who wanted to use the shop upstairs.

Spent the rest of the afternoon at home. I baked low-fat ginger cookies from a Prevention Magazine recipe (made with Smart Balance spread and an egg white) and watched the last two McBride mysteries. Mac finds himself up to his ears in the love life of a dog trainer accused of killing her ex-lover in Dogged. She claims someone sent her a text message, but there's no record of it. Could it have been her lover's wife, who is bitter after an accident cost her the use of her legs?

Requiem moves to the world of the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. A talented young first violinist is found dead on the day of a big concert. Her fiancee is accused of the crime...but could someone at the orchestra have a bigger reason for wanting her out of the way?

I thoroughly enjoyed the McBride mysteries, enough that I may try looking up other old-fashioned detective shows like Murder She Wrote and the later Perry Mason.

Wish work was as much fun. A new rule is wrecking havoc with our lines and our customers. When a customer forgets their card, we usually just ring up a store card or type it in so we can get the line going fast. This happens a lot. Some of our customers are just coming from work and don't have it on them. Others just forget. And we're on a highway, too. We get a lot of people from elsewhere who are just passing through.

Apparently, sometime between Monday night and this afternoon, they changed that rule. Everyone has to have a card...even if they have one already. We can no longer ask for or type in a store card. If they don't have a card, they have to be given one, even if they already have one. If they don't want the card, they don't get the sales.

This is silly, absurd, and impractical. We had to call for the managers every time someone wanted a card. We can't keep the applications at the registers anymore. Even people who just forgot their card had to apply for another one! I understand that they want everyone to have a card, but forcing people to have one isn't the way to do that. One guy got so upset, he actually cursed at the manager! I don't like this, either, but the language was unnecessary. You can tell executives sitting behind desk don't do their own grocery shopping.