Called Uber for a ride to work. This time, it was just too hot to ride my bike. The heat index was nearly up to 100. The Uber driver picked me up in 8 minutes. The one going home took 12, and then he was late because he couldn't figure out where the Acme was.
The floral department was in chaos when I arrived. Apparently, the Acmes in Philadelphia totally ran out of their own arrangements and took ours...which meant we had nothing in the display case this morning but a few of those glass balls with the roses inside. (Although I did see a really cool rainbow-colored one.)
After watering plants, sweeping up, and pricing and shelving stuffed mules, I was able to help the manager make smaller arrangements. There were four of the slim vases with the rose buds stuck in rocks, four vases of three roses, and four little round "Artisan" vases with shorter roses. I also helped her with regular blue and bright green latex balloons for a sudden Door Dash rush order.
The manager had just gone home for the day and I was working on the "Artisan" (short) arrangements when a man came up and said he wanted roses. I pointed towards the bouquets, but he said they weren't quite right. He didn't know what kind of arrangement or roses he wanted. He finally grabbed two red rose bouquets and the largest vases on the shelf. The resulting arrangements were looked as rushed as they were, but he left with a smile on his face and said they were beautiful.
He may have been happy, but I now had less than 20 minutes to finish the arrangements, put them in the cooler, and clean up the mess left from making them. And then, as I was trying to gather the four huge bags of cuttings and trash, I knocked over two buckets of rose bouquets, spilling water everywhere. The head bagger and a manager helped me clean up, and I was still late getting out.
Which also meant that I rushed my grocery shopping, since at that point, I just wanted to get home. Mainly needed to restock yogurt, granola bars, and coconut milk. Had online coupons for buy two, get a dollar off Propel drinks and buy two, get five dollars off Tresemme shampoo and conditioner. Found sweet cake like "cannoli" vanilla glazed cookies on the bakery clearance racks for $1.99. Small slices of strawberry cake were already on sale for $2.50. With a $2 online coupon, it came to 50 cents.
Oh, and I got my schedule today. Such as it is. Once again, I barely work at all. I did ask for Tuesday and Thursday off due to three appointments, but certainly wasn't expecting Sunday, Monday, and Friday too. And Saturday is 7 1/2 hours! The head bagger is cashiering that day. In fact, the only reason I got work at all was Wednesday and Saturday are the days the head bagger is off or busy. I don't know what they're going to do when she retires, which will likely be in a year or two.
Changed as soon as I got home, then had a snack while watching The Price Is Right. Though not all of the pricing games were won today, at the very least the ones with the cars were. The young woman who won the second car played one of the best games of Hit Me I ever saw. She picked the right items and only needed to two get 21. The Showcases had Holly as a train conductor waiting for prizes to come through the station and Johnny as the head of a complaints department who combats the fussing from the models with prizes.
Spent the next two hours working on a project. The 400-disc DVD case I bought to house all individual films but musicals was out of order and getting too full to carry. I picked up smaller pink and yellow cases for comedies and animated movies. As it turned out, the case was too small for the animated movies I own. I forgot how many of Disney's movies were two-disc sets. It was just the right size for the comedies, though. I'll get a larger case for the animated movies later in the summer and use that case for dramas instead. All other discs were rearrange in the case
Watched The Wild Wild West as I worked. "Night of the Poisonous Posey" brings Jim West and Artemus Gordon to the small town of Justice, Nevada. They're seemingly welcomed with open arms after a scary prank, but a tarantula that turns up on Artemus' pillow makes Jim realize they aren't as popular as the locals claim. Turns out the town is a hide-out for criminal Lucrece Posey and her gang of international thugs. She wants to create a world-wide organization of crime that sounds a bit like what Big Boy had in mind in the 1990 Dick Tracy. When she captures Jim, Artemus manages to infiltrate her gang as one of the members to rescue him.
"The Night of the Bottomless Pit" is a bit darker. This time, both Jim and Artie are in disguise, Jim as a French war criminal, Artie as a disgraced member of the Foreign Legion, to free a captured agent. They have to dodge the vicious head of the prison and his amorous wife in order to not only rescue the agent, but get Jim away from being eaten by red ants after he's caught trying to escape.
Switched to Match Game '79 after the episode ended and while I ate dinner. Comedian Foster Brooks made his first appearance on the show in these episodes, joined by Lorna Patterson of Airplane! In the first episode, a young man seemed a little embarrassed by a question about what prosthetics an elderly stripper uses. Betty does better by "__ Circuit" in the second episode.
Finished the night at Tubi with If the Shoe Fits, a TV movie from 1990. Kelly Carter (Jennifer Gray) may be living in Paris, but she's not feeling especially romantic. All she wants is to become a shoe designer for Francesco Salvatore (Rob Lowe), but she's so shy and uncertain that no one notices her. She's late for her appointment with Francesco after helping a confused older woman (Andrea Ferreol) figure out where she's going and is swept under the rug yet again.
Francesco is bored and dissatisfied with his current models and holds a ball to find a woman with a standout look. Kelly's best friend Veronique (Elisabeth Vitali) snares a dress for her to attend the ball. She doesn't want to go...until she steps into the dress and her glittery shoes and becomes a whole different person. Francesco is enchanted with this sleek, confident vision and insists she model for him. Kelly, calling herself "Prudence," agrees...if she can bring Kelly as her shoe designer. As she works closely with him, Kelly finds herself falling even more with Francesco, but she can't help wondering if it's the girl he's really after, or the magical facade.
I remember seeing this around in the early 90's, but never quite getting around to watching it. Gray is lovely as plain-Jane Kelly and confident Prudence, but Lowe's not-so-charming prince of fashion is an obnoxious jerk who treats his models and everyone else around him like dirt. Considering how badly he acts, it's refreshing near the end of the movie when Prudence gives him a taste of his own medicine. The whole movie is very "TV in 1990," with colorful costumes that now look more ridiculous than fashionable and cheap sets without a dollop of Paris flavor. Worth checking out once on a quiet evening or afternoon at home if you're a fan of Gray or romantic comedies.
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