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Odd Things To Happen At Work #1

So, I work in a bar.  It's pretty busy most of the time, but today was pretty quiet, so I had time to talk to some of the customers.  There was only one guy at the bar at one point, so we were talking while I did his drinks, and he seemed ok, then he tried to get out of paying.  This isn't exactly unusual, but the way he did it made me very confused.

He proposed marriage - twice.

When I turned him down (with a heavy dose of WTF), he upped the ante and told me we could have lots and lots of children.  I made him pay the money and then walked away, but the award for creepiest and most inventive way to attempt non-payment goes to him.

Odd Things To Happen At Work #2

This is more sweet than odd, but it's work related so it goes in here.

One of the regulars came up to me as I was finishing my shift, pressed a parcel into my hand and said to open it when I got home and not tell anyone.  I was a little dubious, but he's a sweet old guy, so I took it, and then when I opened it just, he's given me a box of Ferrero Rocher.

I think I owe him a drink next time he comes in.

Odd Things To Happen At Work #3

So, the England game was on at work this evening, and we were winning by some amount (I do not care about football.  At all.), and the guy I was serving got very excited.  So much so, that he asked if I would marry him if we won 5-0.

This is not the same guy who proposed to me yesterday.

WHY DO STRANGERS KEEP ASKING ME TO MARRY THEM???

Odd Things To Happen At Work #4

At work on Saturday night, a guy came up to the bar, and I had to do a double take.  He looked a lot like Jeremy Renner.  And he was standing on front of my till.

I was so ok with that.

Odd Things To Happen At Work #5

It's my birthday, but I was scheduled to work tonight, so I wore a big badge on my shirt that said 'Birthday Girl', because if I have to work on my birthday, I'm going to milk it for all it's worth.

A woman saw my badge, and yelled at my manager for making me work on my birthday.  I was simulataneously very amused by his expression - and repetitve 'she didn't tell me!' that the woman didn't listen to - and concerned that he would be genuinely annoyed.  Luckily for me, he took revenge by stealing drinks I had made for his own customers, making me do them all twice.  I can deal with that.

As I was leaving, he told me to tell him next time it's my birthday.  I get the feeling that I'll never need to book it off again; he's going to give it me off whether I want him to or not.

I'm ok with that.

Odd Things To Happen At Work #6

So, working last night, and I got proposed to.  By a random stranger.  Again.

Just.  Why.

Odd Things To Happen At Work # 7

Ok, so I get that I look foreign.  After several people - including my colleages for some time - refusing to believe that I am, in fact, English, I understand that I look Mediterranean.  Spanish, most people seem to think.  That doesn't explain why last weekend a guy - who had already asked me once if I was Spanish and been told no - insisted on attempting to order from me in Spanish.  I don't speak any Spanish beyond 'si' and 'ocho', but I don't need to know more to know that whatever he was saying, it wasn't Spanish.  Gibberish maybe.  Certainly not any language spoken by any other person on the planet.

He did this twice before resorting to pointing at what he wanted.

The thing that really confused me though, was that he was English.  Why didn't he just talk to me like a normal person?

Odd Things To Happen At Work #8

So, I may have accidentally kinda formed a book-swap club at work.  Involving staff and regular customers.  I'd feel bad if it wasn't so awesome.

Odd Things To Happen At Work #9

My shifts for tomorrow got changed last minute at work tonight - instead of working the late shift, I'm in 7 hours in the day instead.  I start at midday.

It's a sad state of affairs that I now count 12pm as an early start to my day.

Odd Things To Happen At Work #10

It was quiet this morning, and i was washing up in the kitchen, getting ready for the lunchtime rush.  In this situation, you'd think the chefs would be cleaning, or getting ready in some way.  Not our chefs.  They decided this downtime was best spent hard-boiling an egg, half-shelling it, cutting it open and then giving it eyes made of lime pips and a bacon tongue.

The most disturbing part was when they squirted tomato ketchup into the middle, then crushed it.

I will never get that image out of my head.  Never.