Well, today the snack bar officially opened at Hidden Hollow Swim Club. I now have responsibility over the pool snack bars at Hollow, and also at Knowlton Swim Club. I schedule 22 people to cover the shifts on both the snack bars all summer.
Day 1: I finished all of the shopping this morning by 9:30, picked up Drew, and made it to work around 10. Walked into the snack bar and discovered that the red juice from the slushie machine had leaked out of the container and was all over the table, the towels, the floor, and two paper towel rolls. Started to clean that up and decided we needed to get the cheese melting pot from the market plugged in because we opened in less than an hour. So Drew and I drove over to the market. We rounded up all of the items we needed from the snack bar near the market and drove it back to Hidden Hollow.
Except for register tape. Jess and Brittany were already in and had turned on the fryers, the grill, the pizza oven, etc. The pool was scheduled to open at 11:00, which it did. However, not grabbing the register tape was costly, because by the time we got situated and I got register tape, it was already 11:40. Not good, but not tragic. We got up and running...and then one of the breakers popped. Drew reset it, all was good; and then it popped again. I started moving plugs around, and didn't realize that even though I moved them, they were still on the same breaker, so it popped again. Freezer, heat lamp #2, the hot dogger, the cheese pot, the hot plate -- all out. I finally called Steve in to help. He showed up, we moved some plugs around (extension cord!) and all was fine...and then heat lamp #1 went out. We reset the CGI, it went out again. And again. After the third time, Drew went to find Steve. Turns out the heat lamp is bad. I asked for permission to throw it out, and Steve said yes! Hooray! Then I asked if I could buy a new one and he said yes again! (But he did ask that I clear it through Susie first.)
So now my electric is all going well, Drew, Brittany Mc., Jess, and I are running around handling all the customers, and we got SLAMMED. I kept thinking I had scheduled an extra person to come in at 12, but my fifth person was actually Kate, who I didn't realize until yesterday couldn't come in until 3:00. By the time she arrived at 3:15, we were on our 4th rush of the afternoon.
We ran out of change at one point, and Fred offered to go to the office to get it for me. But first he stopped in the pool office and grabbed some change from his drawer, plus he had change in his pocket, so he changed one of the twenties, and then he brought us change from the market office, so he needed a twenty from our drawer to cover what he took from his pocket...long and short, I have no idea how the drawer is going to come out!
We finally slowed down at about 3:45. Brittany clocked out and went home to grab a towel and her Kings of Leon CD. She came back a little while later. Jess asked if she could leave at 5:00, which wasn't a problem. Brittany mentioned that she didn't think we needed 4 people to close, so I told her she could clock out at 5:30; she wanted to go swimming. We never turned off the grills until 6:30. We were behind in cleaning up, so even though Drew, Kate, and I worked non-stop from one thing to the next, it was still 7:15 or so by the time we finished. We were the last ones out of the facility! When I looked at the receipts from the day, I realized why were all so tired! Kate left, and then Drew decided to take quick swim, so I figured, what the heck, why not. So he did.
About that time my cell phone rang. It was Michael, and when I told him that I was waiting for Drew because he was swimming, the response was, "well, if you want to swim you should do it there." Huh? It turns out that Jake and his friend Zack, who had stayed overnight Friday night, were swimming in our pool. And it collapsed. Jake ended up under a bush by the shed, and Zack hit the shed door. The water rushed toward the house and ended up flooding the laundry room, and then spread into the family room in the basement. By the time I got home, the kids and Michael had already emptied the entire laundry room out onto a tarp on the lawn to start drying.
So Day 1 is done; snack bar is ready to go in the morning, staffing is set (plus one, because Drew is coming in to help, also), there isn't a thing I can do about our pool, but I need to start going through all the stuff on the back lawn asap. Jake is sleeping overnight at Sonny's, Clara is at Yosmar's practicing for the Black & White concert, Michael is switching back and forth between watching the Pittsburgh Penguins finish off the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Division (gggrrrrr, hisssss, booooo) and Lake Placid, (one of the funniest "horror" movies ever made!), and I'm ready to fall asleep. But I'm pretty sure I'll stay awake long enough for a glass of amaretto and some snuggling with my puppy dog! Can't wait to see what tomorrow will bring!
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