Haha, it was hella fun! It was basically me and Christina the whole day, except from 1-3:30 pm, when Linda came. We kept ourselves entertained with these awesome snow globe/bouncy balls though. =P So for the first few hours, we were pretty busy wrapping presents and stuff, but we'd get these rush periods, then these lazy periods (we were reading magazines/books when we got a lazy period). Our parents both brought us McDonalds for lunch, which was rather funny. But I had to go promote every once in a while (we got sick of sitting around with nothing to do), so I'd go down the line for checkouts (it was HELLA long), and just keep saying, "There's free gift wrap in the cafe when you're done making your purchases." One time, this lady was like, "It'd be better if they just opened another cash register." It was sort of funny. Lots of people donated money and gave tips! There was this one guy that was like, "How much does this cost?" And we told him it was free, so he looked at us with this smile on his face and said, "No, of course it's not free!" And gave us $10. It was really nice. What was funny though, is that we'd say that $20 buys a backpack for a kids (full of school supplies and survival necessities), and lots of people would look for $20 to donate. =) Everyone's so nice around here...
Then this woman, DeeDee, was advertising her memoir, "Heart Knots," which was about her struggle to overcome a tumor which as wrapped around her heart. She was really, really nice, and Christina and I wanted to read her book, but she said that we were too young and shouldn't be exposed to that sort of thing. I'm going to read her book someday. Hey guys, if you have nothing better to do, go pick up a copy of "Heart Knots," okay?
But basically, Christina found this dude named Peter (she got his name when the dude at Seattle's Best Coffee called out his order), and just saw that he kept going in and out of Border's, so it was sort of weird. Then when Linda came, Christina and I went to Whole Foods for food samples just because, and we saw Peter standing by the microwave heating up his food, so we started talking to him, and we all went back to Border's and he just sat by us and we started talking, and Linda was all like, "WTF? Where'd he come from?" And yeah, so Peter moved after a while, and Christina went to his table and kept talking to him, and Linda and I were sitting at the table (no one wanted anything wrapped), and we were both staring at him intently with this stalker-ish, creepy look on our faces. It was hilarious. XD
Then Linda had to leave, and Peter came back to join us, at which time he had Chinese food from Rice Garden. =P Then we started talking about cute guys, which was pretty random, and then we got to exchanging phone numbers because he'd never been to the Art and Wind Festival before, and Christina and I were like, "OMG, you have to go! We'll call you when it's going on." Then he gave us his number, so we gave him ours just for "insurance." XD It was pretty funny.
Then when he left, he left the post-its with our numbers on them, so Christina was like, "What a jerk..." and we both ran after him, but he'd gotten in his car and drove away. So then she called his number and was like, "You left the post-its here..." and told him that he had to come back on Monday. XD Which, by the way, is when we're both volunteering again.
Then afterward, Christina and I got dinner and stuff, and started looking at calendars with Rabbit Suicides, and playing I SPY. At one point, this guy came over and started playing I SPY with us. It was kind of funny. XD Then we both got these cream smoothie things from the cafe (I got a strawberry one, Christina got an orange mango one), and just kept playing I SPY.
The last customer we had forgot to take out his receipt, so I had to take apart one of his wrapped presents and take out the receipt for him, but I took it apart rather nicely, so I was joking like, "We should all marvel at my pro-ness." Then he was like, "Yeah, I'll go home, and still be marveling at your pro-ness." So we got to saying how he'd tell the present receiver about how good I am at taking apart presents, then she'll pass it on to her children, and who knows, maybe there will be a movie about it someday! You know, "Based on a True Story of a Border's Gift-Wrapping Girl." =D Then we cleaned up around 9:50 pm, and went home. XD But it was a hella fun day!
By the way, people, I have two official awesome jobs to put on my college application (tutoring doesn't count, it's not awesome enough =P):
1) Professional Gingerbread Cookie Decorator
2) Professional Border's Gift-Wrapper
But anyways, you people that don't go to Border's gift wrap don't know what you're missing out on! The customers there are hella funny and awesome to talk to!!! (Like Peter. Roflmao. XD)
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