Halloween Haunt

On late Hallows eve, or Devil's night many call it, where all the mischief goes down. Aka. the tee peeing of houses, eggs connecting with front doors, and the traditional pumpkin smashing. I found myself attending the Halloween Haunt at Canada's Wonderland. There were a number of ghouls running around at the front entrance, and also a number of mazes "haunted houses" too walk through if looking for a good jump.

My brother had gone last year and the week prior to last night, he said last year was a lot better. Maybe it was because last year was his first time, or the haunted houses were just better executed. Last night, while walking through the mazes I couldn't help but things could of been done better in order to grab more screams. I think I went in with too many high expectations and not to mention I'm not easily frightened when I know people are there to scare me.
Walking through the mazes with a large group kind of killed the affect of scare factor when five people ahead of you the ghouls would jump out and you could clearly see where they were.

I give props to the cornfield maze, and the one that resembled a mine (if anyones scared of small places I recommend skipping that one)

This guy here is a pick I found on The Abattoir, a blog for Rue Morgue's Magazine, it's a pick of one of the ghouls from the cornmaze.

If anyone's easily scared and enjoys the feeling of being frightened I recommended heading on down to Canada's Wonderland during the weekends of October.

A preview of what's to come with the Blog change... Thoughts on Twitter

It all started with Tom who had no friends. SO he decided to make an online social network called MySpace so when people created a profile he’d be auto-friended.
Now we got Facebook, (something that is pretty much old news now) and Twitter (the new easy step to stalking and creeping). Way to ruin society Tom. How do you feel, bet you have no friends now, all left you to tweet and tell the world exactly what they’re doing every minute of their life.
Lets look on the bright side, at least stalking is a lot easier, heck, you don't even have to leave your house.
On the stalker note, I read the other day that Miley Cyrus, aka. Hannah Montana cancelled her twitter page. She had over a million followers (oh god, like seriously?) She cancelled her page despite the amount of followers she had, which was over 2 million, (come on people, get a life already. You;d think fans would have something better to do then follow a 15 year old and read exactly what she’s doing all day... No wait, they all pretty much do that anyways, They’re the people on Perez Hilton reading up on the celebrity gossip because their lives are more interesting then their own). Fans got so upset they started tweeting about it, begging for the 15 year old to come back and tell them about her fantastic life, so at every point in the day they can feel just that much closer to her. (Bunch of stalkers...)
Just now I was linked a rap video Miley Cyrus made that announced the reasons why she leaved Twitter, and watched it. It was very amusing, and almost sad due to the fact that she completely contradicted herself several times stating she wanted her private life separate and that she wasn’t living for the tabloids anymore. When in reality she is, and the video is going to be in the news (way t o suck...) I recommend you watch it if you're in need of a good laugh. (Sorry if you're a fan)

Blog Topic Change

Hello loyal readers, aka my bestie Jess Shrum, who I know for a fact goes on this blog religiously as she tells me... And to my 7 followers, and others who every so often decide to check out this blog, I plan on changing URL names and the initial theme/ topic this blog was officially started with. I.E. Customer relations with said employee’s i.e. me. I’ve decided to expand this very focused topic into something more grand and give this blog a broader scope, as I hope to flash it up a bit with pics and links to things I noticed and found interesting that day. A space to vent pretty much, and a space to chat. The URL will be changing to www.ventspace.blogspot.com, and the title will most likely be “Let’s chat” because lest face it, a blog is pretty much a space for social networking and a place to ... chat.
This way, I’ll be able to link the funny video’s I came across recently, link the sites I go to frequently and share my thoughts on certain things like, how much I despise Twitter, and how much I’d just love to shove over the displays of Twilight paraphernalia, every time I walk into a chapters or HMV...
Until then, happy reading =)
Here’s a sweet cite I just remembered about today while on the bus, it has a lot of funny video’s that have to do with this main character, a squirrel named Foamy. He continuously rants about things that annoy him in every day situations. I give props to the Creator ILL WILL PRESS, you make me laugh. Here's the link.

Jack In The Box

I still have been unlucky in terms of finding that video in relation to the PS3, BUT I did remember a little short video that made me laugh when I first watched it. It has to do a little bit with customers, if anything its a funny video that will make you laugh.

I kinda wish I as an employee had the authority to say something like this to customer's when they just aren't listening to you. Ofcourse I have been on the other end of a drive through, and it is hard for us to hear what the person is saying on the other end, although they can hear the customer clearly.

Here's the link.

Playstation 3

I’ve been trying to find this video I had seen last year where the PS3 had come out and they had police holding customers back way before the stores doors opened, and once the doors did open you could see a pack of wild eyed men ages 13-35 just bolt for the doors, it was almost frightening and yet humorous at the same time. I mean I know it’s an awesome gaming system that’s like “state of the art”, but I mean to lose your humanity over a box of plastic is just insane. That just goes to show how insane we as human beings can be when it comes to something we really want no matter how stupid the thing is. I mean do you really need it the day it comes out??
Actually I’m being somewhat of a hyprocite here, I myself go out and buy things the day it comes out...
Nevermind, I get where you all are coming from, but I mean, no pushing please.
I’ll keep looking for that video.

Urban Dictionary, Customers

I don’t know if a lot of you are familiar with the site urban dictionary, sometimes when I’m bored I look up words and find the nonsense people have written about such and such word. Most of the time the definitions are quite humorous. I decided to look up ‘customer’, and to my astonishment there were some pretty crude definitions, some that were in my opinion pretty funny.
Here are some that I found amusing,
The number one definition, by Stanzfield on Dec 18, 2005.
“An incredibly stupid person. These people are often found in department and grocery stores and show no signs of common sense. Many times they can be rude, cruel, and obnoxious.
This store has too many horrible customers ruining our job.”

The number two definition by Anonymous on July 22, 2004.

“Barely sentient, shambling creature. Close relative of the Zombie. Generally seen in vicinity of hassled shop staff, shaving points of their IQ with inane banter.
"Excuse me, where are your Dan Brown books?"

And definition number 6 by Adrian, on December 7, 2007.

“Some of the time, they can be very nice. Most of the time, unfortunately, they are pieces of shit that want you to bend the rules just for them. If they complain to your boss, don't bother telling your side of the story because you just can't win.
Customers make my work life horrible.”

I personally thought the second definition made a lot of sense, I myself refer to customers as walking zombies. I mean half of the time they have no reason to be in the mall, they’re just blindly walking and handing over there money...

Old Ladies No.3- An Interview

This is a little convo my sister, Micheline, and I had when I asked her about her experiences with customers.
Some background, my sister works in a kitchen section of a grocery store and makes chickens, and marks the prices.

Micheline says: its probably not even correct anymore,like she asked what was the 8.99 chicken so i pointed and showed her the 8.99 chicken. So she picked it up because it was what she wanted right?

J says: lol yeh

Micheline says: then a few minutes later customer service confronts me saying this lady is saying that I told her the wrong price of the chicken...
I was like what? “No I told her which one was the price she wanted 8.99”
So the girl went back, then a bit after that the lady comes back to me where I was, at the chicken heater
she says in this nasty little voice “I’m never coming to this store ever again because of you,
your a terrible person making me pay too much for my chicken I hope you burn in hell,” and she gives me these wild eyes and slowly leaves the store.
I dunno I can’t trust old ladys now.

J says: lol

Micheline says: I think they all want me to go to hell for some reason

J says: thats so &%$@#& funny

Micheline says: That came out of a sweet looking old lady
god ><
So whenever an older women comes in the store I try to look super busy so whos working with me deals with them.