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What a great group I work with. Sometimes I wish I could film what's going on. I won't go into detail, but sometimes its better than a sitcom. This week, I have been paid to walk around the department, dust, look at gorgeous crystal and china, play with children of customers, browse Macy's online for customers, talk to total strangers about their family and tell stories about mine to friends.

Yesterday, my co-worker and I got a kick out of the daughter of a customer. She was adorable in her new skirt and flipflops. While her parents and older brothers were paying for their merchandise, she picked up a Godiva chocolate bar. She held it to her nose and smelled it (of course chocolate smells SOO good), closed her eyes and smiled. Her parents paid for their merchandise, but the little girl didn't put down the chocolate bar and nobody realized she even had it until they finished and walked away. As they got further away, one of her brothers looked down at her and stopped her Dad, who proceeded to take money out of his wallet to pay for the candy. The brother brought what he thought was enough money to pay, but he didn't have enough, so he went back and told the father how much it was. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough, so he had to return the candy. I wish now I had just paid for it myself. ( I know--she really didn't need candy.) Unfortunately, money is tight right now--even $3.15 is too much for a candy bar!

I hope to get a couple of credit apps today--it would at least give me a little extra. Also, it would improve our department standing creditwise. We are dead last in the store. The trouble is, we really haven't had all that many customers upstairs this week. I made my sales goal one day, but part of the sale for that day were returned, so I am probably not going to make it this week. We just don't have a good sale going on this week, so not many people are shopping. Like every place else, we can definitely see a decline due to the economy in this country.

I'm going to stop for now. This is great. Like keeping a diary in the "old days"