As I have mentioned before, I have a job on the weekend at one of the area amusement parks. I work as a food vendor at an outdoor cart. I work at different carts everyday, so one day I can be working on an ice cream cart. And the next day I can be working at a beverage cart.
Not only am I responsible for providing the park guests a service, but I am also responsible for the money and the inventory. So at the end of the shift, I have to do a count of my inventory. As for the cash, we have a machine that counts the money from the sales for the day.
Every time I am counting inventory, a park guest comes up in the middle of my count and interrupts with a question.
"Twelve, thirteen,...'Excuse me, how do you get to...'"fourteen, fifteen....'Excuse me, how do you get to......'"
And if you lose track of your counting, you have to start all over again.
Why is it that whenever you are counting something like money, someone interrupts your train of thought?
"Six, seven..."Excuse me, have you seen where the....'"
And then they apologize for messing up your count. Why bother, you shouldn't have interrupted me in the first place. I see someone in the middle of something, such as counting money, my question can wait. But instead, I have to get someone interrupting me in the middle of my work to answer a question that could have waited.
If it was an emergency, I would drop everything to help that person. Especially if that person needed medical assistance. But interrupting my work for something that is a non emergency, I just don't understand. I guess some people expect you to drop whatever you're doing and serve them.
One of these days, I feel like telling them to take their silly ass question to the other side of the park.