And that's why you don't go to work upset
Yeah, so as you can tell, I hit a pocket of depression or something early this morning. Weird. Went to work with that pocket of depression. Had all these little things that were bugging me, building up behind the pocket of depression, but I figured I was just being overly negative or selfish or whatnot.

I felt bad about snapping at Eric, and he snarled right back. And usually, when I'm upset about stuff, I throw myself into my work. Well, this time I did just the opposite and screwed up big time. On regulars.

All those little things that had been building up behind the pocket of depression? It all burst like a dam, and I was crying. How embarrassing. How humiliating. (Especially when Calvin thought I was just bawling over messing up an order. That was part of it, but not the big part of it.)

And yet, bawling like that (well, it was more of a "sniffle, sniffle, sniiiiiiiiiiff" *big fat hot tear drop* "sniffle, I'm f-*sniff*-fine.") was actually the best thing I did. All my servers were instantly offering to help me out any way they could, even the ones that I thought I was annoying to.

Then one of the servers showed up with a yellow Care Bear thingy, the one with the smiling sun on it's stomach. "Here," she said. I asked what was up.

"Weeeeeeeell," Calvin said, all the servers clustering around him, "you're our little ray of sunshine and happiness and it really sucks to see you upset like that over one little ToGo order."
"But it wasn't--"
Calvin winked. "Yeah, I know. All the moving out and the new job and the mom and all that, I know. But anyways, we care about you because you care about us."
I just about bawled again. -_-; ^^;;

On the subject of gals and guys
Later on during the shift, Eric and Austin were talking about the annoying qualities that females have.
"They're manipulative, they lie, they screw with your head, and they do it on purpose!" Austin griped (he had just broke up with his girlfriend).
I listened with amusement to the two of them complain, then asked if I could put my two cents in about guys. They agreed.
"Let's see, you're immature, naive, and --"
"Honest! We're honest, at least!" Austin interjected.
"Yeah, but not always tactfully," I insisted.
Austin nodded. "I'll give ya that."

So, yeah, the day's gotten a LOT better. ^_^