Hurry up and wait

Here we are standing beside this pallet wrapped with black shrink wrap. we have already been here for two hours with our hands on the contents. We only have three more hours to go! So we just hurry up and wait.

Three hours has now past and the excitement really begins. I feel sorry for the associate that has to cut the plastic away, he has no chance of surviving. Surviving the chaos , showing pushing clawing just to grab the pallets precious cargo. The whole store is in such a feverish frenzy that the remaining associates just run and take cover.

After you have claw and fought your way for the item that are the most precious to you, start heading for the checkout-there are more territories to claim. The only thing is that traffic is worse than morning rush on 65. It takes you 15 minutes to walk about 15 feet. Once again-hurry up and wait.

time to start getting crafty. Looking left and right you notice an opening. If you could only get there in time you know which shortcut to take next. You have take this building and its layout for the past 2 weeks. made all the required escape routes so you just have to reach the opening.

Made it now the rest will be a breeze. All you have to do is...DAMN! Why is that when all you want to do is check out they dont have 24 of the 23 registers open. (not a typo, this would be what you call sarcasm). look for the shortest line and hold your ground. Hurry up and wait.

you gripe and moan the whole 3 minutes it takes to get from the end of the line, by the clothes, to the front.(once again sarcasm.) when you are out of this store you just move on to others and rinse and repeat. all the while telling yourself that you will not do this again next year.

It is all a lie. I will see you again next year doing exactly this; hurry up and wait.