Erik Gray's Journals
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Written by Erik January 2017
Lowe's Summer job 2016
Funny story… so during “down time” when it was slow up
front, our bosses wanted us to blow up red, white, and blue balloons to put on
a pipe to decorate for the upcoming holiday.
This specific time I think it was
us getting ready for the 4th of July.
We were blowing up balloons
and had an extra one or two.
I had my utility knife with me and was talking with
Annalyn, and I said something to the sort of, “Ya know, sometimes I just get in
a stabby-stabby mood with balloons. And this extra one, I’m gonna pop it.” So I
stuck the utility knife into the very large balloon, and it popped. But it
popped SO LOUD- I have never heard a balloon pop that loud in my entire life.
It echoed throughout the ENTIRE store and kind of sounded like a gunshot. The
entire front end of the store, including the 5 or so employees that were all up
there, turned and looked at me with a what
the heck expression on their face.
IT WAS SO FUNNY! Haha.
My favorite
person, her name is Annalyn. She is such a sweetheart! She and I talked a lot.
She was going through a divorce around the time and it was good to hear her
vent and she is such a sweetheart. One of the kindest people I have ever met.
I
think working at Lowe’s really helped show me that you can be friends with
anyone- no matter how old and no matter what circumstance in life we are in.
People are people and friends can be made anywhere. J
I also was very impressed… Lowe’s is really good to their employees. They treat
them well there.
