When It Doesn’t Make Sense

It really doesn’t make sense at all.. !! and with alot of sadness i am writing this. The tri-county regional school board is slashing jobs. 24 teaching positions and 18 jobs at the board’s office. They are doing this they said to maintain a balanced budget. But the teaching positions are so important.. and they shouldn’t be cut at all. We already know that we are not getting enough teachers.. so why this..?? why can’t we save on “other” things.. and not this..?? Does the 24 teaching positions cost 3 million..?? How is this gonna affect our children..? your children..??

Why Do Ppl Shop When They Are Sick..??

Please tell me why do ppl shop and thinks that they are not passing their germs to you .. just by talking to you ..?? We have some customers.. who are like that Hacking away.. and had the courtesy to tell PB that she wasn’t gonna cough at him.. and pass the germs to him.. and carried on talking for the next 5 mins.. at the counter..!! *slap forehead* ..!! IT’S THE WATER IN THIS TOWN..!!

More Transparency Or Just Covering Up?

I read on the local papers today.. about how everyone wanted a say in where the new building of The Yarc should be. I know there must be more important issues to talk about .. than The Yarc.. ! how come no one is questioning the enormous amount of money spent on the court house. and the new municipality building..?? How come there is no transparency there..?? Where is the money coming and going..?? Pushing the focus to The Yarc to me seems more like a cover up and i certainly give up.

Business Taxes

The Town Councillors set the tax rate for the town… a few days ago. And they justify the increase for commercial rate because it is to offset the declining business occupancy tax which the province is phasing out. But when would it be out..?? They never tell us about it.. yet they want the increase already.  JOY..!

Bizarre Customers

We opened the store late as usual. We blamed it on the kid.. but actually we are quite the slacker too. Anyhow, when our car turned into the carpark.. we saw some customers already waiting outside the store.. so the man quickly parked and rushed into the store. Opened the store.. and I even went to the extend to apologize to the customers who came in after.. and guess what he wanted. He wants to know if he can use our WASHROOM..!!!!!

I cannot believed it..!! there were other stores that were opened on Main Street, there were 4 eateries that are sure to have a washroom .. but he waited for our store .. to be opened..to take a DUMP..!! *roll my eyes*. Well .. i’m sure you know my answer to that question.

Brilliant Customer

Sometimes I really gotta wonder if it is really the town water or what.. that makes ppl stupid in this town. Customer came in as soon as we opened, asked if there was anyway he could trade in his NHL 2003 for another game. “slap my forehead”. In which the man replied we don’t do one to one trade (else how to eat rice) and that NHL 2003 isn’t even worth any money because these goes into our $5 bin .. in which he asked.. if he could get $5 for it… *slap forehead again*. How can ppl be so STUPID..!!! we sell them for $5 and pay $5 for it.. on top of the game would prolly never be sold…??? I officially declared that the water is not fit for drinking .. ppl in this town gets stupid..!

Special Order

We do special orders for our customers in this town.. and we do ask for a $10.00 deposit .. when we do these special orders that no one in town . .would do. Most times .. we have no problem.. with ppl picking up their stuff. .at others.. we can be stuck with a $70.00 game .. for so long.. we give them away for charity purpose.

Ppl thinks that .. if they forfeit their $10 deposit.. they already paid us for the profit .. we make from the games.. but they forget that if we don’t sell it off by a certain time. . the value of the game turns into those special bin prices after a few months. We lose more than we make most times.. when someone is irresponsible. And we even explained it to them. .when they do special orders. I really don’t know what else we can do .. to prevent losses on our end. Any suggestions..??

They Buy ..! They Sell !!

Yes.. they come, they buy and they come back in a week or so.. and try to sell the same thing back to you .. and with a little more. More annoying than anything.. when you see this happening .. a few times a week, and those that expects almost the same amount of money back.. for what they had paid for it.. now that is even more irritating..!

This town is full of them.. and it is strange that they expect us take it back.. when our babysitter who had bought a guitar.. during Christmas.. and the sides were stripped  ..  a week later .. she didn’t get any replacement, coz’ the music shop owner said, it wasn’t real leather .. and to be expected.  Maybe we are too nice eh..!!

Scary News

It is scary to me.. that the local newspaper and the radio news only reports things that generally does not need alot of thinking nor an opinion from anyone. It is almost to me like China. Only report the good. .and do away with the bad. Anything that might get opposed or objected by the community are never ever posted up in time. It is an awful feeling if you ask me. I am not into politics but I wanna be kept abreast of what’s going on.. and this maybe because of 2 reasons. One because we are business owners.. and two . .which is most important.. i’m a mother. I want to be sure that my daughter has a fair chance here else why stay here..??

The Furnace

Here we thought we won’t have to put anymore oil into the store’s furnace no more for the year .. and guess what..?? we had bad weather again. So the man called the oil man.. and told him.. “it’s not for me.. it’s for the women folks”! Yes.. yes.. i’m a wuss..!! but can you blame me.. ?? someone who comes from a place that is summer everyday. Someone who can’t get enough of the air-con.

What a huge change .. everyone who comes into the store asked me. Oh .. initially they think i come from China.. muahhahahahahhaahha!!! and when i tell them that China, Beijing is 7 - 8hrs away from where i am from originally.. they then understand it a little better. Even though my customers all thinks that I should be Canadianized by now.. since i’ve been here for 8 yrs.. i still cannot help but missed those sunny days at work and where one would be thought crazy to wear stockings to work.

Guess Again..??

Yes.. guess again..! we haven’t seen the $20 for the used monitor yet.. and if you asked me.. i’ll tell you .. i’m not freaking surprised at all. This town is full of people who would just try and try again .. and again. .to take advantage of you any which way they can. For a mere $20 .. i would be rather ashamed.. not to pay up, afterall he had been a regular for ages. So guess again..??

The Saga Of The 17″ Monitor

The saga of the 17″ monitor continues. If you haven’t read about it yet.. check here. Well.. after several weeks.. and more excuses.. and $40 worth of rental for the monitor, read this. Today, he came in again.. to tell PB that he will be seeing his mother this weekend..???!!!??? didn’t he say this.. like a few weeks now..??? WTF..!!!! i swear i am gonna blow up really soon on this customer..!!! old son or not.. he ain’t getting away with it .. for much longer. Come Monday..or the next time i see him.. i’m gonna tell him off if he doesn’t either .. bring me back my monitor or buy the freaking monitor..!!

How Can One Compete With Walmart?

Yes.. ! exactly my question..! how can one compete with Walmart..?? Scouting for a notebook, we checked with our regular supplier for prices.. and taking a walk to Walmart and Staples .. we found that they offer even better prices than my suppliers. So how can small businesses like ours.. not close down.. for good..?? how do you a single person . .compete with the big boys..?? No way man..!

$7 for 7 days & 7 movies

No wonder the other video store had this up their window today. We had just noticed it.. but i am guessing they are trying to pick up the customers of the one that just closed down at the corner. $7 for 7 days rental for 7 movies… !!! how to beat these kinda prices..?? i guess they must be hoping to monopolize the whole renting thing downtown..??

Suppliers Don’t Be Nonchalant

Nonchalant, aloofness, the I-don’t-care attitude was the kind that our regular supplier had been giving us. .when he has a bad day. It almost feels like he was our customer and not the other way round. An attitude .. i cannot understand why PB would take . .and not really care too much. Maybe it is a man’s thing..?? they donch sweat the small stuff..?? but i do..! and because I do.. i make sure.. i make it really difficult for PB to give this particular supplier alot of business. Since you have the “tidak-apa” attitude.. we will bring our business elsewhere.

No Politics

I make it a point to never consciously go into anything that has to do with politics. In any town, country or even establishment that I’ve been in .. I’ve seen some really ugly things… and no way was I gonna get involved here in Canada.

In any place, there will always be the old boys .. and their money .. and also those who have recently been here.. and have some money. Whatever the case, you can never fight them.. but I’m not gonna join them either. I’ve been asked many a times.. by our customer/s to take a more active role.. in the offices… or immigration work, but nope.. i’m pretty sure.. i never wanna be involved. But I’ve offered my services to foreign students who were lured to this town, that would be my part in giving back to society in Canada.

Big Boys Kill Small Businesses

This town had welcome .. the Big Boys like Walmart, Staples and Movie Gallery a few years ago. They bend backwards for some of these big boys.. and put in extra traffic lights, opening extra roads and what else that weren’t reported.

This town said that it can only do us good.. by bringing the Big Boys into town.. to attract tourist .. and other people from other towns. Last week we heard from the grapevine that another small business will be winding down its business by next month. Reason..?? can’t compete with prices of these Big Boys. Instead of helping small businesses from THIS town expand, they rather spend all those money for the Big Boys that don’t need any money. No logic.. but this is Y-Town for you.

I’ll Be Damn

If i donch say a thing..!! The next door store is using our electricity because for some reason there isn’t any earth wires where she is. The fact that she didn’t even come in and acknowledge that she is using our electricity for her phone .. which by the way .. donch cost alot… but that’s not the freaking point… makes me mad. What makes me even madder.. was the landlord telling me a matter of factly that it probably only cost us like 10 cents a month…!! Like i said.. it’s not even the money.. but i just wanna know how come we were charged so much previously in our old store for power.. and the landlord said.. he didn’t think anyone was using our electricity .. in our old store. This time with the other store using our power for her phone, is another example of I donch know .. from the landlord. But how can he not know right..?? he is a structural engineer afterall..!!! So you tell me lah.. what i should do..??

Entrepreneurship Has Its Price

For those who are thinking of starting their own business.. and be their own boss, I’ll have to tell you that it is never a rainbow. And there also isn’t a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow. PB was sick yesterday… but he still had to go into work.. to open the store.. irregardless. If he had to crawl to work..he would. That’s the price of entrepreneurship dudes..!

Here We Go Again..

The new justice center which initially had a $9million tag on building it.. had a few months ago.. announced that it went over it’s budget by another $6million of the tax payer’s money due to unforeseen circumstances.

In today local news, an oil spill at the new justice center, an overflowed from an upper floor holding tank on Sunday will cost about a week’s work, but will be on target this November. But they did not say how much it was gonna cost the tax payers .. for cleaning up the mess. Everything is still hush, hush… business as usual.

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