An Intriguing Tale Of Being An Owner

You know when I was much younger and working in the hotel industry – and in-house guests who comes into our business center – we always try to see which ones are eye candies.  So owning our own business – we too – see many customers – and some I’ll have to say are pretty good looking and some are macho.   And most of these good looking customers are not young men but more like older customers. Wonder if they are using the herbal male enhancement that everyone was talking about lately.   Whatever they are using – they certainly look a lot more confident and a lot more happier with their spouses.   And if they are herbal – they shouldn’t have any bad side effects?    I don’t know if the spouse would need it or not in the future – but if he does – I would definitely choose herbal for sure.

Ahh! there is something in this town I am proud of today!  I had gone to refill my prescription at the pharmacy – after calling it in an hour ago today.  Wasn’t expecting any different – since I’ve had done my refills for more than a year now at the same pharmacy.  But alas, I was told that the pharmacist needed to check on my prescription – when he finally came to talk to me – he said that my prescription was filled 10 days ago.  In which I had argued that it cannot be – he checked on it again – but still insisted that i should have like 20 days worth of medication.  He was quite reluctant to give me my prescription.  When he did finally fill up my prescription – i took a look at it – and knew that I had given him the wrong # for the prescription.  He was quite relieved – that everything was straighten out – and gave me the “right” prescription happily.  So I’m really impressed with our downtown pharmacist – that he is doing his job with utmost caution – so folks – you don’t have to worry that you might get overdosed or a wrong prescription – because our downtown pharmacist is a highly diligent one.   Well done!

Yes! if you don’t know by now – we have a downtown walking club to help folks from downtown – or around town to stay healthy – i think they walk during lunch time.  I see quick a few people walking every afternoon – but I’m so shy to join – because I walked so slow.  But a customer who was in today – and works downtown does her walking and she said that she not only walks but uses  www.bestweightlosssupplements.org to help her keep fit.

The problem with the downtown walking club – they seems like an elite group of people – and people like me – well – you know what i mean – not that socialable – and not very interactive – and not very fit – how do we join right?  not really the most comfy people you want to work with.  So I’ll check out the website instead.

While most people think that owning your own business makes your rich and you can do anything you want – they forget that like the last few days – both the boss and I are sick but we still had to come to work.  While being an employee – you can stay home and rest – we have no choice but to open store – because we refused to hire anymore.   Yes we are on lots of medication from Contac C to Strepsils and something for migraine relief but still – it’s not the same as being at home and lying down and doing nothing.   So if you think it is fun being an owner or owner by association – think again.   But nope – we won’t changed it for the world – because we are just too stubborn to work for someone else. hahha!

You know we get to meet many people in our store and some customers we’ve known for a long time and when you see a return customer – we are happy of course – but to see a customer lose weight and looking good!  I always asked them what did they do? or what they did – afterall, they have first hand experience.  I’m always looking out for a healthy weight loss program – what about you?   And one had said – lots of walking and watching what you eat.  Others had said they were on some weight loss program and another had use Simply For Life a new place that was opened in town a year ago.  It is very encouraging to see customers who have lost weight and one of them is our public nurse from our local hospital – she lost a lot of weight.  So yes!  I’m also trying to – as you all know – wish me luck now!

There are quite a few good spa in this town – in fact these spa keeps sprouting up everywhere since I first arrived.  The only one i knew was just near our store – some 11 years ago – but now – everyone wants to be their own bosses/entrepreneurs.  I missed my natural acne treatment spa back home – and I’m still biased when it comes to my facials and manicure plus pedicure or even hair wash.   Maybe, I am so used to it? or maybe the technique is just too different for my liking?  I don’t really know – but I missed the massages on my face – from my local spa at home.  Sure they do it here – but not exactly the way i like it – nor do they do the eyebrow shaping for free like they do back home.  Whatever my skin condition was before coming here – it’s not the same now – I long to go home – because of all the things I am missing – but one must try to look her best eh?  so the local spa in this town it its.

We are open everyday for 6 days a week and since we are always in the store – it’s hard to make home cooked meals – so we just eat anything we can get a hold of and the spouse – the boss – well – lets just say he loves his junk food a lot!   But who doesn’t right?  If I could I would be eating tidbits everyday or fried food – so I came up with this ingenuous idea – to get some appétit control – that way – maybe we could stop munching on junk food.   Plus it’s so easy to do it – because we are always sitting down and facing the computer.  Well, any desk jobs has this problem – and if you own your own business – you get to do anything you want – eat all the time – if you want to.   So let me check out which appetite suppressant work for us – and I’ll let you know – don’t want to be overweight or obese right?

The spouse will be holding some kind of tournament at the store today for the game Magic.  It had been going for a few weeks now  – in the beginning – he played at midnight after the kid went to bed  – but that didn’t work out because i wasn’t too happy.  Normally, i wouldn’t mind – but every time he plays we would have to send the kid to her grandparents and I would have to man the store.  I don’t mind either – but this morning – the kid woke up with some sneezing and coughing and i was quite worried.  I really didn’t want her to go to her grandparents if she didn’t feel well – but what was i gonna say – because he already had his mind set to play.  *sigh*. MEN!

Plus the chinese restaurant is not opened this weekend – so i have to eat frozen food – normally i don’t mind – but because i started on a stricter diet 2 weeks ago – because of my diabetes – so this is just going to set me back.  Oh well – what to do ?  the boys need their game time right?  *shrug* Random ranting is a must!

We love our customers.. but some are just crooks – like the one i saw at Tim’s this morning -  it’s people like him that makes us wary of other customers and mistaken the good ones as a crook too.   Why?  because a year ago – this long time crook customer took our dvd and a computer monitor to test for his mother because he said he didn’t know which was the one that was not good – the monitor or the tower.  And since he was a long time customer .. and he didn’t give us any beef till then we said sure.  But till today – we still haven’t seen him come back with the dvd or monitor or the money he owes us.  After leaving so many messages – we just gave up – he was just out to rip us off.  The spouse asked if i said anything to him at Tim’s and my reply was – why waste time on people like that..??  i might as well spend time looking out for  natural joint pain relief for the old folks home here.  We just cut our loses and people like that can only cheat us once – even if he does come back with the money – he won’t be anyone we would trust no more.

I was doing my diet pill review when yet another customer came in coughing and sneezing and without feeling bad about it at all.   This sick customer like any who comes in sick – still carry on chatting with the spouse and selling him stuff and sticking around and coughing and even telling other customers that he has the flu *slap forehead*.  Why are ppl so inconsiderate?  just because you are sick doesnt’ mean that you need to get other ppl sick right?  common sense tells you that flu or any kind of illness can be contagious thru’ the air.   But we can’t control who comes in or out of our store and even though we lightly joke about not wanting to get sick along with them – they still hang around – and guess what..?? not only is my spouse sick – so is my daughter now.  *shake head*.  I don’t mind if we adults get ill but the kid – i’m sure you know where i’m coming from.

We get a lot of sales calls ..  from insurance company to web design companies and even those who wants to sell us the best diet supplement – I kid you not.   I can understand why a computer supplier or a movie supplier would call and do their sales pitch on us – but mannn….!!!  you get just about anything and everything these days.  Just the other day .. the RCMP called to ask if we wanted to support their some RCMP book but you and I know – that all these donation will come to nothing – because who really go look at those RCMP books or even the school year book.  Even Roger’s the telephone company would call and don’t get the hint about not wanting an extra phone.  So what do you do when you have one phone line for the store.. and there are customers in front of you waiting to pay up..?? usually i don’t get mad with them.. but the boss.. he hangs up on them.

We do have some what we called “unique” customers – just happy we don’t get a lot of them though else no one would need any weight loss products just by dealing with them.  Last nite on Facebook, the boss had a private message from a mother of a kid who had bought a “M” (mature) game from us.  It’s War of Worlds and she was bitching about us selling it to her – granted – it was my mistake – i hadn’t thought to look at the rating because the kid had come in got the game and came pay for it.

I was also busy with the kid and alone at the store – so I wasn’t paying attention – but having said that – i should have been careful but it wasn’t like we were selling him an adult movie.  And shouldn’t you go after your kid for being sneaky?  instead of blaming us?  Nice parent!  *shake head*  – i know how this kid is gonna end up – mark my words – and the kid is like 11 yrs old now – it won’t be long – before he sneaks out and get himself into trouble.

Yes! i officially call this the Sell Fest Week – it’s an entire week of ppl selling stuff it seems – it’s just hilarious.  I need some  best weight loss pills because of the things that ppl come and sell to us this week.  From Plasma tvs to PSone and one even tried to sell us burned movies.  As usual – i cannot help but wonder how these ppl managed their money – because one of them actually came into some money a month ago or less and was on a buying spree – not only at our store but at other places – it was crazy.  I had expected to see him sooner or later – and true enough he was back in today – trying to sell us back what he bought and more.

Yes -  I know – I’m sounding a bit crazy right now – but bear with me – as I was doing some lipozene reviews i stopped for a minute about how I could have been too personal with our customers.   What i should have done all these years is to be friendly but not take a personal interest in them – well except for a few – very few.

But i noticed when I stopped and offer help – just because I think they wouldn’t ripped us – and even the most unlikely person – ripped us!  What the ((*&^^%*  right..??  Yes ! ppl who had made smuck remarks about those who had ripped us off – in turn ripped us off themselves.  So yes, I know i had been doing it wrongly – from now on – I’m gonna be friendly but not a friend to our customers ( except for a few).  The same goes to our ex-employees – if for some remote reason we do hire – this will not happen again – they will not be treated like family or a friend – just employees.

This morning I heard on the local news that the report for the land for the proposed Art Center in the center of town is back.  Even though the test results show petroleum hydrocarbons in the soil at some location – the mayor and some of the councilors are apparently going ahead with their plans of having another Art Center.   I think the councils need hemorrhoids relief ! why?  because they are not in sync with each other.   Like what we chinese say – they are like scattered sand – and what is going to happen is a project that is either half – hearted or done with so much hatred.

This town is too small to have 2 Art Center – yes – we would like to see it downtown but we know that the Colin Street location is the wrong one – why can’t the councils and the mayor sees it..??   These are money that we don’t have in this town – wouldn’t this money be more used appropriately?  How come the town never helped small businesses like us?  Some 8 yrs ago, while we were trying to expand – the CBDC whom we approached refuses to help us because they said we are bankable.  If we are bankable -  did they really think we would go to them.  The CBDC is chaired by some elite members of this town – i hate to say it but the town councils are going to waste more money – whose money – not theirs of course – they belong to the town – they belong to the people who are paying taxes.  I really don’t know what to think of this town anymore – not good for one’s health – that’s for sure.

10 yrs into business and one advice i can give to any small business owners is to run your small business on your own. When the spouse started this business.. and i came a year after, we had big plans.. but then our kid came along..and everything had to be shelved.  At first because of our kid, we thought by hiring a few staff would be the way to go, but soon to find out .. that it’s not true.  Hiring in this town is like getting the best weight loss supplements because you really need not take any for these ppl that we’ve hired really took a toll in our lives.

Of course, we are not saying that all of them gave us trouble, at least Mike and Ryan from Halifax were by far the best ex-employees.  Some were good when they wanna come to work while others.. well, lets just say .. you can’t do nothing to please them.  Another was even more terrific – he would keep giving out the wrong change .. and insisted on not using the calculator.  Yes.. these are only minor problems that we’ve had.. we had bigger issues with some others.. but finally if you own a small business.. there is just no way.. one can run a business with hiriing a few part timers.. or just one full timer.. too stressful for them and ourselves.  Why..?? because the part timers want more hours.. and the full timers feel that everything lands on their shoulders – so there is actually a no win situation for us.  We figured .. since the kid is older now.. we certainly should try and handle things oiurselves.. and not depend on another employee and if there were stress.. we have no one to blame but ourselves eh..?  hhaha!!  so word of advice to small business owners like ours..  run your own business on your own.. if you want a profitable one.

Woman comes into our store, told the boss she bought this game about a month ago for $7 something.. and her kid can’t play with it .. because she doesn’t like it.  She wants to know if she can exchange it for another game.  I can understand if she came back within a day .. ok .. nevermind a day.. even a week .. but more than a month.. and no receipt for it..?? plus we know that this woman lies..!!!  why..?? because she had bought something from us about 2 years ago.. and wanted to return it to us.. because her “b/f” bought her a new one..!!! and it was for a private sale of a child bouncer..!  So it’s like buying diet pill that works and completely does it thing.. but she wants to return half the bottle because she doesn’t use it anymore.. or her mother bought her something else.. another brand.  Ppl sure got guts here.  I could never do that to even Walmart.. and we are just a small business owner – this is bad for our health.

Yes.. 5 councilors and a son .. went to B.C paid by the taxpayer’s money.. and have we seen a report yet..??  Like i said.. i can understand if the mayor wants to go.. and another to hold his hands.. to speak to those important ppl..  but why do we need another 3 fellas to go .. plus a son of one of the councilors..??  While they are so freely spending the tax payer’s money.. the claimed that they cannot fund the school .. or many items on the agenda.. it doesn’t make sense.. what they are doing..??

The new airlines came into town.. and they got the free flight to the city.. ??  *roll eyes* .. but all these were not even offered to anyone else.. except for the councilors..??  some ppl cannot afford to buy Stimerex ES and yet.. the councilors can spend a good $15K for a vacation..?? so where’s the report..??  Should I hunt it down..??  Is there a point..??  is this town doomed..??

We started our petition on Monday for the town to consider putting the farmer’s market downtown instead of the Mariner Center.  It is obvious that the town do not know what petition .. and the meaning of it.. before signing.. because we see another petition to have the Farmer’s market placed downtown amongst our businesses/store downtown.  How can having the Farmer’s market at the Mariner Center benefit anyone except those who owns the Mariner Center..??  Shouldn’t the Farmer’s Market be put near where the tourist is most likely to see it.. so that they can join in the festivities..??  I’m getting not only hypertension from all these issues of the town.. but also acne.. someone recommend me a natural acne treatment please.

One of our worker’s family member??? has what we call huge, huge, huge bum and she is only in late teens.  Having a kid is not the reason for not taking care of oneself – that is a darn lazy excuse in my opinion.. but how do one tell them the truth..?? without offending them.  Can one recommend some diet pills that work without having them jump all over you for being rude…??   Normally, i wouldn’t care.. but since it is someone we know.. i thought it would be nice to tell her.. because it does get harder .. to lose those unhealthy sight.. if you know what i mean.  But she is totally happy with that look.. so what can you do eh.