I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts

Well yesterday was an extraordinary day. I arrived at my fantastic job at Quiznos about an hour early, had some soup, chatted with a friend, and decided to clock in early, so I went to the bathroom to change into my khaki pants. As I was going into the back of the restaurant(Mind you, our store is VERY small) I heard water running. It was my turn to do dishes that night so I thought, "Oh how nice of Ashley starting the water up for me" but as I turned my head to look, I noticed the water in the sink wasn't on. That's strange, I thought to myself, but nothing more, and walked over to the lockers to get my shirt, when I noticed the sound of water get louder. I turned my head to the right, and suddenly was sprayed in the face by the water pump connected to the pop machine.

Now, my immediate reaction was: ASHLEY TURN OFF THE POP MACHINE!!!! And then I proceeded to investigate the problem. Somewhere the pump was leaking, profusely water cascading down the syrup boxes in a beautiful falls, and a giant puddle was starting around me. So I quickly called my boss. She didn't know what to do, So I called the Pepsi company help line. I explained, calmly, to the woman that the freakin' pump thing ontop of the syrups was flooding our store. She calmly told me she didn't know what to do. I asked her how to turn off the water. She said she didn't know what our store looked like and could not turn tell me where my water valve was. So in one hand I have my boss telling me she doesn't know what to do, and in my other hand the Pepsi lady telling me she doesn't know what to do.

Finally my boss remembers something! The main water valve is in Hollywood Video (the biggest store in our building complex) so I jog on over to see if they can help. Long story short, they can't. None of their store owners are there either. The Pepsi lady has grown tired of my failed pursuit of the water valve, and tells me she'll send someone out and hangs up.

I run back to Quiznos, which, at some point in time the other two employees had the insight to close, and called my boss back. She told us to pull out the drink shelf and see if there was anything back there to turn off. What a fantastic idea, and as we start to pull it out, the hose on the water pump breaks off and the world goes to hell. Calmly, oh so calmly I say to my boss "SHIT! I HAVE TO GO!" and hang up on her. I believe she said that was the point in time at which she left her house to come check on us.

Now instead of a steady leak, we have a monstrous pressure hose spraying around the store. If Andrew hadn't decided to spray the hose into the trash cans around the store, the situation would've been oh so much worse.

Well, ten trash cans full of water later, the Pepsi people still haven't arrived, my boss still hasn't arrived, my manager still hasn't arrived, so I decide to take another look at the pump, and finally notice a diagram on there with a beautiful word on it: On/Off. It took some athletic ability on my part (I had to climb over the drink machine, and the tea dispenser, and that was not easy) but I finally found the way to shut off the valve, and the beautiful sound of water not running filled my hears. I say to myself, what a wonderful world.

Then the clean-up begins, and it seems like everyone gets there at once, pepsi guy, manager, and boss. Turns out all of this only took two hours, and we were open again by 7:00 PM. Thankfully I Never had got around to putting on my work shirt, and I had the jeans I changed out of so I had dry clothes to work in.

There were many hilarious moments, like the sign Andrew made which said: Due to unforseen circumstances we as sorry to say we our closed MGMT

or, Ashley's mascara running that made it look like she'd been punched in both eyes.

Or Andrew continuing to calmly make sandwiches and take orders while Ashley and I were getting soaked in the back (Andrew though was more help then I can express, I just chide him about the fact that Ashley and I were soaked head to toe, but only the bottom of his pants were wet.)

Or the customer who saw the water leaking out of the back of the store and asked Andrew, "You guys got a leak?"
"Yes" Andrew replies, "It's the pop machine."
And without skipping a beat the man says, "Those girls are gon' get sticky"

Lots of little things like that. A small disaster really can be a lot of fun sometimes.