Day 17 : This what you call a ’’bad day’’ ?!!!

Day 17, 11/22/2025
This what you call a ’’bad day’’ ?!!!

Before i start, I won’t write all the interactions because i had like 18 of hem throughout the day and not all of hem were this interesting anyway.

I wake up to my brother telling me ‘’Hurry up we’re almost late !’’.
This morning we had to wake up earlier because my brother had a masterclass.
So i eat my breakfast ultra fast, i dress up, i speed brush my teeths.
We go outside and the car is frozen.
I’m half awake half asleep, still tired off yesterdays events.
These last days, my body has been tanking exhaustion, but i know that today, it won’t be able to.

We arrive at the destination and we go on our way to Cultura.
My Mom and i talk a lot. About the situation, and everything.
On the parking of Cultura, after a very emotional discussion, she says :

Mom : Just know that he will pay.

Me : Yes he will.

Mom : No matter what happens tho, i’ll always be there for you.

Me : Me too.

I hug her…

Then i bonk my head.

Me : What a way to ruin the emotional moment.

Mom : Ahah yea.

I go inside the cultura and oh boi, its barely 11 am and there is already a lot of people.
I go in the staff area.
On the way, everybody (from the staff) says ‘’Hello’’.
I like it.
I get ready and i go.
I find Mathew re-organizing some stuff on our table.
He tells me that today, we won’t do supply box opening nor shelf refiling because it would mean we’d have to move into the storage room and, potentially be unavailable for someone that needs help and so we’re mostly gonna do little task that keeps us around the clients.

We started by doing the Top 5 of the DVDs sellings.
And already we get some people asking for help.
He was right.

I help a women finding some story telling boxes.
I help another one finding Legos.
I help a man getting the price of a music sheet holder.
I also help an old woman getting some joycons for a nintendo switch. She was kinda confused cause she thought that there was a left handed only model, but i told her that it didn’t exist and it didn’t really matter on this kind of console.

When Matthew ends the video top, he gets called by someone and he’s gone, and i’m alone, in the nature.
Thankfully, Leo arrives and we start doing the Tops (yea, tops with a S) for the music section. Before we started he told me :

Leo : Watch out cause doing the music tops is a pain in the ass.

And few minutes in, i get it.
We have to do :
-The best selling top.
-The metal/hard rock top.
-The pop top.
-The rap top.
-The french top (the most important one).
-The Kpop top.
-The classical music top.
-The jazz top (WHEN WILL THIS COME TO AN END).
-The Movie Songs top.
-AND cherry on top, the top of the top hits (like, boxes that takes different hits from the year and regroup them in one disc).

At some point, 2 ladies asked me to get a pokemon pack and so i go get the keys and opened, for the first time, the glass box. I don’t remember if i told yall we put everything like boosters and cards behind a glass box to prevent shop-lifting.
I ask what they want and they take one pack.
I warn them that there is a limit tho and they both get surprised.
One askes why and i tell her that some people have the bad habit to try to buy 50 of hem and wait a few months to resell them, and also that its the most commonly stealed item in our store.
They both are shocked to learn that.
And funny thing, i need to get the pokemon pack and drop it at the cashier on top of all this.
They both understand, and they laugh to how ridiculous it has to be to protect pokemon cards from thieves.

Anyway, i successfully sold one pokemon pack, all by myself, without Leo or Mathew doing the work.

When we search for some vinyls to put in the top, Servane approaches us :

Servane : Leo pleaseeeeeeeeee, i need your help to find this kids book named ‘’the search’’. Please i’m not supposed to get out of my section today, Quentin is not here, i’m alone in there, i’m illegally out right now.

Leo : Well you know what, go on ‘’the search’’ yourself, i ain’t going in the library no matter what.

Servane : You chicken wing ! Karma will get yo ass.

She goes away, and throws him a ‘’friendly’’ middle finger.
He chuckles.

When we finish the top, we can’t do really much so we both do some random cleaning, re-arranging and stuff. I then decide to re-tune the guitars because i see a kid playing the open strings on a displayed one and it reminded me of all the people doing the same.
Some of them are so out of tune they sound like they are tuned in open tuning (its a way to tune a guitar that make the open strings sound like a chord rather than E A D G B E) but in that case, it wasnt a chord it was a cry for help. A ‘’PLEASE I DONT WANNA DO THIS NO MORE’’ a ‘’PLEASE END MY SAD F**KING LIFE’’ anything and everything about despair.

I’m kinda sad because since my first day, not a single guitar has been sold.

Then at some point while i discuss a little with Leo about random stuff, a lady and her husband approaches us :

Lady : Uhm excuse me, I would like some informations about an electric guitar.

*Squid game crowd party meme*

Me : Well we got them right over here.

I get them to the electric guitars.

Me : So its for a beginner or an experimented player.

Lady : Oh he already plays guitar. I mean he plays accoustic guitar, like these ones *she points at the folks*, and he wanted to go for electric ones. By the way, do you have Fenders ?

Leo : We got only this red one *points at a bright red strat labeled Squier*

Me : Well its not really a Fender, its a Squier but its a brand owned by Fender so its kinda the same.

Why did i say this ? I hate lying to people and i didn’t want this lady to think she bought a Fender by buying a Squier even if its theorically the same.

Lady : By the way, do you know what H-S-S and H-S-S-S *breaths* means ?

Me : *looks at Leo*

Leo : Uhmmm i don’t know, maybe my colleague will be able to help you.
*He looks at me in hope to find some comfort in my knowledge*
Leo : Hey Alex ? What does it means ?

Me : Uhhhh, you kinda hit a gap in my knowledge… Hermmmm…. Well i think its only the model tag.

Lady : My son told me ‘’Watch out’’ because it apparently does something with power or i dont know.

And then it tilts in my head.

Me : OOOOHHH i think i know, i think SSS stands for single-coil pickups, of which you’re gonna have thrice on this stratocaster, and HSS will be only 2 single coils and this block of single coil and P90.
*Im glad i learned the name of these pickups not too long ago*

Lady : Welll... what’s the difference.

Me : *oh no uhm* Welll on the red one (HSSS) you’re gonna have a REALLY powerfull sound, a beast made for rock, and on this one *points at the HSS* you’re gonna have a powerfull sound with a sound that has more color, that is more…… i don’t know how to describe it.

Leo : Polyvalent ?

Me : Yeah exactly, polyvalent. On one you’re gonna have only power and on one you’re gonna have a mix of power and color for a more all-terrain guitar.

Lady : Well thank you for that then, i’ll think about buying one of these later because i didn’t really came prepared. Thank you for your precious help.

Me : You’re welcome. Have a nice day.

*Me and Leo goes away*

Me : Man i panicked i didn’t know what it meant. Then it went ‘’bling’’ in my head and i realised what it meant.

Leo : Well imagine me, its not the kind of question we get around here. You carried that tho, goodjob.

Me : Anyway, i’m so hungry i could eat a horse, dayum.

Then around 20 minutes before our lunch break he goes :

Leo : So what i’m gonna do is i’m gonna go on a dangerous mission. I’m gonna try to go refill my bottle with water, but to do this i have to go through the library section, and i have 1 out of 3 chances to be held hostage by someone that needs help for 30 minutes. Wish me luck.

Me : Goodluck soldier, we won’t forget your bravery.

He goes.
I watch him.
He walks through the library.
Around him there is many people that kinda look lost, looking for a staff member, like zombies searching for fresh human meat.
He walks through the library section unseen.
He goes in the restrooms.
He gets out.
So far so good.
He walks back through the library section.
One clients sees him.
She goes to him.
He goes faster.
She starts closing in.
He looks back discretly.
And then a miracle occurs.
She gives up.
And he arrives with the full bottle.

Leo : That was a close one.

I then go for my lunch break.
In the dining room, there is Thierry, Servane and 2 girls i don’t remember their name.
I sit down :

Thierry : Bonne appetit.

Me : Thanks.

*he takes a cookie from a bowl filled with hem*

Thierry : *munches* Yo these cookies are fire. But i don’t really like the black ones.

Servane : Woawwwwwwwwwww what a joke.

Thierry : *Wheezes* i didnt mean to get it out like this.

Then Leo arrives.

Servane : Yo what took you so long.

Leo : I got held as an hostage in your section.

Servane : HA !!! In your face !!! Karma’s a bitch man !!! Thats what you get for being mean.

Everyone laughes.

We eat, all on our own side, some discuss some read stuff on their phone.
Lea then arrives, she looks exhausted :

Servane : Yo you doing fine.

Lea : Pffff *gently nods No with her head*.

Thierry : Clients can be annoying aren’t they ?

Lea : I’m out there feeling like a Mama Duck with all her kids. I help one person and i get 3 other one following me around waiting for their turn.

Thierry : Oh i see, and you’re like ‘’Uhh pls ma’am, no need to follow me around, look my colleague over here can help you’’ and they’re like ‘’Yea but nah’’.

Me : Nah i choose you !

Lea : *laughes* exactly.

Leo : Reminds me of a client that was looking for a tv show. He approached me and went ‘’I’m looking for this TV show but i can’t manage to find it’’, and so i look through our inventory, and we don’t have it in our stock nor can we deliver it. So i tell him this and he goes ‘’Wait isn’t this it’’ and he points at a Guardians of the Galaxy pack. I tell him ‘’No it isn’t it’’. And then he does it again on another one. And so he starts doing it on EVERY TV SHOWS. And then like 2 minutes of ‘’Wait isn’t this it’’ later, he goes ‘’What about this one’’…. And he points at a big box clearly labeled ‘’Game of Thrones’’.
I’m crying.

Everyone laughes.

Leo : The worse is that he was looking for something in the same vibe as Guardians of the Galaxy.

We share stories. We laugh, we talk.
I feel nice. People often talk to me, like if they considered me a part of their group.

When i’m almost finished with my 2 sandwhiches, i’m still hungry as hell (because its 2 pm and i woke up earlier so i was more hungry than usual).
So i decide to try one black cookie and one white cookie.
Nobody is talking, there is a big silence in the room as i start eating them.
I eat the black one.
Its aight.
I eat he White one.
Oh yea it hits the spot.

Me : Yea i kinda prefer the white cookies.

Everyone laughes A LOT.
Lea : What a way to break the silence !

Thierry : I mean i’m happy to see that i’m not alone on this one !

I then eat some biscuits that were on the table.
I then realise i’m so f**king full. I ate too much

I chew a chewing gum to sorta wash my teeths a little, and then i go for a little walk in the toy section to watch the new stuff.

After the end of my lunch break, i put my vest back on, and i go back to work.
On the way downstairs i come across Aurora (the director) and she says :

Aurora : Hello Alex, how you doing ?

Me : Well i’m having a lot of fun.

Aurora : Good for you then.

She’s always smiling, i like her vibes.

When i open the door to the store, i see like thousands of people in the library section that is infront of our section.
I’m like ‘’Oh boi’’ and then :

Client : Excuse me sir ?

I don’t exactly remember what this client asked nor the other ones. But what i do know is that i went from this client to another one, to another one, TO another one,TO ANOTHER ONE in less than 10 minutes. One asking for guitar amps, one asking for a keyboard. One asking for vinyls etc…
I felt like i couldn’t breath. Then someone needed me to open the pokemon glass box.

. I go get the keys. I stuck the magnet on the massive magnet we use to disarm the anti-shoplifting systems we put on big articles, and then i try 32 angles till i find the right one to open the box. Same to close it.

At some point Mathew decideds to use one of the amp that is displayed so he can try to boost its sales and the disc sales at the same time.
And so he puts it to a big volume so in a way everyone can hear. And so my ears H-17 pickups hears the sound of people talking, the sound of the store music, the amp music at full blast, the people trying random instruments, all the footsteps, the rain outside... I start to saturate. This definitly was the part that tired me the most today.

At some point, a woman comes up to me :

Woman : hello, sorry to interupt you, i would like to know if you got anything like drum related ?

I almost make her repeat what she said because she was on the edge of whispering for some reason.

Me : Well we got loads of these right over here follow me.

Woman : My son loves to beat on stuff, he already sees himself as a drummer but we’re still far from this, nonono not yet.

Me : Well… Hmmm we got this *pickups a training pad* where you’re son is gonna be able to beat without damaging furnitures or anything.

Woman : Does it do sound ?

Me : Ah huhh… No it doesnt, its a training pad and its the whole point of it. You’re looking for something that does sound ?

Woman : Well yes, he loves to beat on stuff that does sound.

Me : Well in terms of stuff you can beat we got this *points a the electric drums* but its clearly the opposite of what you’re looking for.

Woman : Oh yeaaa nahhhhh we’re not there yet.

Me : Well we got these wooden boxes.

Women : Yea but you have to use your hands.

Me : Yea but it still is kinda nice *i sit on the one i placed and I play a very short beat*.

Woman : Hmm its true that they look nice.

Me : Yea i like them a lot.

Woman : But you don’t have anything he can use drum sticks on ?

. I go get the keys. I stuck the magnet on the massive magnet we use to disarm the anti-shoplifting systems we put on big articles, and then i try 32 angles till i find the right one to open the box. Same to close it.

At some point Mathew decideds to use one of the amp that is displayed so he can try to boost its sales and the disc sales at the same time.

And so he puts it to a big volume so in a way everyone can hear. And so my ears H-17 pickups hears the sound of people talking, the sound of the store music, the amp music at full blast, the people trying random instruments, all the footsteps, the rain outside... I start to saturate. This definitly was the part that tired me the most today.

At some point, a woman comes up to me :

Woman : hello, sorry to interupt you, i would like to know if you got anything like drum related ?

I almost make her repeat what she said because she was on the edge of whispering for some reason.

Me : Well we got loads of these right over here follow me.

Woman : My son loves to beat on stuff, he already sees himself as a drummer but we’re still far from this, nonono not yet.

Me : Well… Hmmm we got this *pickups a training pad* where you’re son is gonna be able to beat without damaging furnitures or anything.

Woman : Does it do sound ?

Me : Ah huhh… No it doesnt, its a training pad and its the whole point of it. You’re looking for something that does sound ?

Woman : Well yes, he loves to beat on stuff that does sound.

Me : Well in terms of stuff you can beat we got this *points a the electric drums* but its clearly the opposite of what you’re looking for.

Woman : Oh yeaaa nahhhhh we’re not there yet.

Me : Well we got these wooden boxes.

Women : Yea but you have to use your hands.

Me : Yea but it still is kinda nice *i sit on the one i placed and I play a very short beat*.

Woman : Hmm its true that they look nice.

Me : Yea i like them a lot.

Woman : But you don’t have anything he can use drum sticks on ?

Me : Well the thing is we don’t really have this many percussions that uses drum sticks so….. Its gonna be complicated. What i can recommand tho is going on internet and look for singular parts of a real drum kit. Only problem is its gonna sound really, really loud, and it could sound horrendous too.

Woman : I see. Well thanks for trying to help me.

Me : I’m there for that.

Woman : I’ll look around, have a nice day.

Me : Thanks, you too.

I walk and i instantly get called by another woman :

Client #1 (women) : Hello sir, can you help me please.

Me : What can i do for you ?

Client #1 : I’m looking for a wireless phone battery that doesnt needs to be plugged in to charge the phone.

Me : Woaw uhh… Are you looking for a wireless charger or an external battery ?

Client #1 : Well its both right ?

Me : Well… maybe i can show you what we have.

Client #1 : Please do, i’m a little confused.

Her Man or husband, idk, joins her.

Me : So over here we’re gonna have everything to charge your phone, and considering your description, i think this fits the most what you described. *I show her a charger that doesnt need to be plugged to the phone to charge*.

Client #1 : Well uhhh…. Does it needs to be plugged in to charge the phone ?

Me : No you just put the phone on top and it will charge.

Client #1 : And you can charge the phone like anywhere.

Me : Well as long as you can plug in the charger yes.

Client #1 : So you need to plug it in.

Me : Yes.

Client #1 : And it can’t like charge without being plugged in ?

Me : No it will not be able to charge without being plugged into a wall.

Client #2 (husband) : What the, well what is the point of that thing then, its pointless…. You charge your phone but you still have to plug it in. Why not buy a regular charger at this point. *He looks at me with an amused smile*

Me : Well *chuckles* you got a point I don’t know what is it usefull for (oh i sould have used the argument of it removes the problem of the cable that works only in a certain angle). There is logical thinking behind your opinion.

Client #2 : Well Yea !!! Ahah this shit is useless !!! Oops *he puts his hand on his mouth* pardon my language.

Me : Nah don’t worry you’re right.

Client #1 : And you don’t have like anything that can charge a phone without being plugged in ?

Me : Well we got external batteries but these have to be plugged into the phone to charge it.

Client #1 : Oh my i’m never gonna make it…. Lemme search it up real quick.

She starts searching on her phone. And she shows me a picture. It is indeed the combination of both.

Me : Wow, well i’ve never seen those.

Client #2 : You know what honey its fine-

Client #1 : Nah i need her to have what she wants. You’re sure you don’t have those.

Me : Well in terms of electronic stuff like cables and allat, all that we have in store is right infront of you, and im pretty much sure we don’t have those in store. Sorry.

Client #1 : Awww… Well thanks anyway.

Client #2 : Its fine we don’t need this useless stuff *chuckles*. Thanks.

Me : You’re welcome. Have a nice day.

Those we’re the most interesting interactions i had.
The rest of the day i helped peoples, tried to rest, talked a lil with Leo and so on…
Before the end of my shift, Marine says :

Marine (supervisor) : Well, for a ‘’christmas’’ Saturday, there wasnt that many people, it was kinda a bad day.

Me : IT’S WHAT YOU CALL A BAD DAY ?!!!!

At the end of my shift, i said goodbye to Leo, Mathew already left.
I get out of the Cultura, and i’m f**king exhausted, and my belly is f**king full of cookies and biscuits.

When i arrive home, i take a nap on the couch. When its time to eat dinner, my stomach is like ‘’PLEASE, NOOOOOOOOOOOO’’.
I eat anyway… Guess what i’m somehow hungry as i write these lines…. Its MIDNIGHT WHAT THE F**K. I needa sleep….

I see i’ve kinda made it really far in terms of stuff i wanted to say so i’m kinda proudognrnavprppppppppppppppr&igneeaviospeuvtvnaepuoivnaetba----------------------‘-(-è-è(((((((((((((((-----------------------------------------------------1

Alex fell asleep on the keyboard and got ahead and wrote the next undeciphereable code for the bank of America.

Goodnight.

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