Day 21 : Exhausting and Exciting

Day 21, 11/26/2025
Exhausting and Exciting

Today i wake up around 6 am (goddam), and i can’t find sleep.

I arrive at Cultura and prepare for my day. I say hello to Aurora, and i go downstairs.
I suddenly remember that i’ll be alone for an hour. In my head i was like ‘’Yeah no big deal, last time i did great’’.
*inhale*
Boi…..

I get :
4 peoples that needs help for books. I had to go on a ‘’colleague that isnt taken yet’’ hunt each time.
At some points i had to go find Servane that was on the OTHER side of the store to help a customer.
Timothy helped me a lot too (i mean he is in the comic section of the library so its kinda his domain).
I helped someone for the toniebox (the thing that tell stories to babies).
I helped for pokemons too.

I did some rearanging at the same time. I picked up 4 opened mystery Stitchs bags (with 2 empty ones) and i had the brilliant idea to go turn on the revolving displaying plates in the glass shelf were almost every fragile figurines are displayed.
I open it.
I reach for the first button to turn on.
And then a terrible thing happens.
Mary the kitty starts falling with one of the seven gnomes from snow white.
I try to catch her, but she falls to her death.
She breaks in tiny pieces.
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The gnome survived.

It felt very awkward because every customer in a 10 meter radius stared at me, the closer the longer, but you know what I DONT GIVE A SHITE we all do mistakes sometimes. I put the broken Mary the kitty on our table with the opened mystery Stitchs, hoping that i would not have to pay for the broken figurine (it was like 20€, and btw it is ugly as f**k. I mean its Disney what’d you expect).

After this incident, an old man comes and ask me if we have anything to boost the sound on his tv.
I’m like :

Me : You’re looking for like Amps ?

Old man : Yea yea something like this.

So i start to go in the direction of the pile of different Amps we have and then :

*Flashback Leo from very first day* : ‘’We also have those amps for TVs and all but they NEVER go. For a fact, since i’m here, since june then, i’ve never seen one go. Thats why we decided to not put them on display… since they never go, and just made descriptive pages.’’

Me : ACTUALLY we have EXACTLY what you need.

And i arrive infront of the 5 pages of TV amps. There’s a cheap Thomsone at 50€ or 60€ that isn’t that powerful, there is a Muse around 70€, then there is another Thomsone nicknamed ‘’Cozy wood’’ idk why, at 99.99€ (not 100 guys, its 99.99€).

We then have a Sony that is 159€ and a JBL at 199€.
So i explain to the client what is good, what is kinda bad unless you’re not looking for quality.
I tell him JBL is the best in terms of quality but the most expensive, and i lead him onto the Cozy wood that i call the ‘’right center’’ because Thomsone is already good and its not too expensive. And also it looks very good.
He asks some questions about power, and mostly why its just some pages and not displayed ones.
I tell him that it would take too much space and all, then he ask question if he can see them, i tell him he would have to go see a cashier for this, and so he says :

Old man : Well… I’ll take this to the cashier, then i’ll see if i buy it or not. Thank you.

Me : You’re welcome.

I see him go.
And i’m like ‘’I’ve just done the impossible’’.

During the whole hour where i was alone, i kept anxiously looking at my phone (for instance, my BROTHERS phone that he gave me in case i needed to call my mom) to see how much time was left till i could get onto a lifeboat and stop floating all alone in the sea of people. I didn’t mention that there was A LOT of people this morning.
Each client asking for help, i tried my best. Some were kind, some were impatient. Each time it felt like i was carrying the weight of the world because i wanted to help the people till my limits were reached (for exemple, a Note that could have helped me check the inventory of the store).

I met Emma (one close colleague of Leo) that realise i’m alone and she asks if i’m doing okay. I tell her that i laughed at Lea the other day when she said she felt like a Mama Duck with all the clients that needed help, but that now i trully understand what she meant.
My biggest client line was 3, like i had 3 clients that asked for help right after i finished helping one.

When Leo FINALLY arrived, i felt exhausted, as if my day was already going for 6 hours straight.
I tell him about the Thomsone i ‘’hopefully’’ sold. And he go check if it got sold and…. IT DID !!!
*Squid game celebration meme*
I just made 100€ to our section, almost as good as if i sold a piano, but what is better is that i sold something that was taking A LOT of place in the stock piles, and so i’m extremly effective in that specific sale.
He also told me it was alright for the Mary the Kitty figurine.

We do some price tag changing, some promotions, rearranging, receptions of new stuff, but on top of all this we mostly help clients.
At some point Leo says :

Leo : I just realised that i eat at 15 and you eat at 14, which means you’ll have an hour alone, again.

Me : Oh ! *gulp* i didn’t realise that. And Mathew is not here ?

Leo : Nah its his resting day. I mean… He could come as a client but otherwise he won’t be there to help you.

Me : Oh nah……………………..

Leo : And thus to what i was about to say. Maybe i could let you borrow my Note while i’m eating.

Me : Oh that would be so nice of you.

And so he starts telling me all that i have to know about the Note, matrix mode (like brain downloading a skill). I hardly remember anything, except the most important stuff like the search bar and how to print price tags.

And so its my lunch break and i go eat.
I eat alone. Usually there is always atleast one person
There’s one that arrives when i finish eating (i don’t know her name but i just remember that it was the cashier that called Marine on my very first day).
Before leaving the room i tell her ‘’Bonne appetit’’ and she says ‘’thank you’’ happily.
I then read a little in the resting room while i chew my last chewing gum.

Then its Leo’s turn to have a lunch break, and so he passes me his Note, reminds me of the essential, then he goes.
So here i am, like a kid in a jungle, that barely knows how to use a compass on a map.
I somehow manage to do stuff tho.
I do some price tag printing and shelf re-arranging, and i help MANY clients (i would not be able to count them on my hand). I absolutly love it, its so usefull for me to have a Note because i get asked for help A LOT. Even when Leo is here next to me, i’m the one the customer like to go to for some reason.
I help someone get headphones, i help someone get 1 vinyl out of 10 she was searching (i am deadass, none of the one she was searching were in our stock or in the Cultura warehouses stocks).
I also help a couple to find a vinyl, and they help me find it for them (what the fack ?).
I also ‘’sorta’’ had my first ever Karen encounter.
It started with a ‘’Do you work in this store’’, ‘’Yes i do’’, ‘’Oh you seemed kinda young’’.
Off to a great start i guess ?

She then proceeded to talk to me like if i’ve already done a mistake, she wasn’t polite at all like ‘’It’s for my grandson so its very important, MHHM ?’’ and THANKS THE LORD the vinyl she was looking for wasnt in our stock nor in Cultura warehouses stocks. So she left me still annoyed, and i lived happilly ever aft…. Herm herm, i got carried away my bad.

Allat to say i felt disrespected at this moment but i don’t really give a f**k because i didn’t have to help her succeed in her quest of finding a Europe vinyl since i couldn’t even order it.

I then help for like 10 minutes the same clients to find a piano song book that would have some french artist that aren’t that old, and honestly, with anybody else it would have been annoying, but these clients were very polite and sorta funny so it was nice to help them. In the end i found them what they needed.
At some point i managed to sell a T’n’B Cube Amp (it’s a french brand so don’t be confused) for 60€, and when Leo came back, he said :

Leo : Well congrats you sold another thing that doesn’t get sold often.

After this, nothing very particular happened. Many clients interractions, lots of shelve re-arranging, printing etc….. Not a lot happened till the fire alarm started to ring.

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Nah i’m kidding you really thought this happened ? Lmao i’m deadass the rest of the day was average.

At the end of my day, i was extremly exhausted.
I usually tank exhaustion quite much but today was hard, mostly due to the movie we watched the night before and the lack of sleep this morning, but also because there was as twice as many people as yesterday.
Before i go, Leo tells me that he won’t be there tomorow nor the next day so he said that maybe he could let me borrow his Note. Massive W for ma boi Leo that just probably saved my ass from humiliation infront of clients i can’t help.

I say goodbye to Leo, say goodbye to Marine and Quentin i meet on my way to the exit, then i see something interesting in display.
It’s what i think is a stencil printer, which would help me so damn much in the future since i’m sure that i will use this a lot.
I’ll think about it.

Anyway, we STILL don’t have wifi, and we’ll have to wait till next week.
A WHOLE MONTH WITHOUT WIFI IS CWAZYYYYYYY.
Its currently 22:47 (10:47 pm), for once it isn’t that late, it is late but it isnt that late, but it feels as if it was that late.
I’m gonna go to sleep now.
Goodnight.

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