Slow Monday

It's the Monday after Thanksgiving. It was not expected to be busy. Guess what? It wasn't busy. There were few peoples.

Shortcake started the day manning the headset for the front line (per usual). She was tempted by the sight of gingerbread cookies across the way, but she decided to wait until lunch, since elves are discouraged from eating and working. It's difficult to say "Merry Christmas" with cookie in your mouth. (But then there were no gingerbread cookies at lunch! Travesty! She had to make do with a chocolate croissant instead.)

Shortcake ushered next, and there was a man who came through and talked to Santa for awhile. He wanted to know why Santa didn't leave him any presents in 2009. Apparently, this was his third visit this year. Seeing Santa probably comforts him. After the man there was a group of 14 Macy's managers who all wanted to be in one picture. Bobble somehow managed it. Some of the district managers had Christmas spirit, and some clearly just did it because they were told to. Unfortunately, they had to wait a bit due to the aforementioned man who asked about his 2009 presents, which did not improve the managers mood. Humph. But after the 14 adults, a boy named Cooper visited, just to say hi, and sat on Santa's lap for awhile.

After lunch, Shortcake photo-ed. This meant she saw about 6 families in an hour. Slow day. Very slow. With few peoples. So Shortcake and Sequin and Santa just chatted away in the downtime about Stephen Shwartz and Connecticut train lines and siblings and things.

She ended the day back where she started, on crowd control, on the front line, on headset. It smelled like bacon instead of gingerbread cookies, which taunted Shortcake since she had just eaten lunch. There was one incident of a woman squatting in a corner, vomiting into a bag. Her companion said she was pregnant and had maybe had some bad food. Shortcake offered to direct her to the bathroom, but the woman just threw away the bag, and had some water, wiped her mouth with a kleenex (offered by Shortcake), and continued in to visit Santa. Which was a little odd. To say the least.