I told you we should've taken the helicopter

Today at work was the awards party for a junior high football team and cheerleaders, so it was a ton of pre-teens seated apart from their parents/chaperones, who did NOTHING to stop them from acting up. They were throwing ice and butter, and they bent at least three forks completely out of shape, and they stacked plates in the center of their tables, where we could barely get to them.

I was so pissed toward the end of the party, and looking out at the enormous messes we’d have to clear off nearly every table made it worse. Then, as I was coming back from the kitchen with a tray loaded with cake, I saw about 20 kids crowded in front of the doors, standing around and bullshitting in an area where they KNEW people would be going back and forth with glass and heavy trays, and I lost it. My heart started pounding and all the blood was rushing to my head, and I screamed “EXCUSE ME.” Those kids made a path for me so damn fast and they got the hell away from those doors afterwards.

I always go into work with a positive attitude and I always do my best to be nice, but I WON’T tolerate bullshit from kids who are old enough to know better than to act like animals when they’re out to eat. And I won’t take shit from the adults who don’t do anything to stop them, either.