long times. and a fire.

so i haven't written in this since school last year. and i doubt anyone still keeps up on these..but whatever. i feel the need to write.

today was the most interesting day in my career at MJR. the concession stand almost burned down. and i think thats hilarious. i know thats horrible but its just really funny because we all always joke about it burning down because we hate it and about how if it did burn down, they would make the employees stay and serve charred popcorn in the rubble. now, of course that didnt happen, but they did make everyone stay and clean up after it was put out.

it was an oil fire in one of the popper kettles. something happened and oil was left in it too long and it caught aflame on the inside, eventually making its way to the outside, engulfing the kettle in flames. two of my managers, brian and josh, attempted to put it out with a fire extinguisher but that didnt seem to work. then they threw water on it, which obviously wasnt a good idea because the flames exploded even larger, seemingly almost catching josh's arm on fire. the water did put the flaming popcorn out, preventing the flame from spreading. they called the fire department but by the time they got there, brian and josh already put it out. we ended up closing the stand for 3 hours so we could get everything under control and cleaned up. in the meantime while everyone was cleaning, irritating customers were coming up to the stand and complaining because they didnt under how we expected them to ever watch a movie without their fix of overpriced popcorn. one woman actually came up and started bitching about it while the kettle was at its peak flame. its just like, ma'am do you not see whats happening? are you not suffocating from the smoke caking out of this place? would you really like me to get you a flaming bag of popcorn?...dumbass.

so yeah. that was my interesting day at work.