reasonably cynical, stupidly optimistic

At the charity rummage with my mom looking through the baby boy clothes as usual and then she turns to me with her face all lit up and says "We can look at baby girl clothes now too!"

The last few months our clerk and my boss have been super weird about change in the cash register. Like all of a sudden, ease of counting the drawer at the end of the day is more important than being able to make change. We don't carry a lot of cash, so just a couple people using large bills for relatively small purchases can really deplete our supply. But now they've gotten weirdly controlling of another coworker's and my ability to trade for smaller bills during our daily bank run. On Friday, we genuinely needed some 5's and 10's and my boss nearly jumped down my throat when I was getting ready to go to the bank when I'd already cleared it with the clerk (saying big bills are better than small bills). And then today, she informed me that I didn't need to check the registers because she'd already checked them herself (something she's never done before). I just don't get it. The rules changed on me, but the boss never actually said definitively what the new expectations are--just started acting like I don't know what I'm doing.

New obnoxious customer behavior just dropped: playing mobile games on full volume while at the register

Stupid cat loves to be brushed to the point where she cries when I stop, but not her chest and belly. You know, where mats are more likely to happen.