Ice, Ice, Baby

Mothers make the world go round...which is why every mother in Owensboro was treated to lunch at Texas Roadhouse on Sunday morning. I was scheduled as opener for the day, a 9:45 am, which is an hour earlier than I usually arrive at work on Sunday mornings. Considering that Mother's Day is the busiest day of the year for my place of employment, I was in charge of scooping extra butter portions and slicing more lemons. Needless to say, these tasks took me a bit longer than usual. Just as I was about to finish with my opening work, my boss approached me and asked if I would run an errand for him. The brand new ice machine had decided to break on the busiest day. I quickly took the $50 to Wal*Mart and stood at the ice chest trying to calculate how much ice I could buy with the cash. I assumed that 12 bags would suffice and loaded it into the cart. My purchase was made and I quickly returned to work before I flooded my trunk with melted ice. Once I got to work I parked near the door because not many guests were at the restaurant at the moment. Servers came out to my vehicle to unload the large bags of ice and I went inside to grab a quick drink. Then I returned to my Jeep to move it back across the street to the employee parking lot. As soon as I had parked and entered the restaurant, the manager approached me again and asked for me to purchase double what I had during my first trip, this time at Sam's Club with his membership card. I walked BACK across the road to my vehicle and made my way to the store. I found the ice chest at Sam's and retrieved two flatbed carts to stack large ice bags on. 30 bags was what I could purchase for $100 and I proceeded to the checkout. The cashier took my boss's membership card and the register rang up as "Card must be renewed." What was I supposed to do? I only had $100 to purchase ice and renewal my boss's card would set me back $35. I quickly decided to charge the renewal fee to my own credit card and have my boss reimburse me, which is what he did upon my return to a hectic restaurant. Then I had the issue of transporting the ice into the restaurant which I will discuss in next week's blog!