New Year's

So I got offered a raise here at work. But I'm also in the process of getting my financial aid in order for school, so hopefully I don't have to work as much. It's a good raise, but nothing's better than not having to work as much. Anyway, I got coerced into working tonight. I was into it at first, but as soon as I booked the last car I thought, "Oh my God. I don't want to work tomorrow night."

I told Sean that I didn't want to work and he kept trying to use his sales/managing techniques he always uses on me and fails miserably because it only enrages me further for him thinking I'm dumb enough to fall for that. So I'm telling him that I don't have a cell phone, so I won't be able to meet up with the passengers...Jeanne's off of work and I don't think she wants to stay alone at home on New Year's Eve. To which he replied, "Okay, just tell her, 'I know you wanted me to be home tonight, but I'm going to be making a hundred dollars by doing this job.'" I look at him and I say, "I'm not saying that. If I do the job, it's because I want to. That's not a good reason. It doesn't matter that I need the money, that reasoning isn't going to fly. I work all the time and we hardly have time together. She's not going to want to give up a night that we can do something together so I can make a hundred extra dollars."

It went on for a while, then I said, "Sean. The only way I'll do it is if I can bring her along with me." He said yes. I said yes. So I'm driving tonight. Also, part of the negotiation process was I'm not working all day and then going straight into the job. So I'm here at work for four hours, just to get things done and make sure all the jobs are okay for tonight.

One thing that I told Sean was that I don't appreciate working so much for so little and even if I got paid more, I don't want to work that many hours.

So I did the job on Saturday night and it was pretty fun. I usually end up with cool people when I do driving jobs. The only shitty thing was that everywhere was closed and there are no Denny's in the Beverly Hills area. So after dropping the passengers at this bar, we drove around for a while looking for a place to hang out and wait at, but no dice. So we ended up hanging out in the car doing crossword puzzles. One thing that I forgot was that the car we drove had a TV/DVD player. I was so pissed at myself for not remembering that. It didn't even occur to me until we were outside of the pick-up address.

After midnight, they came back to the car and we drove them to Silverlake. Dropped them off in front of another bar and this couple walked up to the car and started talking to them and asked me if I could take him and his girlfriend home right up the street. I said yeah and he offered me $30. Then one of the passengers told me that they had personal stuff in the car and didn't want other people in there. I said sorry. I didn't know that they didn't know those people, because they were meeting friends at this place and they walked right up to the car and met them as they arrived. Ooops!

So in this area, or 10 minutes west of here, is Hollywood and there were two Denny's within three blocks of each other. So we went there and ate and waited. It was pretty good timing, because on the way back, right as we were approaching the bar they were at, they called for their pick-up and wanted to go a party that was a few blocks away. I drove there and this party was up an incredible hill. We drove so slowly up it and I thought we were going to either slide back down the hill or the car was going to flip over. It was almost at a 90 degree angle, no kidding.

So I dropped them off and decided to drive around this neighborhood. It was kind of fun. The streets were very narrow and the road was all uprooted to the extreme. The roads here would probably be very suitable for a Land Rover or a Hummer. It was fun. I wish I had my bike or probably my skateboard. They called shortly after that and wanted to bail the party. So I grabbed them an headed back to their place passing once again, Hubbard Dianetics, which is completely surrounded by Kaiser Permanente facilities. Hmmmm?

Tom Cruise was outside fixing his spaceship.