pre-sale, the day after

So yesterday was the day I have been dreading for the past few weeks. But it wasn't that bad at all. It was nothing like the summer pre-sale. It was busy of course, it was more busy than the regular saturday or thursday-evening. But not as busy as with the summer pre-sale. It must have been the weather that kept people away. It was raining cats and dogs yesterday, the whole day.
But it was still hard work though. Yesterday afternoon as soon as we opened I started on getting as much as possible in the shelves and on the racks. And that's a lot. After just one hour of work I was already sweating, my back hurt more than it had done the last few weeks and my feet where killing me. I'm telling you, making sure that there's enough in the store all by yourself is not a pleasant thing. It gave me stress like I've never had it. A regular race against time. That's why I was owh so happy that Peter started early. He came at 3.30 pm and that way we got everything done on time.
Together we went to get the food we had ordered by the snackbar, de Vork, and had the unpleasant surprize of hearing the food wasn't done on time. It was supposed to be ready at a quarter to six. Instead we didn't leave there till 6.05 so we weren't by the store again till 6.10, which gave us all 20 minutes to eat.

And as expected there was a line outside the door when we walked back into the store at 6.30. But I must say, that night. It was hard work, no minute of rest and only running around trying to sell as much as possible, I loved it. It was like on big party, we had food, drink and everyone was in good spirits.

Tonight there's another one of these nights. Just this time, I'm going to be a customer.