Stormy Saturday

I went to report for work at the Bistro at 10am. As usual we laid out the cushions on all the seats and got ready to open for business. After opening for an hour or so there wasn't even a single customer in sight. At around 12.30pm then the first group of customers came in, followed by another two groups. After a short while it started to drizzle and all the customers went inside the shelter area while all my colleagues and I scrambled to keep all the cushions, glasses, wrapped cutlery and condiments baskets. The customers and us were kind of like stuck under the Bistro shelter, just waiting for the rain to stop.

After the rain had almost cleared up, I went for lunch and when I was back at the Bistro, the weather appeared to have changed for the better, turning bright and sunny. Those earlier customers had already left. The rest of us were just standing around feeling cold cos of the strong winds. At close to 3pm it started drizzling again and my manager Bryan happened to drop by and told us to close it up for the day. We were actually quite glad by the decision as it was freezingly cold out there and time passed so slowly because there was really nothing for us to do. I clocked out at around 3.15pm and came back to use laptop in the laundry room until about 5pm then went to take a bath.

When I was walking to the cafeteria to have my dinner, I felt really weird to see that the skies had cleared up and it was bright and sunny once again. Maybe it was just fate that my hours got cut again due to external factors. My job is really an unstable one.