This story will be about how I survived my third time working in the Dome. Except it won't be much of a story, as this time wasn't as bad as the second time. For starters, our concession stand was quite a bit bigger than last time. We actually had room to move about in the back, and store all our food products as well. I also learned how the fountain drinks in these stands (almost) never run out. There was some tubing connected to bags of pop (yes, in bags), that was stabilized by a pump consistently pressurizing these drinks and linking the bags to where the cashiers put the drinks in the cup. I'm a big fan of space anyway; you wouldn't get any of that cool pressure-and-pump stuff anywhere else.
There were other interesting quirks I picked up about the stadium, like the Dome's policy not on not serving the bottle caps with the bottles. I suppose they implemented that rule when Chuck Knoblauch returned to the Dome for the first time as an outfielder (he used to be a great second basemen with the Twins, but was traded to the Yankees in 1998), and many fans had taken the opportunity to show them their "appreciation" by throwing all that crap on the field. Anyway, I kind of felt sorry for one of the customers that I rang up, because he had "bad hands," and therefore couldn't carry everything he ordered (a couple drinks, plus a bag of peanuts). So our manager sent someone to help him carry his stuff. Crazy times.
Anyway, my carpool was the first to leave (at our request), and as we departed the others in our group still had a few things to clean up, and the Twins game languished in the top of the 11th inning (ie extra innings) with the Rangers suddenly putting on an offensive outburst. So on the way back to St. Olaf, I sort of tried to doze off in the car (I wasn't nearly as succesful as I was on the way to the Dome). Upon entering my dorm room Tyler (my roommate) was fast asleep... and this was at 11:45 PM on a Friday night! So naturally I stayed up for another couple hours (not without dozing off during a movie), crashed at 1:45 AM and slept in till 11:30 this morning. Now that's what I'm talking about. :-)
We finally had our first remotely sunny day since Sunday. It's been an awfully cold and rainy week. On the flip side, you can't beat those post-8:30 PM sunsets, which Chicago doesn't get until the solstice, anyway.
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