sticky tape STICKS

I am being trained up in the layby dept, not as easy at it looks, because layby also has to deal with refunds and exchanged which makes for very rude and nasty customers at times. HOWEVER, today I was told that I handle them extremely well because I have tact! (and I bet, you thought that  I thought TACT was something you put under your arm didn't you LOL I did until I worked in layby lol).

Anyway, part of the job is wrapping the parcels and I bet you thought the fairies did that too! an easy task for some but I am sticky tape challenged. We have to wrap tape all around the bags to make sure no one pilfers accidentally picks something up on the way out of the store and accidentally puts it in their bag LOL. To do this, we use very wide tape on a hand held contraption, we slap it onto the parcel and then, pulling the contraption up we then wrap it around and around the bag until satisfied that the items are suffocated!

I was having a wonderful time, learning how to use these complicated machines LOL (ok, it's just a large packing tape dispenser, but contraption sounds more intriguing), I was merrily taping away, when the bell went off, WHICH MEANS...get your butt out here girl, we need you on the register!..I forgot that I was using the tape, spun around and realized and had wrapped the tape around myself, spun back around the other way, wrapping myself further, meanwhile the bell is tingalinging and I'm getting all flustered, tape is thick so doesn't break to easily, I'm getting more and more wrapped up, the bell is tingling then it stops and all goes quiet, I look out the conveyor belt flap door thingy (bet you didn't know we could see you out there hey so next time your there, on your own, don't pick your nose, because that will make us crack up when we are watching you!!! actually, when we see you pick your nose, or scratch your bum, we then argue over who is NOT going to serve you!!!) to see if I was still needed and I wasn't PHEW..so I starts to slowly extricate myself from the dreaded tape, with that I look around to see my supervisor and another fellow worker, standing in the doorway, holding their sides and absolutely peeing themselves at the sight of me wrapped in tape!!...

I wonder if they'll invite me back to help next week??