Today my story of the day in claims consists of three dead fish in a ziplock bag. Like I said there is never a dull moment in this department because people do and drop off the craziest things. I swear things that seem like common sense aren’t all that common apparently to others. I was emptying a bin filled with things from the pets department. I was packaging them in a box to be shipped off. So I start by placing a pink pet carrier in the box then blindly put my hand in the bin and pull out the easiest item to get out. I take a look at it and see these three fish pushed to the corner of the ziplock bag. I look closer thinking and hoping it was just some fake bait that got returned but NOPE, The stench threw away any ounce of hop I had. Literally it smelled like rotting animal. I nearly started gagging and I brought them over to Barbara and said, “ now what in the world do I do with these?” She told me to bring them up to customer service in the front because they are supposed to throw them away right when they get there. So I make my way up to the front of the store with the baggie of dead fish held as far away from me as I could, and took the path less traveled in the store in hopes that the customers wouldn’t see me doing this. I get up the front counter and give them the fish and they admit that they should have been thrown away. They take a look at the return ticket and it had been an entire week that they had been there. GROSSSSSS!!! I have a weak stomach when it comes to smells and dead things. I return to the claims area to continue on with my box and it still stunk so I saturated the air with fabreeze. I should write a thank you letter to whoever invented that! I found out that Ginnie may be going back to her original department sooner than usual because they hired a new claims person and Barbara is going to be training him. Should be interesting. I asked Barbara if she was excited to spend an entire three weeks with me? ( half joking ) She didn’t reply and she kinda looked down and smiled while shaking her head. I go , “ come on now Barbara you can’t stay bitter about me throwing away your strawberries forever!” She still didn’t reply so I continued to tell her that strawberries were on sale for 90 cents now. I tried to get her to crack a smile but I failed. Oh well =) . This week we have some people visiting that are going to India soon for a mission trip. They are here to spend time with us and share some details about what they will be doing while they are there. There are so many unreached people in this world who have never even heard the name of Jesus. This hit me really hard because in America most people grow up hearing about Jesus whether it is through people, songs, or bracelets that say WWJD? It is so essential that we spread the word to people who have never heard it. Tuesdays are the days we have our devoted room time. My room leader Amanda had a sermon for us to listen to. The sermon touched on the subject of pride. Pride is competitive and is taking pleasure of being more than the next person. Pride keeps us from experiencing any real or lasting sense of pleasure. Boasting is to recommend yourself. If someone is puffed up by air but not filled up by something solid and substantial then being inflated and deflated is all the same. . . Meaning that if you are puffed up by something that isn’t true then in reality it is just the same as if you had nothing ( being deflated ). Another key thing I took from this sermon is that peoples thoughts shouldn't be of utmost importance to us because God is all that matters. Even our own thoughts aren't correct. We feed ourselves lies all the time whether its about ourselves or others. I had just never looked at it like that because I used to always rely on my thoughts being ultimate. How VERY wrong I was. God is ultimate truth and so we should look to his word for wisdom and advice.
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