Have you ever had a Shamrock Shake?

Where was I last Saturday? Not drunkenly walking the streets of downtown State College or puking my guts out in a bush, or a sidewalk, or a dorm room...I was at the Creamery. I've got to admit, the night started out pretty rough. Right when I arrive at the Creamery I'm informed first that I have to do dishes and then told that there was no warm water in the whole building. Let me tell you,  a sink full of dirty dishes that I will have to wash with ice cold water is not a pleasant thing to look forward to.

However, after I was told I'd be doing dishes later, I was then told that I was going to be on register. The first group of  kids I wait on are drunken boys in State Patty's Day shirts. My conversation with the first boy went like this:

DB(drunk boy): Your ice cream is soooooooo gooooood.
Me: Oh I know, it's just the best.
DB: I think I need a milkshake. Your milkshakes are soo good! Can I get mint? It's green.
Me: Of course you can get a mint shake. Is that all?
DB: Have you ever had a Shamrock shake? They're green too. I bet you haven't had a Shamrock shake because you work here. You must really like this ice cream. (leans in) Your ice cream is way better than McDonald's.

Too funny. Unfortunately, the rest of the night was highly drunk people-free and they were the only entertainment I had to hope for. There were a shocking number of families where the young children were wearing Irish paraphernalia. State Patty's Day is not a family holiday. Silly parents.

So since the drunkards weren't feeling ice cream, my high school buddies and I spent the majority of the night using the hot water thing from the coffee machine (you know, the water for tea) to fill up buckets and then dumped them into the sink. It didn't work very well, because the hot water was being used too much and so it ended up being cold water, but at least it wasn't the ice water the sink was giving me!

The lack of hot water didn't only affect my dishes, it affected the ice cream scooping. Scooping was impossible because the scoopers were sitting in cold water basins, as opposed to the hot water they are usually sitting in, and cold scooper+ice cream=SO difficult to scoop.