drugs mostly
i was a cashier my last year before uni at a really boring little market and deli. we didn't get discounts on the food ourselves and got yelled at if we leaned against the counters or talked to each other even when there was literally nothing to do

smoking so much ganja the cash register looked like the controls on a spaceship is hardly noteworthy here, but one day i ate some psychedelic mushrooms, which made for quite a day!
some highlights included:
1)thinking some sort of disco light-show machine had been set up behind me when it was in reality just the sunlight being reflected into the store in the exact same mundane way it always was
2)the few minutes of pants shitting fear when i thought i'd worked at least an hour only to check the clock and find that no more than a minute had elapsed
3)hearing my manager talking to a fellow employee behind me in spanish and being unable to control my laughter at the sounds of the (in my altered state) exotic tongue
4) inventing a new game where i'd try to impress the customers by 'guessing' their total before i hit the button to show it - i was invariably correct down to the cent because i'd actually just read the less visible 'running total'

no one complained about my performance or noticed that i was (far more so than most days) drugged out of my skull
(chickensoupforyourface, Sun 11 Jan 2009, 7:40, Reply)