To Linton-Milano Music {aka Milano's}

I love my job.

I love the girls I work with.

I love the extremely difficult customers.

I love repricing music.

I love the layers of dust on the filing cabinets.

I love getting the Sweetcakes craving every day.

I love taking lessons payments.

I love calling "not it" when our "favorite" customers come in.

I love mailing music.

I love the jam-packed & intimidating composers section.

I love how we can go from angrily ranting about whatever to answering the phone angelicly in a split second.

I love unpacking music.

I love getting new EZ Play issues & having to move everything.

I love the Saturdays that drag on and on and on. And on.

I love the one kid who is an amazing pianist that doesn't have a piano at home, so he comes & plays in one of our studios for hours.

I love finding projects in the office so I can hear amazing pianist boy play.

I love that I get to see all the new music that comes out.

I love watching/spying on people downstairs.

I love closing.

I love singing obnoxiously when you think that only employees are in the store, only to turn around & see that you have an audience of 1 or 2 customers.

I love finding books in my section that are 10 years older than I am.

I love retrieving the water bottles that get stuck in the dang vending machine.

I love leaving work & seeing people getting pictures taken by our music wall outside.

I love the extravagant decor in the hallway.

I love the students & parents that I've become friends with.

I love the little green golf cart men that have given me a dozen parking citations.

I love the way all of us LMM girls talk the same & use the same phrases & such.

I love the understock drawers that refuse to stay closed.

I love the aspiring musicians who grace everyone with their marvelous talents by obnoxiously blowing horns & saxophones & blaring amps. Bless their hearts.

I love the aspiring musicians who grace everyone with the marvelous talents & who actually know what they're doing.

I love the customers that sing while they look at songbooks.

I love knowing exactly what music people are looking for when they don't even know themselves.

I love the inside jokes that we LMM girls have.

I love the army of gnats or fruit flies or whatever the heck they are that have chosen to abode in our lovely working place.

I love running things across the street to the piano store.

I love the teachers & all their coolness.

Yes, I love my job.