Thank you, thank you all

In answer to your various questions, I have been on an epic journey across the length and breadth of the know world, battling such horrors as have only been seen in folklore and legend. Beasts such as the multiheaded "customer", the fire breathing "manager", and the deceptlivly small but crippling when seen "wage packet".
Those who work in retail over Christmas will know doubt recall the same tale, and testify that it does indeed take weeks to recover.
My trials have left me spent and broken, and I have only recently recovered from them. In time, at least, for my birthday

Which, as it happens, was boring as all hell, as I didn't go anywhere or do anything...but mleh.