RDOs Amigos: My final mid-week RDO. It All Ends.

I never thought it would happen, but I think I am actually getting nostalgic for the last decade of which I have, on and off, worked in retail.

It isn’t all because of retail, however.

Today was my final mid-week RDO.

While that doesn’t mean I will never get a day off between Monday and Friday, quite the opposite I assume. It is however the final time a day off will appear on my roster in the middle of the week outside of public holidays, flex days or annual leave.

It was a momentous day.

I also saw the final Harry Potter film today, which could also have a large impact on why I feel that way.

Like retail, Harry Potter has been a major part of my life for the past decade. I have eagerly awaited books, watched previews on YouTube on bad dial-up Internet connections and spent hours engrossed in a genre of which I despise.

Fantasy.

I hate fantasy as a genre and I hate retail, yet thanks to both Harry Potter and the lovely people I’ve had the joys of working with (not all of you, some of you drive me nuts…I can’t be too soppy), I have had a much more fulfilled and exciting life.

It was therefore most fitting that on my final mid-week RDO I also celebrated the final film in the Potter saga.

Needless to say, the film was amazing and tears flowed quite freely.

Whilst the final Harry Potter film made me sad that it was the end, the final few days of my retail career make me happy.

I am finally out and if I have to forfeit mid-week days off to get such joy, that is fine. It’s collateral damage.

Now that was a bad movie.