easy but slooooooooooooooow

I take a one-day gig at the new Whitney.

I arrive in time at 10; the small retail store where I'll be working opens at 10:30.  No one is there when I arrive. The only people there are people like me, there to help.

I'm a little nervous. How can I be trained when the doors open at 10:30 and it's already 10:30?

I don't know how to use the register.

I don't know anything about back inventory.

I don't know anything.

But not to worry. 

When someone arrives they simply say, "You can just refer all questions to me. And you won't be handling the register. Only full time employees do that."

"Oh, okay. So what do I do?" I ask.

Just be around to talk to any customers.

Needless to say, it is an excruciatingly long eight hours. 

Doing nothing is so much harder than doing something.