Even more strange is the rental patterns I see sometimes.
For example... A 2" trash pump. I haven't rented one of those in weeks, despite miserable wet weather. Today, I sent out two of them only minutes apart.
Floor saws.... Haven't rented one in prolly a month or more. Yesterday, we sent out no less than five of them.
A guy called yesterday about concrete blankets... it was 56 degrees yesterday. A few weeks before, when it was bitter cold... no calls for concrete blankets.
600cfm air compressor... only gets rented a few times a year to blow out golf course irrigation lines. A month ago, I had a waiting list for it... Everybody wanted it the same damn week or day.
These odd patterns always cause me to look at a calender and sure enough... it's a full moon.
Just like the company phones...
It will be dead silent in here for an hour or more sometimes... then all of a sudden all hell breaks loose... all the phone lines start ringing, and 10 people come into the store at the same time...
It REALLY weird.