Cleaning

[Nakajo]

I was sitting on the floor at the membership desk taking inventory of what we had. My coworker commented to me that we had a line, so I popped up real quick to help the next person.

In the process of popping up, I scared about 3 customers. None of them had seen me back there, and I popped up so suddenly, I guess I frightened them. I started laughing then helped out the line.

[Becks]

It's always fun to scare people in that way.

Unless they scare easily. Then it can suck.

[Geek King]

I seem to be good at accidentally doing that sort of thing. Probably from years of Boy Scouts in a troop where most of our games involved being sneaky in the woods/dark/both. I once walked up behind a supervisor who did a quick 180 and bounced off my chest. He said it was rather like having the back wall sneak up on him.

[Aldous]

I've been "found" before. I'd be stocking the freezer, grabbing cups, whatever, and my manager walks where ever I am, and jumps. She never knows when I'm gone since I'm only gone for about 5 seconds. It's pretty funny to see.

[JustADude]

I'm like 6'5" and have the build of a Defensive Lineman, yet I apparently I'm able to pull a ghost-walk with the best of them. Just moving normally, I'll regularly enter a room to do or get something and, unless someone's looking directly at me when I walk in, they'll get their Jeebies Heebed when I speak to them or otherwise bring myself to their attention through noise-making or walking directly in front of them. I have, literally, made someone scream and fall out of his chair before because I had to cross a room with the door plainly in his line of sight, and he didn't notice me come in until I was right next to him asking him what he wanted for dinner.

I can never seem to do it when I actually TRY, though.

[Imogene]

I get that constantly... hmmm... 6'4"... I'm not stick thin by any means of the word... I constantly would manage to get all the way from the front of the store to the back office, drop off some random trinket I had with me in the office, and be on my way out the front door before any of my coworkers would even so much as greet me at Chesterfield. Worked a charm, however, whenever I was having problems with Old SM. I could follow almost precisely on his heels, and I was bigger than him, so whenever he did his sudden turn around move to check out the front of the store, I'd be standing right there to scare the jeebies out of him.
Hell, I used to wear a freaking bell on my collar to warn people I was coming. Which helped about as much as the jingle bells on my shoes, apparently, only it was more irritating than helpful. Whereas I was quite used to placing my feet carefully, and thus, not making the jingle bells ring, I had no control over my neck muscles, and even slight twitches set the reindeer bell tinkling.

[Knightmare]

I, too, am in the 6'5" range, but I have such a commanding presence that it's hard for me to NOT be noticed. We're talking about when I come into a room, everyone looks at me and the room goes quiet.

But then I have my ninja skills. I can be very sneaky when I want to be.

One time at the paint desk, I "popped up" suddenly and scared a customer. Did it a few times. So what I did was, when I was done kneeling under the counter to inventory the tints, or putting something away, I would slowly come up by pretending I was walking up a flight of stairs. Sometimes they would be circular stairs; sometimes an escalator. And sometimes, the escalator would stop and I'd be "stuck."
Oh, I did have some fun at the paint desk!