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  • More gum than Wrigley's--stuck to the floors!

    So Wednesday night some contractors came in to shampoo or steam-clean the carpets in the store.

    After they finished doing this, they left a nice note for the store manager, in which they expressed horror and disgust at the absolute neglect out carpets have been getting from the cleaning crews.

    Specifically, while cleaning the carpets, they pulled up and discarded 150 old, dried-up wads of gum from the carpets.

    This, of course, is amazing for all the wrong reasons. For one thing, how did the carpet cleaners manage to keep track of all the wads of gum they were picking off the carpets?

    For another thing, the carpeted area of the store is basically apparel, which is only half of the salesfloor, if that. There is also a small pad of carpet in the furniture department but I'm not sure that was done. They would've had to move all the displays off the carpet and then put them back in the exact spots where they came from when they were finished.

    So we're at new, uncharted depths of suck with these cleaning people. And now, a song:

    150 wads of gum on the floor
    150 wads of gummmmmm....
    Pick one off and chew 'till it's soft
    149 wads of gum on the floor.....
    Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

    "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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    Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
    150 wads of gum on the floor
    150 wads of gummmmmm....
    Pick one off and chew 'till it's soft
    149 wads of gum on the floor.....
    Gee thanks, Irv, now that song's gonna be stuck in my head for a week!

    I think I'd rather deal with 150 wads of simple chewing gum than the
    pixy Stix horror.

    Was in clothing retail, and this little kid, maybe 5, is walking through the store with a handful of Pixy Stix. He didn't tear the ends off and dump the sugar in his mouth, he just bit off a chunk of paper and sugar, chewed it till the sugar dissolved, then spit it out on the floor. We had uncounted rock-hard wads of sugar-coated blue, green, and red paper all over.
    "Eventually, everything that you have said becomes everything you will ever say." Eireann

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    • #3
      mmmmm pixy stix. be carefull not to breathe when eating. mixes well with redbull. gotta love em. gum ground into the floor? thats just nasty on all kinds of levels
      This is a drama-free zone; violators will be slapped. -Irving Patrick Freleigh
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      • #4
        Daaaaamn!!! And I thought we had more underneath our desks in school...
        I don't get paid enough to kiss your a**! -Groezig 5/31/08
        Another day...another million braincells lost...-Sarlon 6/16/08
        Chivalry is not dead. It's just direly underappreciated. -Samaliel 9/15/09

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