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Stolen Car
Im working as usual and hanging out by the main entrance when a couple come in in a panic shouting "our car has been stolen from your car park, i hope you have cameras!!!!"
I try calming them down saying im sure this isnt the case , have you looked around the car park for it. They just kept saying we know where we parked it, someones stolen it. I take them over to customer services as they were demanding a manager. The manager comes over and trys once again to calm them down and assure them its not likely to have been stolen.
We then get a description of the car and the reg plate and say to start why dont we go check it isnt out there. We go out and they point towards a corner of the car park saying we parked over there. Me and the manager take alternative rows and search, nothing.
The couple once again start with the see we told you it has been stolen, call the police. We tell them we will do after we check the other 2/3rds of the car park. We go to the complete opposite corner and start in from there. Lo and behold there is the "stolen" car parked in the corner furthest away from where they swore they parked.
We told them where we found it, as they stood by the store entrance whilst we "wasted our time" looking in other places for the car which they knew to the inch where it was parked.....Off they rushed without a thank you, and im assuming they got in their non stolen car and went home
Christmas Tree Guy
We didnt sell tree's in our store but they rented the area which is our pick up point out to a local farmer type to sell his trees. He used to come most mornings and cone off the pick up point to make sure it was clear when he got back with his trailer load of trees (which he wasent allowed to park up locally overnight so had to stay on his farm around 25 mins away) First say he puts out his cones and goes off to get the trees. Not 10 minutes later after I had followed a suspected shoplifter round the store (they did a lap of store and left, i stayed about 20 feet behind them the whole way. They walked to back end of store where some high value items are. Looked at me then did a long lap to the exit and went getting nothing and touching nothing. So job well done) When i got back a minibus was parked int he pick up point and the cones were kicked to one side.
After about 20 mins we paged for the driver, several times over 10 minutes, and of course no one responded.
Half an hour later a disabled guy goes to it and climbs in, seems he has been in our cafe having breakfast for the last hour ish.....Had a quick word with him about moving the cones, and it being a pick up point not a parking spot but he didnt care and just drove off while i was trying to talk to him....nice fellow...Im just putting the cones back when someone blasts the horn i look up and see someone indicating to get into the pick up point.....was just thinking not another one when i saw there was a trailer and the driver looked familiar.....the minibus had left literally 20 seconds before the tree guy arrived to set up!
Im working as usual and hanging out by the main entrance when a couple come in in a panic shouting "our car has been stolen from your car park, i hope you have cameras!!!!"
I try calming them down saying im sure this isnt the case , have you looked around the car park for it. They just kept saying we know where we parked it, someones stolen it. I take them over to customer services as they were demanding a manager. The manager comes over and trys once again to calm them down and assure them its not likely to have been stolen.
We then get a description of the car and the reg plate and say to start why dont we go check it isnt out there. We go out and they point towards a corner of the car park saying we parked over there. Me and the manager take alternative rows and search, nothing.
The couple once again start with the see we told you it has been stolen, call the police. We tell them we will do after we check the other 2/3rds of the car park. We go to the complete opposite corner and start in from there. Lo and behold there is the "stolen" car parked in the corner furthest away from where they swore they parked.
We told them where we found it, as they stood by the store entrance whilst we "wasted our time" looking in other places for the car which they knew to the inch where it was parked.....Off they rushed without a thank you, and im assuming they got in their non stolen car and went home
Christmas Tree Guy
We didnt sell tree's in our store but they rented the area which is our pick up point out to a local farmer type to sell his trees. He used to come most mornings and cone off the pick up point to make sure it was clear when he got back with his trailer load of trees (which he wasent allowed to park up locally overnight so had to stay on his farm around 25 mins away) First say he puts out his cones and goes off to get the trees. Not 10 minutes later after I had followed a suspected shoplifter round the store (they did a lap of store and left, i stayed about 20 feet behind them the whole way. They walked to back end of store where some high value items are. Looked at me then did a long lap to the exit and went getting nothing and touching nothing. So job well done) When i got back a minibus was parked int he pick up point and the cones were kicked to one side.
After about 20 mins we paged for the driver, several times over 10 minutes, and of course no one responded.
Half an hour later a disabled guy goes to it and climbs in, seems he has been in our cafe having breakfast for the last hour ish.....Had a quick word with him about moving the cones, and it being a pick up point not a parking spot but he didnt care and just drove off while i was trying to talk to him....nice fellow...Im just putting the cones back when someone blasts the horn i look up and see someone indicating to get into the pick up point.....was just thinking not another one when i saw there was a trailer and the driver looked familiar.....the minibus had left literally 20 seconds before the tree guy arrived to set up!
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