Okay, so these weren't my customers. FYI: we close at 9 PM. We begin to make closing announcements at 8:30 PM. Management and security cannot leave until ALL customers are gone.
I arrive at the store at 8:50 for my overnight shift and I go upstairs. I pass electronics and see a family loitering around in the electronics department. I go and put my stuff up in the back and come back out. Five minutes have passed. They are now at the electronics check out, talking with a sales rep.
Fast forward. The time is now 9:25 PM. The customers are still upstairs in electronics.
Ten minutes pass. They are still upstairs in electronics.
Five minutes pass. I see them coming down the main aisle. Security is waiting at the door to let them out. Management is still in the office waiting for the all clear. The wife is proclaiming loudly at how much money they just saved. They pass the lawnmowers. The husband stops.
Husband: Oh, look at this lawnmower!
Son: WOW, it's so cool!
Wife: HONEY, they want to go home! (in an annoying, high pitched voice.)
Husband: Hold on, I'm just looking!
He looks at the other ones, proclaiming how he wants to have one with a 52 inch deck, but the wife said they didn't need one because their yard isn't that big...blah, blah. A few minutes pass and then they continue to walk down the aisle. They pass by me and then I hear...
Husband: Look at that patio set! That's really cheap!
Son: It's only 200 dollars!
Wife: Really, that sounds like a good deal.
They go over to the patio set (which is a frickin' great deal; five hundred dollars off the original price) and they SIT DOWN.
Wife: (again!) Honey, they want to go home! (same annoying voice!)
Husband: This would look good in our back yard.
Wife: Yeah, I think our patio is big enough.
Then they stand up and finally leave.
The time was 9:50.
Oh my god! What the hell is wrong with people?! I don't even know what took them so long upstairs. They bought a TV. The salesguy seemed a little shellshocked when he came downstairs, so I suppose it wasn't a happy, pretty sale.
I arrive at the store at 8:50 for my overnight shift and I go upstairs. I pass electronics and see a family loitering around in the electronics department. I go and put my stuff up in the back and come back out. Five minutes have passed. They are now at the electronics check out, talking with a sales rep.
Fast forward. The time is now 9:25 PM. The customers are still upstairs in electronics.
Ten minutes pass. They are still upstairs in electronics.
Five minutes pass. I see them coming down the main aisle. Security is waiting at the door to let them out. Management is still in the office waiting for the all clear. The wife is proclaiming loudly at how much money they just saved. They pass the lawnmowers. The husband stops.
Husband: Oh, look at this lawnmower!
Son: WOW, it's so cool!
Wife: HONEY, they want to go home! (in an annoying, high pitched voice.)
Husband: Hold on, I'm just looking!
He looks at the other ones, proclaiming how he wants to have one with a 52 inch deck, but the wife said they didn't need one because their yard isn't that big...blah, blah. A few minutes pass and then they continue to walk down the aisle. They pass by me and then I hear...
Husband: Look at that patio set! That's really cheap!
Son: It's only 200 dollars!
Wife: Really, that sounds like a good deal.
They go over to the patio set (which is a frickin' great deal; five hundred dollars off the original price) and they SIT DOWN.

Wife: (again!) Honey, they want to go home! (same annoying voice!)
Husband: This would look good in our back yard.
Wife: Yeah, I think our patio is big enough.
Then they stand up and finally leave.
The time was 9:50.
Oh my god! What the hell is wrong with people?! I don't even know what took them so long upstairs. They bought a TV. The salesguy seemed a little shellshocked when he came downstairs, so I suppose it wasn't a happy, pretty sale.
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