Minor annoyances and happy reunions

[bigjimaz]

No sucky customers this weekend, just some minor PITA's.

1. Lady wanted $10.00 worth of quarters for the machines. I gave her a roll. She says, "I wanted $10.00 worth not a roll."

2. Man comes to me and says his clothes (mostly jeans and flannel shirts) didn't dry. I asked him to point out the dryer in question. He shows it to me. The temperature selector has 4 choices; fluff, low, medium and high. Care to guess what the temperature was set at? I'll give you a hint. It starts with fluf.

3. For those who don't know, to use a washer in most laundromats, you put the quarters in little slots and slide the coins into the receiver to activate the machine. I saw a woman having trouble with one of the sliders so I walked over. "I think it's broken." I glance down and notice she only had 4 quarters in the slots. (each washer takes 5) "You need to put in another quarter, Ma'am."

4. We do not allow people to dye clothes in the washers. There are 4 signs that say exactly that throughout the laundromat. There is also a sign on the inside of each washer lid. I had to stop 2 people, one yesterday and another today. I point out the signs and stickers to both. Customers cannot or will not read signs. They are either physically incapable or think the signs don't pertain to them.

The fun thing is that people that were some of my favorite customers from my grocery store days are coming into the laundromat. It's nice to see them again and catch up on the things I've missed in the 2 years since I've seen them.

Thus ends week 2 of my adventures in laundry-land.

[Becks]

1. Lady wanted $10.00 worth of quarters for the machines. I gave her a roll. She says, "I wanted $10.00 worth not a roll."

That's just sad. Did you offer to unwrap them for her?

[bigjimaz]

No, but I thought of asking her how much she thought was in a roll.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I might have been tempted to just open the roll and lay out the ten bucks for her. See if she got the message...

PS I love your avatar

[marasbaras]

Was it one of those horrible plastic-shrunk rolls? I've NEVER been able to get those open without some kind of cutting tool.

Of course, if so, my response is "do you have knife or a pair of scissors I could borrow real quick?" If not, "um, could you get these quarters out, please? I can't seem to."

[bigjimaz]

The owner has a machine that counts and rolls the quarters from the machines. They are paper wrappers. I also hate those plastic rolls.

[nicegirl]

i like your laundramat stories.

[powerboy]

The owner has a machine that counts and rolls the quarters from the machines. They are paper wrappers. I also hate those plastic rolls.

I need to get a machine that does that. Then maybe I wont take from my change that I am saving. At my old job, the owner keep getting us the change in the plastic. Keep telling him, how hard it was to get out.

[Retail Associate]

...Lady wanted $10.00 worth of quarters for the machines. I gave her a roll...

Cinnamon or Danish?

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[bigjimaz]

Cinnamon or Danish?

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Considering what she said, it would probably have to be... "nut"

[Rapscallion]

Cinnamon or Danish?

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In the hay?

Rapscallion

[Gravekeeper]

Customers have passive sign immunity. It's an inherent trait. Hell, I've hit a few that were sporadically resistant to literacy all together. ><

[bigjimaz]

Hell, GK, If I had to deal with the people you deal with, I would have done a little felo-de-se months ago.

In the hay?Rapscallion

Raps, when you're as old and ugly as me, you tend to be less picky, but I do prefer that there be at least as much going on in the attic as there is in the rest of the house, if you get my analogy. How can anyone get to be 35 - 40ish and not know that the standard roll of quarters is $10.00. It even says $10.00 QUARTERS right on the side of the damn things.

PS I love your avatar

Thanks. It was a picture I found on the net that I resized to 100 X 100 pixels. It's the only cat picture I can see me having. (I'm more of a dog person)

I need to get a machine that does that. Then maybe I wont take from my change that I am saving.

It's this model.

I doubt he paid that kind of money for it though, as looks like it has been used for years. But that is the model.I notice in that link where it said it can handle wet coins. That may be the reason he bought it. He also owns the coin-op car wash in town.

[Peppergirl]

When I was working in the laundromat, we had a change machine. Back then, the mechanisms were alot pickier about accepting bills than they seem to be today. The bill had to be placed in the machine a certain way, otherwise it would spit it out. Despite the fact that there were signs clearly illustrating how to place the bill in, some people just didn't get it. They'd place it in incorrectly over and over, to the point where the bill spit out at them upwards of 5 times in a row.

After awhile, I devised a way to explain this to people who couldn't seem to get it:

"Head facing toward the window" (since the machine was near the store front)

It's kinda hard to visualize if you weren't there, but it always seemed to sink in.

I'll never forget this one genius, though. After attempting to place the bill in wrong repeatedly, I gave my helpful advice listed above.

Yes....

He turned HIS head toward the window, while again attempting to place the bill in the slot incorrectly.

And yes, at that point, I came around the counter, took the bill from him, and placed it in the machine for him, explaining the proper way to do it.

I don't know if he was stupid or just stoned.

The fact that this particular incident sticks out in my mind 20 years later is endlessly amusing to me.

[Sliceanddice]

That's just sad. Did you offer to unwrap them for her?

wait... offer? hell i would just grab slam t on the edge (to rip the wrapping and scare the woman) and remove the wrapping leaving it in pile on the counter...