So last night, it's 15 minutes to close, the store is EMPTY, it is also immaculate... It's immaculate because the DM (District Manager) is gonna, supposedly, show up the following day, and if we DIDN'T do a good job cleaning that night, we'd be in deep shit by the manager who opens...
Anyway back to the point... The stores empty, clean, and we got 15 minutes before we get to go home. Yay! It seems all is well, we will get out on time, and Timmy...well he can WALK again! But no... No indeed my compadres, as I am sure you can guess what happened.
The door chime goes off.
It's ten minutes before the store closes and two guys walk in... Who the hell comes in ten minutes before a store closes?! I ask myself...Well, THESE guys apparently. But I give them the benefit of the doubt. I mean, maybe they know what they want? They could be outa here just as fast as they came in! Oh how deluded I was.
So the two men proceed to wander the store, grabbing every movie they can, while screaming to each other from opposite ends of the store. They were obviously drunk, or very stupid, as the discourse went something like this... "Hey look! No Country for Gay Men!" ...Uhg...
So while they are grabbing every movie that tickles their fancy (or their rather limited funny bone) they are also putting the ones that bore them BACK....In the wrong place. This act already infuriates me (and I'll make a thread about it some other time) but now it's happening 8 minutes before closing....and on the day my boss will go ballistic if every things not perfect!
These guys are taking too long...Its now time for their five minute warning. I walk up to them, and rather politely tell them we're closing in five minutes. The man nods, and goes about his business... I see them shortly after playing rock paper scissors apparently a way to decide which movies. But this doesn't work...They come to ME. By now...we're closed, we're done. I was just about to go lock the door and they ask me "whats funny?"
Door Chime
A shiver runs up my spine...my fist clenches. I can hear my teeth creek cause of how tight my jaw has become. The two idiots move away, and another man comes through the door. That's not cool...I was just about to lock the door.
"We're closing..." I state, not rudely, simply matter of factly... I mean we ARE. It's 12, we're closed, and I wanna go home.
"Well I'm not gonna sleep here!" The man states, rather offended at my simple fact, proving he has completely missed the point of said fact. I wasn't telling him not to take long. I was telling him we were closing...IE Get your shit and get out. The man proceeds to wander...Looking for something. I wanna tear my HAIR OUT.
The two dopes come up with their selection...
D1: Dope one
D2: Dope two
Me: Your lord and savior
Me: "Card?" (In reference to a Membership card)
D1: "Oh I don't have it... Can I just give you the last name?" No...No you can't...
Me: ..."License?"
D1: "I don't got it..."
Me: God help me... "Well I need something..."
D2: "What you don't have the card?"
D1: "Naw man... and I don't have a license.."
Me: "Wait...do you have a State ID?"
D1: "Yeah."
Me: "Well that's all I need."
The dude gives me his state ID and I look up his account....I don't find it... This is turning into a nightmare...
Me: "Is the account under someone else's name?"
D1: "Yeah my father...Herman?"
Me: "I'm not seeing that...whens the last time you rented from this store."
D1: "Like...A month."
Me: "Well I don't really see the-...
D2: "Don't you usually go to South Brunswick?"
D1: "What like they're not all connected?
Me: ...
D1: "I usually go to South Brunswick."
Me: "Whens the last time you rented from THIS store?"
D1: "A...year?"
Me: "Yeah you're out of the system, you'll need a card."
D1: "Is there any way we could sign up and get a card?"
Me: At this point I'm getting annoyed....I point to the clock and tell him flat out. "Dude we're closed."
He nods, I tell him sorry, he shrugs me off. I offer to get the door, which is locked now, he tells me 'he got it.' He then proceeds out, complaining that he wanted to watch a movie tonight, and struggles with the door, I chuckled when D2 yelled 'Turn it!'
The other guys not so bad. I mean he did come in when we were CLOSED and spent TEN MINUTES looking for a movie, but he gave me no problems after that. It was just so...annoying. What is with people. Unless you know what you want? You don't get to come in anything less than a half hour before we close. Yeah, that's great that YOU are off from work and can spend your time as you like...But now you're taking up MY time. Even if you're a GREAT customer who's kind, puts everything back where it's found, and kisses the ground I walk on...If you keep me late? You're still an ass hole.
Anyway back to the point... The stores empty, clean, and we got 15 minutes before we get to go home. Yay! It seems all is well, we will get out on time, and Timmy...well he can WALK again! But no... No indeed my compadres, as I am sure you can guess what happened.
The door chime goes off.
It's ten minutes before the store closes and two guys walk in... Who the hell comes in ten minutes before a store closes?! I ask myself...Well, THESE guys apparently. But I give them the benefit of the doubt. I mean, maybe they know what they want? They could be outa here just as fast as they came in! Oh how deluded I was.
So the two men proceed to wander the store, grabbing every movie they can, while screaming to each other from opposite ends of the store. They were obviously drunk, or very stupid, as the discourse went something like this... "Hey look! No Country for Gay Men!" ...Uhg...
So while they are grabbing every movie that tickles their fancy (or their rather limited funny bone) they are also putting the ones that bore them BACK....In the wrong place. This act already infuriates me (and I'll make a thread about it some other time) but now it's happening 8 minutes before closing....and on the day my boss will go ballistic if every things not perfect!
These guys are taking too long...Its now time for their five minute warning. I walk up to them, and rather politely tell them we're closing in five minutes. The man nods, and goes about his business... I see them shortly after playing rock paper scissors apparently a way to decide which movies. But this doesn't work...They come to ME. By now...we're closed, we're done. I was just about to go lock the door and they ask me "whats funny?"
Door Chime
A shiver runs up my spine...my fist clenches. I can hear my teeth creek cause of how tight my jaw has become. The two idiots move away, and another man comes through the door. That's not cool...I was just about to lock the door.
"We're closing..." I state, not rudely, simply matter of factly... I mean we ARE. It's 12, we're closed, and I wanna go home.
"Well I'm not gonna sleep here!" The man states, rather offended at my simple fact, proving he has completely missed the point of said fact. I wasn't telling him not to take long. I was telling him we were closing...IE Get your shit and get out. The man proceeds to wander...Looking for something. I wanna tear my HAIR OUT.
The two dopes come up with their selection...
D1: Dope one
D2: Dope two
Me: Your lord and savior
Me: "Card?" (In reference to a Membership card)
D1: "Oh I don't have it... Can I just give you the last name?" No...No you can't...
Me: ..."License?"
D1: "I don't got it..."
Me: God help me... "Well I need something..."
D2: "What you don't have the card?"
D1: "Naw man... and I don't have a license.."
Me: "Wait...do you have a State ID?"
D1: "Yeah."
Me: "Well that's all I need."
The dude gives me his state ID and I look up his account....I don't find it... This is turning into a nightmare...
Me: "Is the account under someone else's name?"
D1: "Yeah my father...Herman?"
Me: "I'm not seeing that...whens the last time you rented from this store."
D1: "Like...A month."
Me: "Well I don't really see the-...
D2: "Don't you usually go to South Brunswick?"
D1: "What like they're not all connected?
Me: ...
D1: "I usually go to South Brunswick."
Me: "Whens the last time you rented from THIS store?"
D1: "A...year?"
Me: "Yeah you're out of the system, you'll need a card."
D1: "Is there any way we could sign up and get a card?"
Me: At this point I'm getting annoyed....I point to the clock and tell him flat out. "Dude we're closed."
He nods, I tell him sorry, he shrugs me off. I offer to get the door, which is locked now, he tells me 'he got it.' He then proceeds out, complaining that he wanted to watch a movie tonight, and struggles with the door, I chuckled when D2 yelled 'Turn it!'
The other guys not so bad. I mean he did come in when we were CLOSED and spent TEN MINUTES looking for a movie, but he gave me no problems after that. It was just so...annoying. What is with people. Unless you know what you want? You don't get to come in anything less than a half hour before we close. Yeah, that's great that YOU are off from work and can spend your time as you like...But now you're taking up MY time. Even if you're a GREAT customer who's kind, puts everything back where it's found, and kisses the ground I walk on...If you keep me late? You're still an ass hole.
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