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The suck first; this afternoon, it just so happened that there was only two of us at the petrol station. It happens; and right now, there are two people on holiday. Not anything to get one's knickers in a knot. However, my collegue had to go out back in order to take a very important phone call. It could not wait til later, as it was to do with ordering shop stock, and the people we order from aren't open later. Nor could it wait til tomorrow, as we have to order on a certain day to ensure the stock arrives in time for the weekend. Now, my collegue, let's call her Tracy, went out back to deal with the call. This is where the suck begins.
It's strange, isn't it? You can have a humungous queue of roughly around fifteen people, and just one will be sucky. The other customers took my explanation about the super important call with stoical good humour; well, it was as cold as a witch's tit outside and inside the petrol station it was super toasty warm so it wasn't that much of a hardship. ^^ SC however, thought otherwise. She chose to screech, "Then why didn't you get someone over from the shop? It's hardly good customer service to force us to all wait!"
Actually, SC, everyone else is fine; you're the only person with a bug up your arse. I just smiled vaguely and apologised to her to leave her wrong footed; in any case, it would have taken about fifteen minutes minimum to get in another person from the shop, who would more than likely have been untrained. Therefore, I would have to have gone outside to close down half the pumps, and all that rigmarole just wasn't worth it for a five minute call. Yep, that's as long as the call took; five minutes. I'd hate to see how SC reacts to waiting any longer if she gets that het up over five minutes. O_o
As for the snappy answer to a stupid question, that was earlier and I didn't actually say this, but thought it at the time. xD In actual fact, I just smiled and apologised, and the order did in fact arrive... ten minutes after Mr Impatient left.
Q) Where are your petrol cans? You're a petrol station, aren't you?
A) No actually, we're a front for a drugs cartel.
It's strange, isn't it? You can have a humungous queue of roughly around fifteen people, and just one will be sucky. The other customers took my explanation about the super important call with stoical good humour; well, it was as cold as a witch's tit outside and inside the petrol station it was super toasty warm so it wasn't that much of a hardship. ^^ SC however, thought otherwise. She chose to screech, "Then why didn't you get someone over from the shop? It's hardly good customer service to force us to all wait!"
Actually, SC, everyone else is fine; you're the only person with a bug up your arse. I just smiled vaguely and apologised to her to leave her wrong footed; in any case, it would have taken about fifteen minutes minimum to get in another person from the shop, who would more than likely have been untrained. Therefore, I would have to have gone outside to close down half the pumps, and all that rigmarole just wasn't worth it for a five minute call. Yep, that's as long as the call took; five minutes. I'd hate to see how SC reacts to waiting any longer if she gets that het up over five minutes. O_o
As for the snappy answer to a stupid question, that was earlier and I didn't actually say this, but thought it at the time. xD In actual fact, I just smiled and apologised, and the order did in fact arrive... ten minutes after Mr Impatient left.
Q) Where are your petrol cans? You're a petrol station, aren't you?
A) No actually, we're a front for a drugs cartel.
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