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Today was a 5 PM - 1 AM shift at the local grocery store. Wasn't all bad, but ended on a rather sour note.
I'll start with the two good things I remember about the day:
Can you teach me how to do that?
I look to my next customer in line, and a boy around 10 is balancing a heavy bag of rice on his head. He grins, I grin back. 'Look what I can do!' I go, 'Impressive. Here, have some buddy bucks!' He was quite pleased.
It really was impressive. When it came time to scan it, I could barely lift it up.
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Spelling Made Cute
A girl of around 3 came through my line with her Mom. The Mom said how she had been shopping at HEB since she was a little girl. And then she asked her daughter, 'How do you spell store?'
The girl smiles and goes, 'H-E-B!'
She was adorable. I made her a balloon because she was so gosh-darned cute.
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The Store is now Closed, You have 2 Minutes before we Release the Hounds
This lady came in five minutes before closing and proceeded to fill up a cart. It was just me and my manager in the store at the time. I made the 'We are closed' announcement, lady keeps shopping. I try to tell her we're closed, she ignores me. Manager tells her we're closed, she sighs and grabs three more items before coming to my line.
I start to ask how she's doing, she immediately barks 'Don't rush me!' Jeez, what crawled up your ass?
She did nothing but tell me how she deserved more time to shop, being a valued customer (why didn't you come during normal hours, idiot?) And then, after my manager bagged her items, she found something wrong with every. single. bag.
"Why did you put the newspaper with the sponges?"
"Why didn't you put the tortillas in a seperate bag?" (she didn't say anything to us about doing that)
"I hate it when you do this! You always stack things on top of my eggs! They'll BREAK!"
....it was a loaf of bread.
She continued to rant and me and my manager were biting our tongues so we wouldn't scream at this lady to get out so we could go home. Finally she left, and we managed to get out of the store.
When I walked out into the parking lot to meet my Mom, the lady was there, I saw her turn to me and open her mouth and I practically leapt five feet into the car and yelled 'Go, Mom! Go Go Go!'
Thank God I have a day off tomorrow.
I'll start with the two good things I remember about the day:
Can you teach me how to do that?
I look to my next customer in line, and a boy around 10 is balancing a heavy bag of rice on his head. He grins, I grin back. 'Look what I can do!' I go, 'Impressive. Here, have some buddy bucks!' He was quite pleased.
It really was impressive. When it came time to scan it, I could barely lift it up.
---
Spelling Made Cute
A girl of around 3 came through my line with her Mom. The Mom said how she had been shopping at HEB since she was a little girl. And then she asked her daughter, 'How do you spell store?'
The girl smiles and goes, 'H-E-B!'
She was adorable. I made her a balloon because she was so gosh-darned cute.
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The Store is now Closed, You have 2 Minutes before we Release the Hounds
This lady came in five minutes before closing and proceeded to fill up a cart. It was just me and my manager in the store at the time. I made the 'We are closed' announcement, lady keeps shopping. I try to tell her we're closed, she ignores me. Manager tells her we're closed, she sighs and grabs three more items before coming to my line.
I start to ask how she's doing, she immediately barks 'Don't rush me!' Jeez, what crawled up your ass?
She did nothing but tell me how she deserved more time to shop, being a valued customer (why didn't you come during normal hours, idiot?) And then, after my manager bagged her items, she found something wrong with every. single. bag.
"Why did you put the newspaper with the sponges?"
"Why didn't you put the tortillas in a seperate bag?" (she didn't say anything to us about doing that)
"I hate it when you do this! You always stack things on top of my eggs! They'll BREAK!"
....it was a loaf of bread.
She continued to rant and me and my manager were biting our tongues so we wouldn't scream at this lady to get out so we could go home. Finally she left, and we managed to get out of the store.
When I walked out into the parking lot to meet my Mom, the lady was there, I saw her turn to me and open her mouth and I practically leapt five feet into the car and yelled 'Go, Mom! Go Go Go!'
Thank God I have a day off tomorrow.
although it is somewhat funny. I get customers who can lift up 10kg bags of rice as though they're nothing, then when I lift it...I send it going "FOOM!" 
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