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  • #1

    Flipping The World Upside Down & Other Stories.

    It's been fairly slow these few days at Aid of Rite, so these stories are compiled from the entire weekend. And sadly, no, no stupid people this week, so no "How To:" format this week. Sorry.

    Friday

    I Am No Man's Peep

    This one creeped me out just a little bit. Regular customer (54 ish) comes in and the male cashiers are joking around with him and he says, "Y'all are gonna be my peeps when I open my own place, huh? Y'all are gonna be my staff."

    ...No. Not really. I don't intend on being your so called "peep". I always imagine myself coated in a purple sugar coating when I hear that.

    Saturday

    What To Do: While Waiting In Line For Prescriptions

    Coworker had finished facing cough and cold and toothpaste/fem care/foot care. He came back an hour or so later later while going through the rest of the store to find out that someone had spent the time going through those aisles and flipping upside down everything that could be flipped over and placed it nice and neat on the shelves. Therefore, coworker had to spend an additional hour flipping everything back over.

    Daddy?

    This poor kid got lost, couldn't have been more than 3 years old. We (customer and I) were asking him "What is your dad's name?"

    "Um...Daddy?"

    "What was daddy wearing?"

    "Dunno." Poor guy looked like he was ready to cry. Luckily, Dad popped his head around the corner and the little boy ran off.

    Sunday

    Get To The Point

    Old Lady called, going on about how Glade must have cancelled their bathroom sprays which she needs because her dog pees in the house. She goes to <grocery store> and doesn't see them, maybe they have been cancelled, she needs them for her dog who pees in the house, but maybe Glade stopped making them. Her dog pees in the house, you know. Did Glade stop making their sprays? Her dog pees in her house. Would we happen to have any sprays? She's afraid Glade stopped making them, <grocery store> doesn't carry them and she needs them because her dog pees in the house....

    Skateboard Fools

    Not much to this one. Two kids stole iced tea and powerade and booked it when my manager glared at them as they went outside. They booked it really fast. Manager thought about calling the police but didn't in the end.
    Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.-Winston Churchill
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  • #2
    Glade lady's money might be better spent on some training classes...

    (apparently, her dog pees in the house. )
    I don't go in for ancient wisdom
    I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
    It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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    • #3
      Quoth ralerin View Post
      I Am No Man's Peep
      ...No. Not really. I don't intend on being your so called "peep". I always imagine myself coated in a purple sugar coating when I hear that.
      but...being dyed a neon color and coated with sugar is FUN!

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      • #4
        Quoth LexiaFira View Post
        but...being dyed a neon color and coated with sugar is FUN!
        And what would you know about this?
        Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

        "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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        • #5
          Quoth ralerin View Post


          Daddy?

          This poor kid got lost, couldn't have been more than 3 years old. We (customer and I) were asking him "What is your dad's name?"

          "Um...Daddy?"

          "What was daddy wearing?"

          "Dunno." Poor guy looked like he was ready to cry. Luckily, Dad popped his head around the corner and the little boy ran off.

          .
          How hard is it to teach your children that Mommy and Daddy have names, and what they are? My daughter knew our names from about a year and a half. At age two she absolutely horrified a few people I knew when she went thru a two-week stage of calling me by my name, and I let her. Anyone who dared say anything to me had it pointed out to them that should our children get away from us in a store, at least mine could have a clerk page me by name

          Madness takes it's toll....
          Please have exact change ready.

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          • #6
            I sympathise with you on the Glade lady; sounds like my phone calls with Grandma, who has Alzhiemers. So hard to remember she's not doing it on purpose.

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            • #7
              Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View Post
              And what would you know about this?
              enough to know to know better and do it anyways. and that yes, to some its not fun at all but rather creepy. but now thanks to ralerin i will think of this image every time i hear the word "peep" in whatever context it is being used
              Last edited by Midnight12; 09-21-2009, 03:10 AM. Reason: wanted to ad more

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              • #8
                Her dog routinely pees in her house and her solution is to put a Glade air freshener in there?

                Nice.

                I bet the smell in her house can and does make the paint peel.

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                • #9
                  I Am No Man's Peep
                  A Tip: Never try to roast marshmallow peeps over your stove,they tend to melt into caramel puddles of goo rather than roast into delicious fluffs of..other goo.

                  At least you'd be especially popular during Easter!

                  Get To The Point
                  It's somewhat scary to think the copious amounts of urine it would take for it to need to be drowned out using Glade.I don't think I've ever used that trick with the numerous amounts of animals that passed through the house. Usually the smell can be solved by cleaning the source with soap and water or anti-urine sprays they sell at pet shops.
                  *jedi hand wave* This game works...just not in your system.

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                  • #10
                    You know - I'll bet the woman who needed Glade because her dog pees in her house, is related to the woman with the 18-year-old daughter whose Pepperoni Lovers' Pizza had too much pepperoni, see?

                    Or maybe she's the same woman.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Merriweather View Post
                      How hard is it to teach your children that Mommy and Daddy have names, and what they are? My daughter knew our names from about a year and a half. At age two she absolutely horrified a few people I knew when she went thru a two-week stage of calling me by my name, and I let her. Anyone who dared say anything to me had it pointed out to them that should our children get away from us in a store, at least mine could have a clerk page me by name
                      the easier question to ask the child is "what is your last name?" then you can just page "can Mr/Mrs lastname come to the service desk please?"
                      "You can only try so hard to look like you are working before actually doing your work seems easy in comparison" -My Boss

                      CW: So what exactly do you do in retentions?
                      Me: ummm, I ....retent stuff?

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                      • #12
                        Quoth RecoveringKinkoid View Post
                        Her dog routinely pees in her house and her solution is to put a Glade air freshener in there?
                        My dog routinely pees in the house ...

                        ... on a specially-made piddle pad.


                        It's not hard to get/make a piddle pad and teach the dog that THAT is where to pee if she's in the house and has to go. And the piddle pad can then be thrown out or washed, and the house doesn't smell of dog pee!

                        Admittedly, I do mop the piddle pad zone more carefully than the rest of the house, and squirt scent absorber in the air over it. But I do that in the litter tray area too.


                        (Re-usable piddle pad construction, if anyone wants to know. PUL backing, terrycloth interior, fleece top surface. Supplies and examples of the principle are at any 'make-your-own cloth diaper' site. Also washing instructions.)
                        Seshat's self-help guide:
                        1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
                        2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
                        3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
                        4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

                        "All I want is a pretty girl, a decent meal, and the right to shoot lightning at fools." - Anders, Dragon Age.

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                        • #13
                          What the hell. It's been awhile.

                          http://peepresearch.org/
                          "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                          "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                          "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                          "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                          "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                          "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                          Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                          "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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                          • #14
                            Quoth MrPibbsRevenge View Post
                            A Tip: Never try to roast marshmallow peeps over your stove,they tend to melt into caramel puddles of goo rather than roast into delicious fluffs of..other goo.
                            Better tip: put 2 peeps on a plate, give each peep a toothpick, and stick in the microwave. The winner is whichever peep punctures the other first.

                            Also, if you lay a bunny peep on a bed of hot cocoa mix and slowly pour in hot water, everything will melt except the eyes and nose, which will float in your hot cocoa, glaring at you.
                            Last edited by AriRashkae; 09-22-2009, 09:55 PM. Reason: typo
                            Any day you're looking down at the dirt instead of up at the dirt is a good day.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth RecoveringKinkoid View Post
                              Her dog routinely pees in her house and her solution is to put a Glade air freshener in there?

                              Nice.

                              I bet the smell in her house can and does make the paint peel.
                              If you spend the night at her house you'd better not sleep on the couch.

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