Bitching for bean dip

[venroses]

That would happen when I worked at the Dq too. between -15 to -25, nobody would come in. But if it was blizzard conditions, blowing snow, -25 to -40 everybody wanted ice cream. It would always blow my mind that people were driving to our store!

[Racket_Man]

That's something I've noticed when it comes to weather... At the old video store, the worse the weather, the busier it got.

-45C cold? Let's rent a movie!

3 feet of snow? Let's rent a movie!

Power out? Let's rent a movie!

The worst part was this... It isn't too cold to rent something, but it's MUCH too cold to bring it back...

yes I have my stereo-typical reaction to this

2 snowflakes fall -- let's order pizza

blizzard -- let's order more pizza then bitch about the long delivery times

2 rain drops fall -- let's order pizza

heavy rain -- let's order pizza

-20F with windchill of -40F -- let's order pizza then bitch about the long delivery times and how the pizza is not boiling LAVA HOT

[dalesys]

What prompts people to think, "I'm freezing solid. Let's get ice cream!"?

Mutha Naycha says "Do be cold, ya hear!"

Don't go against what the mutha wants.

[tollbaby]

Well, you know, it's really good bean dip!!! (now I'm craving some, argh!)

[drunkenwildmage]

When i was working pizza, We had a customer complain to the manager because we suspended deliveries during a tornado warning. (Per company policy. He reason to the manager was "There is a tornado out there, do you think I'm going out in that?!"..



The manager told him to get bent before hanging up the phone.

[poofy_puff]

Here in 93 during the great blizzard a neighbor asked me to take him to the store for batteries for his radio since the power was out. So off we went (it's good to have 4WD) and I kid you not the road to Kroger/Food City/Red Food was lined with people coming back from said locations and almost all were toting Beer. Now I know being stuck at home with the wife and kids and whom ever else can be nerve wracking but to risk your life for beer??? Not me. Another neighbor asked me to take him to the store for beer and cigs, I told him no, if he needed food I'd take him but not for that stuff. Power was out for 5 days and most of that time the temp was in the teens and twenties. I have pictures of the kids walking on the ice that built up on the pool. (Note: It rarely snows here and when it does it's gone by noon.)

Ha! That's the SAME blizzard I was talking about in this post:

That reminds me of working at the Store 24 (now Tedeschi's) in a blizzard. It's like, the only place that stays open - even after Domino's pizza has shut down, and it's nigh UNHEARD-of for Domino's to close because of the weather - and people come in and act like it's the store's fault that we're so busy. (For extra fun - how about when the Ass. Man. locks all the coin in the office and goes to stay in an undisclosed motel so she can get back in for the morning shift, and you run out of pennies? Good times!)

I quit right after this shift.

[MaseMan]

What's funny is here in Wisconsin, where you would think people would be used to winter weather, people still go to the grocery stores in droves to buy as much food as they can. Tuesday night my wife went to the store before the big storm hit (we ended up getting close to 10"), and the lady in front of her bought over $400.00 worth of canned goods!

[Magpie]

What's funny is here in Wisconsin, where you would think people would be used to winter weather, people still go to the grocery stores in droves to buy as much food as they can. Tuesday night my wife went to the store before the big storm hit (we ended up getting close to 10"), and the lady in front of her bought over $400.00 worth of canned goods!

Could have been coincidence. I've been known to drop that kind of money on non-perishables when I have access to a car, because it means that I never need to buy anything other than veggies, cheese and milk when I don't have access to one. I get paid every four months, so it's worth it to me.

[blas]

I was so frightened to do any non-necessary driving since Tuesday that I was super conservative with my smokes.

If the weather is bad enough, uh uh. No way.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

The snow has stopped, so everybody's dug out and decided to go shopping again. Unfortunately.

I tell you, I hate these bitterly cold days at work. Nobody--and I mean nobody--returns their carts to the corrals when it's cold like this. They just leave them loose in the lot, or make their own cart returns in an empty parking space, and I have to go find them. Makes cart retrieval that much harder when I don't want to be spending all that much time outside.

Tonight I saw six carts in one corral, and 11 others left loose around it. The people who had been using them just couldn't be bothered to take the few additional steps to get them inside the corral. That's magically stupidlicious.

Oh, and then also tonight I had some woman come up to me wanting a license plate frame featured in our ad. It's silver and has a little LCD display at the bottom where you can create a message and have it scroll across the display. It's a really shit thing to have on a car if you ask me. It's just asking to have the person behind you quit paying attention and ass-end you because they're trying to read what's scrolling below your license plate.

Nevertheless, this license plate frame is sold out at the swamp, and after we checked several shelf locations for it, I informed her of this fact. Cue a bunch of pissing and whining and bitching and moaning about why do we put stuff in our ads when we don't have them to sell, I really really want this, blah blah blah blah blah.

Umm, you twit, see that small type below the picture of the license plate frame? It says "Seasonal merchandise available while quantities last. No rainchecks." Next year get to the store a little earlier instead of waiting for the best price. We're selling out of our seasonal stuff left and right. The vast majority of it is out of the backroom and on the floor.

Your father was a cabinet minister, and your mother won the derby. Be gone now.

[mamawork]

That happened yesterday at my work, too. My drive-thru cashier put a customer on hold immediately after they pulled up to the speaker. Less than ten seconds later, the lady is sniping, "It's COLD out here!!!" Yes, and it's warm inside. Or, that nifty little lever on your door, the one right above your door handle, rolls your window up. Of course, you could also stay inside and cook, but that would require work... or at least pushing buttons on your microwave.

I think I'm in the wrong field of work.

[SG15Z]

Power out? Let's rent a movie!

I wonder how they're watching the movie without power?

[blas]

When it's this cold out, I try to avoid buying too much stuff at one time, or if I have to, I try to have a shopping buddy so we can give the cart to someone in the store before we exit so the poor cart people don't even have to go get it outside

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

I've seen the same phenomenon at my games store. During a fierce summer storm which featured heavy rainfall, hurricane force winds and a tornado warning, we were slam packed.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I was so frightened to do any non-necessary driving since Tuesday that I was super conservative with my smokes.

If the weather is bad enough, uh uh. No way.

What I do is check my carton before going to work to see how many packs are left and if I need an extra pack or two, pick them up on my way out the door when my shift ends.

Working in a grocery store can have advantages. Luckily for us down here, we've not had any bad weather yet this winter (and it's not even really winter yet, but I digress.)