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  • #1

    Smile at my baby!

    I just remembered this one. When I worked at the store selling pretty things, we got the weirdest customers. I loved my job, though. One woman was just crazy.

    She'd bring her baby in, and try to engage us in conversation about it. The other members of staff would tolerate, or join in. Some of them liked babies, and were happy to take five minutes out of their day to coo over it. Others of us didn't.

    I would generally make an excuse about helping other customers, and go. This worked, until she cornered me in the one place I couldn't run. The cash register.

    Me: -ringing purchases up-
    Her: Aw, look at my baby! Isn't she adorable?
    Baby: -drools- -does nothing-
    Me: Mhm. -gives total-
    Her: -pays-
    Me: Thank you. Enjoy your day!
    Her: -does not leave-
    Me: ... Next?
    Her: No, you're still serving me.
    Me: What can I do for you?
    Her: You didn't smile at my baby. -launches into a lecture about child haters, and how her baby is a person, and deserves good service, like everyone else, and why am I such a snotty bitch that I can't smile at such a beautiful child-

    Thank God she left afterwards. My next customer made my day though.

    "I wouldn't smile at her baby either. It's really ugly."
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  • #2
    Quoth Crime Scene Scarf View Post
    "I wouldn't smile at her baby either. It's really ugly."
    That cracks me up. I'm right there with you though. I'm not some evil baby hater, I just don't see the appeal I guess that everyone else does. And I would have no desire to comment on some strangers baby.

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    • #3
      you can't win with that one.

      don't smile at the baby=baby hater
      smile at the baby =peadophile waiting to take baby away.
      Customer "why did you answer the phone if you can't help me?"

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      • #4
        Quoth Crime Scene Scarf View Post
        Her: You didn't smile at my baby. -launches into a lecture about child haters, and how her baby is a person, and deserves good service, like everyone else, and why am I such a snotty bitch that I can't smile at such a beautiful child-
        Wow, need validation much lady?

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        • #5
          Quoth PixelJockey View Post
          Wow, need validation much lady?
          Apparently. Some ladies must think they are wonder woman or something because they managed to pop out a kid.
          "If we refund your money, give you a free replacement and shoot the manager, then will you be happy?" - sign seen in a restaurant

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          • #6
            Yeah, reproduction is difficult. Just look at all the geniuses with multiple children

            (not to be rude to people who do have trouble getting pregnant, they have my sympathies; but it's always the biggest idiots who have the most children it seems)

            I have a kid, but I've discovered having my own kid doesn't make me like other people's kids any more than I did before, which isn't much. I guess I will have to start pretending once he has little friends, but right now I can still ignore other people's children mostly.

            My kid is hella cute. He's so damn cute I feel no need to harass others into looking at him. And while he may be a person, at this point he doesn't really give a shit what kind of service his mom receives at a shop. He's too busy chewing on his toes.
            https://www.facebook.com/authorpatriciacorrell/

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            • #7
              Sounds like she's using her kid to get attention. How tacky.
              It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
              -Helen Keller

              I got this av from Court Records, made by Croik!

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              • #8
                Quoth CrazedClerkthe2nd View Post
                Apparently. Some ladies must think they are wonder woman or something because they managed to pop out a kid.
                Yep, she's so fantastic and wonderful, she's done something that several billion women throughout history have done.

                Hey, I'm a mom too. I thought my son was the most beautiful baby in the world. I even got compliments about him from strangers. But I didn't demand them. That's the difference. A coerced compliment is not a true compliment. If you have to tell someone to say something nice to make you feel better, you need help, stat!
                I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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                • #9
                  What you should have done was smile real big. But in this case have your lips pulled back flaring your teeth. Then you get a smile scary enough to make her baby cry


                  Don't get me wrong, I love kids. But that woman sheesh. I sure would hate to be at family gatherings with her.
                  Take this job and shove it. I ain't workin here no more.

                  Proud Air Force Mom

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                  • #10
                    Oh, I'd smile at the baby all right. I'd give the kid the most wicked smile I could muster. One that screams to the mother "I'm going to chop that kid of yours into little fragments with a machete if you don't get out of my line LIKE RIGHT NOW."
                    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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                    • #11
                      I love kids, and I usually talk to them or smile at them when they're in the store.

                      But god help me, some days I just don't have it in me.

                      It's a nice thing to do, but hardly part of my job description.

                      If you have to ask, it's probably better posted at www.fratching.com

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                      • #12
                        I firmly believe all babies are ugly.
                        Yours, theirs, mine (when I have them (probably soon if my wife gets her way). They are all ugly creatures.
                        Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb. - exmocaptainmoroni

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                        • #13
                          I'd sometimes have the opposite happen (I have gorgeous children, but I may be a little biased here. ) Some retail people would litterally try to TAKE the kid out of my arms. Uhh, don't think so. Smile at them, interact with them, or don't, it didn't matter to me. Try and take them from me, you've crossed the line.
                          If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
                          --Woodrow Willson

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                          • #14
                            Wait till that kid grows up, and is the ugliest girl in school. Then Mommy Dearest is going to corner the captain of the football team and demand that he take her little precious to the prom.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth AnaKhouri View Post
                              but it's always the biggest idiots who have the most children it seems
                              There is a documentary out about that, Idiocracy.
                              "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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