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I seem to be on a roll with the suck lately. Most hasn't truly been suck, just an inconvenience.
The Stolen Bouquet
There is a semi regular customer at my Aid of Rite who is a little bit...for lack of a better word, crazy. Today he gave P at the pharmacy with a flower sprig, K with a flower sprig and me with a huge bouquet of flowers and Japanese maple twigs he salvaged from the garden from the street. He went into the garden and yanked out hosta leaves, the maples, goldenrod, Queen Anne's lace, hydrangea, echinacea, tiger lily-you name it, if it was in that garden, it was there. Those poor, poor flowers, they were dying fast. I put them into some water with a pinch of sugar and put them into the breakroom. They've all perked up and are looking much better.
Buy A Digital Camera For That Price!
I had some old woman shuffle up to the photo counter and drop 6 disposable cameras on it. She wanted doubles of this camera, quintuples of a specific party on another camera but she can't remember which one and straight prints of all the others. She was upset when I told her she was looking at $75 worth of prints. The worst part is that one of her cameras expired two years ago and the film inside usually disintegrates within a year. So if that's the camera with the quintuples she wants, she's screwed.
"But My Toothpaste IS On Sale!"
15 minutes on the phone of telling a woman with the most pleasant voice I could muster how the "Healthiness +" reward coupons work and that even though the picture showing the toothpaste she bought is correct, the size does not qualify so if she wants the toothpaste for the sale price she'll have to come back and buy the right size and return the size she doesn't want. Eventually she said, "Oh well, I'll use it anyway, thank you for your help" and hung up. RRRRRRR.
The Empty Envelope, The Corn Cob and Geriatric Sex
Today is government benefits day every month, when people usually receive checks and things they're owed, if I remember correctly. Anywho, people receive money from the government today. I found an empty envelope someone stuffed inside the "Hevlon" makeup rack. I guess they had to have their benefits NOW.
Someone dumped a half eaten corn cob on one of the shelves in the hair care section.
Someone else stole a bottle of male desensitizing gel behind one of the incontinence pads. I LAUGHED when I saw that.
9 Beers is Enough, Chump
I posted about one of my drunk customers who came in and belched in my face and didn't apologize a while ago. Today he came in and bought 9 24oz cans of "Batty Ice" beer. We told him enough is enough for tonight.
My drunk customers sadden me, especially him when we have to cut him off. We've had to cut him off at least once a week for the past however many years he's been coming to our store.
Bonus: The Melatonin Florida Credit Debacle
So a woman that manager A somewhat knows is broke as hell but needs melatonin for her son to sleep at night. However, she doesn't have a credit card, her sister in Florida does. Could we possibly have the sister call us and then have her read out a credit card number over the phone to us?
I immediately went "No, I'll transfer you to the manager". Poor manager A was beside herself, but melatonin is $10.99 a bottle and there's the risk the card is stolen. Finally A put the woman on hold, and she hung up. Never called back.
The Stolen Bouquet
There is a semi regular customer at my Aid of Rite who is a little bit...for lack of a better word, crazy. Today he gave P at the pharmacy with a flower sprig, K with a flower sprig and me with a huge bouquet of flowers and Japanese maple twigs he salvaged from the garden from the street. He went into the garden and yanked out hosta leaves, the maples, goldenrod, Queen Anne's lace, hydrangea, echinacea, tiger lily-you name it, if it was in that garden, it was there. Those poor, poor flowers, they were dying fast. I put them into some water with a pinch of sugar and put them into the breakroom. They've all perked up and are looking much better.
Buy A Digital Camera For That Price!
I had some old woman shuffle up to the photo counter and drop 6 disposable cameras on it. She wanted doubles of this camera, quintuples of a specific party on another camera but she can't remember which one and straight prints of all the others. She was upset when I told her she was looking at $75 worth of prints. The worst part is that one of her cameras expired two years ago and the film inside usually disintegrates within a year. So if that's the camera with the quintuples she wants, she's screwed.
"But My Toothpaste IS On Sale!"
15 minutes on the phone of telling a woman with the most pleasant voice I could muster how the "Healthiness +" reward coupons work and that even though the picture showing the toothpaste she bought is correct, the size does not qualify so if she wants the toothpaste for the sale price she'll have to come back and buy the right size and return the size she doesn't want. Eventually she said, "Oh well, I'll use it anyway, thank you for your help" and hung up. RRRRRRR.
The Empty Envelope, The Corn Cob and Geriatric Sex
Today is government benefits day every month, when people usually receive checks and things they're owed, if I remember correctly. Anywho, people receive money from the government today. I found an empty envelope someone stuffed inside the "Hevlon" makeup rack. I guess they had to have their benefits NOW.
Someone dumped a half eaten corn cob on one of the shelves in the hair care section.
Someone else stole a bottle of male desensitizing gel behind one of the incontinence pads. I LAUGHED when I saw that.
9 Beers is Enough, Chump
I posted about one of my drunk customers who came in and belched in my face and didn't apologize a while ago. Today he came in and bought 9 24oz cans of "Batty Ice" beer. We told him enough is enough for tonight.
My drunk customers sadden me, especially him when we have to cut him off. We've had to cut him off at least once a week for the past however many years he's been coming to our store.Bonus: The Melatonin Florida Credit Debacle
So a woman that manager A somewhat knows is broke as hell but needs melatonin for her son to sleep at night. However, she doesn't have a credit card, her sister in Florida does. Could we possibly have the sister call us and then have her read out a credit card number over the phone to us?
I immediately went "No, I'll transfer you to the manager". Poor manager A was beside herself, but melatonin is $10.99 a bottle and there's the risk the card is stolen. Finally A put the woman on hold, and she hung up. Never called back.