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  • "You're Not Allowed Romance At Work!"

    Heehee, the one in the title was going to be my bonus story for tonight, but it's too good not to make it the feature story. So

    At my Aid of Rite, I'm usually the one who stocks the small book section that we have. I have a somewhat system: first 3 rows are crime/thrillers, middle shelf is "fluff", or "beach reading", the next shelf is "romance" and then the next half shelf is "supernatural fiction". The 4 or 5 shelves to the bottom are a mix of self help, weight loss and health.

    So I'm hunting in the book box looking for a romance book to stock, which is next to Ih's register. Ih is ringing out a customer. I say to myself, "Where's my romance?" and customer heard me.

    "You're not allowed romance at work! That's bad! You're not allowed it! Uh...can you?"

    I hold up a book with the sexiest cowboy I can find. "Yes I can! "

    Customer goes, "Oh." And disappears REAL fast.

    Bonus: Eat, Spit, Be Nasty

    There's a semi regular customer who comes in every so often to do an "Eastern Union" to send money to his family back to Kenya, I believe. Today he comes in, chewing sunflower seeds. As he's eating them, he's spitting the shells all over the floor.

    Manager S1, who was doing his "Eastern Union" finally told him to stop.

    What sort of nasty person does that? I suppose I should be grateful he didn't spit it into his hand then wipe it over our counter or, worse, try to hand the spit coated sunflower seeds to me...
    Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.-Winston Churchill

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    Quoth ralerin View Post
    Today he comes in, chewing sunflower seeds. As he's eating them, he's spitting the shells all over the floor.
    Last time I was in Jerusalem was about 1992 or so. At that time, there were signs in all the citybuses that translated as "No Littering - No Smoking - No Spitting Sunflower Seeds". I'd have thought "No Littering" would have covered that as well, but apparently this is or was common enough behaviour to merit a sign specifically forbidding it.

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    • #3
      Ewww! That IS nasty. Ugh the entitlement of the "the world is my trash can" mentality!

      But the first story was funny.

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      • #4
        I hate creatures like that. People at my job will throw anything down on the floor with reckless abandon.

        Especially anything that can spill. Oh, how they love breaking glass here.
        Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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        • #5
          The first story was funny. The second one...ugh! What a jackass. Forget the fact that I hate sunflower seeds, but it's so nasty seeing people chew and spit them out.
          I don't get paid enough to kiss your a**! -Groezig 5/31/08
          Another day...another million braincells lost...-Sarlon 6/16/08
          Chivalry is not dead. It's just direly underappreciated. -Samaliel 9/15/09

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          • #6
            One time I saw a manager with a paper towel wiping off the ground, and I asked her what she was doing.

            Somebody had spit on the floor in front of her. Not out of malice, just....because....

            I don't understand anything.

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            • #7
              I always eat the shells.... is that bad?
              http://footloosecomic.com Pirate Faeries!!

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              • #8
                hm, perhaps hand him a broom and then a mop the next time he acts that stupidly? carry around a damn spitoon, buffoon.
                look! it's ghengis khan!
                Sorry, but while I can do many things, extracting heads from anuses isn't one of them. (so sayeth the irv)

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                • #9
                  Holy shit...is this the same 'Eastern Union' guy you've talked about before? The one who has given everyone in the store monumental headaches, grief and disrespect?



                  Why the hell is he even allowed in there after all that??

                  Ugh. That's disgusting.
                  "So, if you wanna put places like that outta business, just stop being so rock-chewingly stupid." ~ Raudf, 9/19/13

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                  • #10
                    I always eat the shells.... is that bad?
                    My son was recently hospitalized for an impacted bowel caused by eating the shells (the GI specialist said this is the most common cause of impaction), and the course of treatment was thoroughly unpleasant .

                    The first story made me giggle - a good start to the day!

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Peppergirl View Post
                      Holy shit...is this the same 'Eastern Union' guy you've talked about before? The one who has given everyone in the store monumental headaches, grief and disrespect?



                      Why the hell is he even allowed in there after all that??

                      Ugh. That's disgusting.
                      I don't believe so...this guy is rather nice. I felt like asking him if this was common practice to spit stuff on floors in Kenya. If no, then why do it here?
                      Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.-Winston Churchill

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                      • #12
                        Quoth ralerin View Post
                        the sexiest cowboy
                        I swear I read that as 'a book with the sexist cowboy' and was about to ask who the Sexist cowboy was...
                        "I call murder on that!"

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                        • #13
                          Quoth ralerin View Post
                          I hold up a book with the sexiest cowboy I can find. "Yes I can! "
                          Ooooh. Sexy cowboy romance stuff. Is it any good? The romance books I read all have a wonderful mix of Greek mythology, vampire hunters, were-creatures, and a young demon who believes that everything is better with BBQ sauce.

                          As for the guy in the second story....eww. O.o And I thought the guy at the doctor's office chewing gum like a cow chews cud was gross. This is worse.
                          "Things that fail to kill me make me level up." ~ NateWantsToBattle, Training Hard (Counting Stars parody)

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                          • #14
                            Grr! If you don't spit your tobacco on the floor, you don't spit yer sunflower seed shells!

                            Do you see hay on the floor in here? No? Then swallow, cowboy.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth firecat88 View Post
                              Ooooh. Sexy cowboy romance stuff. Is it any good? The romance books I read all have a wonderful mix of Greek mythology, vampire hunters, were-creatures, and a young demon who believes that everything is better with BBQ sauce.
                              Have you read No Mercy yet? Not sure if it's out or not, but I've been in serious withdrawl since finishing Bad Moon Rising.

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