How to shoot yourself in the foot...

[NateTheChops]

Try to return a printer for the recycling credit.

Tell the manager that you don't have the receipt but that your husband bought it five weeks ago.

Act surprised when the manager tells you that particular printer hasn't been carried by the store in over a year.

Caught in the lie, with your kids in tow no less, insist you bought it here five weeks ago and make an innocent sounding remark like, "Is it unusual for that kind of printer to break?"

When the manager can only find one electronics purchase on your husbands rewards card information, produce the credit card supposedly used to purchase the printer as we need that if you don't have a receipt and want to do a return.

Have manager discover printer was purchased in 2009. Kill any hope of getting said manager to help you in the future since you basically lied through your teeth.

The best part? She works in an animal hospital.

[Kristev]

It's believable. Contemptable, but believable.

[chainedbarista]

my sympathy to you, nate and those poor creatures she sees. may god/dog/deity have mercy on you all.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Way to go, Lady SC. Especially with kids around no less.

I'm sure she's in the running for Parent of the Year. . .

[mharbourgirl]

It looks like the only good thing here is that her kids are learning that lying doesn't get you what you want.

Probably not what she MEANT to teach them, I'm sure.

[NateTheChops]

Update. Same woman came in yesterday, alone this time.

Walks up to me and in the sweetest, most innocent voice possible says, "I don't know if you remember me or not. But <Insert description of events I mentioned in the first post> and I bought some ink cartridges. But I don't think we left the store with them. Did anyone find them?"

I know sometimes things get left behind, but after last night I'm willing to bet that not only did I put the cartridges in her bag but that she thinks I'm too naive to remember the scam she tried to pull.

While she goes off searching the ink wall for the cartridges she "left behind" I explain the situation to the MOD, telling him what the other MOD last night found out and the bottom line here is, she didn't get to walk away with free ink.

Lo and behold she returns to the register chatting with some other customer. After I ring everyone up and the animal hospital lady leaves, the second customer returns and tells myself and the MOD that she is a generally dishonest person, confirming what we figured out.

Fortunately, however, I am happy to learn that it is her husband who is the Vet and she was just using his Rewards Card. Still makes me leary of course.

[Skelly]

Bummer. Here I was, seeing the title of the thread, hoping for a story about someone who had actually shot them self in the foot in a hilarious fashion .

[tropicsgoddess]

That SC sure is the captain of the fail boat.

[Amina516]

That SC sure is the captain of the fail boat.

LMAO.

QFT.

[Kristev]

Is that the Titanic?

[NateTheChops]

No. The captain went down with the Titanic.

I'm thinking this woman grabbed the little girl that Cal tried to pawn off as his daughter in order to get on the lifeboat, chucked her in the ocean and said, "No, dammit. I am all he has in the world. Let me on board and don't you dare call me a liar!"

Yeah, uh, she came in again yesterday (that's three days in a row for those of you playing the home version of our game) and tried again with the ink cartridges. Not sure how she faired but when the manager from yesterday confronted her (not actually calling her a liar, mind you or even accusing her of trying to scam us) she threatened to call corporate when he told her that he was certain she didn't leave any ink cartridges behind.

She also played the "I've been shopping here for years" card, blah, blah, blah.

Gotta love a persistent idiot. They're the kinds of people who continue sticking their tongues into electrical outlets because they're just not quite sure what happened the first time.

[Kristev]

Wait until it's a story day, with lots of lighting, tell her to go fly a kite, and then give her one. Be sure to give her children each a free pair of rubber gloves.

[C. Cecil Ivanish]

The best part? She works in an animal hospital.

...as what, a cheap and washable replacement for cat litter?