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  • Repressed anger. I has it.

    And then some. This week has SUCKED!

    You FAIL!

    This one chronically annoying crapstomer (alas, who is a regular), after doing the usual nitpickery and buttfuckery over the (small) order, pays for it with several methods, leaving for last but certainly not least, a .50 balance. Which is paid in cash.

    Oh, but not just any cash. Can you guess what it is, boys and girls?

    Why yes! Yes, it was a HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL.

    I should also add that it was late and the tills at that hour are typically whittled down by management as per their usual operating habits. So odds were good that I might not have had enough change to give back. Fortunately, luck did not see fit to piss in my Cheerios (yet) and there was enough change to return.

    But Crapstomer still fails at shopping and most likely at life too. (Helpful hint: If someone says to you with that shit-eating grin, "You're going to hate me for this..." odds are very good that yes, yes indeed you will be silently wishing for fire ants to eat their entrails. While the crapstomer is still sentinent.)

    --

    How 'Bout I Stuff YOU Into The Bag, Snotrag?

    Luck saved the worst for last and instead of a piss let loose with a nice 'ol diarrheal dump in my aforementioned Cheerios. When it gets busy we are to pull people from lines so that The Exalted need not wait in line any longer than necessary. So okay, that's what I do. I'm working at the self-checkouts temporarily because the person slated to work those tonight is on break. And herein is where it goes downhill very, very fast.

    Crapstomer is not exactly thrilled by the self-checkouts. Which would be more understandable, and I more sympathetic, if crapstomer was not starting to pitch a toddleresque temper about it. Nevertheless I explain that I am here to help, and begin scanning items.

    Crapstomer demands certain bags a certain way in a certain tone of voice (y'all know the one). Okay. I put aside my rising irritated thoughts of bloodthirsty carnage and fetch the correct bags and set them up the correct way. I continue scanning; crapstomer resumes complaining and is unhappy because I am apparently bagging the stuff incorrectly. Incorrectly in this case does not mean soft stuff beneath hard stuff, or chemical nasties with edible goodies. No, what it really means is I'm not doing it to crapstomer's anal-retentive liking.

    Between crapstomer's spiel and fighting with the self-checkout (the scales piss and moan about EVERY goddamned thing which means it takes longer, especially if UR DOIN IT WRONG (which crapstomer was, not surprisingly), it took way too long to finish that order, during which time crapstomer earned a permanent spot on my shit list for being such a about the whole deal. Later after venting a quiet spleen to coworkers I learn that this is standard OP for crapstomer. Joy.
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  • #2
    Quoth Amethyst Hunter View Post
    And then some. This week has SUCKED!

    You FAIL!

    This one chronically annoying crapstomer (alas, who is a regular), after doing the usual nitpickery and buttfuckery over the (small) order, pays for it with several methods, leaving for last but certainly not least, a .50 balance. Which is paid in cash.

    Oh, but not just any cash. Can you guess what it is, boys and girls?

    Why yes! Yes, it was a HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL.
    Back in the days when a cup of coffee would run you 10 cents, my great grandpa used to have coffee every day with a guy that would come in and order a cup of coffee and, when it came time to pay, he'd tell the waitress "Sorry, all I've got is a hundred, catch you next time." He'd wave the hundred dollar bill and head out.

    Guy was a regular and the staff let it go because it was funny, but one day the owner decided to get him back. It was time to depart and the guy did his usual thing but the owner stopped him. "Hold up, I got you covered." He took the hundred and exchanged it with a bag of $99.90 in dimes. Hilarity ensued.

    Stories like yours make me wish I could give obnoxious people change in obnoxious ways.

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    • #3
      Quoth Amethyst Hunter View Post
      "You're going to hate me for this..."
      No sir, I already hate you as you are a Douchewaffle. All you are doing now is proving, yet again, that you are in fact a Douchewaffle.

      Quoth jedikuonji View Post
      Back in the days when a cup of coffee would run you 10 cents,
      *snip*
      He took the hundred and exchanged it with a bag of $99.90 in dimes. Hilarity ensued.
      I would have kept a tab and only given the guy $90.00 is dimes.

      The scary part of that... When coffee was 10 cents, $100.00 was two weeks pay for a full time job, before taxes.
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      • #4
        Very old story I remember from reading ancient Reader's Digest magazines in my grandmother's basement:

        Trolley fare was 5 cents. A lady boarded, handed the conductor a $5 bill, and said sweetly "I'm very sorry, I haven't got a nickel". The conductor grimly replied "Don't worry lady, in a minute you'll have 99 of them".
        Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints...
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        • #5
          Quoth skeptic53 View Post
          Trolley fare was 5 cents. A lady boarded, handed the conductor a $5 bill, and said sweetly "I'm very sorry, I haven't got a nickel". The conductor grimly replied "Don't worry lady, in a minute you'll have 99 of them".
          Nicely done.

          Quoth jedikuonji View Post
          It was time to depart and the guy did his usual thing but the owner stopped him. "Hold up, I got you covered." He took the hundred and exchanged it with a bag of $99.90 in dimes.
          But THIS for the WIN!

          "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
          Still A Customer."

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          • #6
            Quoth jedikuonji View Post
            Back in the days when a cup of coffee would run you 10 cents, my great grandpa used to have coffee every day with a guy that would come in and order a cup of coffee and, when it came time to pay, he'd tell the waitress "Sorry, all I've got is a hundred, catch you next time." He'd wave the hundred dollar bill and head out.

            Guy was a regular and the staff let it go because it was funny, but one day the owner decided to get him back. It was time to depart and the guy did his usual thing but the owner stopped him. "Hold up, I got you covered." He took the hundred and exchanged it with a bag of $99.90 in dimes. Hilarity ensued.

            Stories like yours make me wish I could give obnoxious people change in obnoxious ways.
            I had someone try similair to me buying $5 of gas late at night, handed me a hundred and when I said I couldn't give him change for it, he said rather rudely "Well I guess I get free gas then"

            I replied dead pan, "no, you don't understand, I said I can't give you change for this, I didn't say that I wouldn't take the $100 bill" which btw had already disapeared at this point into my pocket "It means that you are giving me a $95 tip unless you have something smaller"

            funny how fast they magically have smaller bills laying about when you aren't going to give them change.

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            • #7
              yep, paying a small purchase with a large bill does make you a shitburger, pal. you have smaller, fork it over.

              arrgh.
              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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              • #8
                Quoth chainedbarista View Post
                yep, paying a small purchase with a large bill does make you a shitburger, pal.
                No. It only makes you a shitburger if you don't have a smaller bill. If that really is all you have, then it's unfortunate, but not a bad reflection on you.

                The cool people will say either (A) "Can you break this?" if they have smaller bills but want change, or (B) "I'm sorry, this is all I have" if they don't. The shitburgers will break out the big bill without explanation or apology. THAT'S the difference.

                "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
                Still A Customer."

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                • #9
                  A pizza driver back at my old store did something like this once. Regular cursetomer, ordered 4x a week, always during the day, always a small Cheese out to the very *edge* of our delivery area; timed such that we seldom had any other orders to take; the net effect was that, even WITH the gas allowance, it cost the driver money to take this person her order. Total came out to something like $6.41, they generally paid with a ten, and they always demanded exact change, to the penny. Note that drivers generally do NOT carry fiddling small change like that -- we're not banks -- we try to keep enough to reasonably give change in bills (and maybe quarters) for the orders we're taking...One day, he got tired of this and just brought her a baggie full of pennies for her change ^_^
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                  • #10
                    i disagree; they had the opportunity to break it down, but chose to foist it off on a clerk/cashier. they're a shitburger.
                    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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                    • #11
                      Quoth chainedbarista View Post
                      i disagree; they had the opportunity to break it down, but chose to foist it off on a clerk/cashier. they're a shitburger.
                      I'd have to agree. It's not like there are OMG NO BANKS for hundreds of miles. And in my particular case, there is a bank RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET, within walking distance.

                      Insult upon injury: Same crapstomer came back the very next night too, and had the brass to foist off a nasty cigarette wrapper on me after buying fucking cigarettes! Alas, this crapstomer is a regular, which means I can expect to see more of the same bullshit in the future.
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