The SC Ice-capades.: Two bad things that go worse together

[Tigress]

I'm starting to hate those stupid shoes myself, especially where I work. I'm just waiting for one of those spoiled brats to go whizzing by while one of my associates is moving a heavy television or appliance on a handtruck or the lift and get seriously hurt. My store is a place of business, not a playground.

[AFpheonix]

To which you should have said to the daughter: "I may have ruined your day, but I'm pretty sure it will pale in comparison to how your artard Mom is going to ruin your life.

p.s. Like the name Crow the Robot....see the sig line.

Probably better, and less likely to get you in trouble but would up the CBF factor would be to remind them that little old women with bad hips don't particularly like to slide on the ice.

[XCashier]

We don't need a superhero with a flamethrower. We have Misanthropical.

For every thing else, we have Mysty. We don't need anything else.

And Kusanagi!

Probably better, and less likely to get you in trouble but would up the CBF factor would be to remind them that little old women with bad hips don't particularly like to slide on the ice.

Somehow I don't think Queen Snob and Ice Brat give a rat's arse about other customers. They were inconvenienced, and that's all that matters in the world. Yeah, if anyone deserves a smackdown by the CS Justice League, they do!

[blas]

I've said it before on the OT threads and I'll say it again. I HATE THOSE STUPID WHEELIE SHOES and every snot nosed demonic little brat that uses them (and shopping centers) as personal skate parks! Every child that goes rolling up and down aisles like that deserves to learn the laws of physics and momentum the hard way, and no one should be chastized for laughing at them or have to hold it in. That's one of those moments when it's definetly alright to laugh at a child who ran into something.

I personally demand a recall on those stupid shoes. You want to roll? Get ROLLER SKATES or BLADES and go to the farking roller skaing rink! WALMART IS NOT A SKATING RINK!

whew....that has been building up for quite a while.

Back on topic.....when it would start to get slick at the gas station, I'd have to make customers wait while I took the salt bucket outside if it was non stop day shift conditions. One day, at this particular time, it was so damn busy I couldn't get to it right away. Some dumbass walks in, tells me he ALMOST slipped, and told me to get out there and salt that right NOW before someone else nearly falls and sues me. Oh, it didn't end there. In front of everyone waiting in line, he declared that if someone did fall, I'd end up having to work at this job from open to close every day to pay the victim's medical bills and court costs. I rolled my eyes right at him.........and he huffed and puffed and went somewhere else. I wanted to tell him that I almost already did have to work at that shitty job from open to close, and if that sidewalk kept people like him from coming in, I shouldn't ever salt the sidewalk.

Gotta love people sometimes.

[ArenaBoy]

I second my hatred for those shoes. Working in a parking lot I have been witness to kids rolling around on those shoes and traffic is dangerous enough as it is, I have yet to see a kid get hit by a car. When that happens we can only know what to expect.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I personally demand a recall on those stupid shoes. You want to roll? Get ROLLER SKATES or BLADES and go to the farking roller skaing rink! WALMART IS NOT A SKATING RINK!

I personally demand those damn Heeleys be banned, much like those light-up shoes were.

The light-up shoes were banned because supposedly they were a hazard, and to me Heeleys are even more of a hazard.

[Rahmota]

An interesting thing about the ice deal, on the cncy news during the winter crisis here they where saying that if you sweep ,salt, or shovel your walk or doorway or lot and someone falls you are responsible for their injuries. Especially if you didnt get it all up. but if you do nothing to it and leave the snow and ice untouched then you are not responsible as it is an act of god. This information was supposedly endorsed by the Cincinnati chamber of Commerce.

So basically they where telling people that they shouldn't shovel their walks and that several local businesses and stores where already not doing that and that this is a good thing. Not sure I totally aree with that but thought I'd point this out to folks as a bit of intersting information.

[BookstoreEscapee]

My cousin's almost-9-year-old son got heelies for Christmas. We were at my aunt's for dinner and he wanted to put them on, and my cousin said he could. I almost had a heart attack before I realized the wheels were still in their little baggie attached to one of the shoelace holes.

[draftermatt]

I've told my wife numerous times. If a kid rams into me wearing those shoes and I'm not outside or in a park or something (Especially if I'm in a store or mall) I'm going to punch his or her parents right in the head for allowing them to use those idiotic fricking shoes indoors.

I wasn't allowed to run indoors for God's sake!

[tollbaby]

hehe My kids have both begged me for them, and I have repeatedly refused... the other day we're at the mall and a family of FOUR small children are skidding through the mall on them. Well, none of them were any too steady on their feet, and all of a sudden, all four of them (and no, they weren't anywhere near each other) all lost their balance and went flying. It was a thing of beauty. All four at once! Some lovely bit of cosmic justice there (No, they weren't seriously hurt, just egos bruised... I'm a mom. I'd never take pleasure in a child being hurt, no matter how badly behaved they were).

My kids changed their minds then and there and decided they'd be happy with their "normal" shoes

[blas]

Pehaps children of today have a hidden message for us?

I think children of today (well hell even older kids like me lol) are secretly trying to tell the adults BRING ROLLER DISCO BACK, or we will do really stupid things with really stupid shoes!

[AFpheonix]

And Kusanagi!


Somehow I don't think Queen Snob and Ice Brat give a rat's arse about other customers. They were inconvenienced, and that's all that matters in the world. Yeah, if anyone deserves a smackdown by the CS Justice League, they do!

And that is exactly why I take pleasure in reminding that sort of people that they aren't the only ones on the planet, and further more, the other people's needs take priority over theirs. They don't like being put in their place, and it can be done in such a way that you can get the barb in and leave them with no ammo to take to management about.

[Gurndigarn]

I personally demand those damn Heeleys be banned, much like those light-up shoes were.

The cops liked dumb teenage criminals wearing them after dark, though.

Pehaps children of today have a hidden message for us?

I think children of today (well hell even older kids like me lol) are secretly trying to tell the adults BRING ROLLER DISCO BACK, or we will do really stupid things with really stupid shoes!

Worse than Xanadu?

(Despite the reputation, I sort of kinda enjoyed it, in a warped, MST3K way. I just wish the movie had figured out if it wanted to be a sweet romantic comedy, or a raunchy teen flick.)

[repsac]

I remember, during a cold snap, that the sidewalk in front of my Moore's store had frozen over at one point. Our manager heads out somewhere and came back with this odd salt like stuff.

I say salt like, because this stuff apparently reacted with the ice and water; and would actually become hot. Hot enough to melt off the ice and then later dry off the concrete.

Having said that, you can not imagine the fun in watching people pick up a chunk of it only to throw the stuff down quickly and wonder how the heck they just burned their fingers.

[morgana]

I say salt like, because this stuff apparently reacted with the ice and water; and would actually become hot. Hot enough to melt off the ice and then later dry off the concrete.

Having said that, you can not imagine the fun in watching people pick up a chunk of it only to throw the stuff down quickly and wonder how the heck they just burned their fingers.

Ooooh, I *want* some!