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Vanilla death
A woman was marinated in vanilla body spray in my line. I had a headache for thirty minutes, and the smell lingered for even longer than that.
Exorcism - Trampoline Edition
Another screaming/shouty kid, over another toy, and they added a refreshing twist this time: he was hopping in rage the whole time out! It really ruined whatever tension they were leading up to; I hope the sequel is more dramatic.
How to Make a Cashier Smile
Smile back at me and say, “Keep that smile up!”
Sure will now!
They Call me ‘Squirrel’
Two girls and their mother come into my lane, and we start a conversation. Well, I’m sure the girls thought it was one! They kept asking what my name was, so I mixed it up a little. I was AmuseGal, ‘Bob’, ‘Shirley’, ‘Joe’, and ‘Billy Bob Joe’, before we finished the transaction.
It was funny because they didn’t even notice that I was changing the names.
I Like my Pitas White
Apparently, when complimenting an ethnic sauce, you have to be from the area or have heritage to it. According to this old lady. She grilled me for a good minute or two because I said that I loved Tzatziki sauce, and lord forbid I don’t look Greek.
I didn’t mind going along with it because she was sweet about it, and generally confused, but it was pretty odd. She asked me to pronounce it, my background, etc. All I did was say that my FIL was Italian (assuming that if it’s foreign she’ll take that as an excuse). Is it really that odd to like a yogurt sauce? Who here isn’t Greek and loves the stuff anyway? 
Oops! We Can(‘t) Fix that for You
Seemed that we couldn’t do anything after you purchase your stuff this day. The system said the receipt doesn’t exist. Thankfully someone told me beforehand, that way I was careful enough to get it out of the way BEFORE people finished the transactions. Still some fun, though. When they first told me about it, I had the impression that we couldn’t Suspend or Void anything either. It freaked me out until they clarified!
Ire Over Expired
It’s a new year, so it’s not surprising that we have an even larger than normal wave of products that expire. Sometimes we catch onto them, and sometimes a guest has to point it out. The other times, I end up catching it, and tell the guest. This time, it was some beer. It showed the date for December, and I was going to tell her, and then through the scheme of things, I forgot. Beer Lady (BL) had a large order, and honestly, you don’t expect beer of all things to expire. So before I know it, the transaction is finished, and I’m stuck wondering how to handle this. Thankfully, Head Cashier was here with the change I’d ordered, so we went from there.
HC: Alright, would you like us to get a fresh one for you?
BL: Make sure it’s a cold one! *grunt*
HC: …*talks to the grocery people* Ma’am, we don’t have any cold cases, would you like me to get you a warm one, or would you rather have it refunded?
BL: Refunded! Geeze, you had to tell me AFTER I paid grumblemumble
Now, remember where I said our after system wasn’t working? We had forgotten that fact, and had to go directly to Customer Service to do it there since their system was still working (thank god, I don’t want to imagine what it’d be like otherwise). Beer Lady waits near my line while HC settles the matter on the other side. I continue to ring up people. Eventually, BL gets irritated and starts shouting at me.
BL: You should have told me this earlier! This is all your fault! Get me your manager!
Me: *internal twitching*…Okay!
The guest I’m ringing up has a shocked, “What the hell?”, look on their face. So I put on my cheesiest smile and whisper to the guest to play along. Many Super Sugar Smiles later (and a very pissed off glare), I see her get her refund and all that back, and the other guests who also heard it mock her once she’s gone. HC said that the whole time, she was trying to pull the, “I’m in a hurry, but I’m going to sit, pout, and complain”, card. At some point HC just told her that since she was in a hurry, she’d have to choose an option before we could get anywhere. Another complaint was that I should be reprimanded. When the Head Cashier mocks you after you leave, I have the feeling the advice wasn’t taken for future use. It turns out though, that the date was not in fact an expiration date, but a brew date. It still had 110 more days to go after the stated time before it was iffy. We both erred on the side of caution because we didn’t know until after she left. But imagine if it was actually expired food – I bet she’d be happy if I had told her then!
Edit: Forgot to add that last week, someone asked me if Alaska was a state. Erm...No. It's not. It's an elaborate joke we created for tourists. Their economy does excellent though; the currency is snow.
I don't normally get sucky people so soon after each other, so the rest was smooth sailing, and a truckload of cranky, dragged along kids because the weather was nice at some point this week. >.o
A woman was marinated in vanilla body spray in my line. I had a headache for thirty minutes, and the smell lingered for even longer than that.
Exorcism - Trampoline Edition
Another screaming/shouty kid, over another toy, and they added a refreshing twist this time: he was hopping in rage the whole time out! It really ruined whatever tension they were leading up to; I hope the sequel is more dramatic.
How to Make a Cashier Smile
Smile back at me and say, “Keep that smile up!”
Sure will now!They Call me ‘Squirrel’
Two girls and their mother come into my lane, and we start a conversation. Well, I’m sure the girls thought it was one! They kept asking what my name was, so I mixed it up a little. I was AmuseGal, ‘Bob’, ‘Shirley’, ‘Joe’, and ‘Billy Bob Joe’, before we finished the transaction.
It was funny because they didn’t even notice that I was changing the names.I Like my Pitas White
Apparently, when complimenting an ethnic sauce, you have to be from the area or have heritage to it. According to this old lady. She grilled me for a good minute or two because I said that I loved Tzatziki sauce, and lord forbid I don’t look Greek.
I didn’t mind going along with it because she was sweet about it, and generally confused, but it was pretty odd. She asked me to pronounce it, my background, etc. All I did was say that my FIL was Italian (assuming that if it’s foreign she’ll take that as an excuse). Is it really that odd to like a yogurt sauce? Who here isn’t Greek and loves the stuff anyway? Oops! We Can(‘t) Fix that for You
Seemed that we couldn’t do anything after you purchase your stuff this day. The system said the receipt doesn’t exist. Thankfully someone told me beforehand, that way I was careful enough to get it out of the way BEFORE people finished the transactions. Still some fun, though. When they first told me about it, I had the impression that we couldn’t Suspend or Void anything either. It freaked me out until they clarified!
Ire Over Expired
It’s a new year, so it’s not surprising that we have an even larger than normal wave of products that expire. Sometimes we catch onto them, and sometimes a guest has to point it out. The other times, I end up catching it, and tell the guest. This time, it was some beer. It showed the date for December, and I was going to tell her, and then through the scheme of things, I forgot. Beer Lady (BL) had a large order, and honestly, you don’t expect beer of all things to expire. So before I know it, the transaction is finished, and I’m stuck wondering how to handle this. Thankfully, Head Cashier was here with the change I’d ordered, so we went from there.
HC: Alright, would you like us to get a fresh one for you?
BL: Make sure it’s a cold one! *grunt*
HC: …*talks to the grocery people* Ma’am, we don’t have any cold cases, would you like me to get you a warm one, or would you rather have it refunded?
BL: Refunded! Geeze, you had to tell me AFTER I paid grumblemumble
Now, remember where I said our after system wasn’t working? We had forgotten that fact, and had to go directly to Customer Service to do it there since their system was still working (thank god, I don’t want to imagine what it’d be like otherwise). Beer Lady waits near my line while HC settles the matter on the other side. I continue to ring up people. Eventually, BL gets irritated and starts shouting at me.
BL: You should have told me this earlier! This is all your fault! Get me your manager!
Me: *internal twitching*…Okay!
The guest I’m ringing up has a shocked, “What the hell?”, look on their face. So I put on my cheesiest smile and whisper to the guest to play along. Many Super Sugar Smiles later (and a very pissed off glare), I see her get her refund and all that back, and the other guests who also heard it mock her once she’s gone. HC said that the whole time, she was trying to pull the, “I’m in a hurry, but I’m going to sit, pout, and complain”, card. At some point HC just told her that since she was in a hurry, she’d have to choose an option before we could get anywhere. Another complaint was that I should be reprimanded. When the Head Cashier mocks you after you leave, I have the feeling the advice wasn’t taken for future use.
It turns out though, that the date was not in fact an expiration date, but a brew date. It still had 110 more days to go after the stated time before it was iffy. We both erred on the side of caution because we didn’t know until after she left. But imagine if it was actually expired food – I bet she’d be happy if I had told her then!Edit: Forgot to add that last week, someone asked me if Alaska was a state. Erm...No. It's not. It's an elaborate joke we created for tourists. Their economy does excellent though; the currency is snow.
I don't normally get sucky people so soon after each other, so the rest was smooth sailing, and a truckload of cranky, dragged along kids because the weather was nice at some point this week. >.o
I was so disappointed when I went to my next class after going out in the snow to buy the food, sat down, dug in and went 'wtf?'. I couldn't even finish it, lol. 
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