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A couple of 30-something women come in and start browsing the junk racks - you know, the section in a convenience store where you can buy little toys and trinkets for jacked up prices. Eventually they come to the counter with a watch, two cigarette cases, two pairs of sunglasses, a wallet and a portable ashtray. Their total is $60-something. They're just shocked - SHOCKED! - that their overpriced stuff is so overpriced. They start hemming and hawing over what they want to put back, all the while exclaiming about how, "I just can't believe it's so much! Why is this stuff so expensive?" I resist the urge to point out that they are shopping at a GAS STATION.
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A customer asks for a pack of cigarettes, so I ask for her identification. She flips open her wallet, but the birthdate is obscured so I ask her to take it out for me. She points at the expiration date and says, "Everyone knows the expiration date is the same as your birthday."
I resist the urge to tell her that if she was born in 2014, she not only is ineligible to buy cigarettes, but she clearly got sucked into a wormhole on her way to the store.
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A co-worker recently filled me in on a detail about myself that I was not aware of: I am a racist. A customer had come in on CW's shift and said that I was rude to her. CW inquired about what I said or did that was rude, and the SC could not give her an example. It was my tone of voice that proved to SC that I just don't like white people. I had not realized that I was so full of self loathing that I hated everyone sharing my own skin color.
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A customer comes looking for Pop Rocks and Pixy Stix. We have neither, but I show her all the other candy we have. No, it has to be one of those two things. Making conversation, I say, "You've just got a craving, huh?" She replies, "No, I have a hot date tonight." Oh....OHH.
Sorry I asked.
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Customer comes in to get a money order, but she only has enough for the MO itself and not the dollar fee. She wants to take that off her debit card, but our system will only allow cash as payment for a MO transaction. She thinks for a minute and then says, "Wait, I have a quarter dollar in my car!" I figure she means one of the gold dollar coins, but she comes back and hands me an actual quarter. I point this out to her. "But it says 'quarter dollar' on it there, see?" I actually have to explain that it means a quarter OF a dollar.
This customer was a pregnant woman, so I'm hoping she was just having a moment of preggo stupidity. (It really does exist!)
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A customer asks for a pack of cigarettes, so I ask for her identification. She flips open her wallet, but the birthdate is obscured so I ask her to take it out for me. She points at the expiration date and says, "Everyone knows the expiration date is the same as your birthday."
I resist the urge to tell her that if she was born in 2014, she not only is ineligible to buy cigarettes, but she clearly got sucked into a wormhole on her way to the store.~~~~~~
A co-worker recently filled me in on a detail about myself that I was not aware of: I am a racist. A customer had come in on CW's shift and said that I was rude to her. CW inquired about what I said or did that was rude, and the SC could not give her an example. It was my tone of voice that proved to SC that I just don't like white people. I had not realized that I was so full of self loathing that I hated everyone sharing my own skin color.
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A customer comes looking for Pop Rocks and Pixy Stix. We have neither, but I show her all the other candy we have. No, it has to be one of those two things. Making conversation, I say, "You've just got a craving, huh?" She replies, "No, I have a hot date tonight." Oh....OHH.
Sorry I asked.~~~~~~
Customer comes in to get a money order, but she only has enough for the MO itself and not the dollar fee. She wants to take that off her debit card, but our system will only allow cash as payment for a MO transaction. She thinks for a minute and then says, "Wait, I have a quarter dollar in my car!" I figure she means one of the gold dollar coins, but she comes back and hands me an actual quarter. I point this out to her. "But it says 'quarter dollar' on it there, see?" I actually have to explain that it means a quarter OF a dollar.
This customer was a pregnant woman, so I'm hoping she was just having a moment of preggo stupidity. (It really does exist!)
maybe I'm just not creative enough, but huh?
I was right, I did not want to know *laughs*
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