It's my fault... just cause I'm the girl with purple hair. O.o

[dragon_wings]

Background: I work at a drugstore as a beauty advisor but to get more hours I will work as the front register sometimes (one shift a week, 2 out of every 3 weeks, therefore tolerable). My hair is dye purple so a lot of people remember/recognize me. I usually get a lot of compliments. /background

Today towards the end of my shift I ask a coworker to cover so I can go pee.
While I'm doing my business a coworker pops her head in the bathroom "Hey, dragon_wings, did anyone leave keys at the register."
Me: Um, no. (confused as to why it can't wait)

Afterwards I walk back up to a lady leaving huffily and I ask my coworker what that was about.

Apparently a lady forgot her keys and when she couldn't find it came back in accusing someone of stealing her keys. And since my coworker was covering she was at a lose as to what might have happened to her keys when the lady says this gem "It was that girl! The girl with the purple hair!"

Me:

So just cause I wasn't at the register I was trying to steal her car (it was apparently a Lexus). Can't a chick use the bathroom without being accused of bullshit? More importantly, was I just accused cause I was recognizable?

By the way: I didn't recognize her. Doesn't mean I didn't ring her up. I tend to ring a lot of people up everyday.

[cashierbex]

Ah yes, because you have such an odd color for hair you stole the car keys. I love the logic in that.

[Argabarga]

I've known a few hotheads in my time that the moment they misplace something, everyone around them is suddenly obviously involved in a conspiracy to "steal their s*it" and cover for whoever did it, and we need to learn how to "buy our own stuff and not steal!"

Until they find the missing thing right where they left it, and of course, offer no apology.....

Some folks just can't admit to being fallible

[violiavampyr]

Some people are nuts. A lady lost a scarf in our store one time and accused a co-worker of stealing it even though said co-work was just taking it to lost and found.

[csquared]

Chances are you are the ONLY person there she can remember (because of the hair). You probably rang her up last week, not today. Even if you were off today, she would have blamed you.

[Pixilated]

Chances are you are the ONLY person there she can remember (because of the hair). You probably rang her up last week, not today. Even if you were off today, she would have blamed you.

My thoughts exactly. Depending on the lady's age and/or politics, it's also quite possible that "unusually coloured hair" automatically equals ________ (fill in with whatever version of 'scofflaw' you choose).