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After much site stalking an encounter with a SC today pushed me to join. It's kind of long.
Background: I have a hip issue and after more than a couple of hours I start limping. My coworkers don't notice it anymore and I'm so used to it I don't even realize I'm doing it.
So when the SC comes in with his wife my awesome shift and I are joking about a coworker behind the counter. We greet them, finish talking, and then she goes to the office to count drawers down.
I go back to building an endcap, making sure to pause and check on the SC couple just to make sure they don't need any help. After a couple of passes he starts talking aloud like he's talking to himself about having a disability. I don't really pay attention to it since I have to go run the register to check someone else out. I hear him say to his wife they need to leave because he's tired of being made fun of. I figure she's giving him crap because she was just shaking her head.
They come up to the register and I'm super polite and trying to get them checked quickly because he seems impatient.
Then he starts talking again.
SC: "I didn't always walk like this."
SCwife:"Hush, go sit in the truck."
SC:"I know when I'm being made fun of."
SCwife:"She's not making fun of you go sit in the truck."
I of course realize that he thinks I was making fun of him. Now the whole time they were in there I didn't see him limp or anything so I was totally confused. But he goes outside. The wife ends up having a money issue so we have to void the transaction and she goes outside. My awesome shift comes out to grab the last drawer and I start to tell her what happened when the wife comes back inside.
SCwife:"My husband, he's crazy but he wants to know what you were laughing about when we came in. He says you took a long look at us and started laughing."
At this point awesome shift takes over and I step back to let her handle it.
Awesome Shift:"We were joking about a coworker. Nobody that works here would make fun of customers that way."
SCwife:"Well he's sure she was making fun of him. He was in a car accident."
Awesome Shift:"She has a limp. She wouldn't make fun of a customer that way. If you want to have your husband come in I'll talk to him."
SCwife:"Well he'd throw a fit."
Awesome Shift:"I can handle a fit."
SCwife:"Well we don't want the cops called again."
Then she leaves. My awesome shift turns to me.
Awesome Shift:" We weren't mocking him before but we're going to have to mock him now for being nuts. I can't believe he'd think you were limping to mock him for half an hour."
For the last hour of our shift every time one of us laughed the other would tell them to stop mocking people.
Background: I have a hip issue and after more than a couple of hours I start limping. My coworkers don't notice it anymore and I'm so used to it I don't even realize I'm doing it.
So when the SC comes in with his wife my awesome shift and I are joking about a coworker behind the counter. We greet them, finish talking, and then she goes to the office to count drawers down.
I go back to building an endcap, making sure to pause and check on the SC couple just to make sure they don't need any help. After a couple of passes he starts talking aloud like he's talking to himself about having a disability. I don't really pay attention to it since I have to go run the register to check someone else out. I hear him say to his wife they need to leave because he's tired of being made fun of. I figure she's giving him crap because she was just shaking her head.
They come up to the register and I'm super polite and trying to get them checked quickly because he seems impatient.
Then he starts talking again.
SC: "I didn't always walk like this."
SCwife:"Hush, go sit in the truck."
SC:"I know when I'm being made fun of."
SCwife:"She's not making fun of you go sit in the truck."
I of course realize that he thinks I was making fun of him. Now the whole time they were in there I didn't see him limp or anything so I was totally confused. But he goes outside. The wife ends up having a money issue so we have to void the transaction and she goes outside. My awesome shift comes out to grab the last drawer and I start to tell her what happened when the wife comes back inside.
SCwife:"My husband, he's crazy but he wants to know what you were laughing about when we came in. He says you took a long look at us and started laughing."
At this point awesome shift takes over and I step back to let her handle it.
Awesome Shift:"We were joking about a coworker. Nobody that works here would make fun of customers that way."
SCwife:"Well he's sure she was making fun of him. He was in a car accident."
Awesome Shift:"She has a limp. She wouldn't make fun of a customer that way. If you want to have your husband come in I'll talk to him."
SCwife:"Well he'd throw a fit."
Awesome Shift:"I can handle a fit."
SCwife:"Well we don't want the cops called again."
Then she leaves. My awesome shift turns to me.
Awesome Shift:" We weren't mocking him before but we're going to have to mock him now for being nuts. I can't believe he'd think you were limping to mock him for half an hour."
For the last hour of our shift every time one of us laughed the other would tell them to stop mocking people.
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