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    I work at a convenience store. This story comes from a woman who works at the laundromat across the street from my store.

    This woman named "Alice" comes in everyday to refill her ice cup and buy lottery tickets between customers. The laundromat is, of course, a coin-operated business. Her boss grants her a small amount of freedom to venture off property to make a quick trip to the store since their customers primarily serve themselves. She always carries the phone with her in case someone tries to call for assistance. It has enough range to pick up on our property.

    So, she was sitting behind the counter scratching some of her lottery tickets. Apparently, a woman doing her own laundry did not like this. She called Alice's supervisor to complain. The supervisor responded that it was Alice's money, and she could do with it as she pleased. In other words, complaining customer, mind your own business and leave Alice alone.

    Alice told me about that a couple of mornings ago. So, now, I ask her if she's making more trouble when she asks for her usual lottery tickets. We both have a good laugh over it, and life goes on. The customer was doing her own laundry, and Alice would have helped her had she needed assistance. People who stick their noses where they don't belong like that just annoy me.

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    Bonus feature: Alice had an exchange with another customer today. Alice's laundromat is a 24-hour location. Some woman claimed she did laundry last night, and left for a while. She returned to find it missing, and started pitching a fit with Alice over it. Alice tried to help her at first, then she started griping Alice out for the lack of security overnight. They have surveillance, but no one is present overnight. Alice told her to "get the hell out." The woman refused, and Alice ended up calling the police on her. The woman, naturally, threatened to call Alice's boss, but Alice said he most likely won't do more than review the tapes from the security cameras to see if there was an suspicious activity. Honestly, who would leave their laundry unattended in a laundromat. I have my own washer and dryer, now, but I never left my laundry unattended when I had to go to the laundromat.
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    I always stayed with my laundry. I knew, the first second I stepped away that someone would steal them
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    • #3
      Quoth powerboy View Post
      I always stayed with my laundry. I knew, the first second I stepped away that someone would steal them
      Seconded, although I've always wondered why someone would steal someone else's clothes. Are a stranger's freshly laundered tighty whities that appealing?
      How was I supposed to know someone was slipping you Birth Control in the food I've been making for you lately?

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      • #4
        I hate to even leave one basket while carrying another to or from the car.


        Just because I'm paranoid does not mean they aren't out to get me. Or my clothes.

        My mother loves to tell the story about how someone walked off with laundry out of the laundromat right in front of my dad. He was so engrossed in a book that he didn't notice.
        Another tale she tells is of the time someone stole the laundry right off the wash line in the back yard.

        My paranoia was taught to me by my parents.
        Everything sucks. I must be living in a vacuum.

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        • #5
          Quoth Soulstealer View Post
          Seconded, although I've always wondered why someone would steal someone else's clothes. Are a stranger's freshly laundered tighty whities that appealing?
          Have you ever read Fallen Angel Used Books? Homeless people or teenagers are the ones who steal them.

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          • #6
            My apartment company has a whole separate, locked, room for laundry for people who can't afford to get their own machines, or just don't want to. I always am nervous somewhat that my laundry will go missing, even if no one can get in there without the standard key you're given when you sign a lease. I know it's bound to happen one day but I've been lucky so far. Besides, I tend to do my laundry between 11pm and 2am, while everyone else is asleep.
            Confirmed altoholic.

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            • #7
              At the apartment complex my wife and I lived at right after we got married had a laundry room on the bottom floor. Lucky for us, it was right outside our door. One night, my wife goes to do laundry. Someone's using the machines. So, she comes back in. Goes out an hour later... the same basket, the same clothes are still in the washer!



              So, my wife takes the clothes out of the washer, sets them in the basket, and starts on our laundry. This must have triggered some sort of silent alarm, because the owner comes down at this moment to find my wife using the machine, and she goes apeshit. "How dare you touch my clothes!" etc.. etc..

              It finally settled down and my wife finished our laundry, but good grief. There's only 2 washers and 2 dryers per building. She had both machines hogged, she was no where in sight, and all my wife did was set her clothes in her basket so she could use the machine. Lesson learned: Don't leave your laundry unattended, and above all, don't be a machine hog! She needed a reminder that there were over 20 apartments that used that room.
              A fact of life: After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F.....

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              • #8
                My complex has laundry rooms, and since they're so close to my apt, I will put my stuff in, and walk back to my apt, rather than wait while it washes. Same thing with putting it in the dryer...but I would never leave it there, and forget about it. I generally go down before its done, just to avoid someone touching my stuff...

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                • #9
                  Quoth IT Grunt View Post
                  At the apartment complex my wife and I lived at right after we got married had a laundry room on the bottom floor. Lucky for us, it was right outside our door. One night, my wife goes to do laundry. Someone's using the machines. So, she comes back in. Goes out an hour later... the same basket, the same clothes are still in the washer!



                  So, my wife takes the clothes out of the washer, sets them in the basket, and starts on our laundry. This must have triggered some sort of silent alarm, because the owner comes down at this moment to find my wife using the machine, and she goes apeshit. "How dare you touch my clothes!" etc.. etc..
                  Sounds like you might have lived at the same apartment building as my sister. Boy, does SHE have stories about some of those asshats.
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                  oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
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                  • #10
                    I take a book or a handcraft with me to public laundromats, even if they are restricted to the building.

                    I think it was nice that you put the clothes in a basket.

                    If she hadn't left the basket, then what?

                    Floor?
                    Everything sucks. I must be living in a vacuum.

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                    • #11
                      I lived in a Apartment complex that had a laundry room in it for the whole place. They gave you a key, but it was seldomly locked. Anyways. Me and My wife keep good time on when the machines would be done. One time I had washed my clothes, and tossed them into the dryer, put my $1.50 in for 2 cycles (.$75 for a 20 mins cycle), like I normally do, came back 30-35 mins later, and my clothes, still soaking wet were setting on the table. I put my clothes in another dryer, and opened the door to my original dryer and left it open to kill the time.

                      Now, since I bought my house, the worse thing I have to deal with is transferring my clothes from the washer to the dry. My washing machine is in the kitchen, next to the dishwasher , and my dryer is in the rec room, on the other side of the house.
                      Just sliding down the razor blade of life.

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                      • #12
                        The apartment complex my older daughters live in has 5 washers and 6 dryers for 102 apartments about 250 residents and all are college students. They've talked about kids putting their wash in and leaving to go to a bar and come back several hours later. They've said someone put their laundry in and never came back for it, they emptied the washers and put the abandoned laundry on the folding table and it sat there for over a month.
                        When I was in the dorms I was always amazed at how many boys and girls didn't have a clue about doing their laundry. We had one boy solidly pack two washers with clothes, the third with his carpet. He managed to burn up three washers and it was months before they're were repaired/replaced. His clothes were wet, still dirty, confisicated by the dorm director, and a bill for the washers.
                        I've a friend that owns several laundrymats around town and he has classes at the beginning for each semester for the college kids to teach them the proper way to wash and dry their clothes. It cut down on calls from their mommys and daddys.
                        When I was a real small kid my Mom or grandmothers didn't have washers they used wash tubs, heated water, wash/scrub boards and soap. That was hard work and took hours. When I was around 5 or 6 they pooled resources and bought a wringer washer. This thing had a briggs and straton engine and it had to be used outside and weighed over 200#. I've also heard my great-grandmother talk of taking wash to the river to wash on the rocks.
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                        • #13
                          When I lived in the dorms, we had laundry rooms with 2 washers and 2 dryers on each floor. I literally paced the hall when I had a load of laundry to do. I never ran into any problems, but some of the others said they were not so lucky. The worst problem I ran into was the one time that the washer decided to quit on my laundry before it drained the wash water. Nothing quite so fun as fishing sopping wet laundry out of a tub full of water. Then, there was the time that someone left their laundry in the washer for three hours before I finally decided to move it to the table so I could use the working washer.
                          The Borg wouldn't know fun if they assimilated an amusement park. -- B'Elanna Torres, Star Trek: Voyager

                          Math! Math, my dear boy, is but the lesbian sister of Biology. -- Peter Griffin, Family Guy

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                          • #14
                            Quoth aurelemsrealm View Post
                            Then, there was the time that someone left their laundry in the washer for three hours before I finally decided to move it to the table so I could use the working washer.
                            Exactly what happened with my wife that day, although she didn't wait as long. She was able to recall an additional detail that not only did she take the laundry out of the washer and put it in the basket, she /folded it/ for this lady. Yet that lady still bitched up a storm when she came down to find, horror of horrors, someone touched the laundry she left in the laundry room for over an hour.
                            A fact of life: After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F.....

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