Desperately Seeking Eggs (Ranty)

[TruthHurts]

I am opening up the store this morning when I encounter the most annoying woman. She sees me enter the store and immediately lock the door behind me. Rather than take the hint she runs to the door, first she shakes it and then starts pounding on the door.

I admit it, I ignored her. We weren't open for another 15 minutes and I have had it up to here with early birds whining or demanding me to open up early. I finish up the opening duties and head back out to grab the papers.

The woman is still outside the door and as soon as I open the door she says "Take pity on me, I need eggs." I apologize and tell her we open in seven minutes. She begins bitching that I was being ridiculous etc etc. In the couple of minutes it took me to bring all the papers in, she pleaded with me to let her in early countless times. She swore she wouldn't rat me out to my boss and kept whining that she was desperate.

I told her no countless times before locking the door in her face as soon as the papers were in. She actually gave up on waiting a couple minutes later, had she been patient enough to wait a few flipping minutes without whining, she would have gotten her precious eggs and I would not have started the morning in an annoyed mood.

Her whole attitude irked me. Seven minutes is not that long of a wait even if you are "desperate". I could get in trouble for letting a customer in early, I'm not being some unfair stickler for rules. Asking me over and over after I said no is not going to wear me down and frankly it's downright childish. And to end it all she never even got those eggs she was so "desperate" for.

I guess they were important enough to whine and harass me over but not important enough to wait for.

[Nyx]

For some reason I picture her as some crazy disheveled, beger lady, perhaps with multiple cats?

I saw a customer about three or four minute before we opened try the door, then look at the sign with our hours posted, then at his watch then get back in his car and drive away. Maybe his watch was off? Or more possibly he was an impatient ass.

[blas]

That happened to me lots of times when I opened at the gas station. It actually creeped the hell out of me when I'd show up a half hour before opening and there was somebody lingering outside. I was almost too scared to get out of my car and open the door.....

People got so pissed that I wasn't like my manager and I wouldn't let them in early.

[mattm04]

That happened to me lots of times when I opened at the gas station. It actually creeped the hell out of me when I'd show up a half hour before opening and there was somebody lingering outside. I was almost too scared to get out of my car and open the door.....

People got so pissed that I wasn't like my manager and I wouldn't let them in early.

I had a friend who worked at a gas station for awhile. Once he pulled up for opening the store and two guys were standing at the door. It was during the winter so he had his jacket on. As he rolled thru the parking lot one of them yelled "do you know when it opens?" He played dumb and drove off, and called the cops to have them removed.

[earl colby pottinger]

Good point

Two best times to rob a place:

One: Right after closing when the max amount of money is in the store being counted and has not been put in the safe or deposited at the local bank.

Two: First thing in the morning when the money for the day is just coming out of the safe, the safe is unlocked and there is only one person in said store.

There is a reason that no-one who is not a working employee should *NOT* be let in outside business hours.

[Victoria J]

I saw a customer about three or four minute before we opened try the door, then look at the sign with our hours posted, then at his watch then get back in his car and drive away. Maybe his watch was off? Or more possibly he was an impatient ass.

Maybe he realised he had to be somewhere - late for work ?

Funny Egg Buying Story Number One

This happened to a friend of my mother. She was on holiday on one of the Greek islands - and staying in self-catering accommodation. She set out to buy eggs, unfortunately she couldn't speak Greek.

She goes into a local shop and tries to communicate her need for eggs. After lots of arm waving and miming the grocers face lights up " Ah - Greek-word" And he shakes his head.

She proceeds to go into every other shop locally and loudly exclaim Greek-word. In every shop people just back away from her. She can't figure out why no one has eggs, or whether these people are afraid of eggs.

Only when she gets to speak to someone who knows some Greek and some English does she discover that Greek-word means "tomorrow". At this point she understands why she's just terrified every shop keeper on the island, and why they really won't be happy to see her the next day

Funny Egg Buying Story Number Two

This is just a story I read but is rather sweet. It involves the artist David Hockney, and is another story of attempting to cope in a foreign language.

David Hockney is in a cafe and wants boiled eggs as part of his breakfast. Unfortunately he doesn't know the word for this in the local language, can't recognise it on the menu etc. The waiter doesn't know what "eggs" are. Miming gets nowhere.

So he draws 2 boiled eggs on the napkin. The waiters face brightens and he goes off to get the order, and comes back with ...

ice cream.

Victoria J

[calulu]

When the hubby and I owned and operated our convenience store we made the mistake of moving into the large four bedroom apartment over the store. After a month we had to put a locked gate on the stairs leading up to the second story because people in that small town thought nothing of coming up to pound on our door at 3 am demanding we sell them cigarettes an beer. We'd still get the occasional assclown that would jump the gate but it did stop the middle of the night demands for most folks.

[Kyree]

For some reason I picture her as some crazy disheveled, beger lady, perhaps with multiple cats?
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Heeey....not all of us cat people are bad I have multiple cats, and I'm not crazy! (Well...not /very/ crazy. )

[Nyx]

Maybe he realised he had to be somewhere - late for work ?

Maybe, I hate when people come shopping when they really should be elsewhere. Like at around noon, when people come in and complain that I'm not checking them out fast enough because they need to be back at work. As if lunch time is the quietest at a store. That's like thinking that the holiday season would be the quietest time of the year. Yep and lunch on X-mas Eve, boy is the store dead then.

Only when she gets to speak to someone who knows some Greek and some English does she discover that Greek-word means "tomorrow".

LMAO That'd be hilarious to see someone walking around, asking "tomorrow".

Heeey....not all of us cat people are bad I have multiple cats, and I'm not crazy! (Well...not /very/ crazy. )

Me too, I talk to them too. When they start talking back I'll be concerned I'm crazy.