A Bitch And Two Wild Brats

[blas]

Unrelated stories, though.

Friday evening, I went to the mall to find some blazers or looser fitting overshirts so that I can still wear my cute summer shirts underneath and not have to cave into this premature late fall weather.

Anyway, I got a really good deal, so I figured I'd shop around a little more. I made the dire mistake of walking into Younkers (about the same as Macy's).

Of course I didn't find anything cute or that I liked, but my nosy radar was going off and I heard a woman raising her voice, so I crept closer and decided to eavesdrop, but pretend I was looking at clothes, like holding them up next to me and compare colors, etc.

I didn't get the entire story on this......cow of a woman, but apparently she had seen an ad in the paper that was some kind of percent off or some dollar amount off. I'm not sure if she even bought anything, because the times I was brave enough to glance over at the customer service desk to get a good look at her, I didn't see any merchandise, at least not laying on the counter. Oh, wait...she must have, she starts screaming that it's supposed to be 60some dollars, it rings up at 70something.

She wasn't getting her way, so she started with the hoity toity "Well listen here, I'm going to call my HUSBAND and we are going to get this sorted out, mmmmmmmmmkay?" and the associate looked about like she wanted to punch the bitch.

So the bitch gets on her cell phone and her voice gets even louder (don't you love people like that?). "HONEY I am at Younkers and this WOMAN is not giving me the price it should be! Remember that ad in the paper? YES, you do. I KNOW you DO. It's right inside the DAMN PAPER! For YOOOOOUNNNNNKERRRRSSSS! Well, this ASSOCIATE won't give it to me for the advertised price, and she CLAIMS that she has no idea about this AD in the PAAAAAPERRR! WHAAAAAT?! You're BUSSSSY? Well I NEEED you to come down here with the AD! WHA WHA.....WHAAA? Well can't ONE OF THE KIDS bring it down here?! Well they'll KNOW what PAPER IT ISSSSSS!"

After that, I was so tired of hearing her overly dramatic emphasis on every other word and her attitude that I just had to leave. I felt awful for the poor associates. It would seem to me that that ad probably doesn't exist.

And for the other story. Reason #.....I don't even know which reason, why I absolutely hate children.

I'm at the gym yesterday. I'm done working out, just going to use the potty and get my stuff out of my locker, let my hair down, and leave.

I get into the locker room and hear little girls screaming. Two of them. As I walk towards the potty, two little girls, probably 8-10, in their bathing suits, chasing one another, came thisclose to bashing in to me. I was rude and said "Say EXCUSE ME next time!" and went into a stall and did my thing.

While I was in there, they were trying to slide on the floor because it was wet from other people coming back in from the pool. I nearly smacked one of them as I opened the door back out when I was done going to the bathroom.

I head to the sink to wash my hands, meanwhile the brats have gone back into the locker area for another round of tag or whatever.

Then as I'm taking my hair out of my ponytail and checking myself out, they are running back to the sinks and vigorously pushing the foam soap so that it's going all over the counter tops of the sinks, and then they start having a foam soap fight. I turn around and glare at them. It didn't work so well.

They quit doing that, but then they ran BACK AGAIN into the locker area, where they start feeling around for open lockers, and open and slam the doors shut of every one that isn't locked.

No parent or any other person was in the locker room. What's even worse, on my way out, I tried to see if anyone was manning the front desk, and no one was there.

Great.

[PepperElf]

No parent or any other person was in the locker room. What's even worse, on my way out, I tried to see if anyone was manning the front desk, and no one was there.

in other words... no witnesses....


good thing you weren't an ax-wielding homicidal maniac.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

What's that mean, exactly, that "she's going to call her HUSBAND?" That she's far too much of a py to fight her own battles or that her husband is violent and/or armed and is going to come down there and beat up or shoot some saleslady?

[blas]

Kink, I really couldn't tell you. I think she was grasping at straws.

If she had half a functioning brain, she wouldn't be shopping at an over priced department store. I got two blazers at Charlotte Russe for $30 (they were half price) and their clothes are decent quality and reasonably priced even when full priced.

The frugal part of me thinks if you're shopping at an upscale department store, you probably aren't looking for bargains, unless she was just doing what I occasionally do, looking for "steals" (clearance items). I'd hardly consider $10 off a $70 item that big of a bargain.

As for the kiddos....meh.....there were employees at the gym, but being a Saturday, there weren't many of them or a lot of trainers on staff. Someone has to check you in, but they were probably cleaning or making someone a shake/smoothie. I would have said something if someone were there.

[PepperElf]

and from the sound of it... her husband wasn't that interested.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

and from the sound of it... her husband wasn't that interested.

Which explains a lot . . . .

I wonder if that involves separate bedrooms, ear plugs or both?

[bhskittykatt]

That's why I like our local gym. They have separate locker rooms for kids and adults. To get into the adult locker rooms, you need to turn in your ID for a key at the reception desk. The adult locker room has TWO saunas, a massage room....and no unruly kids running around.

[MadMike]

I'm a member of the fitness center that they have at my job. Only employees can use it. Family members can't use it, so you don't normally have to deal with people's kids. Unlike the regular bathrooms, they have access controls on the doors, and only fitness center members have access.

It wasn't always that way, though. In the beginning, they were unlocked like the rest of the bathrooms. One time I went in there after my workout to shower and get changed, and just as I was starting to get dressed again, some idiot brought his little girl in to use the bathrooms. She couldn't have been more than 7 or 8. I barely had enough time to cover myself.

I understand the dilemma parents face when one parent with a child of the opposite sex has to take the kid into the bathroom, but the kid's probably not going to see anything anyway. Anyone who's showing anything will most likely be in a stall with a closed door, or standing in front of a urinal with their back to everyone else. But in a locker room, you have people changing clothes, getting into and out of the shower, etc.

Thankfully, shortly after that incident they put the locks on the doors.

[Magpie]

Of course, here on campus we have the opposite problem: there are no showers in any of the women's washrooms (I don't know if they would actually be required to put them in if they hired women in the shop/if someone complained). This isn't a problem, except that the one in the men's washroom in the heavy lab building does double duty as an official safety shower. So the one men's washroom that is likely to have actually naked guys in it is the only one that I'm ever likely to have to use. (I know, I know, it's a safety shower, but it's not like the guys who just want to shower after their shift in the shop had a say in that).

[telecom_goddess]

safety shower?

[greek_jester]

safety shower?

A shower for use when hazardous materials spill on you - usually high-pressure & hung from the ceiling, so that the maximum amount of goop will be washed off in the shortest period of time. You just jump in & yank the cord. I've heard of some places that use a colleague with a high-pressure hose, though, so a shower is pretty nice!

[Magpie]

so a shower is pretty nice!

I dunno, that sounds like it's a lot easier to know where it is, and less likely to have stuff stuck where it's not supposed to be so you have to trip over it to get to the shower. We have a conventional one too, but I honestly can't remember where it is. The labs you get to use as undergrads are rabbit warrens, because they've been subdivided to make little labs out of the big room, and I took so few lab courses that I never really needed to know except for at the safety lecture once a year.

In fairness with the shower - you're not going to be walking there on your own. Odds are HEAVILY in favour of it being a guy who's walking you there (especially if you're a girl). And everyone I know has the sense to know that a little bit of warning to let people clear the room is entirely possible to give.

[LadyAndreca]

If you get enough chemicals on you to need a safety shower, at least SOME of your clothes are pretty likely to be coming off. There's not much room for modesty when you're looking at an absorbant material trapping dangerous liquids against your skin. Personally, I'd be a little annoyed about the shower being in the men's room, and I'd expect there to be irritation if the shower were in the ladies' room instead, too.

[Magpie]

If you get enough chemicals on you to need a safety shower, at least SOME of your clothes are pretty likely to be coming off. There's not much room for modesty when you're looking at an absorbant material trapping dangerous liquids against your skin.

Actually that, to me, was why I feel a little silly complaining. If I use the one in the lab, I'm going to be stripping down, possibly all the way, in the middle of a large lab. Using the men's washroom will result in fewer people seeing what's under there. Yes, more of them will be guys, but honestly, there's probably still fewer guys (especially in engineering).

Blas, I'm sorry, should we give you your thread back?