Scary? No, more comical actually

[Kiwi]

We have a group of guys who shop at our store often enough the staff are aware of them. It's a group of three who look like they could be cast in the Jersey Shore (not that common in Vancouver).

They are all bulked up gorillas, slicked back hair, diamond earrings (or CZ most likely) orange tan, covered head to toe in ed hardy and covered in tattoos and waxed eyebrows. They buy everything in cash and have large wads of it and make this huge deal about counting it out and flashing it around.

I hadn't ever had to ring them out before but yesterday they came in to buy a bedset for the lead gorilla and all of the staff came up to the front of the store to "support me" because they for some reason think these guys are dangerous. The staff all became "busy" at the front of the store but kept shooting me looks and mouthing "are you okay", I was fine.

In fact I was trying so hard not to bust up laughing. This mr macho man was not only carrying a LV man bag (read purse) he looked like an over inflated oompah loompah and he was buying this paris/london/rome bedset we have for sale with 25 pillows for the bed, all decorative pillows, you won't even be able to see the bed under the damn pillows!

The entire time I am ringing this guy out the other two are intimidating the staff, getting really close to the females, leaning right close to them to pick up a product, yelling back and forth about these "hot chicks" they were all banging last weekend and all the action they got just generally being nasty and crude.

The guy who was paying made this big deal about counting out $700 in twenties and was like "impressed?" to me and I smiled and pretended to be confused and said "oh at what, the duvet cover, yes it's nice isn't it"

after they left the manager and a couple other staff came up and checked I was okay and told me how scary they thought the guys were and I told them to go home and google the Jersey Shore, they weren't gangsters they were guidos about the worst thing they could do is fist pump if techno came on the radio

[Seraph]

they were guidos about the worst thing they could do is fist pump if techno came on the radio

I just about died laughing at this. Its so TRUE.

The louder someone acts, the more I know they're probably just about harmless. Its the quiet ones you have to worry about!

[Catwoman2965]

"over inflated Oompa Loompa" you just made me laugh out loud at work.

Yeah, they are harmless. More brawn than brain. I know. I'm from Jersey. And while MOST of us are NOT like the cast of Jersey Shore, sadly, there are enough who are....

[LillFilly]

At my last mall I was always getting complaints from concerned busy bodies about these 'dangerous persons.' My area had a large population of goths. Every day it would be "Security! There's a man in a black trench coat by the food court!" And I'd ask what was the problem, what was he doing, etc. They'd say "Well he's wearing BLACK TRENCHCOAT and looks suspicious." So this guy wasn't doing anything expect wearing a trench or looking punk or goth which as we all know means you're going to start shooting schoolchildren or something. I'd wander over and it usually ended-up being a friend of mine and I'd say "hey Steve, got another complaint about you!" And he'd be like "Hee, I scared someone again huh?" My old supervisor even asked me to talk to my friends and get them to 'dress normal' to which I said no, it's their right to dress however they want as long as doesn't violate any of our rules. Can you believe in 2-years NEVER did we kick-out a goth or punk (the ones always labeled as troublemakers) it was always the cute preppy kids in their gap and abercrombie and fitch shoplifting underwear from Debs and the like. You can never judge.

Now I keep thinking of inflatable oompa loompas....

[Mytical]

People who think they are intimidating are comical, or most of them are at least. The others respond to the 'stare' with very comical results. Especially when they are screaming and yelling at you..right in your face. A good yawn really throws them for a loop *laughs*. What..I wouldn't know this from first hand or anything

[Mamochan]

They are just peacocks. flashing their looks around to make them look alot more scary then they are ^^;

[Raveni]

It's not all that impressive once you realize that they probably just cash their whole paychecks, carry around the cash until its gone, and going to end up crashing with their girlfriend after missing their rent payment.

Of course, with all those pillows, I'm sure she ha the room...

[EricKei]

And while MOST of us are NOT like the cast of Jersey Shore, sadly, there are enough who are....

It's always the exception to the rule that makes the news and/or unreality show coverage ^_^

I can relate -- not all rural Louisianians are like the guys on Swamp People....but a certain percentage of them are. I should know, I'm probably related to several hundred of them (literally. Had a family reunion in the early 90's, four hundred people showed up (and that's just the ones who could make it). 90% of them had very, very Cajun last names)

[Slave to the Phone]

I ride a Harley. My friends are bikers. When we are out on the bikes, we wear jeans and leathers and chain our stuff to our bodies. We don't do this to intimidate people, we do it because its the most practicle way to dress.

It always amazes me when we go into a store to get water and snacks and the clerks look frightened. We are always polite and everything.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

OMG, Ed Hardy. I could picture those kids as soon as you said that's what they were wearing. I remember when I worked in Jewelry at the call center...Ed Hardy stuff galore. We used to laugh at it.

[Der Cute]

I ride a Harley. My friends are bikers. When we are out on the bikes, we wear jeans and leathers and chain our stuff to our bodies. We don't do this to intimidate people, we do it because its the most practicle way to dress.

It always amazes me when we go into a store to get water and snacks and the clerks look frightened. We are always polite and everything.

See, I'll take a biker for safe any day. Yalls have to ride on 2 wheels, not four, and if you're going to be out, riding, with less coverage than a car, you know about safety.
Plus I have some biker friends and they'd come help me in a pinch. I don't worry about leather jackets. I worry more about the people who do <.< >.> stuff.

[dakhur]

They are just peacocks. flashing their looks around to make them look alot more scary then they are ^^;

More like lyre birds.

They appear from the undergrowth, strut to their mounds, spead their showy stuff, and proceed to make a variety of odd and unappealing noises. And then get annoyed when you ignore them and go off in a sulk to peck at something innocent.

[Bella_Vixen]

Goodness. You should come to my store. The owner/managers are so racist, it's humiliating.

If a black person comes in late at night, the manager will "casually" walk the store.

Yeah. They are about as subtle as a train wreck. It's especially fun when the get department managers to do it, too. I don't think that deli managers spend part of their shift doing laps around the store, looking into every aisle like they've never been to the store before.

[Mytical]

Well can only go by what I found out during my stint at Wally World..More often then not the people who were caught stealing were semi well dressed (at least). Now of course this is only what we caught..but the last report on theft we ran had the majority as "Male, White, Well Dressed." I am sure it is different everywhere, but you can not judge a book by its cover.

[Argus]

Goodness. You should come to my store. The owner/managers are so racist, it's humiliating.

If a black person comes in late at night, the manager will "casually" walk the store.

That sounds like they are just asking for one double-team approach:

The black guys head to the far corner of the store and act like they are shoplifting. While all eyes are on them, their white accomplices do the actual shoplifting. (I know one guy who had that attempted on him; it didn't work because the decoys were too obvious about attracting his attention. Also, he is black himself.)