Okay, well here's the background you need:
We accept food stamps. We also have an ICEE/Slurpee machine. It is not uncommon for someone to grab our biggest fountain cup (which is LARGER than the biggest Slurpee/ICEE cup) and fill it with ICEE. The biggest fountain cup (filled with soda) is cheaper than the largest ICEE cup (filled with ICEE).
Guess what they were trying to doooo? (It never worked.)
On to the story!
Woman comes in and wanders around. I see her pull out the biggest fountain cup and fill it somewhat with soda, and then with cherry ICEE as well. Then she wanders around some more, gets a sandwich, then comes to pay.
I charge her for the largest ICEE cup and then a small fountain beverage because that's what we're supposed to do, not trying to get freebees!
So she pays with EBT then kicks up a fuss about being charged properly for what her drink is, trying to claim that there is only a little bit of ICEE in the huge cup.
Me, thinking: Lady, it's a see-through cup. I can see how much ICEE is in there.
But my boss comes around instead to deal with the entire issue because the EBT had already gone through and been charged.
Not a minute or two later the lady comes back in with a wad of cash and buys cigarettes. Now, people using EBT to buy food then dumping the cash they have into cigarettes and lottery bothers me, it's a minor pet peeve of mine but I don't rant at them or anything. I just give them the tickets/cigarettes and move on.
What really, really annoyed me is that I went over to the machine and microwave (where she heated up her sandwich) and I see cherry ice ALL.OVER.THE.PLACE.
It's.EVERYWHERE.
On the machines. On the counters. On the floor. HELL! The lady managed to get it ON THE WALL and under a sneeze guard that was stationed over ketchup/mayo/other condiments and plastic utensils. How did she manage it? Hell if I know.
Edit: OH! She also complained that we don't sell flowers, because "<Same brand of store in her town> DOES sell flowers."
We accept food stamps. We also have an ICEE/Slurpee machine. It is not uncommon for someone to grab our biggest fountain cup (which is LARGER than the biggest Slurpee/ICEE cup) and fill it with ICEE. The biggest fountain cup (filled with soda) is cheaper than the largest ICEE cup (filled with ICEE).
Guess what they were trying to doooo? (It never worked.)
On to the story!
Woman comes in and wanders around. I see her pull out the biggest fountain cup and fill it somewhat with soda, and then with cherry ICEE as well. Then she wanders around some more, gets a sandwich, then comes to pay.
I charge her for the largest ICEE cup and then a small fountain beverage because that's what we're supposed to do, not trying to get freebees!
So she pays with EBT then kicks up a fuss about being charged properly for what her drink is, trying to claim that there is only a little bit of ICEE in the huge cup.
Me, thinking: Lady, it's a see-through cup. I can see how much ICEE is in there.
But my boss comes around instead to deal with the entire issue because the EBT had already gone through and been charged.
Not a minute or two later the lady comes back in with a wad of cash and buys cigarettes. Now, people using EBT to buy food then dumping the cash they have into cigarettes and lottery bothers me, it's a minor pet peeve of mine but I don't rant at them or anything. I just give them the tickets/cigarettes and move on.
What really, really annoyed me is that I went over to the machine and microwave (where she heated up her sandwich) and I see cherry ice ALL.OVER.THE.PLACE.
It's.EVERYWHERE.
On the machines. On the counters. On the floor. HELL! The lady managed to get it ON THE WALL and under a sneeze guard that was stationed over ketchup/mayo/other condiments and plastic utensils. How did she manage it? Hell if I know.
Edit: OH! She also complained that we don't sell flowers, because "<Same brand of store in her town> DOES sell flowers."
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