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I would like to offer my first story for your entertainment from my youth. Its old but worth the funny. Some times the customers suck and sometimes you realize they are here for your entertainment.
It was back in 1993 I was working in a grocery store in Southern Idaho. Nice little resort town and I had taken a third job to make ends meet. Cooking doesn’t always pay the bills. As it’s a resort town we get no end of possible entertainment from fool customers, most days you just deal with it but sometimes you have the gleaming moment where your sarcastic nature over rides your mouth filter. I am checking a women out scanning each item and I come across a box of instant mashed potatoes. Now I hate them I am a foodie and the sheer laziness add to bad taste just makes my mind explode.
So before my mouth filter can engage I blurt out “I’m sorry ma’am I can’t sell these to you there illegal in Idaho”
The CS looks at me and say “What? What do you mean?”
ME: With a dead serious face I say “well this is the state of potatoes we grow and sell potatoes all over the world, these fake ones are against state law!”
CS: looks to cashier next to me and says “Is he for real?”
Other Cashier: “yes Ma’am he has been here longer than me he would know.”
Me: “See ma’am I’m now going to have to report my boss for even having these in the store and he is going to get busted big time”
CS: “Well how do I make mashed Potatoes?”
Me: “Short description on what to do with a bag of potatoes”
CS head off and grabs a bag of potatoes pays for everything and leaves me and the other cashier bust a gut laughing. Then Boss comes down from his office where he has been listing to the whole exchange. He looks at me and says
"Your and Asshole but that was funny… don’t do it again”
The Kicker is a week later I saw her in the store again and she was holding another box of instant potatoes she looked at me and slowly set it back on the shelf. When she got to the checkout line she had a bag of potatoes.
It was back in 1993 I was working in a grocery store in Southern Idaho. Nice little resort town and I had taken a third job to make ends meet. Cooking doesn’t always pay the bills. As it’s a resort town we get no end of possible entertainment from fool customers, most days you just deal with it but sometimes you have the gleaming moment where your sarcastic nature over rides your mouth filter. I am checking a women out scanning each item and I come across a box of instant mashed potatoes. Now I hate them I am a foodie and the sheer laziness add to bad taste just makes my mind explode.
So before my mouth filter can engage I blurt out “I’m sorry ma’am I can’t sell these to you there illegal in Idaho”
The CS looks at me and say “What? What do you mean?”
ME: With a dead serious face I say “well this is the state of potatoes we grow and sell potatoes all over the world, these fake ones are against state law!”
CS: looks to cashier next to me and says “Is he for real?”
Other Cashier: “yes Ma’am he has been here longer than me he would know.”
Me: “See ma’am I’m now going to have to report my boss for even having these in the store and he is going to get busted big time”
CS: “Well how do I make mashed Potatoes?”
Me: “Short description on what to do with a bag of potatoes”
CS head off and grabs a bag of potatoes pays for everything and leaves me and the other cashier bust a gut laughing. Then Boss comes down from his office where he has been listing to the whole exchange. He looks at me and says
"Your and Asshole but that was funny… don’t do it again”
The Kicker is a week later I saw her in the store again and she was holding another box of instant potatoes she looked at me and slowly set it back on the shelf. When she got to the checkout line she had a bag of potatoes.
. The look on her face in my mind's eye!
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