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This all happened on Wednesday July 18, but I've been too traumatized to post and relive the horror til now...
As I was pulling into our parking lot, I saw a huge schoolbus in front of our entrance and I thought 'WTF? School's done...', then I saw senior after senior shuffling off the bus and into our store! Apparently they go to the seniors' complexes and bus them in to shop on Seniors' Day. We were lucky we only had one busload. One of the other stores in my city gets 3 or 4 busloads. I'd go totally insane from dealing with that many. Between the busload and the regulars, it was miserable... and of course I had an 8-hour shift, on Express, or as I called it that day, the 'slow, deaf and confused lane'!
Because I've been working 2 jobs, I haven't worked the day shift on Seniors' for over 2 years, and after 6pm, they're home and it's just another shift. I've been sooo lucky!
Too Gross
Old guy left his dirty hanky/wipe thing on my counter.
I called out to him 3 times that he left it and to come back and get it, but he just kept shuffling away in deafness. I said to my next customer, also an old guy, "I am so not touching that nasty thing." He said he didn't blame me, then he went after the first guy and yelled at him to come back and pick up his dirty wipe! Awesome!!! The first guy did come back for his wipe, but didn't apologize for leaving it behind. Figures. The cool old guy said it was too bad I didn't have any sani-wipes to clean that spot with, so I said not to worry, I had sanitizer. I sprayed that on, then dried it with a paper towel. All clean. I hope.
Crazy Old Lady
This all takes place in slow motion. Her bill came to $8 and change. She took out her wallet and gave me $5. She put that back, pulled out a change purse and rooted around in it. Couldn't find what she wanted, so put it back and pulled out another change purse! That also didn't have what she wanted, so it went back in, and out came the wallet for another $5. That gets put away, then change purse one comes back out so she can give me the pennies! Aaaaarrrggghhh!!!!! Could she be any frickin' slower??? In a warped way it was kinda funny, though!
Even Crazier Old Lady
She had a huge purse, and I found out why. She keeps her money (bills) in the pages of Readers Digest magazines! OMG!!! I couldn't see how she filed them, or what pages correspond with money, cuz she had them turned away from me as she looked in them. She slowly ruffled through one and pulled out a twenty, went to another for a ten, and another for a five. Her purse was big enough that she actually could have a magazine for each denomination. Scary. Then she had pill bottles for coins. One for loonies and toonies, one for quarters, and one for dimes, nickels and pennies. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I do know she seriously held up the line.
Psycho Bitch
She had some groceries, which she set on the conveyor belt without a problem. She also had 5 magazines that she handed to me. I went to set them down so I could scan them. She shrieked at me, "DON'T SET THEM ON THERE! THEY'LL GET DIRTY!!!" I just stood there in shock. When I gathered my wits, I asked her how I was supposed to scan them if I couldn't set them down. She said, "Hold them in one hand and scan them with the other." I said I wasn't quite that coordinated and went to set them down again. She snatched them out of my hands and said, "I'll hand them to you then. I DON'T want my magazines getting DIRTY!" I'm still somewhat in shock over the sheer psycho-ness of the whole episode. They're only magazines, the belt was clean enough for her groceries... just... WTF...?
Pranked?
After things slowed down around noon (they need their afternoon naps and we need the break from them!), older guy comes up with his purchases and a pair of our reading glasses that he was wearing - all the tags were still on them. He put everything down, I rang it through, then I asked if he was buying the glasses. "What glasses?" he asked me. I said, "The ones you're wearing." He said they were his. I said no they're not, they still have our tags on them. Then he took them off and claimed he 'forgot' he was wearing them.
I asked if he wanted to buy them and he said no. Uh huh. I wondered if he really thought I was so dumb I wouldn't notice he was wearing them, or if he was trying to prank me.
After he left, our LPO came up and told me he'd been watching the guy ever since he put the glasses on. He said I shouldn't have said anything and just let the dude go so he could bust him. I wonder if he was joking or serious?
As usual, we were understaffed, so the lineups were moving slow to start with, and with all the crazies I had in my line, I had to keep calling for a second express to be opened... and most of the time there wasn't anyone, so I was left all alone with the hordes of idiocy...
As well as the above, normally hearing and sensible seniors that regularly shop in the store were deaf, bitchy, mean, slow and stupid all day. What is it about a 10% discount that makes them go totally insane? I tell you now, I'm putting in a requested day off slip for the next seniors' day - I'll make up some appointment if I have to!
As I was pulling into our parking lot, I saw a huge schoolbus in front of our entrance and I thought 'WTF? School's done...', then I saw senior after senior shuffling off the bus and into our store! Apparently they go to the seniors' complexes and bus them in to shop on Seniors' Day. We were lucky we only had one busload. One of the other stores in my city gets 3 or 4 busloads. I'd go totally insane from dealing with that many. Between the busload and the regulars, it was miserable... and of course I had an 8-hour shift, on Express, or as I called it that day, the 'slow, deaf and confused lane'!
Because I've been working 2 jobs, I haven't worked the day shift on Seniors' for over 2 years, and after 6pm, they're home and it's just another shift. I've been sooo lucky!
Too Gross
Old guy left his dirty hanky/wipe thing on my counter.
I called out to him 3 times that he left it and to come back and get it, but he just kept shuffling away in deafness. I said to my next customer, also an old guy, "I am so not touching that nasty thing." He said he didn't blame me, then he went after the first guy and yelled at him to come back and pick up his dirty wipe! Awesome!!! The first guy did come back for his wipe, but didn't apologize for leaving it behind. Figures. The cool old guy said it was too bad I didn't have any sani-wipes to clean that spot with, so I said not to worry, I had sanitizer. I sprayed that on, then dried it with a paper towel. All clean. I hope.Crazy Old Lady
This all takes place in slow motion. Her bill came to $8 and change. She took out her wallet and gave me $5. She put that back, pulled out a change purse and rooted around in it. Couldn't find what she wanted, so put it back and pulled out another change purse! That also didn't have what she wanted, so it went back in, and out came the wallet for another $5. That gets put away, then change purse one comes back out so she can give me the pennies! Aaaaarrrggghhh!!!!! Could she be any frickin' slower??? In a warped way it was kinda funny, though!
Even Crazier Old Lady
She had a huge purse, and I found out why. She keeps her money (bills) in the pages of Readers Digest magazines! OMG!!! I couldn't see how she filed them, or what pages correspond with money, cuz she had them turned away from me as she looked in them. She slowly ruffled through one and pulled out a twenty, went to another for a ten, and another for a five. Her purse was big enough that she actually could have a magazine for each denomination. Scary. Then she had pill bottles for coins. One for loonies and toonies, one for quarters, and one for dimes, nickels and pennies. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I do know she seriously held up the line.
Psycho Bitch
She had some groceries, which she set on the conveyor belt without a problem. She also had 5 magazines that she handed to me. I went to set them down so I could scan them. She shrieked at me, "DON'T SET THEM ON THERE! THEY'LL GET DIRTY!!!" I just stood there in shock. When I gathered my wits, I asked her how I was supposed to scan them if I couldn't set them down. She said, "Hold them in one hand and scan them with the other." I said I wasn't quite that coordinated and went to set them down again. She snatched them out of my hands and said, "I'll hand them to you then. I DON'T want my magazines getting DIRTY!" I'm still somewhat in shock over the sheer psycho-ness of the whole episode. They're only magazines, the belt was clean enough for her groceries... just... WTF...?
Pranked?
After things slowed down around noon (they need their afternoon naps and we need the break from them!), older guy comes up with his purchases and a pair of our reading glasses that he was wearing - all the tags were still on them. He put everything down, I rang it through, then I asked if he was buying the glasses. "What glasses?" he asked me. I said, "The ones you're wearing." He said they were his. I said no they're not, they still have our tags on them. Then he took them off and claimed he 'forgot' he was wearing them.
I asked if he wanted to buy them and he said no. Uh huh. I wondered if he really thought I was so dumb I wouldn't notice he was wearing them, or if he was trying to prank me. After he left, our LPO came up and told me he'd been watching the guy ever since he put the glasses on. He said I shouldn't have said anything and just let the dude go so he could bust him. I wonder if he was joking or serious?
As usual, we were understaffed, so the lineups were moving slow to start with, and with all the crazies I had in my line, I had to keep calling for a second express to be opened... and most of the time there wasn't anyone, so I was left all alone with the hordes of idiocy...
As well as the above, normally hearing and sensible seniors that regularly shop in the store were deaf, bitchy, mean, slow and stupid all day. What is it about a 10% discount that makes them go totally insane? I tell you now, I'm putting in a requested day off slip for the next seniors' day - I'll make up some appointment if I have to!
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