10 Things to remember once your 18

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

Oh please please tell me you're kidding...there CAN'T be parents that awful...?!

If you've spent a bit of time around here, you know that YES there are.

[raideo]

The moral of the story: Love thy internet, for it yields free porn.

[powerboy]

With late fee's, it's more like I'm explaining to the renter for the first time in history what a late fee is, how it works, and why they are responsible for them. When someone signs up for an account the late fee policy is stated in bold lettering in the middle of the card. Real hard to miss. It was never they guys with 100+dollars in late fee's that gave me guff, it was always the 4 dollar ones for one day late.

I get that at work. But with us, it is the ones with the real late fee's.

[edible_hat]

I'd just like to note that my drive to work takes me past an adult store that has a sign out the front advertising "50% off second-hand merchandise". Surely that's unhygenic.

[hinakiba777]

On the small children subject. I don't think you should bring them into the porn store. Just because the kid doesn't understand, doesn't mean they won't remember.

This is also part of my "Don't sell romance novels at the grocery store" I started reading those suckers when I was 12. They were unexpensive novels so I wanted them. This was not good for my development.

However, taking your child to the liqueur store is cool.

[redmountaingoldfish]

I'm with the customer on this one. What's the big deal with a child too small to know anything being in a porn shop. As long as the parent(s) keep it quiet, that is.

My college paper once ran an article about adult stores. One manager talked about how big of a problem it is when people with no intention of buying things would come in and drive out the shy customers. The article was specific to gaggles of sororities sisters who would come in pick something up that someone else had just been looking at and scream "Who would by this! Its disgusting!" But I'm sure children would fall in this category too. Even quiet ones (like those exist ).

[HalloranElder]

However, taking your child to the liqueur store is cool.

I usually take my inner-child to the porn store, the liqueur store...

[SportinGoods]

The reason for no children

1. If a child enters the store and I don't immediately respond and get them out of there. I would get fired, store would get fined, and I would possibly face legal reprimand.

2. Laws are laws, just like you can't walk around completely nude at the zoo where children are present (Not that it would be such a great idea around squirrels anyway). If you start letting children into porn stores, you have to extend that to anyone UNDER 18, you can't just say below x age and above x age, someone would come up with a lawsuit for discrimination.

3. You know how many germs are in a public bathroom, Wal-mart floor, your own bathing sponge. Now magnify that by one hundred thousand, yeah, lets bring a baby who probably hasn't had all their immunizations into a place where the workers are "required" to have Hep-b vaccinations.

Just supporting why it's not allowed :P

[earl colby pottinger]

True Porn Clerk Stories

OP, Please check out http://www.improvresourcecenter.com/mb/tpcs.html I think you will see a lot and more that matches your experiences.

It is the real life journal of an out of work writer who take a job at a video store to make ends meet. Since she is always on the look-out for characters for her own writting she took notes of the type of people who show up.

Since her store is a video store with a porn section, she has the fun of keeping the too young out, the too old in, and explaining why hentai are not just cute cartoons for mom to rent.

[hinakiba777]

Since her store is a video store with a porn section, she has the fun of keeping the too young out, the too old in, and explaining why hentai are not just cute cartoons for mom to rent.

Mmm, hentai. That magical thing that makes all the impossible fantasies visible. Those girls seriously must be hollow on the inside.

I actually won't let anyone under the age of 17 into my dorm room. I have a lot of original artwork ( yaoi included) that isn't as tame as it appears. Techincally it's PG=13, but there's a lot of implied stuff in there. Kids just see pretty drawings of vampires and wolf boys. My adult friends think I'm warped

I have a few friends who work at movie rental stores or adult stores who are insanely amused by me. Mostly because I ask their co-workers weird questions. Its nothing dirty, just...odd. Also, my favorite adult store sells other stuff. This includes books on knitting and normal journals. I will go in, have a long discussion about bondage materials then buy a knitting book and a journal. I'm actually quite curious about what they think I'm plotting.

[SportinGoods]

Mmm, hentai. That magical thing that makes all the impossible fantasies visible.

Hentai is a whole other realm of customer suckiness that I will go into later, I'm trying to keep it down to three posts a day. I love Hentai don't get me wrong, but some of the questions I get make me vomit a little in my mouth. On the bright side, life imitates art, if you have ever seen real japanese (I speel guuuud) porn you know what I'm talking about.

[SportinGoods]

It seems there was a robbery in an adult novelties store, and the robber tied up the employees using the bondage gear sold by the store, apparently quite heavily.

Not to be a total downer, but the one time the place was robbed in 20 years of business, I was there, at 4 am with another female clerk. Good game for me, I couldn't describe the guy to the cops because he had every inch of him covered. I did notice that as he was pointing a handgun at my face that the Glock had the saftey on though, isn't that disturbing? He got away with a whopping 194 dollars, I happened to be the clerk that did their safe drops.

[hinakiba777]

Hentai is a whole other realm of customer suckiness that I will go into later, I'm trying to keep it down to three posts a day.

Yeah, they will do ANYTHING. It is really quite disturbing at times. I honestly don't envy you working at an adult store.

[CancelMyService]

The most awesome person I've ever met in retail was the guy who worked in the porn store. He kept one of those are-you-kidding-ginormous dildos behind the counter. He told us that if anyone ever tried to rob him, he'd beat the guy with it (it was solid and could probably knock someone out if used as a weapon). His rationale being "Who's going to go tell the cops they just got beat senseless with a rubber dick?"

[SportinGoods]

His rationale being "Who's going to go tell the cops they just got beat senseless with a rubber dick?"

We had this thing called the doorstop, literally three feet tall, with feet for a base, but really just a giant phallus. I had the pleasure of cleaning and shrink wrapping the thing once a month. Man if I could lift that much latex I would totally beat the crap out of someone. But when someone has a gun pointed at your head, the last thing on your mind is beating them with a rubber dick, safety on or no.