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This particular night was rather busy, I had a line all the way to the back of the store yet no one was in much of a hurry and they didn’t seem to mind the wait AND THEY WERE ALL SOBER! If you’ve ever worked in a university town you would understand why this alone deserves notice! So all in all it was a nice night, until creepy, old, wrinkled, toothless, drug addicted lady comes in.
She comes in with her equally creepy, toothless, drug addicted boyfriend and right away they start acting suspicious. They both huddle over by the front door whispering to each other while passing an empty Safeway bag back and forth. Then creepy old woman comes up to the counter attempting a sympathetic look on her pug face.
Creepy woman: Oh my god! What a long line!! And you all by yourself? That’s bullcrap!
And then she scurries to the back of the store looking for whatever she was looking for.
Side note: She was empty handed when she came to the counter.
Her equally creepy boyfriend has exited the store with empty Safeway bag by this time and is outside grossing up the parking lot by going through the garbage cans and leaving the unwanted stuff on the ground. This means I get the joy of cleaning this up later…Fuckers…ANYWAY! This woman disappears around back for a good five to ten minutes before re- emerging, this time with a cup of noodles in her hand.
Suspicious action #2: She trots over to the fountain machine and fills it with cold water and pops it in the microwave instead of going over to the coffee machine where there is a hot water spout and filling it there.
I thought it a little odd, but most people will heat their stuff up and let it cook while waiting in a long line so I didn’t really think much of it right then…Then she starts doing really REALLY odd stuff..like bolting out the door while her noodles cook and not showing up again for a while. Then magically there she is!
Suspicious action #3: Instead of waiting for the microwave to go off she starts weaving in and out of the line of people. Meanwhile, we have made eye contact once or twice by this time and she smiled in acknowledgement, so she knew I was watching her. In fact, the line of people was watching her by this time too. I don’t know what this lady was thinking she was doing, but being sneaky was not it.
This all finally comes to a head when she tires bolting out the door with the hot cup of noodles, almost dropping them twice on the way out conversation as follows.
Me: Excuse me, but I didn’t see you come in with that you need to pay.
SC: But you have a long line!
Me: I’m sorry but I can’t let you leave the store with that, you either need to get in line and pay or you need to leave.
SC: THAT’S MY CUP OF NOODLES! YOU HAD A LONG LINE AND WEREN’T PAYING ATTENTION!!!
Remember her coming up to the counter empty handed?
Me: *Grabs the noodles* Ok, you need to leave.
LET THE RANTING AND NAME CALLING BEGIN!!!!!
SC: THAT’S MY CUP OF NOODLES YOU BITCH! I’M GOING TO GO BACK TO SAFEWAY AND GET THE RECEIPT!!! I’M GOING TO HAVE YOU FIRED!!! YOU’LL NEVER WORK IN THIS TOWN AGAIN!!! (Picture if you will a saggy wrinkled indignant face and a boney old finger continually jabbing in my direction…But she isn’t making eye contact so I guess that’s something.) I’M GOING TO SUE YOU FOR DEFIMATION OF CHARACTER!!!! (She really shouldn’t use words she can’t spell) THIS IS DISCRIMINATION!!! FUCK YOU!!!! And stomps out.
Turns out her and her creepy boyfriend were trespassed from the property for, guess what?! STEALING, they came in on a day I wasn’t working and were arrested that day. I haven’t seen either one of them since…
I don’t get paid enough for this shit.
She comes in with her equally creepy, toothless, drug addicted boyfriend and right away they start acting suspicious. They both huddle over by the front door whispering to each other while passing an empty Safeway bag back and forth. Then creepy old woman comes up to the counter attempting a sympathetic look on her pug face.
Creepy woman: Oh my god! What a long line!! And you all by yourself? That’s bullcrap!
And then she scurries to the back of the store looking for whatever she was looking for.
Side note: She was empty handed when she came to the counter.
Her equally creepy boyfriend has exited the store with empty Safeway bag by this time and is outside grossing up the parking lot by going through the garbage cans and leaving the unwanted stuff on the ground. This means I get the joy of cleaning this up later…Fuckers…ANYWAY! This woman disappears around back for a good five to ten minutes before re- emerging, this time with a cup of noodles in her hand.
Suspicious action #2: She trots over to the fountain machine and fills it with cold water and pops it in the microwave instead of going over to the coffee machine where there is a hot water spout and filling it there.
I thought it a little odd, but most people will heat their stuff up and let it cook while waiting in a long line so I didn’t really think much of it right then…Then she starts doing really REALLY odd stuff..like bolting out the door while her noodles cook and not showing up again for a while. Then magically there she is!
Suspicious action #3: Instead of waiting for the microwave to go off she starts weaving in and out of the line of people. Meanwhile, we have made eye contact once or twice by this time and she smiled in acknowledgement, so she knew I was watching her. In fact, the line of people was watching her by this time too. I don’t know what this lady was thinking she was doing, but being sneaky was not it.
This all finally comes to a head when she tires bolting out the door with the hot cup of noodles, almost dropping them twice on the way out conversation as follows.
Me: Excuse me, but I didn’t see you come in with that you need to pay.
SC: But you have a long line!
Me: I’m sorry but I can’t let you leave the store with that, you either need to get in line and pay or you need to leave.
SC: THAT’S MY CUP OF NOODLES! YOU HAD A LONG LINE AND WEREN’T PAYING ATTENTION!!!
Remember her coming up to the counter empty handed?
Me: *Grabs the noodles* Ok, you need to leave.
LET THE RANTING AND NAME CALLING BEGIN!!!!!
SC: THAT’S MY CUP OF NOODLES YOU BITCH! I’M GOING TO GO BACK TO SAFEWAY AND GET THE RECEIPT!!! I’M GOING TO HAVE YOU FIRED!!! YOU’LL NEVER WORK IN THIS TOWN AGAIN!!! (Picture if you will a saggy wrinkled indignant face and a boney old finger continually jabbing in my direction…But she isn’t making eye contact so I guess that’s something.) I’M GOING TO SUE YOU FOR DEFIMATION OF CHARACTER!!!! (She really shouldn’t use words she can’t spell) THIS IS DISCRIMINATION!!! FUCK YOU!!!! And stomps out.
Turns out her and her creepy boyfriend were trespassed from the property for, guess what?! STEALING, they came in on a day I wasn’t working and were arrested that day. I haven’t seen either one of them since…
I don’t get paid enough for this shit.
And it couldn't have happened to a more deserving couple.
for dealing with those brain donors.
at the end of my post. I just thought it was an interesting coincidence that I happened to put that avatar there and maybe a week later the drug itself comes up under discussion. It does seem, though, that many people don't realize that there even is a legitimate medical use for the stuff, which is one reason I stuck it in there: the media tend to refer to meth as an "illegal drug", which it isn't, exactly. It's just a drug that's illegal to possess without prescription, or manufacture without license.
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