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The other evening it was dead in the deli, yet there were three of us scheduled. We were generally killing time til we could clean stuff, standing in a cluster chatting, all three of us interacting with each customer, a nice light night. Until Mr Grizzled Drunk comes up and orders his stuff.
Now, we were having a discussion about sleep, energy drinks and whatnot, and it turned out like this:
I'm slicing meat for customer,
CW1: "Wouldnt it be great if there was a machine that you could, like, plug in for 10-15 minutes a day and recharge, not have to do full nights of sleep every night..."
Me: "Yeah, that would be great"
CW2: "Naaah...think about if criminals never slept, the world would go crazy.."
CW1: "True...plus with all that extra time, humans would find bigger and better ways to destroy the world. We'd kill ourselves."
Mr GD: "That's not funny! My best friend killed himself!"
all 3 of us
I apologise, and try to explain that we werent making light of suicide (even though he just witnessed the whole conversation, which was spoken to the group, including him, you know what I mean?)
Mr GD: I know, I know you didnt know. ::gets blustery::: He blew his brains out! Came home from work and found his wife had left him, took everything he owned and he fucking killed himself!"
At this point, I think all 3 of us are silently praying "Make him go away!", it was the most awkward uncomfortable moment ever in the deli!
I finish up his order, with another apology, and he looks me dead in the eye and tells me "If I could get away with it, if I wouldnt get caught, I'd kick the shit out of her." (apparently meaning the friend's wife)
Does "Thank you, Have a nice day?" even cover it at this point.
We all kinda looked at each other when he left
Seriously?
Now, we were having a discussion about sleep, energy drinks and whatnot, and it turned out like this:
I'm slicing meat for customer,
CW1: "Wouldnt it be great if there was a machine that you could, like, plug in for 10-15 minutes a day and recharge, not have to do full nights of sleep every night..."
Me: "Yeah, that would be great"
CW2: "Naaah...think about if criminals never slept, the world would go crazy.."
CW1: "True...plus with all that extra time, humans would find bigger and better ways to destroy the world. We'd kill ourselves."
Mr GD: "That's not funny! My best friend killed himself!"
all 3 of us
I apologise, and try to explain that we werent making light of suicide (even though he just witnessed the whole conversation, which was spoken to the group, including him, you know what I mean?)
Mr GD: I know, I know you didnt know. ::gets blustery::: He blew his brains out! Came home from work and found his wife had left him, took everything he owned and he fucking killed himself!"
At this point, I think all 3 of us are silently praying "Make him go away!", it was the most awkward uncomfortable moment ever in the deli!
I finish up his order, with another apology, and he looks me dead in the eye and tells me "If I could get away with it, if I wouldnt get caught, I'd kick the shit out of her." (apparently meaning the friend's wife)
Does "Thank you, Have a nice day?" even cover it at this point.
We all kinda looked at each other when he left
Seriously?
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