Death of a Sucky Customer (Plus Bonus)

[Kisa]

Death of a Sucky Customer

Relax, no one really dies.
I was on my knees hanging signs when a family of 4 (mom, dad, 1 year old boy, 3 year old girl) walked by. The boy was in the cart, but the girl was walking and taking full advantage of that freedom. She was running this way and that, touching this, pulling that, her snack bowl rattling with dry cereal. The husband, who was tending to the baby, told his wife that she should reprimand the little girl and get her under control (the husband was trying to call her over but couldn’t leave the baby unattended).

Wife: No, no, let her be. I don’t want to cause a scene. That would be so embarrassing. (But letting her run wild in a public place is not embarrassing at all, right?)

Right on cue, the girl intentionally dumped her cereal on the floor and laughed, “Ha ha ha!” The wife gaped, turned beet red, and covered her face with her hands, peeking through her fingers. The husband just burst out laughing.

Husband: Well it’s a good thing you didn’t discipline her! This is much less embarrassing, right Honey?

The wife just flushed in stunned silence while her husband bent to pick up the mess.

Little Girl: I’ll help you Da-Da! I’m sorry; it was an accident.

I just sat watching trying to too laugh too loudly. I’m betting she’ll keep her kids under control next time. And thus, and un-sucky customer emerged from the ashes; born anew like the mighty phoenix! Huzzah!

Insta-Diabetes Just Add Soda! *patent pending*

I was working near the checkout lanes and see a man come through with a cart overloaded with liter bottles of Mountain Dew. Seriously, he could give a serving of pop to everyone in the super bowl stadium and still have some left over. I don’t know what the heck he was planning of doing with all that pop. Maybe he was tired of life and wanted to put himself into a diabetic coma; who knows. Anyway, he put one bottle on the belt and told the cashier there were 50 bottles in all so she can just scan that one 50 times. I don’t know if he was spatially challenged, absent minded, or intentionally lying, but I could tell just by looking at the sheer mass of Mountain Dew that there was a lot more than 50 bottles in that cart. Luckily, the cashier said no and helped him get all the bottles on the belt so she could count and scan them all. He had a grand total of 79 bottles in his cart.

[KatherineB]

I must admit I've bought multiple items (50+) for charity purposes so I'm wondering if it was something like that or he was giving out/selling individual drinks at a function or party or something.

[LesserSouthernFroglet]

And here I was thinking the death of a SC was the bonus...

Yeah, I know, I'm a nasty, nasty Froglet.

[Kisa]

I must admit I've bought multiple items (50+) for charity purposes so I'm wondering if it was something like that or he was giving out/selling individual drinks at a function or party or something.

I cut out a lot of back and forth for time purposes, but he actually debated the cashier for several minutes insisting that he counted them and it was exactly 50 bottles. You could tell he reeeaalllyyy didn't want her counting the bottles and was hoping she just took his word on it. Considering how much his count was off by, I'm thinking your second guess was right. He was likely taking advantage of the sale while also trying to scam us out of 29 bottles to sell later at a profit.

[PhiSigGirl1988]

Mountain Dew guy sounds like my friend's husband. He drinks the equivalent of at least a 2 liter a day.

[fireheart]

I must admit I've bought multiple items (50+) for charity purposes so I'm wondering if it was something like that or he was giving out/selling individual drinks at a function or party or something.

I used to have one of those guys at work who would regularly come through my line (and ONLY my line) with about $250+ worth of junk food. It was for the local football (Aussie rules) club up the road.

The reason why he came through my line was not creepy at all: I was just quicker . He'd go through someone else's line if I was covering express, but if I was on a big lane, he'd line up for me.

He also admitted that he preferred coming to my store because we were cheaper than <Business Wholesaler about 30 minutes away!>

[sirwired]

I'm pretty sure MD SC was an MD addict. When soda goes on sale, it's usually every product sold by the bottler. If he was buying for resale (or for an event), he'd likely also be stocking up on other Pepsi products.

[Kristev]

I admit that I buy 2-liters, roughly 90 a month because I drink 3 per day on average. Firstly, they're all diet, secondly, it's only my business.

And from time to time, not frequently, I've made a mistake in the count. Be over by a couple, be under by a couple. But what normally happens if this goes on is I discover it, go back to the store the next day and pay what I owe.

By mistake, I mean tell the cashier I have 30 Diet Dr. Pepper when I forgot I have 31 or 29. I'd never be so brazen as to put 75 in my trolley and claim it was 50. What a jerk.

[gremcint]

I admit that I buy 2-liters, roughly 90 a month because I drink 3 per day on average. Firstly, they're all diet, secondly, it's only my business.

you drink 6 litres of pop a day? you must pee a lot.

[dalesys]

That's an awful lot of MD there, Kristev. You must be peeing MD by now!

WYSIWYP! What you see is what you pee!

[Tama]

At least it doesn't make your pee GLOW...

[RealUnimportant]

I admit that I buy 2-liters, roughly 90 a month because I drink 3 per day on average. Firstly, they're all diet, secondly, it's only my business.

And from time to time, not frequently, I've made a mistake in the count. Be over by a couple, be under by a couple. But what normally happens if this goes on is I discover it, go back to the store the next day and pay what I owe.

By mistake, I mean tell the cashier I have 30 Diet Dr. Pepper when I forgot I have 31 or 29. I'd never be so brazen as to put 75 in my trolley and claim it was 50. What a jerk.

I can't judge, I used to down a couple of 3-litres of Coke (when they were common) without blinking, and they weren't diet... I'm hovering around 3l a day atm, plus the odd other soft drink or juice or milkshake (or milk on cereal) snuck in between.

This is what happens when you don't drink tea or coffee; you have a more obvious way of counting just how much you drink every day. And for those of you who think this is a lot, it's not - you should be drinking close to 3 litres of water a day anyway (8x8 is 2 litres, which isn't really enough.) Count up your coffees or teas, you may be surprised just how much you're getting through

[Shalom]

Problem is, caffeine is a diuretic . . . which means that you might be peeing out more than you take in, for a net loss of water.

[prjkt]

At least it doesn't make your pee GLOW...

Need some Nuka Cola for that

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I will never completely give up soda, but I have cut back to one can or bottle a day, usually with my lunch at work.

I do drink a lot of Arizona tea, which is probably not much better, and sparkling water.

Think I've lost weight since I've been cutting back on the soda. My scale's probably broken though. As much as I'd like it, I do not weigh 172 pounds.