That's not an emergency...

[AmethystSquirrel]

Idiot, Then again dealing with an in law could be an emergency in coocoo land.

[emax4]

Yes, I would have charged him 3x as much for the items since he happened to find it funny, and the items themselves were clearly for a non-emergency. THEN I would have gotten the last laugh.

[EricKei]

If only you could have forced him to pay everyone's salaries/wages for that 45 minutes, in addition to the prices on the items he bought...>_> It would only be fair. Well, plus a 50% premium/convenience fee, of course.

[South Texan]

Seriously? He thought what he ended up buying was "funny" and should have been a source of laughter for you?

Now he probably will complain to corporate about how you were not as friendly and receptive to his "humor" as he had anticipated.

[sirwired]

Sounds like the tomato plant "that uprooted itself" made the right choice.

A moment of silence, if you please, for the poor defenseless plant that has been forced to take its place.

[Latekin]

Sir, because of your insisting you had an emergency you needed to deal with, we we opened our store three quarters of an hour earlier than we should have. Because of this emergency, staff who should have been getting paperwork done, or getting some damn caffeine through their system, or just trying to chill out before their shifts started, were on the floor, all trying to help you.

So when you brought three bathmats and a tomato plant to my register, NO I DID NOT GODDAMN WELL FIND THAT FUNNY YOU GODDAMN CROTCH WAFFLE.

An emergency is when there's a giant freaking hole in your roof and you need a tarp to keep the inside of your house from escaping into yonder wilderness! Or your fence blew down and you needed to keep Rover from taking off down the street like a deranged, furry scooter! I'll even accept that you need batteries for your frakkin' fire alarm because it's beeping constantly and waking your baby!

But "my mother in law will be here later, and she hates wet bathmats, and my favorite tomato plant got sick of me and uprooted itself", DO NOT COUNT!

*endless internal screaming*