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Not so much sucky, but I can just imagine how awful it could have been 
In the bookstore: most people (under 6'4'' or so that is) would need a stool to get up to the highest shelves. We have stools all around which are perfectly safe to stand on. Sometimes you might have to walk ten feet or so and grab one, but there are plenty. We also have a chair which is more like an office chair with no back for sitting on. it has wheels and shaped padding for your bum, and is obviously NOT safe to stand on!!
So I get this guy in the store. I was putting some books away, and when I come back to the desk, I see him standing on this wobbly stool with wheels, trying to get his balance while he reaches the top shelf. He almost falls and catches himself (thank jesus) grabbing for a book. Then he proceeds to precariously balance on the stool while he looks at the book.
I'm horrified and rush over to him and use my "professionally stern voice:"
Me: Sir! Please do not stand on that stool, it is not stable! Let me get you one of the stools that are safe.
Guy: Huh huh huh... it's okay, I just wanted this book. *stupid grin*
(guy gets down from the chair, almost falling again]
Me: *staring in open-mouthed horror at his idiocy*
Do we need to have a sign on the chair to tell people with NO COMMON SENSE that it's not safe to stand on? In my mind I could just see the stool slipping out from underneath him, him bashing his face on the bookshelf and bleeding terribly, or even worse knocking over these huge bookshelf completely, causing a domino effect (which I would have to clean up of course
). Also, I bet he could have sued us something awful if he had been hurt. Oh, well...
In the bookstore: most people (under 6'4'' or so that is) would need a stool to get up to the highest shelves. We have stools all around which are perfectly safe to stand on. Sometimes you might have to walk ten feet or so and grab one, but there are plenty. We also have a chair which is more like an office chair with no back for sitting on. it has wheels and shaped padding for your bum, and is obviously NOT safe to stand on!!
So I get this guy in the store. I was putting some books away, and when I come back to the desk, I see him standing on this wobbly stool with wheels, trying to get his balance while he reaches the top shelf. He almost falls and catches himself (thank jesus) grabbing for a book. Then he proceeds to precariously balance on the stool while he looks at the book.
I'm horrified and rush over to him and use my "professionally stern voice:"Me: Sir! Please do not stand on that stool, it is not stable! Let me get you one of the stools that are safe.
Guy: Huh huh huh... it's okay, I just wanted this book. *stupid grin*
(guy gets down from the chair, almost falling again]
Me: *staring in open-mouthed horror at his idiocy*
Do we need to have a sign on the chair to tell people with NO COMMON SENSE that it's not safe to stand on? In my mind I could just see the stool slipping out from underneath him, him bashing his face on the bookshelf and bleeding terribly, or even worse knocking over these huge bookshelf completely, causing a domino effect (which I would have to clean up of course
). Also, I bet he could have sued us something awful if he had been hurt. Oh, well...
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