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Three stories today, none of them really sucky, just making me scratch my head in wonder.
I work at Aid of Rite.
When Did I Get A Promotion?
Because I've had no less than 3 people coming up to me to ask me my opinion on this cough medicine or that stop smoking lozenge or the pain reliever best for that pain and such like. Normally it's one person every 3 months but I guess the universe likes to consolidate everything sometimes for efficiency. The stop smoking lozenge people? Took easily 10 minutes between me in English with hand signals and the daughter of the man relaying it in Bosnian to her father and asking me questions about how precisely to use the product and would it smell like nicotine and me going, "Urm...I don't know because I don't smoke/haven't used it before" really intelligently. Eventually the took the new white mint gum that supposedly whitens teeth as you chew it.
You're Not In Walgreens
As I'm putting away the pregnancy tests from truck, lady comes up behind me and starts looking at the generic brand tests, saying, "Oh, I lost the box for the results and I'm not sure what it is...maybe I'll have to buy a new one."
"Well our brand is $7.99 on sale this week," I say.
"Oh, it's that price at Walgreens." She picks up our brand and gasps. "According to this the two dots means I'm pregnant....great. I need to kill myself now."
I guess this brings up the question: What do walgreen brand tests say if you're pregnant? I'm guessing that different store brands = different ways of saying that you're pregnant?
Toto
As I'm going back up front to help ring a woman comes in with a dog on a leash, which is a no no since it's obviously not a service animal. The dog is everyone's vision of a perfect Toto, a dark gray terrier with a black quilted jacket on him and a bright pink tongue poking out. He's sniffing everything and is also friendly, he licks my hand. I'm about to tell this woman off for bringing the dog into the store because it WILL get her banned (and we banned a woman not too far back from repeatedly bringing her vicious little Pomeranian dog in after we told her not to, the dog was snappy and growly and she would put him in one of our carriages and stand near the pharmacy for ages waiting for her prescriptions, which is not a good idea especially since families with young kids and people allergic to hairy dogs were there) The woman says, "The dog is not mine, I found him wandering the parking lot and I thought I would bring him in." The dog has fresh snow clinging to his paws. Hm. So I page for the owner of a gray terrier to come up front and within 5 minutes, a rather sheepish woman with a green coat comes running up to grab the dog because he apparently escaped through her car window or something. The woman who found the dog begins to berate the owner for being so thoughtless and the dog could've been run over by some idiot or dognapped and the dog had no tags and so on and so forth. Loudly. VERY loudly. To the point where I want to scream, "Come ON lady, the owner made a mistake and she's feeling bad, stop adding fuel to the fire!"
I work at Aid of Rite.
When Did I Get A Promotion?
Because I've had no less than 3 people coming up to me to ask me my opinion on this cough medicine or that stop smoking lozenge or the pain reliever best for that pain and such like. Normally it's one person every 3 months but I guess the universe likes to consolidate everything sometimes for efficiency. The stop smoking lozenge people? Took easily 10 minutes between me in English with hand signals and the daughter of the man relaying it in Bosnian to her father and asking me questions about how precisely to use the product and would it smell like nicotine and me going, "Urm...I don't know because I don't smoke/haven't used it before" really intelligently. Eventually the took the new white mint gum that supposedly whitens teeth as you chew it.
You're Not In Walgreens
As I'm putting away the pregnancy tests from truck, lady comes up behind me and starts looking at the generic brand tests, saying, "Oh, I lost the box for the results and I'm not sure what it is...maybe I'll have to buy a new one."
"Well our brand is $7.99 on sale this week," I say.
"Oh, it's that price at Walgreens." She picks up our brand and gasps. "According to this the two dots means I'm pregnant....great. I need to kill myself now."
I guess this brings up the question: What do walgreen brand tests say if you're pregnant? I'm guessing that different store brands = different ways of saying that you're pregnant?
Toto
As I'm going back up front to help ring a woman comes in with a dog on a leash, which is a no no since it's obviously not a service animal. The dog is everyone's vision of a perfect Toto, a dark gray terrier with a black quilted jacket on him and a bright pink tongue poking out. He's sniffing everything and is also friendly, he licks my hand. I'm about to tell this woman off for bringing the dog into the store because it WILL get her banned (and we banned a woman not too far back from repeatedly bringing her vicious little Pomeranian dog in after we told her not to, the dog was snappy and growly and she would put him in one of our carriages and stand near the pharmacy for ages waiting for her prescriptions, which is not a good idea especially since families with young kids and people allergic to hairy dogs were there) The woman says, "The dog is not mine, I found him wandering the parking lot and I thought I would bring him in." The dog has fresh snow clinging to his paws. Hm. So I page for the owner of a gray terrier to come up front and within 5 minutes, a rather sheepish woman with a green coat comes running up to grab the dog because he apparently escaped through her car window or something. The woman who found the dog begins to berate the owner for being so thoughtless and the dog could've been run over by some idiot or dognapped and the dog had no tags and so on and so forth. Loudly. VERY loudly. To the point where I want to scream, "Come ON lady, the owner made a mistake and she's feeling bad, stop adding fuel to the fire!"
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