No, it's not going to be perfrct; it's going in a roly-poly plastic bag

[Food Lady]

Background: I'm timed on my transactions. I'm requires to remove hangers from clothes & fold them somewhat neatly in order to get them in the bag. I usually pull tags out of the pile, scan, and kinda toss to the side; I'll fold after I'm done with everything else. So this extremely picky SC brings me shirts folded up and I pull the tags out and put them in a pile. She's upset & wants to fold them herself; fine, less work for me. She makes them hospital-cornered.

SC: I don't know WHY you threw them in a pile like that.

Me: I just want to make sure I'm accurate & get every tag.

SC: Well you shouldn't hold them up to your chest. You're wearing lipstick. It could get on them.

Valid point, so I just ignore her scolding. Then she wants some sport bras with makeup on them in a separate bag. That's fine too, but she says "Now that's why you have to be careful with the lipstick." I'm being scolded again. Give it up, lady. Life isn't perfect. She spent 5 mins poring over her receipt after.

[trailerparkmedic]

I can almost understand her concern about lipstick, but if you were folding on your chest, how close to your mouth did the clothes really get?

Sheesh, get over it lady.

[Sheldonrs]

I can almost understand her concern about lipstick, but if you were folding on your chest, how close to your mouth did the clothes really get?

Sheesh, get over it lady.

Maybe she's one of those flexible ladies that can put on lipstick while holding it in their cleavedge.

[hinakiba777]

I think she took your not arguing with her as a green light to keep scolding you.

[king4aday]

I had a customer on Saturday who bought 15 long underwear shirts (I work in an underwear store....). She DEMANDED that I board fold every one of them. For those of you that don't know, board folding basically involves folding a shirt or pants around a board and pulling the board out. This basically is so that every piece of clothing on the table is folded exactly the same way. She also demanded that I put a piece of tissue paper in the middle of the fold on each one, and then wrap each one in tissue paper.

Now for a few points:

1. We are an outlet store...not a high end boutique.
2. We have NO tissue paper.
3. I have a line for the register half way across the store.
4. My staff is slowly coming down with the flu one by one..so I'm alone on Saturday Afternoon.
5. The answer is a big NO..heres the folding board fold them yourself. The bathroom is across the hall, find some toilet paper or paper towel to wrap them in.

I handed the lady the folding board (I didn't offer the toilet paper or paper towel but I was thinking it). I informed her that she could fold them if she wanted to but I just didn't have time.

Wow..long post to just say..I understand COMPLETELY where you are coming from.

[Food Lady]

At least she didn't want me to fold all the sports bras (pile of 15 or 20), but the makeup-stained ones were to go in a separate bag. 1. The makeup was dry. It wasn't going to get on anything. 2. Thanks for adding yet another plastic bag to the landfill.

[Pagan]

SC: Well you shouldn't hold them up to your chest. You're wearing lipstick. It could get on them.

Valid point, so I just ignore her scolding. Then she wants some sport bras with makeup on them in a separate bag. That's fine too, but she says "Now that's why you have to be careful with the lipstick."

Wait, wait, wait. She's bitching at you to not get lipstick on the shirts, but she's buying bras with lipstick on them?

Why do I get the feeling she just looking for something to bitch about?

Maybe she's one of those flexible ladies that can put on lipstick while holding it in their cleavedge.

Been watching "The Breakfast Club" again Sheldon?

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Wait, wait, wait. She's bitching at you to not get lipstick on the shirts, but she's buying bras with lipstick on them?

Why do I get the feeling she just looking for something to bitch about?

That's the way I read it, too, if it's any consolation.

Besides, what does it matter how the shirts are folded . . . doesn't everybody wash their clothing after purchase before they're worn for the first time?

I think she (the SC in the OP) needs to shut up and get laid and she might have a better attitude. . .

[bainsidhe]

Did she demand you wear a hairnet and sanitized plastic gloves? Did you wipe of the counter before she arrived? The things people obsess over.

BTW, am I to suppose the reason the bras had makeup on them was because a previous customer had tried them on and pulled them over their face? As long as you weren't nuzzling and sniffing the garments (wanna bet SC was?) then I fail to see why your lipstick was a problem.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

As long as you weren't nuzzling and sniffing the garments (wanna bet SC was?) then I fail to see why your lipstick was a problem.

I'd hate to think of other things the SC might have done to those bras before she bought them, besides nuzzling them . . .

*munching on toasted French bread with garlic spread*

[BlaqueKatt]

Thanks for adding yet another plastic bag to the landfill.

they just made it illegal here to throw away plastic shopping bags unless full of trash

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

they just made it illegal here to throw away plastic shopping bags unless full of trash

Sounds like something that particular part of the state would do.

Solution: Ball up all your empty plastic bags and stick them inside another plastic bag for trash day. The bags are trash, after all.

[jackfaire]

Use them to clean up after your dog or your cat