Cell phone stupidity, and ruining a 7 year old's Christmas(long)

[Mr Hero]

One method I've used and it's worked well, is don't even try to compete with the cell phone. Stand there quietly, don't do anything but stare. Don't even ring them up even if you can do the whole process while them being on the phone.

#2 sounds like she wanted you to pay for the book out of your own pocket and that's fucked up. There's customer service, but paying out of your own pocket for a customer is crossing the line.

Is Cuntpickle anything like Shitpickle?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Wow. That's a special kind of entitlement there. In both stories.

[wordboy]

L: aren't you going to put some money towards my total?
<L pays and and leaves>

...wait...what?

She seriously expected you to...

[Whiskey]

Is Cuntpickle anything like Shitpickle?

I think its a lack of pickle thats the issue here.

[EricKei]

An increasing amount of shops (predominantly cafes, restaurants, bakeries etc) over here, fed up with morons like story 1, are introducing a 'no service while on the phone' policy where if you're on the phone, you don't get served until you are off the phone. I think it's a great policy, and hope more and more places adopt it.

Seconded! Many smaller places here have nice big signs proclaiming it, too. On cell phone = step back out of line and next customer gets served first.

[RavenStarr]

The owner of a small gas station/con. store up the road from me put this sign up on his door:

If you must talk on your cell phone
please respect the cashier and customer
behind you and step out of line until
you are finished. If this is a problem
for you feel free to leave.

It's good to be the owner

[alogram]

Wow. Ruining Christmases already? That's got to be some sort of record.

The OP said it was Christmas Eve. And I absolutely would have refused to help that first douchecanoe.

[Argabarga]

It is NEVER too early to ruin Christmas!

[Chromatix]

Speaking of which, I found some Xmas decorations on sale today. Note: on sale, not draped around the store.

There were also snow shovels on sale, but around here that's pretty normal.

[Kaylyn]

The first story...yeah. Sometimes you can't tell if they're actually going to set the phone down and be polite when you're done ringing them up...but as soon as she told me to shut up, I would have voided the transaction and started ringing up the next person. I bet it would make her hang up real quick-like, but alas, you've now started on the next person's 300-item order and she'll just have to wait...

[Kristev]

It is not your responsibility to pay for her child's book! What a scrounge lizard.

As for cell-phone lady, may I reccomend you start singing rock & roll songs to yourself, very, very loudly? Everybody does that, but no one cops to it. How can management be angry with you for singing?

[Athaelia]

Mommy, I think that lady needed a time-out!


Out of the mouth of babes comes the truth...

[chainedbarista]

exactly, outside of the op and the child, the intelligence and courtesy was seriously lacking (i'd say humanity as well...). sometimes, children hold more wisdom in their hands than most adults ever will.

Is Cuntpickle anything like Shitpickle?

well, dear herr hero, it depends on which one you think is the worst of the two...

as for the ruining of the christmas bs; go all the way, call security and have her 'escorted' from the store and ruin hers as well.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

It is NEVER too early to ruin Christmas!

Not even if it's the day after, 'cause you're only getting a head start for next Christmas.

[Zellie Crescent]

For the first one I would have been fired also, and the second one I would have told her that if I paid for the book I get to keep it.