Because I had all green lights on my way to work.
Everything was fine, slightly busy for a Saturday morning but okay. Then Mr. California came in. He enters the store talking to himself something about Saks Fifth Avenue. I exchanged a look with the woman I was ringing up and didn't think anything about it.
He comes up to my register with a cart of stuff and wanted to know how much it was because he only had so much on his food stamp card. I ring it up give him the total and I kinda picked up that he wanted to leave it with me so he could go get more. I managed to get him to pay for it. All the while I'm ringing him up he's talking about some trip he took to California and how he lived it up. And how it's about time he went back.
He goes back gets more stuff, I ring him up again. Then he needed the phone to call a taxi. Then he comes back up front by my register and continues to talk about California. About how the people are more laid back and nicer, how the girls take off their clothes at the beach if they want to and the beaches have fine-cut sand. Then he asked me if we had any California coffee. Uh, nooo? It was just busy enough that I couldn't get away. Then his taxi came and he was off. I kinda felt sorry for the guy cuz something wasn't right there.
Then towards the end of my shift it started to get a bit busier. Good to make sure time goes by faster. Lady comes up with a Green Dot card and a plastic bag. It should've set off warning bells but no. Neither did her saying that she's "going to unload some change". "SOME" turned about to be $100, forty in wrapped stuff and forty in loose quarters. I know I should've stopped her at I dunno $20 in quarters but my brain shut down. At the end I tell her that next time she does that to say something beforehand because the managers don't like to have that much change in the drawer. Not once did she get it. She was all fucking happy and replies "Oh, I don't think I'll EVER have this much change again!" She didn't seem to think it was a problem that she was holding up a line of people for $100 dollars in change. Good thing the people after her were good sports about it. Including listening to me rant.
Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!
Everything was fine, slightly busy for a Saturday morning but okay. Then Mr. California came in. He enters the store talking to himself something about Saks Fifth Avenue. I exchanged a look with the woman I was ringing up and didn't think anything about it.
He comes up to my register with a cart of stuff and wanted to know how much it was because he only had so much on his food stamp card. I ring it up give him the total and I kinda picked up that he wanted to leave it with me so he could go get more. I managed to get him to pay for it. All the while I'm ringing him up he's talking about some trip he took to California and how he lived it up. And how it's about time he went back.
He goes back gets more stuff, I ring him up again. Then he needed the phone to call a taxi. Then he comes back up front by my register and continues to talk about California. About how the people are more laid back and nicer, how the girls take off their clothes at the beach if they want to and the beaches have fine-cut sand. Then he asked me if we had any California coffee. Uh, nooo? It was just busy enough that I couldn't get away. Then his taxi came and he was off. I kinda felt sorry for the guy cuz something wasn't right there.
Then towards the end of my shift it started to get a bit busier. Good to make sure time goes by faster. Lady comes up with a Green Dot card and a plastic bag. It should've set off warning bells but no. Neither did her saying that she's "going to unload some change". "SOME" turned about to be $100, forty in wrapped stuff and forty in loose quarters. I know I should've stopped her at I dunno $20 in quarters but my brain shut down. At the end I tell her that next time she does that to say something beforehand because the managers don't like to have that much change in the drawer. Not once did she get it. She was all fucking happy and replies "Oh, I don't think I'll EVER have this much change again!" She didn't seem to think it was a problem that she was holding up a line of people for $100 dollars in change. Good thing the people after her were good sports about it. Including listening to me rant.
Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!
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