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A collected series of events from my previous job at the military version of a common game store.
The first occurrence
Bit of background. I am the only 'open' female in my store. The other two are over thirty and acts like their drill sarge (my fantastic manager-has a spine of titanium), and my other wonderful CW, who is at this point visibly preggo. Result: I am the one open girl who around 200 soldiers see on a regular basis, I play video games, and havoc tends to ensue.
Me: *talking about used copy of FF XII we have on sale with a customer*
Customer: "Yeah, XII was good, but I preferred VII. I even got a tat of Tifa"
Before I can do anything, the guy has pulled off his jacket and coat, revealing his full back tattoo of Tifia Lockheart. "I have another one on my leg" *starts undoing belt*
Me: interjecting. "That's nice, but I'm good for now."
WTF Parents
I was working on store cleaning, straightening the shelves when I suddenly hear the sharp crack of plastic breaking. I turn around to see two children (4, 7ish? I'm a fairly bad judge of age, clearly under 10) with a collection of 360 game cases on the floor, jumping up and down on them. They appear to have knocked off a whole row indiscriminately and are now trying their absolute hardest to break them. I move over and ask them to stop, starting to go to pick up the games.
Woman: "Stop that. They're having fun!"
Me:
"Ma'am, I'm trying to keep the store neat."
Woman: "We'll only be here a few minutes more, and you'll clean this up anyway."
I stare at her, disbelieving and move to go pick up the games anyway. She stands in my way.
"I SAID THEY'RE HAVING FUN!" She would not let me get through, and when I went to get my manager, she and the kids left, leaving me with a pile of half broken cases I had to find new boxes for. 
And then people ask me 'BUT WHY ARE THE GAMES NOT IN THE CASES ON THE FLOOR' forget being stolen, if they had been in there, this woman's children would have done something like 200$ worth of damage minimum.
EVERYBODY ALL TOGETHER NOW
A group of ATBD (About to be deployed) come into the store, and are wandering around through our hand-held section, they've spread out and I walk over to talk to one. We start talking about what games he wants to take, and I recommend the minish cap for him, since we have it in stock for once.
1 customer: "That's a Zelda game! I love LoZ! I even got this awesome triforce tattoo."
me (oh god not again!) "Sir I don't need to see....." too late, his shirt is off. I will admit it was quite the awesome tattoo, very well done. Unfortunately....
Other customer: "Oh, are we showing off tattoos?" 4/5 people without shirts in the store, my CW has ducked into the back room and I am stuck with four shirtless soldiers. I manage to convince them to put their shirts back on and ring them through.
CW: "It's like you have the power to make people strip!"
Me: "you strip, I kick you."
Pokemon, now with added witchcraft!
I was assisting a customer pick out games for her child. She was clearly not a gamer, and so we were working through the standards.
Me: "And of course you have the standards for his age as well, Mario is a good game, classic and a lot of fun, Kirby is pretty simple, but poses pretty hard levels towards the end and Pokemon has made a nice"
Woman: "NO POKEMON."
Me: "Oka..y?"
Woman: "We don't have pokemon in our house. It has witchcraft in it."
Me:
Could someone explain this? I could understand animal fighting, but... witchcraft?
For future reference, while I did not have a boyfriend, I was not looking for one. At. All. The stripping was not welcome, though I still thank stars that we were on a military base so at least they were all fit.
and that's all for now. More next time.
The first occurrence
Bit of background. I am the only 'open' female in my store. The other two are over thirty and acts like their drill sarge (my fantastic manager-has a spine of titanium), and my other wonderful CW, who is at this point visibly preggo. Result: I am the one open girl who around 200 soldiers see on a regular basis, I play video games, and havoc tends to ensue.
Me: *talking about used copy of FF XII we have on sale with a customer*
Customer: "Yeah, XII was good, but I preferred VII. I even got a tat of Tifa"
Before I can do anything, the guy has pulled off his jacket and coat, revealing his full back tattoo of Tifia Lockheart. "I have another one on my leg" *starts undoing belt*
Me: interjecting. "That's nice, but I'm good for now."
WTF Parents
I was working on store cleaning, straightening the shelves when I suddenly hear the sharp crack of plastic breaking. I turn around to see two children (4, 7ish? I'm a fairly bad judge of age, clearly under 10) with a collection of 360 game cases on the floor, jumping up and down on them. They appear to have knocked off a whole row indiscriminately and are now trying their absolute hardest to break them. I move over and ask them to stop, starting to go to pick up the games.
Woman: "Stop that. They're having fun!"
Me:
"Ma'am, I'm trying to keep the store neat."Woman: "We'll only be here a few minutes more, and you'll clean this up anyway."
I stare at her, disbelieving and move to go pick up the games anyway. She stands in my way.
"I SAID THEY'RE HAVING FUN!" She would not let me get through, and when I went to get my manager, she and the kids left, leaving me with a pile of half broken cases I had to find new boxes for. And then people ask me 'BUT WHY ARE THE GAMES NOT IN THE CASES ON THE FLOOR'
forget being stolen, if they had been in there, this woman's children would have done something like 200$ worth of damage minimum. EVERYBODY ALL TOGETHER NOW
A group of ATBD (About to be deployed) come into the store, and are wandering around through our hand-held section, they've spread out and I walk over to talk to one. We start talking about what games he wants to take, and I recommend the minish cap for him, since we have it in stock for once.
1 customer: "That's a Zelda game! I love LoZ! I even got this awesome triforce tattoo."
me (oh god not again!) "Sir I don't need to see....." too late, his shirt is off. I will admit it was quite the awesome tattoo, very well done. Unfortunately....
Other customer: "Oh, are we showing off tattoos?" 4/5 people without shirts in the store, my CW has ducked into the back room and I am stuck with four shirtless soldiers. I manage to convince them to put their shirts back on and ring them through.
CW: "It's like you have the power to make people strip!"
Me: "you strip, I kick you."
Pokemon, now with added witchcraft!
I was assisting a customer pick out games for her child. She was clearly not a gamer, and so we were working through the standards.
Me: "And of course you have the standards for his age as well, Mario is a good game, classic and a lot of fun, Kirby is pretty simple, but poses pretty hard levels towards the end and Pokemon has made a nice"
Woman: "NO POKEMON."
Me: "Oka..y?"
Woman: "We don't have pokemon in our house. It has witchcraft in it."
Me:
Could someone explain this? I could understand animal fighting, but... witchcraft?
For future reference, while I did not have a boyfriend, I was not looking for one. At. All. The stripping was not welcome, though I still thank stars that we were on a military base so at least they were all fit.
and that's all for now. More next time.
He is my Black Dragon (and yes, a good one) strong, protective, the guardian. I am his Silver Dragon, always by his side, shining for him, cherishing him.
at the strippers. *starts to strip...yes I'm female* 
Lady, they're DAMAGING STORE PROPERTY!!! 
for both me and CW
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