Moonlit_Angel
Blue Crack Addict
She was a special snowflake, that's for sure!What's your story?
It started off with this girl coming into my store asking about a section for African-American books. She was looking for this woman whom she stressed doesn't work with Dr. Phil, but is sort of in the same vein as he is, with the self-help stuff. She was surprised when I told her we didn't really have an African-American section (we're a small chain, not like a Barnes & Noble type deal), but I did look up the author she was looking for to see if we did have any of those books. I couldn't find any, though, and she seemed kinda annoyed by that. However, she decided to wander around the store for a bit anyway. Fine. Sometimes she'd seem friendly, sometimes she seemed irritated.
But eventually she finds some stuff and goes to check out. I'm off in another area near the counter, cleaning a shelf, and I hear her yell some sort of random joke that I didn't get, and I think she was yelling it to me, I'm not sure. But she looks over at me and laughs, and I just smile, I honestly don't know what to respond with.
So she buys her stuff and leaves. I'm back up at the counter. Our phone rings. I answer, and she's the one calling-it's not even been 5 minutes since she left our store. She's out in the main area of the mall, asking if I'd seen a woman come through with a baby in a stroller. Well, it's a Saturday, there's tons of women like that roaming around, I'm not entirely sure who she's referring to.
I respond with, "No...", and then she starts in saying something like, "Well, if you see her, tell her that I saw her baby's foot in its mouth and I'm going to think of that every time (at this point she went off about some random event that I have no clue as to what the hell she's talking about) and I'm going to laugh every time."
I just said, "Oh. Okay." Then she hung up. I never did see the alleged woman with the baby she was talking about, either.
This is par for the course some days at my store, though. We get some of the strangest customers in sometimes. I had a guy come in a month or two ago looking for Beatles calendars, 'cause he collects them and he swears we've sold them there before. He had a strong whiff of colonge on him and, I swear to God, was dressed up like an Elvis impersonator. And then there was a Ron Paul supporter a few weeks back who was dressed sorta Uncle-Sam-ish, top hat and coat with the stars and stripes, Ron Paul button, Tea Party T-shirt on, the works. So yeah.
... Not a burger, though.
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. What sort of retail work did you do?
I was considering going to the Minneapolis Coldplay show but it's gonna cost me too much money. I'm not sure if there's any tickets left for that one because they sold out for the shows pretty fast.
I was so awesome, a group of Sea World retail big wigs came to San Diego and (to my complete surprise) came to my store "because they wanted to meet the person who had the biggest store sales turn around in their history" when I took over the store. 
I also stocked sunscreen and candybars and kept them in the shade, not in the sun where they were melted and gross. 
I've been craving it.
the cool ones, rather. And I know for certain I won't get to play them when I'm back home for the summer because of the sheer amount my parents complain...
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