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I like to people watch when I grocery shop. As I was going along today, I realized something....that people let their kids touch stuff WAY too much. And put stuff in their mouths. I actually saw a dad take a package of hot dogs off the shelf, give it to his little girl to hold (she was riding in the cart) and she put it straight into her mouth. He never turned a hair.



Crap, that package could have been on the floor a few minutes before! Why do people let their kids put items into their mouths like that? To keep them quiet? And letting them grab stuff off the shelves and start sucking on it right away. Geezus, the germs that must be on that stuff!



Parents do not pay attention to kids that are old enough to walk around either. I saw a young teen age girl trailing behind her mother, busily texting or updating her facebook status ("shopping with mom....so bored") or some other thing, instead of watching where she was going, and she ran straight into some other lady's cart. Other lady said "watch where you're going!" Teenage girl flipped her the bird. I took it upon myself to defend the lady's honor, so farther up the aisle I "accidentally" managed to push my front cart wheels into the back of teenage twat's heels. She screamed so loud I bet they heard her in the parking lot. I smiled my sweetest smile and said "Oh, SO sorry!"



If I'd had a little snotball like that, I would have shipped her off to a military academy. Then I'd move, and leave no forwarding address. Heh.

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PandorasBx
05:19 Sep 19 2010

Hahahaha!!!! This is just one of the many reasons why I wuvs you *grins*..

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Unfortunate incident with a new customer today. He was an Indian gentleman and was quite put out that his name was spelled "Ray" on his invoice instead of "Raj". Well, that was quickly corrected, then on to the prices.



"These were not the prices I was quoted. I want the owner," he said. Well, sir I gave you those price, and they are the correct ones. I can print out the list so you can see. No, no, he insisted he was quoted a much lower price, and my boss had to come up from where he was tinkering with the dry cleaning machine to sort it out.



"I am not accustomed to this type of service. Where I am from the customer gets automatic respect and whatever he wants, he gets," this guy went on and on and on. My boss had to go get yesterday's tape out and rewind it, play it back for the guy and PROVE that I had quoted him the correct price. He wasn't going to take no for an answer.



"And your staff is very snooty," he told my boss. Didn't know if he meant snotty or snooty, so my boss asked him what he meant. "I was not offered any refreshments, or given a discount."



HAH! We are a dry cleaners, not a vending machine. And we DO give discounts, but not for next day rush service. He was "going out of town", which was valid...but he said he wanted the order at 10 am....and he comes in at 3?? Didn't the plane/train/car/bus leave already? Or maybe you really weren't going out of town, you just wanted to act like a big shot and demand a rush service.



My boss had to explain the way things go in our company. This guy was not happy. While all this was going on, a long time customer came in, eavesdropped on the conversation as I got his order out. As he handed me his credit card, he commented casually, "You know, if I don't like the way a business is run, I just don't go there. I don't stand around the front office bitching like a whiny crybaby."



LMFAO! It took every ounce of decorum I had not to bust out laughing. The Indian gentleman harrumphed, went to grab his order....and only got half of it. He was in such a hurry that two pieces fell down, and he was so pissed that when he picked the items up he shouted "AND YOU HAVE DEFECTIVE HANGERS!"



"Oh, fuck the hell off," our other customer said.



Dayum. Some days with customers, it's all you can do to just get through the day without strangling someone.

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LadyKrystalynDarkstar
01:21 Sep 03 2010

THIS made me LOL!!!! some people

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Theban
17:23 Sep 03 2010

It's always someone with the name 'Ray' or 'raj'



Bloody trouble makers!

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Every year about this time, the students return to Beloit College. And every year, anxious parents depositing their children at the college wonder...how the hell are they going to survive?



We always get a ton of parents phoning up to arrange personal cleaning service for their kids, who evidently don't know how to operate a washer and dryer at the laundromat. They want us to come to the dorm at a specified time, pick up the kids' clothes, take them back, clean and press, then return them to the dorm.



This never works.



There is either no one to let us in the dorm, or when we do get in, no one in the kids' room that we need to collect the clothes from. One time we actually got into the room, and I swear to goodness a tornado went thru there. We could no more tell the clean clothes from the dirty ones. We had given the student a special bag to put the clothes in...we found it over a lampshade.



So, the next option is to get the kid to bring the clothes to us. This never works either. The kid forgets, tells someone else to do it and THEY forget, or they just wear their dirty stuff. We have no idea what goes on.



Then the parents never want to pay the bill. We have a policy that, if you are billed, you pay your balance each month. Our purveyors require us to do that, and we do, so we require it in our customers. The college parents are on another planet. They usually forget, month after month, so we have to waste our time calling and sending bills. My bosses finally called a halt to it.



If the parents want their kids' stuff done, someone has to bring it to us, and pay for it when it gets picked up. No more billing.



I still think it wouldn't hurt these kids to learn how to use a washer and dryer themselves. It's part of becoming independent, learning how to take care of yourself. At age 18 you should already know how to do this. Well, some people should. LOL.

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Theban
18:35 Sep 01 2010

I new how to do my own washing and ironing when I was about 12ish!

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Theban
17:22 Sep 03 2010

knew lol

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chrysanthemia
01:55 Oct 03 2010

I can't remember how old I was when I started doing my own laundry. . . . But I sure as hell haven't got a problem doing it now that I'm in college. Although, I did think $1.75 per load was expensive--but it's got to be so much cheaper than a dry-cleaner's.

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