Me: 20 yr old girl, uniformed security guard at a big manufacturing company that builds military aircrafts. I work the midnight shift.

( Got yelled at by an employee and a taxi driver. Mmmmyay. )

I have the biggest, most grossest pimple on my back where my bra strap lays. And it HURTS!!

Okay so its not really huge or anything but its big and gross and is causing me pain!

The end

Well, this is second-hand, but I had to share.

We have a courtesy booth at my grocery store and we offer check-cashing. Our check-cashing fee is $1 per every hundred dollars, given out in store script. So if you cash a $600 check, we will give you $595 in real cash and $5 in our store script, which can be used at our registers if you spend $10 for each script you would like to use.

Follow me so far? If you would like to use all 5 of your script at once, you would need to spend $50, then you could give us $45 cash and 5 script. Basically, we are charging about 1% and giving you something you can use at the register if you shop with us. If not, throw the script away and eat the fee, which is less than any regular check-cashing business would be charging you.

So, Sunday morning, the manager L, gets called up front for customer service. There is an irate lady at checkstand one, who wants to use all 5 of her script on an $11 order. L explains that that is not how it works. "Where does it say that?!" L shows her where it is printed on the script itself, and points to the sign right next to the check-cashing window, that explains the script. ( I am also dead-sure that whoever cashed her check explained to her how script work, since it was apparently her first time.)

Irate lady begins screaming insults and calling "bullshit" and just generally making a huge ass out of herself. We are ripping her off, and out to scam her and yadda yadda yadda. She starts walking out the door, and L is standing to the side, continuing to listen to her hurl abuse, and she stops in the doorway, turns, and SPITS IN HIS FACE. Then she walks away.

L told me when I came in for my shift that he was just so stunned, he didn't even know what to do. Every person he talked to ( me included ) said he should have detained her in the security office and called the cops on her for assault. But I totally get it, I think I would have been too stunned to do anything too.

The kicker is, this lady came back to the store a few days later, to complain to the store manager about the "bullshit" she had to put up with at our store. And our awesome store manager politely told her she wouldn't have to put up with it any longer, because she was never to shop at our store again, that he would not stand for anyone abusing his employees like that. I wish I could have seen it.

Jobless right now but was out shopping with my room mate today at a Family Dollar store.


Dear confused older woman,
You passed me no less than 4 times while I was talking to my room mate, as we discussed everything under the sun (INCLUDING making fun of some of the merchandise!). Based on my attire, I obviously DO NOT work here. So why are you asking?

Love,
PsychoTwinkie




Note: Disturbed hoodies are not attire for most places of business.

p.s. i think this actually tops the time i was asked if i worked at Office Depot while wearing a Gundam Wing shirt!

(FYI: My store is open until 11pm and it's 9:45pm. I am done at 10pm but I had a last break and my manager and co-worker okay-ed me simply leaving 15 minutes early.)

I'm just getting ready to leave when a customer stops me on my way to the check-out.  I have my jacket on over my uniform and a bag on my arm and everything. To be honest, I don't mind getting stopped if people are asking where an item is or what time the store is closed but this guy just kept talking and complaining to me about.....the soup being all gone in the Hot Deli. 

Of course the soup is all gone- that department is closed at 10pm and the store itself is closed at 11pm. At a certain point during the night, if the soup runs out, they don't refill the pots because it's wasteful. It takes a while for the soup to even melt because it comes in frozen. 

I explained all this. Cue "This store only caters to people who work the 9-5 shifts!' rant. (Which makes me laugh because I obviously am not working the 9-5 shift or having any trouble shopping.)

We're even open an hour later than every other grocery store in the area. We offer a sushi bar, a salad bar, a cold deli, a hot deli and a bakery until 10pm. We can only stay open for as long as our Store Manager tells us. If it's going to cost more to pay two people to work for that extra hour than we'll make by staying open then we lose.  

Customer: There's nothing here for me to eat! I want you to tell me what I'm supposed to do!
Me: *points out all the pre-made sandwiches, the chicken wings, the whole chickens (I've seen one person eat a whole chicken by himself), the wedges, the salads- both leafy and not- the mashed potatoes, the sushi and the pizza buns in the bakery* There's plenty here, sir.
Customer: I want SOUP.

I barely held back from chucking a can of Campbell's at his head. I just pointed him in the direction of the hot deli's manager.

>_> This reminds me of all the people who complain when we open for 24 hours during the holidays. They're shopping at 2am and they're complaining that we're open?!

Can it be January now?

In case you haven't heard, Empires are having a winter sale, and if you use the code "WINTERSALE" in their webstore, you'll get 20% off your purchase.

THE PERFECT EXCUSE TO SPEND MORE MONEY ON THESE GUYS. :D

I should start out by first saying that I live in Santa Fe, which is not completely populated by a certain race.
I also should say that the customer that pulled the big no on me is totally annoying. The list of sucks perpetrated by this woman is miles long. She comes in at the last minute (I mean, right as we are locking up for the day), she never has any of her paperwork filled out, etc.
I was doing a simple deposit for her last week when she started talking about the economy. I hear it a lot, I work at a bank so no big deal. And then she started ranting about Mexicans. Her song went something like this:

Irritating customer: "I think they should just stick to mopping floors and cleaning toilets or whatever, instead of taking all of the good jobs."
Me: 0_0
IC: "And why can't they learn to speak English? Is it so hard? I can't understand what any of them say. They come to this country and live off of welfare, basically all of them do."
Me: ?!?#?$%#?$%

...And she kept going on and on about her hard earned money going to taxes to feed those wetbacks and I threw up in my mouth a little, because I myself am Mexican. Light skinned and with a valley-girl accent, but I speak Spanish fluently. I also pay my taxes and I went to college. I spend a lot of time shocked at how many stupid things are said to me on a daily basis about my ethnicity, because people have no clue.

Not sure if this counts as a customer suck... but it was too f'ed up.

my grandmother works in a charity shop and they found a box of clothes left there for them.

With a dildo buried in the middle. A used dildo.

Drugstore photo tech. Nuf said.

I had already punched out after my shift AND removed my blue uniform polo shirt. I'd left my shirt in my very full shopping cart while I went to get an item from a nearby aisle. So why did you feel the need to ask me -- in khakis and an "Aussie Surf Co." t-shirt of a very different shade of blue than my uniform, staring at Mom's shopping list no less -- if I work here?? Next time ask someone who is *on* the clock, please.

I can understand if I still had my polo on. But c'mon! (FWIW, I remained courteous and directed her to the item.)

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Normally, I don't usually get the urge to recreate something that I've seen a celebrity wear. But this popped up on Yahoo's homepage, and I just can't resist:
( to save anyone on a slower connection )

(This was under the "What were they thinking?" slideshow, but honestly, I love how this thing looks! I cannot be alone in this)

I have a vague idea how to go about it, but I'd appreciate some input. The basic construction seems fairly simple, but I'm not 100% sure. I'm going to assume the back has the back of the shark on it, so that's how I'm planning to go about that.

You know that feeling you get when the skin from a piece of popcorn gets stuck in your gums? Well, I'd been having that on and off for several days, but couldn't get rid of it. I tried brushing it out, I tried flossing it out, nothing. Finally, I figured it was just my gums being odd and there was nothing actually in there.

Well. Today at lunch I went at it with the end of my drinking straw and finally got something out. What it is/was/whatever, I have no fucking idea at all. It was roughly the size/shape/consistency of a green pepper seed, so maybe that? Though I haven't a clue how one would have gotten in there. It was all brownish/yellow from being stuck in there for so long, but, much to my surprise, it didn't smell at all.

And now there's a nice little hole in my gum where the thingy used to reside. Perhaps a trip to the dentist is in order. =/

some sort of project.


( and a miscellaneous )