Originally Posted by sonnebutti
I dont know how to say this but it's like.. In my country, if that happen, the story would probably go to a newspaper. or even to the news. because.. that just doesnt happen.. and sometimes people here in europe like to think of the americans like CRAZY people, they think bush, they think lots of murders.. and of course when we watch crazy people in dr phil that doesnt help too.. or even oprah or tyra... maybe is just because america is a really big country and the chances of strange things happening are bigger, but it's always shocking. so you can understand why the things you're writing about don't make sense to me. I cant even imagine that situations... dont know how to explain it.. i'm not trying to say you are all crazy, just that sometimes it's the image we get.. I think it's the media fault too.. anyway this doesnt has much to do with the original thread, but I just wanted to express my opinion.
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| Originally Posted by Gblue
Any UK people will know Boots. Chemist chain that sells all sorts of stuff. I work in one of their stores on the perfume+No7 counters, but as I'm usually one of the only people about that can do refunds I get stuck doing those over at the main till rank. A lady brought back a swimsuit she tried on cuz it didn't fit, the sticker in the crotch was still there so I thought 'fine no problem' and refunded it for her. After she walked off I noticed... there were pubes stuck to the sticker. Loads of them. I screamed so loud and dropped it and ran away all drama queeny.
And on Monday, a group of young girls (yay, school's out for summer
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| Originally Posted by ms.marymac
Unexpected projectile puking is a tough situation at the counter. You feel sorry for the person who is sick, but have to keep smiling and be perky while you inhale puke fumes...not easy. |
| Originally Posted by ms.marymac
I've worked in stores where people would make a nest of NEW CLOTHES and take a dump right in the middle. |
| Originally Posted by DirtyPlum
oh and one of my colleagues had a customer who wanted a 'heroin chic' look... WTF! |
| Originally Posted by BenefitAddict
What the hell man! Are you sure you aren't lying? I mean, if it happened ONCE, it would be believable. But seriously, SEVERAL TIMES???
Was there ever something wrong with your bathrooms??? |
| Originally Posted by hhunt2
Ewww (vomit), lol. I've always wondered why they had signs that say "Trash only, restrooms are to to the right". Or something like that. I've always wondered what someone did to make the owner post a sign like that. But I know now... Thank God I don't go to tanning salons anymore. |
| Originally Posted by Karen_B
I cannot believe some of the stories in this thread! A friend of mine used to work in a nice hotel, as a cleaner. When she was cleaning rooms where men had been staying alone, she would sometimes find sperm in weird places, like in the mug for the toothbrush or bedside table drawer. |
| Originally Posted by KikiB
Oh that sex store one is bad... Working retail at a body products store, we get our share of crazies. Here are a few: One of my managers, at her old store, got a guy whose English was not that good (Arabic was his first one), and he was looking for a wash for his wife, because he said that the wife smelled. She tried to show him stuff but he said "No, no..." and then pointed "down there". She tried then to send him towards a drugstore to get a douche, but he wasn't understanding-so she had to draw a stick figure. One Sunday, I was working and these two ladies who also do not speak much English came in asking for some sort of wash and I thought they said baby wash, and we don't carry Mustela in our core stores. Well they go to our brand new sales leader, who had been around for less than a week, and she thinks they ask for vanilla wash, but then they tell her to be quieter and it turns out they want...vagina wash. And they said to be quiet so that their male friend, who was also in the store, would not hear. Another Sunday last November, our manager is up in the front of the store, and some people ask "We really love your products, but we were wondering if you carried lubricant." This happened to someone I know who was a CM back in the Midwest-this one lady comes into the store, and she is looking around. She goes up to the register with her return and she's like "I didn't know that there would be a guy working" and pulls out one of our old salt scrubs and she said "This salt scrub-it lacerated my vagina". Another time, I was helping this guy get some scrubs, and he was like "My girlfriend and I-we take the scrub and we like to rub each other down in the shower". We do get a lot of the people using the lipgloss testers straight from the tube (we have spatulas, ya know) and then people who steal the testers. We have a certifiable looney bin around our mall. There's this one older lady who comes in every morning, goes to our Wild Honeysuckle fragrance, and sprays herself a good 20 times, in the same spot, with the body splash. Then she goes up to whoever is working up front and yells "BAG!" in a very witchy tone. Well by the time she is done spraying herself, she is dripping in the spray. One time though, she grabbed our Fekkai glossing spray. Note: it is a HAIR product, with OLIVE OIL and SILICONE. I almost vomited when I heard that. And at our stores, the squat and spray has been perfected-to our chagrin. (SPRAYING STUFF UP YOUR VAJAYJAY WILL MAKE IT SMELL WORSE AND IRRITATE IT!) Well we got these three bogans who came in last summer and they obviously shared a brain-well they go around the store, spritzing stuff everywhere, and making us go insane-then the leader takes a very sickeningly sweet fruity blend and does the squat and spray. Then she goes up to my manager and is like "HEY! What's this?", not noticing that the tester she used is only different than one on the shelf because it has a sticker on it and has been marked out. But still-it's a fragrance that should not be worn above the age of 12 because it is that sweet. |
