The End

This will be my last post. I have come to realize that there are many crazy things that happen in a grocery store, but I have also realized that there are not as many crazy things that I thought when I began this blog. I had a few silly stories and I always think that I am going to have something odd happen to me at work, but since I started the blog it seems that not as much had happened.    

                I also think that since it was the winter, not as many people came in as if it were the summer time. I think that in a month or two I will start to get more crazy stories because there will be more people coming through the store. Plus, I have only worked two days out of the seven in a week so I did not have as much time in the store as I have before school, so that may have played a role in the decline of weird people and stories.

                I am glad I was able to maintain this blog, although at times I had to think hard of past stories that have happened. I will probably save these stories and look at them a few years from now and get a good giggle from them. If this summer gives me a good amount of stories I may continue this blog, but I would have to expand more on it and I am not sure if I want a blog to be like a part time job.

                Well hopefully these stories have made you laugh a little bit and made you feel a bit smarter. Thank you for reading=]

Oh no...my keys!

            This weekend something happened that was, no so out of the ordinary, but the woman that it happened to was definitely out of the ordinary.

            I was working customer service, like usual, and a woman came up to the desk and told me that she had locked her keys in the car. This scenario has happened in the store a few times, so I was not alarmed or anything. I asked her if she had AAA or anything like that, that could help her unlock the car. She said she had AAA but her card was locked inside the car with her purse. Also, the car was running. I could not imagine how this woman had managed to do that, but I told her that we can find out the number.          

            I finally got ahold of the number and dialed it for her. She was on the phone for about 15 minutes and when she finally hung up she told me how it would be about an hour and a half until they would get here. She asked if there was any way that someone from the store could drive her to her house right around the corner since she had an extra key. I called the manager and he said it was okay so I asked one of the employees in the bakery if she would mind. She said it was no problem, but the woman would have to wait a few minutes.

            The next thing I knew the woman was telling me how she did not want a ride now and to tell the bakery girl never mind. I asked her why, and she explained that she had locked her house keys in the car too and that her house was locked. So she decided to just wait for AAA.

            I am back a customer service and about 10 minutes later the girl from bakery came over and said she was going to bring the woman to her house to see if she may have left her house open. I was confused at why she would even do that now since AAA should be almost at the store, but I let it go.

            Eventually the woman got home after AAA came and unlocked her door. I just could not believe how extravagant the woman’s problem was. She locked herself out with her purse and keys in the car, while it was running. I had a little giggle out of it, but I was glad she got home.

Lottery CANNOT be closed!

As I have stated in another blog, I have come to learn that people love lottery. There was an incident about a week ago where I actually got attacked because I closed down the lottery machine at the end of the night. That story goes as follows.

            Every night the person working behind the service desk goes home at 8. Before they leave they have to make sure lottery is counted out and that all the transactions match the amount of money in the draw and that things are even. Therefore, lottery needs to be closed down about 15-20 minutes early in order for the counting to be done. I usually close it down about 20 minutes before 8 because I sometimes miss something and need to recount everything.     

            So one night I closed down lottery and had just finished counting everything out and finding that it was perfectly even, when a man walked up and asked if lottery was still open, which happens a lot. So I told him no and that I am sorry. He looked at me and told me that I had to open it back up because he needed to get tickets. I told him that I am sorry for the inconvenience but everything is all counted out so I cannot open lottery back up. He then went on to tell me that it is not 8 yet and I am not allowed to close it until that time. I explained to him how I am only there until 8 and I need to count out lottery before I leave so it needs to be shut down early so I can do that. He then told me about how he was here last week and a woman sold him a ticket 5 minutes before 8 so I should do the same. I again explained to him how everything was already counted out and that if I had just started or was in the middle of counting I would have stopped and sold him tickets and then recounted, but I was completely finished and it was perfect. He went on for a few more minutes about how I am not allowed to do that and how I need to open it for him. I still continued to explain how it is all done and closed. I kept saying that I am sorry, but I did not help. He finally, after about 5 minutes, walked away.

            I wish that lottery could stay open until 8 so things like this will not happen, but when I need to be clocked out by 8 it is hard to do that. I have had people make a sigh sound when I tell them lottery is closed, but this guy was by far the worst that I have experienced.

April Fooool's

            As you all know, April fool’s day was this past Friday. I worked behind customer service, just like I do every Friday. I was expecting some of the older people to try and play some jokes on me, or at least tell me some jokes. I was surprised to find that two hours into my shift that no one was saying anything about April fool’s day. Finally one man showed the April fool’s spirit and played a joke, but not on me, on a customer.

            I had just finished taking care of this one man, and he went to walk away, but turned back around. He looked at me with a little smile and said “Just so you know I put a fake winning lottery scratch off ticket on the floor over there”. I said that was ok and hopefully someone will pick it up. Not even a minute later a man came walking buy and picked it up. He was an older gentleman. He stood there looking at the scratch off for a few seconds and then walked away slowly.

            The man who had planted the ticket was standing to the side watching this man as well, and once the man with the ticket left he came back over to talk to me. He explained how the man who picked it up had an empty cart so it seemed like he was about to start grocery shopping, but once he had the ticker he booked out the door. I found it kind of funny, but then I did feel bad for the guy if he really did think that he won about 3 million dollars. But, I am not sure what ended up happening because the man with the ticket never returned to the store to try and cash it in or anything, so I assume he either went home to show his wife or he found out it was fake and threw it away.