blake murphy wrote:
: On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:37:05 -0700, Steve B wrote:
:
:: "Hollywood®Boy" <"manny or > wrote in message
:: ...
::: sf wrote:
:::: On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 08:19:46 -0700, "Steve B"
:::: > wrote:
::::
::::: My favorite experience was when I had ten or fifteen small items,
::::: and went to the 8 or less line. Or something along that line.
::::: All the other lines were a mile long, and t wasn't like I had 50
::::: or 60 items. The cashier made some snippy remark, so I just
::::: said, "I'll just go over to the other line, and walked over there
::::: leaving my items. I could see the manager go over to the express
::::: line, and talk to the cashier. He came over to me, and asked
::::: would I like to return to the express line. I said yes, and
::::: apologized for being a few precious items over the sacred limit,
::::: and that all the other lines had a huge waiting queue, so it was
::::: go there, or just leave my basket and go home. I told him that
::::: the clerk was just plain rude. She silently rang me up, and
::::: within a month, I noticed she was no longer there.
::::
:::: How odd! Usually express line checkers pull people like you over
:::: to their register when they aren't busy. Being a checker is hard
:::: work and diplomacy - she wasn't cut out for the job - for sure.
:::
::: How odd, that you would back up some fool trying to get past polite
::: suggestions at a place of business. Customers are not god,
::: including myself. We should speak up when guarantee's are not met,
::: or products are not whole. This fool just happened to serendipity
::: draw his own straw, and that is rude. If this is a larger chain,
::: this checker just could have gone
::: to another store. I don't think hilarity in believing one lost
::: their job is
::: evidence of the truth in a reenactment.
::
:: Say what? She said I should be in the other line, so I went there.
:: I do not know the reason she was not there a month later. With the
:: Clerks Union, I surely know it was not from anything she did on the
:: job.
::
:: Steve
:
: she should have slapped your face.
:
: blake

So true.