Power of Observation

When a popular take-and-bake pizza place moved to a different location after their lease expired, the space they rented was still property of the store. So for the past few months, the store’s been putting merchandise in this area, which might as well be another department to the store.

I thought this trend would cease only a few weeks after the pizza place moved out, but I was horribly wrong; in fact, at four separate times during my short shift today–this happens every weekend if you’re on the right registers–it was proven to me that not many people have a very good power of observation.

Each quote is just one of twenty-seven action phrases that come with every “Super Stupid Customer Doll”!

“What used to be there?”

“Where did the pizza place go?”

“How long has the pizza place been gone?”

Come to think of it, that pizza place has been gone for nearly a year now.

Customer of the Day: While I was covering a break for the associate who greets the customers, a middle-aged woman comes to me and tells me she wants to return the dish rack she was holding.

The “Door Greeters” usually put a special sticker on the products that need to be returned–this makes the lives of the Service Desk associates easier, bless their hearts. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to operate the price gun to make the sticker.

I tell the customer, “You can just take that straight to the desk today.” She grumbled to herself and trudged to the electric scooters. I’m standing there a bit confused, as the Service Desk is just a short walk from the entrance. Maybe that’s just me.

On her ride up to the service desk, I happened to read her shirt:

Tough enough to wear pink?

Sure, I was using her breast cancer shirt out-of-context, but that doesn’t mean the irony wasn’t there.