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Doing A Disservice To Service Animals, Part 14
Read Doing A Disservice To Service Animals, Part 14
Security: "Is that a service animal?"
Woman: "Yes."
Security: "What tasks is it trained to perform?"
Woman: "It helps my anxiety."
Read Doing A Disservice To Service Animals, Part 14
Security: "Is that a service animal?"
Woman: "Yes."
Security: "What tasks is it trained to perform?"
Woman: "It helps my anxiety."
Read Found the Phone, Lost Her Manners
I was working with a newer cashier when a lady came in, looking angry and upset.
Customer: "I lost my phone! I was at his till; check it!"
Read Please Go, You Will Not Be Mist
Customer: "Disgusting! You're doing drugs! Just you wait until I tell your manager about this!"
Me: "I'm just vaping, and I'm off the clock. What I do on my own time is none of your business."
I signed up for an elective course in college that satisfies my social science minor, a sex education lecture only class. At the time such a class was unheard of (this was shortly after God made dirt, long time ago). We made AP wire service news over it. There were 5 films throughout the class […]
Read This Elevator Is Rising In Tension
Woman: "You know what I can’t stand? These Mexicans. They come here, take over everything, can’t even speak English half the time—"
The air in the elevator shifts. You can feel everyone stiffen.
Read Volvo-Oh-No
Me: "Oh my god… that’s my car!"
Police Officer: "Ma’am, are you the owner?"
Me: "Yes, what happened?"
The officer gestures towards the kid, who is sitting dazed with an oxygen mask.
Read Volvo-Oh-No
Customer: "I want a lamb burger, no bun, without salad, with a salad on the side."
Cashier: "So, the salad from the burger on the side or one of the other salads?"
Customer: "No, no salad."
Read Managers Like This Are Why This Keeps Happening!
Customer: "Hey, doesn’t your policy say if something rings up wrong, it’s free?"
Me: "That’s only if you actually pay the wrong price. I fixed it before you paid, so the policy doesn’t apply."
Customer: "It rang up wrong! I want it for free!"
Read Don’t Run Off, Or Grandpa Will Find You…
My grandparents and I were over for dinner, and my mom mentioned that she may go over and talk to them about NOT starting up at 5 AM and waking everyone up.
My grandpa, whom I've only ever heard talk about books or the stock market and stuff, just pipes in with:
Grandpa: "Or just sneak over and put sawdust in their gas tanks."
Kid: *Munching on a biscuit.* "Do you have a baby in your belly?"
Me: "No. I'm just a large person."
His face scrunched up a little:
Kid: "I don't get it."
Me: "I don't have a baby in my belly, I'm just fat."
Read When Exact Change Is Very Exacting
Customer: "That’ll be a hundred and one cents for you."
He slides me $100 and a penny. I enter it into the system, and the screen spits out the exact change I need to hand back. Then, just as I’m pulling out the bills, he digs back into his pocket.
Customer: "Oh, wait! I’ve got the rest of the change here somewhere. Let’s make this exact!"
I spent my K-12 years in Christian schools, but chose to get my English degree at a nonreligious college. This means that I end up being the walking reference book for whenever a Biblical reference shows up in our class texts. I’ve just mentioned that the short story we’ve read is similar to the story […]
Read Runaway Success
[Boy] was the exact opposite of what a teacher wants out of a student; he was a disruption and a distraction that could bring the entire classroom to a halt single-handedly. As a teen who was still relatively inexperienced with children, I didn't have a clue how to handle him.
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We have a small chatroom we use to communicate with our team at work. Our manage just got back after a few days vacation and asked if there was anything important happening while he was gone. coworker 1: “Well I took to the streets to mete out vigilante justice as the hero this town deserves, […]
I have recently been diagnosed with AML and have just gotten home after a 3-week stay in the hospital. While there, NAR kept me entertained when I got tired of watching commercial TV. Most of the nurses and other staff were awesome, but there were a couple of things that happened that made me wonder […]