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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • True story:

    Dead Wednesday. I was working the front by myself.

    “I don’t know why I’m here, you can’t help me.”

    “Well, I know a lot, and I have a computer for our inventory and one for our distributor, if you can remember 1 or 2 words, we have a good shot.”

    “Yeah, but I don’t know the author, you can’t help me.”

    We went round and round like that for 10 minutes, finally dragged it out of him and found it in the distributor system:

    “How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People”.

    “Ordinarily it would take a couple of days to get this, let me expedite that for you, it will be here tomorrow.”

    He never picked it up. 😟






  • One year, right around Black Friday, I was working registers and we had a line of people out the door… we were all just trying to get people rung up as quickly as possible.

    I’m in the middle of helping someone when this woman jumps the line, interrupts me while I helping another customer, and goes “Excuse me, I just have a question?”

    So I turn to my first customer, “Do you mind? She just has a question?”

    Ok, fine, what’s the question?

    “Where are your etiquette books?”

    ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

    “They… they’re on the reference wall. Right hand side, about 1/2 way down.”

    That night, cleaning up the store, I found a pile of 20 etiquette books just sitting on the floor.