observations from a nobody

Sunday proved to be another cliché ridden day. In honor of such horror I will list off things that happen at work far too often for their own good.

• A customer for photo when no one is in the lab yelling “HELLO! IS ANYONE THERE!? HELLO!” *knocks on the office door* “HELLO!” *looks in the lab that is visible without moving your head to show NO ONE IS IN THERE*
• After such a customer does such a thing and “Service to photo” is called over the intercom, said customer walks up to person who put in the call and says “is there anyone in photo?!” “I just called someone…”
• Technotards who know nothing of such a thing as a reusable memory card
• Same group can’t follow the instructions of a touch screen photo kiosk as they are displayed on the screen
• People who can’t seem to operate pinpads for their cards, touch screen buttons are too complicated so they slam the pen down on the screen to push it and wonder why it doesn’t respond
• Customers that bring a fuckton of items to the register only to not want them
• Customers that have a gazillion coupons and then pay with store credit
• Regular customers who ask when the store closes
• Teens asking for ping pong balls
• Frequent baffles about how we don’t sell alcohol and swear that we did just last year when I have worked for over a year and know we’ve never have
• Those who ask where the drinks and ice are when the cooler is visible from the front of the store
• Regular customers who come to the store, everyday, at the same time, and buy the same things, with the same expression, and the same mood, as if they didn’t the previous day
• Old people who write checks
• Those who wait until EVERYTHING IS RUNG UP WITH A LARGE LINE BEHIND THEM to write their check
• People who pay for small amounts with $100 bills
• People who pay for large amounts with change
• People who whine about a few cents difference in prices

I could go on but I will only get frustrated.