Unfiltered Story #87846
(I was in a large stationary/news store some years back, wearing a shirt which happened to be in their corporate color, and I was approached by a random, very well spoken customer, who asked…)
Cust: “Excuse me, could you help me?”
Me: “I’m sorry, I don’t actually work h….”
Cust: (interrupting abruptly) “What do you mean?”
Me: “I don’t work here, I’m not a member of sta……”
Cust: (interrupting even more abruptly) “Well why not?”
Me: “…..!!?!….Errrm….??!!!?…….”
Whereupon the customer stomped off complaining about my disgraceful attitude.
With umpteen years hindsight I would have liked to give the answer “Unfortunately they have a stringently enforced ‘No Tosspots’ policy, but the moment may have gone