Christmas Daze

I work overnights stocking shelves in a big box store. Our store is closed on Christmas. The way our shift gets our day off is we get Christmas Eve off, but go in for our usual shift Christmas Day night.

As I arrive at work, I see a man peering in the door. Thinking it’s one of our newer employees, I let him know:

Me: “Hi! The employee entrance is open.”

Then he turns around, and I see it’s actually a customer.

Customer: “Oh, you are open!”

Me: “Well, no, it’s 10 PM on Christmas Day. But we open early tomorrow morning.”

Customer: “Oh darn.”

I will never know what was so important that he needed it at 10 PM on Christmas Day but he didn’t get it from us. At least he was nice about it.