Getting A Man-Handle On Your Words
Grocery Store | Right
| March 7, 2014
(I am a woman, and I am cashiering at a grocery store that is conducting a charitable fund drive. I am packing a chatty man’s groceries into his backpack.)
Man: “Look at how you just get that all in there! You’re really man-handling that stuff!”
Me: *packing the last two things, which are pieces of fruit* “Oh, but I don’t want to man-handle your peaches.”
Man: “I don’t want to man-handle your peaches.”
(I splutter and stare at this, torn between outrage and hilarity.)
Man: “I’m sorry.” *as if to himself* “Get your mind out of the gutter.”
Me: “To make it up to me, you will donate to our fundraiser.”
Man: “Deal.”
Question of the Week
Have you ever served a bad customer who got what they deserved?
