It’s Like Watching An Unstoppable Force Meet An Immovable Object, Part 2

Our store has a regular customer who gives her four-year-old child her own basket and lets her go around putting whatever she wants in it while she shops with her own basket. Then she’ll come to the register, hand me her full basket, and say:

Customer: “I don’t want these.” 

She does this every single time. We’ve asked her not to, but she just shrugs and says:

Customer: “It’s either that or she screams the whole time.”

We also have a coworker who is definitely on the spectrum in some capacity. He has to put items away when he sees they’ve been misplaced or abandoned, and I mean he… has… to. This is why he’s always on shelf-stocking duty or working in the back.

Today, he is on the checkout for half an hour while the cashier is taking a break.

Miss Mommy Basket comes up to the register and goes through her usual motions of handing over her daughter’s basket.

Customer: “Oh, and actually I don’t want these.”

Coworker: *Immediate response.* “No problem, I can put these back for you!”

And then he went to put the items back. Immediately. He didn’t even begin to ring her up. If there had been a line of customers behind her, I would have stepped in, but since she was on her own, I just watched from a distance and laughed as the customer blinked in surprise, looked around for a moment, and then wordlessly walked her child and basket to another checkout line.

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It’s Like Watching An Unstoppable Force Meet An Immovable Object