Read My Perfect Lips: Get Out

There’s a woman who’s been coming in almost daily for three weeks. She doesn’t ask questions or browse. Instead, she heads straight to the lipstick display, tries one on, wipes it off, tries another.

The testers are meant to be applied to some testing fabric, not her actual lips.

She always leaves empty-handed but still wearing a new lipstick for the day.

Today, the store manager catches her mid-application.

Manager: “Ma’am, testers are for sampling before purchase, not for your morning routine.”

Customer: “I’m testing! I haven’t decided yet.”

Manager: “You’ve been ‘deciding’ for eighteen days. We checked the cameras.”

Customer: “I have the right to test before I buy!”

Manager: “You do. And I have a policy. You’re no longer welcome in the store.”

Customer: “You can’t ban me over a lipstick!”

Manager: *Gesturing to the display.* “You’re not getting banned over a lipstick. You’re getting banned because of all the lipstick. We don’t sell lipstick subscriptions.”

Customer: “I’m… testing!”

Manager: “Yes, you’re very testing. Tell you what, you won’t be banned if you buy all the lipsticks that you just ‘tested’, right now.”

Customer: “…”

Manager: “That’s what I thought. Goodbye.”

We had to toss all of her leftover nasty testers.