So Gullible It’s Hard To Believe
(A customer has used the store’s emergency exit, setting off the alarms. A husband and wife walk up to my cheese display while the alarms sound.)
Wife: “What’s that sound!?”
Me: “Oh, that’s just the employee alarm.”
Wife: “Employee alarm?”
Me: “Yes, it tells the managers that one of the employees tried to escape the building, so they can retrieve them.”
Husband: *chuckles*
Wife: *serious, eyes wide* “Oh, that’s awful!”
Me: “Don’t worry. By now they have already sedated them and locked them back in the closet with the rest of the off-duty employees.”
Wife: “They lock up the employees?!”
Me: “Only when they are not being used. It stops them from being late to work, you see.”
Wife: “Someone needs to do something to help these poor–”
Husband: “Dear, he is joking. That was a door alarm.”
Wife: “Oh… are you sure?”
Husband: “Yes.”
Wife: *looks relieved and walks away*
Husband: *laughs* “Thank you for that!”
Me: “I’m glad you enjoyed it. Try some cheese?”