Swim Right Back Out The Door

I worked at a kids’ clothing store. I had been there for two summers.

Customer: “I want to return this bathing suit. My kid never wore it.”

Me: “First off, we don’t return swimwear; in fact, hardly anywhere does. Second, it’s so faded —definitely from chlorine — that I can’t tell what it originally looked like. Third, I don’t recognize it from our very limited run of swimwear. I’ve been working here for two summers, so that means it’s at minimum three years old.”

I couldn’t believe the sheer audacity of trying to lie about something so not true with the evidence staring me in the face.