The Customer Is The One That Got Away

I worked in the warehouse at a very popular hunting, fishing, camping, and outdoor activity chain that’s known for being very large with a large fish tank inside.

We had this huge jerk of a dude in his fifties who wanted a very specific duck lure. We didn’t have it on the floor because it was so randomly specific, so I was sent to the back to look for it with a girl from the hunting department.

It turned out we didn’t have it in the warehouse, but instead it was in one of our shipping containers behind the store. So, the girl and I went to look for it and opened the shipping container to be greeted with large boxes, wall-to-wall all the way to the back.

Realizing that the duck lure must be in the back, this poor girl jumped up and army crawled across the tops of the boxes all the way to the back of the shipping container and threw the lure over the boxes before crawling back.

All of this was in the middle of a winter snowstorm next to a highway. We finally get the lure, lock everything up, and head back, only to find the customer had left.

He told an associate that we “took too long.”