I could actually post one of these a day…..
Smile..outside on the sidewalk…
I had so many other posts in my head for this week and couldn’t decide which one to share. I have had a long week already and needed to write something to make me smile. It seems the older we get the more things we have come up to make us wonder, what’s it all about, why do these things happen, why can’t things just be simple…why can’t we all just get along…So because I don’t have the answers to any of these questions, I just decided to post something silly again because I just can’t deal with all the other stuff…
Here are some more weird things that I saw at work..bear in mind I work at a large department store…
A 70 something year old woman still clinging to the 80’s – She was wearing leggings and leg warmers and hair teased up to there….bless her little disco dancing heart, the 80’s must have really struck a cord with her and she wasn’t about to let them go…
Guy spraying women’s perfume all over his body – He did this after I told him this was woman’s perfume he was spraying..he finished spraying and then quickly walked over to the cosmetic counter and looked in the mirror, lifted his shirt(much to our dismay) wiped his eyes with the shirt, fixed his hair and walked away.
Girl at the counter with 2 phones – She was texting on both of them at the same time. Note: I have trouble texting on one. And, really is she that important she needs two phones or is she leading a secret life she doesn’t want someone to know about??
Roll of toilet paper out on the sales floor – not sure how or why this got there…maybe someone thought they might need it and so they carried it around with them for awhile and then decided…nope I’m good and just dropped it.
we all need this, but seriously…
Throwing the recycling in with the other trash – I am all for recycling and was happy when we got recycling cans in each department…at least I was until the other day. The girl who cleans the store came by to empty our trash and dumped both cans(the recycling can that clearly has marked for paper and plastic only written on the side and the regular trash can) into one large trash can. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a specified recycling can, don’t you think?
Woman taking pictures on her phone of the store directory – I’m guessing she didn’t want to get lost in our small two level store…or she is coming back later to steal something wants to have the quickest get away route all planned out…
Guy walking all around the store with fingers in both ears – Now I realize sometimes the screaming kids can get to you cause believe me they get to me…but it was really quiet in the store that day so not sure why he kept his fingers in his ears the entire time he was in the store.
After the toilet paper incident, I thought.. aha, this is why – Not too long after seeing the roll of tp, I came across this on the floor…again on the sales floor not in the bathroom…I swore it was poop and called someone over to clean it up. It was mulch. In my defense it really did look like poop.
poop..or mulch..you decide
Woman breastfeeding baby at the cosmetic counter – the woman plopped down in the chair at the counter, whips out her boob and starts feeding her baby. No cover up…nothing. I’m not going to get into the rights or wrongs of this…I had 3 kids and always went into another room to feed my babies. I know some woman feel differently…but really.. at the cosmetic counter..and the cosmeticians are there trying to sell makeup….not to mention we have a perfectly good rest room with comfortable chairs a few feet away.
Mother changing her child’s clothes at perfume counter – I had just remarked to a coworker that it was “crazy day” in the store…(a few of these things happened all in one day) when a woman walks up to the perfume counter drops her bags on the counter, takes her child’s clothing off(kid is around 5 or 6) and then takes clothing out of the bag she has dumped and proceeds to put the new clothing on the kid. Again, we have a perfectly good restroom a few feet away.
You can’t make this stuff up. But that’s all for today. I have many more and like I said I could do one of these posts every week or sometimes every day. I hope you enjoyed this and maybe even got a chuckle out of it. I know I did and I sure needed it!
Am I the only person that sees stuff like this? What have you seen that made you laugh or say, “WTH” lately?
“Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.” ~ Will Rogers
Wth?? No. WTF?? Lmao. World is NUTS!!!
It sure is susie!
Well what a crazy place you work in! 80s granny is definitely my fave. As a child of the 80s, what’s not to love?
It certainly is a crazy place, in more ways than one…but keeps me occupied when I am not busy with customers..Granny was looking cool…
Love the smile on the sidewalk! Other than that disco granny is my favorite. 🙂
Yes Bonnie, I liked both of them too…I expected the disco ball to fall from the ceiling at any moment!
There’s nothing more interesting than people being themselves! Years ago, when I worked at a bookstore and my daughter at a pet store nearby, we usually drove to and from work together. And exchanged stories about the ‘unique’ people we had dealt with that day. She won.
thanks Diane..you are right, there is nothing more interesting than people being themselves..and nothing more scary….:)
Definitely some odd things. The toilet paper one cracked me up!
Yes Marcia, me too…not something you see every day laying on the floor in a major department store….LOL!
I, too, am glad you have this job to keep us entertained. It helps that you find the humor in the smallest things to share with us. Thanks for the laughs…they are always welcome.
Thanks Peg, I try to find good things and funny things…it helps get us through the day…
Interesting post. The guy with his fingers in his ears could hear no evil while the other guy with the cologne could smell no evil. The breast feeding mother must have believed that you worked at a milk bar. As for the mulch, well, the old saying is that s*** happens. Life is never boring; it just takes turns that one can not anticipate.
Sometimes I wish I could “see no evil”…or dumb stuff…thanks for commenting Andy!
I’m glad you shared this, always nice to start a weekend with a laugh. And now I’m thinking maybe I should spend some time people watching in department stores.
I’m not sure if all department stores are like mine…but mine sure is funny, weird and mind boggling….Thanks Karen!
I think this should be a regular series. Perhaps it will become famous, like “People of Wal Mart”. But seriously, we need all the laughter we can get in these times.
Alana…thank you! And I think it will be a regular series…as long as I can stand working there…LOL!
I think this should be a regular post Renee – I work for a surgeon and see the occasional gross thing (you’d be amazed at what people send pictures of when they email him!) I think seeing funny stuff every day would be a nice change. Although I did walk into the waiting room the other day and a woman was lying on the floor – she’d gone into the rooms with her boyfriend – saw his blood and felt faint, so lay down on the floor to recover – weird!
Leanne, I think it will be a regular post due to all the weird stuff going on there….one of my friends said she is glad I went back to work because she is enjoying these posts and they make her laugh! And that was kinda weird….the woman laying on the floor…sounds like something that would happen at my store…LOL.And Thank you!