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Thread: Urgent Need Help
Almagill
Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:23 pm
#183
I like dumb people. If they'd let me keep pets I'd have a couple of dumb folk around for the heck of it 
People like this guy I had a run in with 20+ Christmas' ago when I was a butcher.
Checkout operator called me on the intercom, could I go to the tills as there was an 'odd looking customer'.
Sure enough, there in the long cash only queue is a bloke with a huge bulge in his jacket looking a bit furtive. He went thru the check out, paid for the two or three items in his basket and headed for the door.
We stopped him as he left the shop and asked if he'd mind letting us check his till receipt against his purchases... He agreed and we went back into the store taking him up to the managers office.
The checkout supervisor made great play of going through every last detail of his three purchases and, while the guy was sitting there getting more and more agitated. We noticed him start to shiver, we sked if he was okay. Within a few minutes he was shaking quite violently and we asked if he was okay, did he need any help?
At this point he stood up, called us all a lot of ******* ******, opened his jacket and out fell a 24lb frozen turkey. Followed by a bag of frozen sprouts, a bag of frozen peas and a packet of frozen sausage meat that had all been stuff inside his jacket or in the top of his trousers.
we'd not mind but it was the second time he'd tried it in the same store that season.
People like this guy I had a run in with 20+ Christmas' ago when I was a butcher.
Checkout operator called me on the intercom, could I go to the tills as there was an 'odd looking customer'.
Sure enough, there in the long cash only queue is a bloke with a huge bulge in his jacket looking a bit furtive. He went thru the check out, paid for the two or three items in his basket and headed for the door.
We stopped him as he left the shop and asked if he'd mind letting us check his till receipt against his purchases... He agreed and we went back into the store taking him up to the managers office.
The checkout supervisor made great play of going through every last detail of his three purchases and, while the guy was sitting there getting more and more agitated. We noticed him start to shiver, we sked if he was okay. Within a few minutes he was shaking quite violently and we asked if he was okay, did he need any help?
At this point he stood up, called us all a lot of ******* ******, opened his jacket and out fell a 24lb frozen turkey. Followed by a bag of frozen sprouts, a bag of frozen peas and a packet of frozen sausage meat that had all been stuff inside his jacket or in the top of his trousers.
we'd not mind but it was the second time he'd tried it in the same store that season.
Calculus_Entropy
Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:30 pm
#185
Pappi wrote:
eew...
and 20+ years ago? you're really dating yourself
That's illegal in 30 states!
Almagill
Fri Sep 23, 2005 4:41 pm
#187
Pappi wrote:
eew...
and 20+ years ago? you're really dating yourself
Old as Yoda I am.
Pappi
Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:43 am
#190
I've already warned Odi... I'm grumpy now, no telling how grumpy I'll be when I'm preggers 
it won't happen any time soon though, whew!
working in retail? this is what you need to read
it's remarkable similar tosome of the people I encounter in this game
it won't happen any time soon though, whew!working in retail? this is what you need to read
it's remarkable similar tosome of the people I encounter in this game
Pappi
Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:44 am
#191
eh?
Almagill wrote:
And on a totally unrelated note, I'd just like to pass the comment that this thread has some of the loveliest lady posters (postees? writers? ??? ) contributing to it...
Almagill
Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:08 am
#192
JBMat wrote:Older than Ken I am...
JB
I'm so old... I can't remember how old JB is
JBMat
Sun Sep 25, 2005 4:07 pm
#193
Late baby boomer, technically, I think.
Not old enough to have gone to Woodstock.
Old enough to have retired once already (US Army, 20 yrs).
JB
Almagill
Mon Sep 26, 2005 7:14 am
#194
Great Aunt Jemimah... there's more life in this thread than in Devland since tehy got LavaWorld to play with.
OK so I'm just bitter and twisted because am not beta'd.
AND it's raining and cold and windy here. Dumb stupid place to leave a country, sitting out in the Atlantic. sheesh
OK so I'm just bitter and twisted because am not beta'd.
AND it's raining and cold and windy here. Dumb stupid place to leave a country, sitting out in the Atlantic. sheesh
Vorpaks
Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:46 am
#195
I really hope he paid for that stuff and brought it home... otherwise I'll never look at frozen sausage in the grocery store the same way again.
Almagill wrote:
I like dumb people. If they'd let me keep pets I'd have a couple of dumb folk around for the heck of it
People like this guy I had a run in with 20+ Christmas' ago when I was a butcher.
Checkout operator called me on the intercom, could I go to the tills as there was an 'odd looking customer'.
Sure enough, there in the long cash only queue is a bloke with a huge bulge in his jacket looking a bit furtive. He went thru the check out, paid for the two or three items in his basket and headed for the door.
We stopped him as he left the shop and asked if he'd mind letting us check his till receipt against his purchases... He agreed and we went back into the store taking him up to the managers office.
The checkout supervisor made great play of going through every last detail of his three purchases and, while the guy was sitting there getting more and more agitated. We noticed him start to shiver, we sked if he was okay. Within a few minutes he was shaking quite violently and we asked if he was okay, did he need any help?
At this point he stood up, called us all a lot of ******* ******, opened his jacket and out fell a 24lb frozen turkey. Followed by a bag of frozen sprouts, a bag of frozen peas and a packet of frozen sausage meat that had all been stuff inside his jacket or in the top of his trousers.
we'd not mind but it was the second time he'd tried it in the same store that season.