I have had several people mention [*cough* complain *cough*] that I have not updated this site in some time. While I thought it was nice of them to bring it to my attention, I didn’t believe it until yesterday – when I found five separate pages of notes laying around. So here is your entry, you wonderful people.
Christmas is coming, and all stores have had somewhat increased traffic (at least, hopefully they did). Well, Dollar Alley has had a very interesting visitor – in fact, one that we alone still hold proof that he came to our store! You see, through several aisles of our store, we have several black spots on the floor. At first glance, they look like mud spots. In fact, you may be tempted to think that they are tar prints from a construction worker. But you would be wrong. The truth is, we had a reindeer come and visit! We tried to keep him out of the store, explaining that we would bring the merchandise out to him, but he would have none of it. In that reindeer pranced, making quite a mess in the Christmas section and knocking some of the balloons of the wall. It turns out he was only looking for the Sour Gummy Fruit Shake snacks we have; once he found them, he was quite content and left promptly.
According to the Register
We have Cheewable Vitamins. (yes, read that very carefully … )
Have you ever heard the saying “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”? Well, the saying people should make up a new one: “One woman’s ugly is another woman’s beautiful.” [Who decides the sayings anyway? But that's another entry. Back to the task at hand.] For example, makeup. I happen to think that green mascara is a waste of greenness in the world. However, people have been known to buy it (or why would we be selling it?). Or bears, that are just grey and bleh-looking. But no, people buy those too.
If you’ve been following my blog for awhile, you may remember one woman from last year. She came in one particular busy evening to buy bags, then came in the next evening to buy bows that matched with the bags. She had asked if I remembered her, and if I could remember which bags she bought so I could accurately help match the bows with the bags. Amazingly, I did.
Well, ironically, this woman came back again this year, almost on the same day. I hadn’t seen her since the bags-and-bows incident, but I recognized her instantly. As crazy as that seems, she recognized me as well. “Hey, do you remember me?” she said. “I bought all those bags last year and you helped me with the bows.”
Why, of course I did.
And there are some annoying people in the store. For example, this one woman that found our toy microphones and began singing karaoke into them – for the entirety of the time she shopped.
A Jordan Story
There are some kids that are bad, I will freely admit. However, I am good about keeping my mouth shut and not saying anything to the parent like Why don’t you discipline them? or You know you’re ruining them for life? or Will someone please just [ ] that kid? (Fill in the blank) Jordan is also good at keeping his mouth shut. However, he was shocked when a grandmother of one such child came up to him and said, “He’s been such a bad a** today.”
As Jordan worded it to me later, he told me the same thought process I would have had: What do you say to that?
Since we’re on the subject of kids, there’s something you should know. When providing a choice to children, you should always say, “You may pick one of these. Which one?” You do not want to say, “Which one do you want?” I can assure that most children would respond, I want that one AND that one.
Cashiers get tired. As Kim loves the story, this can be proven through my Thank You for Telling Me episode. But I’m not the only one. Here is another example.
Customer: Hi, how are you?
Jordan: Hi, how are you?
Customer: Good.
Alexia: Do you know what you said?
Jordan: Yeah, I thought there was something wrong with that.
