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Jul 16, 2021
2:17:27pm
Charles Darwin Truly Addicted User
I started working a second job at nights at a hardware store about a month ago.
I appreciate the opportunity to work and take care of my family but it isn't exactly intellectually stimulating. Yesterday was a particularly long boring day and I had this customer come in asking for distilled water. Being new I had to ask a coworker where it was and this guy was super irritated I didn't just know off the top of my head. Fortunately for him, we had some and got him what he needed.

I turned to go back to the stocking I was doing and he called me back and asked if I would get a cart for him because he needed everything we had. He didn't want to leave the distilled water unattended and have someone buy it out from under him. So I go get his cart and he asks me to help him load it.

At this point, I am pretty annoyed with the guy and he starts ranting about how he went to Smith's and Harmon's and nobody else had distilled water. Apparently, he went to those 3 days in a row before trying our store (I guess I should be glad I only had to deal with him once). I am just politely responding when he asks me why they wouldn't have distilled water stocked for so long. In my head, I am thinking I didn't even know WE had distilled water let alone what other stores had. I respond and tell him I don't know anything about how stocking works at those stores.

At this point, he got extremely condescending and told me how bad a businessman I was to not know my competition. I told him I just stock the shelves at night and he told me with that attitude that is what I will be doing for the rest of my career. At this point, the guy is really bugging me so I start telling him a whole bunch of crap about distilled water like I am an expert. Complete made-up nonsense like how we get all our water from the ocean and how the drought has made it tough to get water from the ocean. At one point he even started googling the depth of the Great Salt Lake to argue with my nonsense. It was pretty funny.

The conversation ended on a weird note. He complained about when he was a BYU student women would wear single-strap backpacks that left little to the imagination. I don't know what that was all about.
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Originally posted on Jul 16, 2021 at 2:17:27pm
Message modified by Charles Darwin on Jul 16, 2021 at 2:20:08pm
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