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02.06.08: Drive Offs, Moody Customers, Skinny Jeans, Pleasure Of My Cousin, More Idiot Boyfriends, Benson, Site Redesign Redesign, Rugby Girl, People Who Buy Porn and Expensive Taxis.

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So last night when I came into the store I saw the supervisor looking more than just a little stressed.  He had his teeth gritted, with a stern look on his face, which is very unlike his normal jokey self.  So I asked him what was wrong.  The answer was really shocking.  8 drive offs, and 2 cases of shoplifting.  The latter stressed him as he had to spend half an hour in the manager's office with the two thieves whilst he waited for the police to arrive.  Damned if I would do that.  I know too well know customers can turn nasty and violent, especially when cornered.  Fortunately for Mr DJ, he didn't have to face anything like that.

And my first customer was so nice and pleasent.  First he stood at the wrong till, which was obviously my fault.  He sighed and said "Always something when I go out.  You didn't tell me I needed to go to that till, you misled me by standing at the till down here"  Or more accurately, I was doing someone's mobile phone topup.  And then hit me with his sob story.  He told me he was disabled, which didn't ring true with me as he seemed to be getting around just fine with his stick.  Then he complained that the store was too cold.  I told him I didn't feel it because we do lots of work, which means that we don't feel the cold.  He sighed and said that I was lucky because I could move so much that I didn't feel the cold.  I decided to just keep my mouth shut, as I am highly skilled in putting my foot in it with customers at the moment!

I also had my strangest customer who comes in maybe once a week.  This guy wears really skinny jeans.  Now, I have seen these all over the place, but this guy takes it to the extreme.  His legs literally look like they shouldn't be able to support the weight of his body.  The thing is, I can't stop looking at this guy's legs, it's almost like "How?!?!?  How can his legs actually be that thin?"  And I had my cousin as a customer last night.  She's an absolute outcast in the family.  Namely because she stole from my mother, my grandmother, and my sister...when my sister was just a little kid.  So, I always somehow end up managing to serve her, and having to be civil to her and her stupid little moron boyfriend.  Speaking of which, there was this gorgeous redhead in last night, and her idiotic boyfriend.  She commented that she was a little cold, so he rubbed his hands up and down her arms really quickly.  She looked incredulously at him, and even I had to wonder quite why he thought she'd like that!

So, the redesigned site is gone.  It didn't work out quite as well as I hoped.  It may make a comeback at some point in time, but for now I have gone back to the original layout.  The problem was that it was supposed to scale up and down depending on the screen size, and when I tested it on the eee PC I discovered that it simply wasn't scaling as I hoped, and that some of the elements of the site were appearing in some quite strange places.  So, now I am sticking with the old design until I have fully tested the new design!

Then there was Rugby Girl.  Rugby Girl is this reasonably attractive girl who came in last week and the guy with her asked whether I knew what the England score was.  I told him and she declared us both sad.  Then I told her that I didn't actually like football, I just got the score from a guy I work with who does (both true).  So she asked if I prefered rugby, and I told her I did (also true).  We both agreed that rugby is a very manly game, and that football is a little more...well...girly.  She agreed and told me that the guy she was with wanted to buy a gay magazine but was too embarrassed.  Anyway, she came back last night and asked him if he wanted to get the magazine.  He blushed and told me that he had bought it somewhere else because he didn't want me to see.  She laughed and said that she thought he fancied me.  I laughed and told her that I was far too happy with my girlfriend!

Lastly, we had a taxi driver in, which isn't exactly ground breaking as we get a lot of taxi drivers in our store overnight, but this one had gone from Lyndhurst to New Milton:

And charged the guy who booked the taxi £40 for the trip!  I told Slaphead that we were in the wrong business...
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