Plain White Tees and Diaper Wipes

Though not quite a "poo-mergency", this department store hell story does register as pretty damn gross.

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It was just before Christmas, when there is the huge holiday rush, and the store was extremely busy. Because there were to many customers and not enough employees, me and a coworker had decided to team up. We were on dressing room duty, and we had figured out what it was quicker to both work together and rotate between the different dressing rooms. So we were running in circles, going from the Menes to the Women's - Juniors'- Children's, etc.

It was madness, with constant moving. At one point in the day we had gotten back to the Juniors dressing room. It was trashed! Which wasn't at all unusual, but was strange was the smell. But we were in a grove, and just continued cleaning. We had made it through the small dressing rooms, coming to the large room last. The floor was covered in clothes, there were three large piles.

So we started sorting through. Dividing what needed to be folded, hung, go the jeans wall, etc. My co-worker, making it to the final pile, picked up a plan white tee-shirt, and exclaimed "OH MY GOD! I've found out what the smell is. This is disgusting".

The shirt had a smear down the front. Someone had used the white tee-shirt as a diaper wipe. And it wasn't just the one shirt, it was five total that had been used. Some bitch didn't have the decency to walk the 100 yards to the bathroom to change her child's diaper, and had instead decided that the a hand full of Juniors white tee-shirts, would work to wipe the kids ass.

Shoplifter in Training

This one I got from a department store associate. And though not the most outrageous story I've heard, it's definitely different... and wrong.

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Once day while monitoring the children's dressing room at my store, I noticed a man in the dressing room with his young daughter. Not thinking much of it, I continued cleaning out the clothes left in the empty dressing stalls. The stall next to theirs had a large pile of clothes on the ground. So I grabbed the first load and carries it out, but when going in for the second arm load I over heard the man in the next stall talking quietly to his daughter.

Realizing the conversation was a bit suspicious I paused for a moment to over hear him telling his daughter, "This is why you wear a big jacket with very little underneath. You can put on multiple layers of shirts and you can't tell once your jacket is back on." The conversation, that i now realized was a lesson in shoplifting continued like that.

So finally I knocked on the door, resulting in complete quite on the other side, and I politely asked "If you're going to teach your daughter to shoplift, please don't do it in my dressing room".

At this point I called in the store Loss Prevention Manager. And when the man and child had exited the store they were stopped. The man was outraged and accused the store of crossing the line. But considering the frightened child, no older than 6 or 7, opened her jacket to reveal the four shirts she had on underneath, if was definitely the man who has crossed the line.

Never Stop Moving

Short bit from a small town drugstore

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My store is in a quite park of town, no where near downtown at the normal retail rush. But it happened to be right next door to a retirement home. So we get a lot of people 65 and up. In fact sometimes there are scheduled "fieldtrips" to our shopping center.

On Christmas Eve, a woman from the retirement home came in to our store. I put all of her items in to one bag, but hesitated realizing she's a small old lady. So I asked, " Do u want me to lighten this up for u? " and she said "Oh, no! I am strong!"

Totally amused, I decide to humor her a bit and say, "Wow you are strong! "
To which she responds, "I'm 91 years old! almost 92."
I reply," WOW, I wanna be like u when i'm that age"
And she said "Do you wanna know the secret to good health like mine? Never stop moving!" and then she flexed her arm!

I thanked her for the advice, and was truely impressed with her vitailty and humor!