The fishy threat!
Pet stores carry a kind of goldfish, the Comet in this case, though better known to the public as feeder fish. The goldfish that can be won at a fair, and are expected to not make it through the night. The same fish used to feed reptiles. They cost less than a quarter, and are literally born and breed to die.
Now these fish can survive for years when properly taken care of, but that’s not the point of this particular story.
A fish, like all living things, needs oxygen to survive! So it should be no big surprise, that a fish, in a closed and sealed jar... with no air holes... will run out of oxygen and die.
Now the more fish you put in a jar with limited oxygen, the faster the oxygen runs out, and the quicker the fish die.
So one night this elderly women come in with her son. She's "from he old country" and speaks no English, so he middle aged son is doing all the translating. With them they have a large gallon jar, sealed, with 15 dead goldfish floating in it.
They explain that she's watching the fish while her nephew is out of town, and they just died! So after explaining the whole concept of oxygen and life, and that fish can't survive with out air, let alone that each fish should have 3 galleons of water each, let alone 15 fish in 1 gallon. Essentially... she killed the fish.
So they decided that they are going to buy 15 fish, hopefully 15 that look very similar, to replace them. Not that that's shady enough as it is, they still didn't seem to get, that they need a large tank... and that sure they can get those fish, but once they put then in that jar and seal it, or for that matter not seal it, it's too small, and the fish WILL DIE. So it's suggested that perhaps the best thing to do, would be to explain what happened to the nephew, and he can buy more fish when he has the proper tank set up.
They won't have this... they need these fish now, because the nephew can't know!
At this point a manager makes the decision to not sell them the fish. Seeing that any live animal should have a proper home, and there is no way these fish are going to survive, we can't sell any living animal, including $0.25 fish to imminent death.
At this point the son in furious. And he starts throwing out threats. The biggest being that he's going to sue the store for accusing his mother of being a murderer and refusing to sell them fish. In the end they got the fish (to avoid the pointless lawsuit).
They whole thing was ridiculous! And the store was almost sued for attempting to save the lives of fish (that, lets be honest, would have gotten eaten by a turtle rather than died in a jar if we hadn't sold them).
Those pour fish really have nothing to live for.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Drugs, Cops and Bathrooms.... New Years Eve
I think one of the worst kinds of customers are the ones that come in right as the store is closing, and just won't leave, and to top it off reference the fact that they keeping you there. What is so important that you have to buy it right then, and not wait until the next day!And even more.... New Years Eve...why in the world would you want to spend New Years Eve shopping!? And though you may not have a life... the people working at the store are trying to get the hell out of there so that they CAN have a life!
This story isn't exactly about one of those particular customers... but it's the same idea of being stuck in the store until that last person who refuses to leave... leaves!
Stores close early on New Years Eve. Because lets be honest, there are so many better places to be. Out store was closing at 5 pm that night, and 10 minutes before closing man comes running in to the store. Running and screaming about the people that are chasing him and trying to kill him. His pupils were so large you could have swim in them. The guy runs in 2 full circles around the store, before running in to the bathroom and locking himself in.
After trying to cokes him out of the bathroom themselves, management decides to calls mall security, who show up and stare at the bathroom door before coming to the conclusion that they will do nothing. They figure, he’s in the bathroom, he can’t hurt anyone, wait tel he comes out, they can’t do anything. Big help that is. And to top it off they ignore pleas from the store manager to stay, seeing as they don’t know if he’s dangerous, or possibly has a weapon. Mall security ignores all of this and leaves.
That attempt having failed, so they called the police. After speaking with the police operator and assured someone was on the way they waited for over an hour. Realizing it was now past 6, and they should be home, but instead they are sitting around, pleading to a closed door, and the drugged up man inside to come out. We should be at home, celebrating new years eve.
Realizing that the police has no plan in coming anytime soon, they decided to try one other desperate attempt - to set of the alarm of the store - assuming that then, they police would have to show up to check on the situation. Turns out when the alarm goes off, the alarm company doesn’t call the police, they call the manager that lives closest to the store. Said manager, responded to the call with… “it must be a mistake, their still at the store, don’t inform the police”. So that didn't work ether.
Finally the police came and were able to get the man out of the bathroom and off the premises, but it was 2 hours after closing and 7 pm on New Years Eve. Though we did get out in time to celebrate, it was a long night.
-B
This story isn't exactly about one of those particular customers... but it's the same idea of being stuck in the store until that last person who refuses to leave... leaves!
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Stores close early on New Years Eve. Because lets be honest, there are so many better places to be. Out store was closing at 5 pm that night, and 10 minutes before closing man comes running in to the store. Running and screaming about the people that are chasing him and trying to kill him. His pupils were so large you could have swim in them. The guy runs in 2 full circles around the store, before running in to the bathroom and locking himself in.
After trying to cokes him out of the bathroom themselves, management decides to calls mall security, who show up and stare at the bathroom door before coming to the conclusion that they will do nothing. They figure, he’s in the bathroom, he can’t hurt anyone, wait tel he comes out, they can’t do anything. Big help that is. And to top it off they ignore pleas from the store manager to stay, seeing as they don’t know if he’s dangerous, or possibly has a weapon. Mall security ignores all of this and leaves.
That attempt having failed, so they called the police. After speaking with the police operator and assured someone was on the way they waited for over an hour. Realizing it was now past 6, and they should be home, but instead they are sitting around, pleading to a closed door, and the drugged up man inside to come out. We should be at home, celebrating new years eve.
Realizing that the police has no plan in coming anytime soon, they decided to try one other desperate attempt - to set of the alarm of the store - assuming that then, they police would have to show up to check on the situation. Turns out when the alarm goes off, the alarm company doesn’t call the police, they call the manager that lives closest to the store. Said manager, responded to the call with… “it must be a mistake, their still at the store, don’t inform the police”. So that didn't work ether.
Finally the police came and were able to get the man out of the bathroom and off the premises, but it was 2 hours after closing and 7 pm on New Years Eve. Though we did get out in time to celebrate, it was a long night.
-B
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