working retail during the holidays

i have a few days off which is nice after the holiday season

i now find people amusing, even when they are really trying hard to be upset.  i don't think that my give a crap is broken, i just think that i am immune to many emotions, except anger and sadness.  neither one of those are appropriate for angry customers. 

these are things i love
is there anyone working in fish today......nope
do you work here......nope
do you have a bathroom......nope, we just hold it or use THE bucket

i have always loved the people who ask me a question then tell me i am wrong....i just ask if there is anything else that i can help them with.

i have a lady who adopted a cat that is supposedly lying at death's door.  she came in sunday, i told her she had 3 options; call the adoption partner, bring it back to the store, or take it to her vet to have it put down.  All her little girl can ask is if her cat is going to die.  i left the store at 4, it dawned on me on the way home that i never saw the lady. 

she then calls me two days ago asking me to look up her adoption paperwork to find out who the adoption partner is, it is save our strays.  She calls them and they say it isn't their cat.  I then ask her if she was the woman that i had talked to on sunday.  Yes.  i thought this cat was at death's door and that you were going to bring it in sunday.  i couldn't, i wasn't in town.  i am thinking, weren't you in my store having a conversation with me?  i then tell her to bring me the cat.  she is concerned about the money.  i tell her to just relinquish it.  she wants to know what we are going to do with it........ah, take it to the vet!  that was new years eve, still haven't seen her.

i am checking out a couple and i look up to see a woman standing and staring at me, i ask her what i can help her with.  she is fostering a dog and it has wedged itself under her seat. i am thinking that since i work at a pet store that i must be responsible for all situations pertaining to pets.  i tell her i will have someone come out and help her, the guy of the couple i am checking out volunteers.  a deed i am sure he later regretted.  i am watching the circus in the parking lot; the lady is taking all items out of her car (why, i don't know), there are at least 3 people now trying to get this dog out of the car.  finally one of my guys takes his socket set and starts to remove the seat so that the dog will then come out from under the seat.  Yeah. 

i have had several profound thoughts lately, but been too busy to blog