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Read PINning The Blame Me: "Whoops. That's the wrong PIN." The customer rolls his eyes and tries again. And again. Un...
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Read Realization Hits You With A Bang This meeting was about what to do in case a gunman came into the store. But at ...
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Read Drawl The Line Customer: "A ticket to Washington, DC." Ticket Booth Worker: "All right, one ticket to 'Warshingt...
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Read The Excuse Finally Backfired I handle scheduling for my company. We have (technically she's still employed with ...
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Read This Went Somewhere Unexpected Customer: "If I want twenty yards of this fabric, how much would it be with the d...
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Read More Staff Turnover Means Less Apple Turnovers Owner: "Why have you booked all these people over the next two we...
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Read Over-Easy To Confuse I work at a ramen place. The customer prefaces their order by informing me that they are ve...
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Read Cutting Costs Costs While I'm enjoying most of day siesta, the entire line of business is burning down. Chat is ...
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Read There And Bag Again A customer is buying about sixty-ish items. As we charge ten cents a bag, I'm obliged to ask...
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Read A Matter Of Sea-Mantics Customer: "What kind of crab is the imitation crab?" Me: "Uh… It's whitefish and starch....
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Read Phrases That Draw Blood We're having a meeting, and the current discussion point is not important, but it led to...
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Read Checkout Checkmate Me: "Sir, I have told you multiple times, I can't honor this coupon." Customer: *Shouting.* "...
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Read Moving The Goalposts My dad is a combo of being really into sports, really competitive, and really patriotic. Wh...
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Read Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beer Holder I'm working the bar and have just served a group of women. A guy comes o...
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Read The D-Lightful Mistake I was a cashier at a grocery store, and we had something called a "Deal of the Week" we o...
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Read (About 10 years ago I was considering tattoo ideas for when I turned 18. A friends of a friend was an artist and...
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Read I was talking to a coworker who had immigrated to the US from Vietnam years before. She told me how she’d had a ...
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Read My Mother (retired by now) has known her best friend since they visited vocational school together. She’s also V...
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Read The Curse Of The Flip Flopper I grab the butter and as we are turning the corner to head to the registers, 'SLAP...
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Read I work at an independent bookstore that focuses on curated titles — literature, philosophy, history, and some ni...