Another random post because I feel bad about my lack of blog activity.
It's Master's birthday. He's at work, so I walked over to the grocery with the smaller child. While she was refusing to nap, by the way. By the time I'm done it's obvious she needs to close her eyes and sleep, so we get through checkout. I want to grab a cherry Coke, but the grocery doesn't carry them in the cooler the great majority of the time, but no big deal, there's a Dollar General next door.
So, pack the kids stroller with the groceries and head next door. Let the cashier know 'Hey, I've got stuff in the stroller from another store, just grabbing a soda from the cooler and heading out.' Mind you, we're a one car family, so any time I need to pick something up while Master is working, I tend to just walk over there as I did, and have never had an issue with just letting it be known that I do have stuff, and am just after XYZ from the other store.
Except today, where the dollar store employee decides that I need to either empty out the stroller or take the kid out. Neither is really feasible. If you have experience with over loaded umbrella strollers, you may know the problem. They're not stable. At all. Like take the kid out and it will tilt back and crash.
And, for me anyway, unpacking and repacking the thing would have taken at least 10-15 minutes, when it takes me maybe 15 to just walk home. So yeah, I admit, I was semi-rude. And just kind of stared at her and went something like 'Really? I am literally after a soda. Like walk 10 feet into the store to the cooler, turn around, walk two feet to the register, pay, and then the other 8 feet back to the door so I can leave.'
She says that she 'guesses that's okay' but the tone involved screams it's not, and the attitude is grating on me and I know myself well enough to know that at this point staying is a bad idea, said forget it and left. And I really really REALLY hate that for some reason me being upset and leaving somewhere rather than causing a scene seems to trigger people to start going off.
In this instance, where I know policy overall is not in my favor, I just continued walking out rather than pointing out that I am a frequent customer, and no one has ever had an issue with me explaining what's up and getting what I'm after quickly, and at this point I've already been in the store twice as long as I would have been if I just hadn't told her 'Hey, I have stuff' and grabbed my pop.
But, still annoying. Good news, I didn't go psycho on anyone, which is an improvement, I guess. I got the main objectives covered, which was stuff for dinner (enchiladas, by the way), use my soon to be expiring coupons and store credit slip to grab Master a back up razor, and get breakfast food for myself and the littles. I just hate that today, with the cranky toddler, the trying to hurry so I could get back here to bake, and etc is the day that I get the grumpy chick at the store, ya know?
In other, less pissed off, news! Anniversary is coming up, and that means multiple days with no small children in my house. I am hoping for fun stuff (of the kinky/painful variety) and sleep. What can I say? I'm easy :P
well happy birthday Master, but i hear you on the other...sometimes those little problems are the most annoying things in your day.
ReplyDeleteofficious staff!
Like I said, I get it, pretty well every store has a 'leave bags at the counter' policy, and I wasn't complying. But for Gods sake, sometimes taking a second to think before applying policy leads to amazing things. And failing that, speaking badly to a customer who is obviously done with the situation and simply leaving seems like a bad idea if your job includes customer service. Ah well, I'm over it, and it seems like something stupid to be upset over anyway.
DeleteThank you very much for birthday well wishes for the male, he giggled telling me that 'some chick he doesn't know told him happy birthday'.