Holiday Rush part 2

The day before Christmas, that's right, CHRISTMAS EVE.

Did desperate people come in? YES
Did they spend whatever just to get a gift? YES
Were they particularly picky about items? YES

LMAO about the last one XD

So yeah, it was pretty slow today, but considering that it is Christmas eve and you may think people want to shop last minute, many people have already left town to go somewhere else.

Although that may be the case, there were MANY generous contributions to our store by people, by spending at least $50 on each purchase.

No real stories today. Though, some lady did buy our $140 boom box (and btw, that boom box is FREAKIN AWESOME!!). She lied about it to her children and told them to keep it a secret. Saying that it was one thing, but it was actually a boom box, and told them not to tell anyone LOL




Actually no, i have a story.
These 2 guys came in looking for charms to buy (for themselves). One of them ended up buying a $12 and asked me if i thought the character was a dog or a bunny. I said it looks like a dog, even though its supposed to be a bunny and he claimed it was a burned character

Holiday Rush

The weekend before Christmas, and it's time for all the last minute shoppers to stop by.
The malls are crowded, the parking is full and so are ALL the stores.

So busy that, our store and several others in our section ran out of SMALL change. No dollars, no quarters, and running low on pennies, nickels and dimes. How sad is that? lol.

WHERE ARE ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO BUY CANDY AND GUM ALL THE TIME?!!
YOU'RE THE REASON WHY WE HAVE SO MUCH CHANGE!!

Saturday Fun~

It's been awhile since i've worked a holiday Saturday and boy was it fun fun FUN >_<

I would start listing out stuff that happened, but there was just too many to write down. I'm not even going to bother writing in one, since whatever i pick wont be as good as the next story, or the next.


Let's just say the REAL holiday hours started and my feet are killing me.

Friday During Holiday Season

I hope you're not getting tired of my Friday stories XD

1) Two of my coworkers told me about this really rude lady that came in earlier today. She had come in again later that night, and my coworkers warned me that it was her. Unfortunately for me, i was the one who got stuck helping her and boy was she RUDE -_-

Lady: MISS~!! Scuse me, can you come here for a second?

*i walk over to where she was*

Lady: How much is this christmas card?
Me: I believe it's about $1--
Lady: I don't want an ABOUT alright, i want to know EXACTLY.HOW.MUCH.IT.IS...
Me: O_____O Alright, let me go ring it up.

*walks over to counter with wide eyes that scream WTF*
*walks back over to the lady*
Me: It's on sale for $1.69.
Lady: Then how much was it originally?
Me: $2
Lady: Ok.. so this is good enough for a 5 year old, now what about for a 10 year old.
Me: How about one of the pop up cards?
Lady: NO~! I wouldn't want that. This one *picks up a really plain card* is good for a 10 year old.

*I walk away leaving her there without saying anything..*

SHE FREAKING CUT ME OFF BEFORE I COULD FINISH MY SENTENCE. And she gets mad at me for picking out a card she doesn't like, that the little girl might.
From what one of my coworkers said, she got mad at her for not telling her what's better. Art supplies or writing supplies... What the hell?!


2) This lady came up to me and i could barely hear her, and she asks me if we have any other calculators besides the one she saw. I tell her we do, and i'm about to leave to go get them and she goes and asks my coworker if we have a section alone for calculators.
I turn around and tell her we dont, that they're pretty much scattered around. She turns to me and says she wasn't asking me, b/c I was starting to walk off without telling her anything.
And i didn't realize it at that time, but I know I did, i said with real attitude to her "WELL, I WAS GOING TO SHOW THEM TO YOU.."
She hecka brushed it off and was like, whatever.

She got hella mad at me for a stupid calculator.


3) This lady who spent about $140+ in oiur store took so much time at the register b/c she couldnt decide which plush she wanted. She kept changing it, not to mention that a line was forming right behind her. She finally made up her mind, and ended up buying extra stuff ( the promotion items) as extra gifts. She apologized to me, but i didnt mind since she spent that much money XD At least she was nice LOL


4) This story was from my coworker b/c i went out for my break.
Apparently this one lady, who i did see earlier before i left, got angry at her b/c one of the notebooks she was purchasing was 50 CENTS MORE then the other notebooks she was getting. She tells her that she was giving bad service and getting angry for no reason at her.

Then all of a sudden, one of her daughters spats back "SHUT UP MOM" over and over again throughout the whole fiasco, cuz her mom was going crazy. Then the mom storms off outside, and her daughters were just like "ohh, sorry about my mom, she's crazy.." and they laughed about stuff. When their mom came back, she was still angry and all. One of the 2 daughters said something in Japanese and her mom grabbed her by the mouth and was telling her never to speak like that.. and then slapped her. They paid for the stuff and the mom just stormed out of the store and again and all the girls could do is just laugh about it.

DUDE, HOW CRAZY IS THAT?!!!
And earlier when i saw them, they were seriously OK. They were really cheerful and everything O__O


5) This guy came in to buy this blanket (without actually saying the name, i'm going to label it XO -- if you know where i work, and if you know the codes, then you'll know what i'm talking about) and decided to put it on hold for a week. I tell him alright and put it on hold for him. An hour later he comes in to the store with a credit card in his extended arm and goes:
"OK.. JUST DO IT.. PLEASE *covers eyes*"

I laughed and asked if he was sure and he's like.. ITS NOW OR NEVER

HAHAHA, HE WAS SO COOL

A New Friday~

Yes, another Friday story. Really now, Friday's bring in the *best* customers ever.

Today's customer happened to be 4 guys, all in college, Asian might i add, and one of the guys in particular was looking for a *HK* pen, that was cute, girly, immature, doesnt have a dangling charm, but still has a charm at top, which screams "CAN I HAVE YOUR NUMBER?"

So I was frantically running around the store picking out random pens for this guy. He was REALLY picky about which one he gets, but then again this is supposed to be his "pick up" pen for chicks at clubs, or whatever.

So i finally show him this light up pen and hes all super chipper about it. He was ready to pay so i let my coworker handle it. She goes and rings him up, but this guy really wants to try out his skills already.

Guy: Can i show you a magic trick?
Coworker: Sure I guess
Guy: Can i see your hand please?

*shows him her hand*
*Guy starts drawing on her wrist*

Guy: There are 3 mouses. Ones normal, ones speedy and ones deaf (or whatever the hell he said)... Tell me when to stop for each of them.

So he goes and draw lines until she says stop and when it came to the deaf mouse, he kept drawing up her arm and hes like "HES A DEAF MOUSE!! OHHHHH!!!"

Him and his buddies leave and come back later in about like 2 hours.
They just stopped by for no reason. The guy who bought the pen wanted to do another magic trick on us, but i refused to do anything with it. He ended up trying it on a customer. This time it was a card trick (This fool actually had a deck of cards in his pocket ok..).
He asks the girl to write her nane on the card. When he took it back he said "watch it disappear" He sticks it in his pocket and was like THAT'S IT.


OMFG! THIS GUY WAS PICKING UP CHICKS BY DOING STUPID JOKES ON THEM. THIS WAS HIS WHOLE PLAN!
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While the whole magic trick fiasco was going on, one of his buddies tried to play a game with me too. I asked him how old they were, but he refused to tell me. I told him he has to be at least 21, and he tells me i have to be at least 23.

He says i'm wrong.. and obviously he's wrong about me.
But i doubt i'm lying about him cuz he seriously looked like he was pushing 30 HAHAH

Thanksgiving Weekend~

Black Friday:
aaaa.... the dreaded black Friday shopping day. The day after Thanksgiving, when all the sales break out. How did we do?

Actually, not too bad. I thought it would get crazy, but it didnt. Though it wasn't like there were no customers, it wasn't as packed as i thought it would be.

AND, now crazy customers, so i was pretty content with the night. I'm just tired.

Saturday:
Today wasn't too bad. Not as packed as yesterday, but still a good amount of customers. I got some crazy returns today though. Bought something yesterday and wanted to return it, OR they JUST bought it today and returned it cuz their kid didn't want it anymore (yeah thanks...)

All in all, it was a good day today, not too crazy and no real dead time. So an A for today AND yesterday's effort.

Crazy Lady~

lady: 'scuse me, do you have any *whispers* cd players?
me: umm, sorry no, not right now
lady: *points at the store stereo* how about that? how much are those?
me: I'm sorry, we don't have any of those.
lady: you lie! I can see it right there!
me: no i mean, we don't have any in stock >_<

Who The Hell Is?

1) Who the hell is Pocho?
2) Who the hell is Pichaco?
3) Who the hell is Cocoa?
4) Who the hell is Kroppi
5) Who the hell is Kerop
6) Who the hell is Pikkle?

New Friday~

Today brings up even crazier people, or should i say kids.

There seems to be a scavenger hunt, not too out of the ordinary since it's happened before. But the kids this time are even scarier. They aggressively give you the items and money that they want and then bolt out of the store. Usually they're calmer then this, so im guessing there's an even bigger prize at stake.

Halloween

Since it's halloween, the mall is of course passing out candy to all the lucky hundred something kids that pass by, and b/c of this..... us workers are stuck with nothing to do, UNLESS you're the one passing out the candy.


What that means is, basically, the store is DEAD (no pun intended XD). No ones coming inside to buy, and when they do, it's to buy something small. I think we only made like $150 so far ><><

Visiting Guys Pt. 2

I forgot to mention this the other day.

One guy that came in with his girlfriend was looking at all the "new" characters in the store and randomly started talking about the old days.

"Look at this stuff, back then, my sister used to collect Tuxedo Sam stuff... whatever happened to that?"

NICE *thumbs up* This guy gets extra bonus stars from me for remembering TUXEDO SAM of all characters!

Manic Monday

Okay, so it's not really manic, but it was a bit tiring.

Today was a day of 1) cleaning, 2) wrapping 3) rearranging

Nothing about customers today (although some really really REALLY nice lady bought our $120 bag with matching $60 wallet XD)

What Saturdays Bring

I don't usually work Saturdays anymore. I think the last time i worked a Saturday shift was a year ago, and that's when i first started working. So working yesterday felt refreshing, especially since I got to interact with a whole load of NEW types of people.

1) A grandma came into the store looking for a gift to buy for her granddaughter who will be turning 3 or 4. She was nice and all, but she took up WAYYYY too much of my coworker and I's time, AND the other customers. A huge line formed behind her, which i wasn't really used to seeing. Everyone behind her was buying like 2 or 3 small items, One girl even had to pay me for a piece of gum without me ringing her up yet b/c of the line. So i told her she could just go.

2) B/c of the line that the lady held up, I had this rude group of ladies that left a HUGE mess at our store. They either didn't want to wait in line anymore, or they just changed their mind. I think they didn't want to wait in line. I had pulled out a cellphone charm out for her and when she left we thought she stole it. Luckily we found it all hidden within our wallet section.

That's just half the story about her. Earlier when they first came in, they were being really rude to me, and they weren't much helpful at all. She kept telling me to pick up a whole bunch of charms for her, and she ended up picking the one she wanted in the first place. And when i explained to her what the whole Kabuki theme was meant for she was like "oh eww, it's okay, i'll just go with that one"... what's that supposed to mean lady?

3) These 2 kids later in the night asked me why a guy was singing "UMBRELLA" on our store stereo. Okay, why are you asking ME that? How would i know why a guy chose to sing a cover of that?

Then they proceded to ask me "I thought there are copyright laws on songs, how could he be able to sing it?" again, why are you asking ME that?

4) Some rude ass Asian (yes, i'm pointing her out lol) lady and her rude ass kids too put a whole bunch of things on the counter. I asked her if she wanted separate bags and she told me yes, so i started ringing her up. Typically we remove all the plastic stuffing from bags so they can be flat. So i took them out, and they asked me to put it back in. You could have told me that before i threw them around, but whatever. So i put it back in and asked her how she wanted t separate them, she said "yeah yeah, separate them." i asked her HOW she wanted them and again she says "yeah, i want them separate" so i had to force out a "WHICH BAGS DO YOU WANT THEM IN?" without my annoyed tone in the voice. So she stuck them in the bags herself (i shoulda just given you one damn bag..) and when i told her how much it was gonna be she shoved her debit card in my face -__-

The Rude, The Annoying and The Bratty

I had forgotten to write about my Wednesday misfortunes. Two seperate incidents, but all within the same time span. How the hell could that have happened?

1) This one family comes in. And this day, we got a shipment, so some of our boxes are laid out in rows next to the register against the . The mom of the family gave me attitude saying "can MOVE these boxes, so my daughter can get some stickers?" So i move one of the boxes aside, and once i do that, she moves one of our boxes, but kind of kicks it off to the side. EXCUSE ME LADY, BUT DON'T BE DAMAGING OUR STUFF ALRIGHT?

When it was time to ring her up, i didn't want to, so who i was working with did it instead.

2) These two ladies come in, and one of them brings her daughter with her (btw, they're both pregnant, though i have no idea why that matters haha~). The daughter was looking for a toy to buy, and sees our little pocket play sets. The lady asks me how small it is, i tell her it might not be suitable for her daughter since theres a lot of smaller pieces in there. She says ok and asks if there's a bigger size, i tell her only comes in one size. So she picks up the same toy but in a different scenario, and asks me if THAT comes in a bigger size. I tell her NO, B/C IT ONLY COMES IN ONE SIZE. If the other one didn't have one in a bigger size, what makes you think that THAT will come in a bigger size?

She then picks up the same damn toy and asks AGAIN IF IT COMES IN A BIGGER SIZE.
WTH IS WRONG WITH YOU LADY? You think after 2 seconds it's just going to magically get bigger?

I swear....
she ended up buying that toy anyways (okay?), i didnt even want to ring her up either..
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Today brings a bratty kid. a SERIOUSLY.BRATTY.KID. (or two i might say).
This father lets his son and daughter roam around the store a bit and being as nice as he could, because i know he didnt want to be in the store because of the tone in his voice, he allows both children to buy ONE item each.

The little boy immediately picks up a 3-way writer and wanted it. So he held onto it the entire time they were in there.

The little girl kept wandering around and ended up picking an EXPENSIVE charm.. CELLPHONE charm i might add, from our display case.

Now, the dad says "okay let's go you both got ONE item each."
The little girl starts complaining and goes "I WANT TWO ITEMS"

The dad tells her no and says only ONE
She kept saying "I WANT TWO ITEMS!!! WHY DADDY? YOU SAID I CAN HAVE TWO"
the dad says " I said you get ONE item or NONE, NOT two.."
She starts to pout and uses this as a comeback "IM TELLING MOMMY WHEN WE GET HOME"


........................... yeah... my thoughts exactly

So while the little 8 year old girl was complaining, her 4 or 5 year old brother kept whining to his dad about opening up the pencil "OPEN IT DADDY" it's like, kid... SHUSH.

Even outside the store, you could hear faint "WHY CANT I HAVE TWO? *pouts*" and "OPEN IT NOW DADDY" UGHHH... HOW ANNOYING, BRATTY KIDS!

Visiting Guys

Guys are always the funniest customers when they're actually going into the store for their own purposes. (this excludes father's with their kids, guys who want to hit on the girls and the guys that are being sarcastic).

Today, some guy came in with a friend (who was a girl by the way) and asked if we had any Keroppi stuff. Then he goes off an explains if we had any of those mechanical pencil cases, that everyone loved back in the day (myself included ^_^). He goes on saying that it really showed how old he was when i told him that the company doesn't really make those anymore. And the fact that he OWNED one, WITH matching pencils and erasers HAHA~

This reminds me of when this group of guys came into the store and asked me what the name of "the BOY Hello Kitty" was and continued on saying "Dear.. Dear... Dear Dan?" (me: Dear Daniel?) "YEAH HIM! DEAR DANIEL! I GOT IT MAN" O_____O

Yeppppp, the guys who actually know their stuff are the best XD

Rainy Friday~

So you'd think that there would be a lot of people at the mall because it's a Friday, but the fact that it was raining didn't help much. Though, since it was raining quite hard, it would have been a good idea to go shopping indoors since you're at least doing something.. get a little exercise, get some food, look at new items, stay indoors, keep warm, etc..

What did today's rainy Friday bring in? Freaky people.. especially annoying ones.

1) Some lady tried to ask me for help by shouting at me from the opposite end of the store. if you have a question, please come up to me.. otherwise how would i know you're talking to me in the first place. Also, drop the attitude before coming into the store. It's a children's store alright.

2) Speaking of attitudes, this one lady was in one pissed off mood for some reason. Not only did she just grab the items off the counter after she bought them, she didn't return my greeting when i thanked her and wished her a good night, but she just stared at me for the longest time before leaving with her kids. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STARING AT?!

3) Using a card on a $2.99 purchase is stupid (plus it's not like you can do that at our store anyways, we have a $5 min XD)

4) Don't ask for SPECIFIC items, when you're not going to buy them anyways.

Common Questions..

Usually people always ask the same things over and over again like:
"How much are your gum?" or "Do you have anymore of.. blah-blah-blah"

Today's common question was "do you have anymore of bags?"
(me: *shakes head* no, it's whatever is out there)

then she asks again "how about this style? Do you have anymore bags for this one?
(me: *shakes head* Nooo.... it's whatever is out there....... -_______-)

then... "not even later? It's just going to be these?
(me: *shakes head* nope.. for these items, it's all they will probably make)


It's funny though, she shot those questions at me hella quick.

the same questions came at me from another lady about erasers.. O___O

The Boring End

Nothing special today, only that it's one of those days where it's really dead.

So far, we've probably made about $100 and that's it. Isn't that sad? And it's already 7pm. The mall's been open since 10...... that's how many hours? haha

What Friday Brings

Friday brings out the some of the worst (and when i mean worst, i mean BEST stories) customers ever.

1) 3 Filipino ladies (yes i'm calling them out XD) came in to buy, whatever (i didn't ring them up). The lady buying all the crap made my coworker "wrap" up her purchases in two different bags, and specifically told her which trinket to put on it, as if that mattered. Then one of the ladies with her asked me to get her a phone charm, so i got the one she wanted, then she switched it immediately after i got it for her and made me get a different one. Knowing it's my job, i switch it and give her the other one. She asks me how much and tell her it's only $3 WITHOUT TAX. She gives me $3 and takes the charm away and starts to put it on her phone. and here's where the story begins:

Lady: Where do I put this on?
Me: You put it right here :points:
Lady: Now where is it? : starts taking off her phone cover searching:
Me: On a Razr phone, it's on the side, right here :points again:
Lady: Hmm, I can't find it.
Me: It's right there!
Lady: Where is :still searches: OH, ITS RIGHT THERE

[ me: -________________-]

So she pays be $3 ONLY and starts to put the charm on her phone. I tell her that it'll be $3.26 with tax and she stops, looks at me and gives me a angry look
Lady: You said it was $3
Me: WITHOUT tax....
Lady: :hands back charm: Then i don't want it..
Lady mumbling in Tagalog: This girl is stupid..
Me as lady walks out: I KNOW TAGALOG I CAN UNDERSTAND YOU...

I wish i had said it louder than i did, but i didn't.

2) These two girls about age 9 or 10 came in with their mom and grandma. They were both given $20 to spend in the store. One girl gathered up a bunch of goodies nearly banking out her $20, the other girl only wanted one piece of gum which totals to $.50 (50 cents). The girl who grabbed everything paid and stepped off to the side while her sister paid for her piece of gum. Now, here's where the "fun" begins. The adults didn't want her to pay with the $20 bill since it's only 50 cents. So the grandma gave her 50 cents to pay for her gum. The girl that spent nearly all her 20 starts WHINING about how her sister is getting more money:

Girl: HEYYYY, THAT'S NOT FAIR!
Grandma: What's not fair?
Girl: YOU'RE GIVING HER EXTRA MONEY!
Mom: but it's only 50 cents
Girl: THAT'S NOT FAIR! I WANT THOSE 50 CENTS TOO!

WHAT A BRAT!

3) our 2nd to last customers today was bad (the worst is yet to come). It was a mom with her 2 daughters. They came into the store 10 minutes before closing. They stayed in the store pretty much UNTIL closing (they were in the store even when i closed the doors). Now, i thought kids are bad, but the mom was REALLY bad. She was the reason for the hold up. She was picking up random things that she wanted and ended up not purchasing half of the things she picked up. Her kids were ready to go in 2 minutes, but she took forever to look for stuff FOR HERSELF. Not to mention that when she changed her mind at what to buy it was AT the counter, AND she left all our shit everywhere around the store. It's like what the fuck lady. You're keeping us late here already, the least you could do is be courteous to us!

4) And finally the worst of them all. TWO KIDS. that's right, TWO KIDS about 11 or 12 years old were our last customers of the night. It was about 9:10 when they left....and they got in 10 minutes before the store closed. THAT MEANS THEY WERE SHOPPING AROUND FOR 20 MINUTES. And to make it worse, they came into the store earlier that night around 8, and didn't buy anything, why the fuck would you come in 10 minutes before closing and buy something 10 minutes AFTER we close, when you were in the store earlier?

Those little punks thought they were so slick and shit too. Who the fuck are they who are 10 years younger than me to think they can talk down to us? with their snotty little attitudes and shit.

Kids are CRAZY~

This little girl who could have been about the age of 10 comes in about 10 minutes before mall closing and asked us if her family had come in to the store to buy a rolling backpack. We tell her someone came in asking about them, but didnt buy one.

She looks at us for a minute (or so, it felt like forever), and then just stood there in front of the counter for awhile without saying anything and it's like, what the hell kid? What the hell are you staring at, what are you thinking?!

I had no idea what to say, so i turned to my coworker and was like "so this is how much cash we made huh?" LOL, trying to change the subject.
Once i said that the little girl started walking away from the counter, but didn't leave the store yet. She starts looking around within the 8 minutes we have left before closing. After awhile she ends up close to behind the counter where one of the display cases are. At this point i'm away from the counter cleaning up a bit and when i look back, shes peaking behind the counter for god knows what. O______O

Im all thinking, SERIOUSLY MAN, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS GIRL??
When she sees me looking at her, she strikes up a bit scared with a stupid smirk on her face that read "OHHHH YOU CAUGHT ME!!"

Now there's 4 minutes left, and she ends up leaving. I wanted to close the store immediately so she wouldnt come back in (HAHA) but can't. When it was time to close, i see her standing out there and close the doors immediately hoping she doesnt want to come back in ><

I swear, this kid was freaking crazy or something O___O

It's been awhile...

since i've seen this one guy who works at the mall too. (strange for a first post, but whatever).

He'd always pass by our store on purpose just to see us girls working and try to catch our attention just so we can say hi to him.

It's been awhile since i last saw him and frankily, he's the last person i'd want to see while working haha~
I think the last time i saw him pass by was before summer vacation started (yeah, its been that long) and i had forgotten about him. But since the store was dead today i was staring out into the mall and low and behold there he goes passing by our store giving me that crazy wave of his >_< WHY ME?!!