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I’m on vacation just like you lady
M
This happened a couple years ago when my friends
and I booked a plane south for a surf trip.
Our last stop on the trip was the most popular
area for tourists in the country and also
had really fun surf. After a 7 hour surf session
we were all tired, hungry, sunburnt, and ready
to leave.
Note: my friends look like tourists, whereas
my skin is on the darker side so people confused
me for a local a few times during the trip.
Anyways, back to the story.
As we were walking up the coast past the beach
club on the way back to our Airbnb, a woman
stepped in front of us and asked me “how
much?”
I was confused and asked her what she meant.
She asked how much do I charge. I looked at
my friends confused and she said “how much
do you take to teach these guys how to surf
I want to learn!”
I told her I didn’t teach lessons and to
go try the local surf camp downtown. She kept
insisting I did, saying she’d pay me in
cash, drinks, or whatever the locals took.
I was shocked at how this woman was convinced
I was a surf instructor no matter how many
times I told her I wasn’t one. After going
back and forth a little longer it ended with
me saying “look lady, I’m on vacation
too. I don’t live here. This isn’t my
hometown. I am not a surf instructor” and
just walked away.
Soccer mom @ Hot Topic
XL
Hi, I'm posting this from my phone so sorry
if I scew up and don't notice. I also have
no clue how to format a story like this....
This story starts off with my emo ass going
to Hot Topic as I do when I'm in the city
(I live in a small town so city shopping is
a treat) and I will admit I do look like the
stereotypical HT employe with the head to
toe black with combat boots and so on. The
one thing is HT employees where lanyards with
a big HT logo badge on them, I didn't have
one of those. Ok, so enter Crazy Lady (CL),
she walks up to me at some point and says
"Excuse me could you get me that hat (or whatever
it was) off of the wall I can't reach it."
I'm 5'8 and CL is a 40 year old, 4'8 ish,
soccer mom type, so I thought she was just
asking me cause I was taller then her. I quickly
grabbed the hat for her and went about my
shopping. About 30 seconds later someone taps
me on the shoulder and I turn to see CL standing
there looking far angrier then when I had
left her.
CL "Excuse me, I still need your help."
Me " I'm sorry what?"
CL "Its very rude to walk away from a paying
customer."
She then proceeds to hand me the like 6 things
(like belts, socks, shit like that) she had
in her hands to me, which for some dumb reason
I took, and barked at me to,
"Take these to the front, I'll be over it
a bit to buy them. Just scan and gift rap
them please it's a gift for my daughter."
I told her that I didnt work there and tried
give her the stuff back.
CL " What do you mean you don't work here,
you helped me befor, and look at you. No one
dresses like that for not reason." And just
walked away from me.
Now it had been a long day for my at this
point and tbh I was kinda getting sick of
peoples shit so I probably could have handled
this better but i really didn't fell like
being the bigger person that day. I walked
up to CL and dropped all the stuff she gave
me on the ground at her feet.
CL "What in the hell do you think your doing??"
Me" I tried to tell you befor, I don't work
here."
At this point CL lost it. She started lecturing
me about how rude I was being and about how
my generation had no respect blah blah blah...
One of the employees comes to ask what's wrong
and CL starts on him too. I kinda felt bad
for the guy. After about 5 minutes of arguing
the employee managed to convince CL to leave
without too much of a scene but on the way
out she yelled,
CL "IM NEVER SHOPPING HERE, EVER AGAIN!!"
Idk if she ever figured out that I didn't
work there or not but that's the last
i saw of her that day.
Demanding Dumplings From a Customer
This happened a few years ago, but I just
discovered the sub so here we go.
I was having dinner at a Thai restaurant in
my home town, and this Asian guy was walking
back from the bathroom to his table, where
he was eating dinner with his family. Before
he can get there, some lady at another table
stops him and says "Excuse me, could I get
some more dumplings?"
It's worth pointing out here that not only
is this random Asian man not an employee,
but while all of the waiters are wearing some
kind of approximation of traditional Thai
dress, this guy's in a bright orange t-shirt.
So he just kind of looks baffled for a second,
and says "Uhhh...I don't work here."
This is of course the part where you'd expect
her to be embarrassed, but she just said "Well
I didn't know that!" like it's his fault for
making things awkward, and then proceeded
to flag down an actual waiter.
Intoxicated man doesn't accept no
M
This happened literally 30 minutes ago. Quick
Background: I am from the UK and work in an
office where we have to wear suits. On lunch
breaks my colleague and I usually put on a
normal jacket to cover our shirts. Well today
my colleague decided it was too warm and he
would go out in his shirt and tie only.
We went to a local pound shop to buy some
sweets and this is when an extremely intoxicated
man wobbled up to my jacket less colleague
Drunk: "Do you work here?"
Colleague: "No." They both laugh awkwardly
Drunk: "But do you work here tho?"
Colleague: "No.." Again an awkward laugh and
then silence
Drunk: "You obviously work here mate you're
in a shirt and tie.."
Colleague: "...what are you looking for?"
Drunk: "A small radio."
Colleague: "... this way please."
I near died of laughter as I watched him take
the man to the aisle and point out the radios.
EDIT: UK money is Pound Sterling £. In a
pound shop, items cost £1 or one pound sterling
coin. Pound is short for pound sterling.
Employee discount? IDWH though
M
This happened a few years ago when I was still
in college and would wear my keys on a lanyard
around my neck. This has lead to people mistaking
me for employees before but this was the first
time actual staff confused me.
I was at the museum with a friend to see a
new VR display and we went to the museum cafe
afterwards for some lunch. When we got to
the counter and ordered the lady told me the
total and it was less than anticipated. Missing
the price of my hot chocolate. So I asked
politely if it had been included in the order
and she 'reminded' me that employees get free
drinks. I admitted I wasn't actually an employee
and she blushed and I blushed and payed for
my drink. My friend laughed at me for the
rest of the day and said I should have just
taken the discount.
Sometimes it pays to look like an employee
:p or at least you don't have to pay.
Man thinks Perry the Platypus works at Stop
& Shop.
M
This is a shorter one, but still an interesting
one.
For reasons unspecified, I went to the local
Stop & Shop wearing a Perry the Platypus onesie.
The actual reason was to shoot scenes for
a music video. It’s a long story.
I was walking down an aisle, and a middle
aged man approaches me asking where the cereal
is. I have never been in that supermarket
in my life, so I say I don’t know. He says
okay, walks away, and comes back. The dude
gets a bit upset and asks if I work there.
No laughter, no smile, no joking tone. Straight
face and a serious tone to his voice, asking
me if I work there. I’m standing in the
middle of Stop & Shop with a light blue Perry
the Platypus onesie, and this dude thought
I worked there. I assured him that I did not
work there, but did not mention my outfit.
He mumbled something and walked away, giving
me looks as he did so.
On the bright side, the actual employees got
a kick out of my outfit. We got pretty good
shots for the music video too, so all in all
it was a good day.
Gamestop Grandma (wholesome)
Meta
So, I was in gamestop browsing games and such,
and admittedly in an outfit that could be
confused for a worker there, black button
up, black jeans. A sweet old lady holding
a large hardcover book approaches me and asks
"Excuse me, my grandson's birthday is coming
up and he said he wants the 'Super Smash Bros
Ultimate', or something, is this it?"
And hands me the book, it's actually the collectors
edition guide for the game.
me: "Oh, this isn't actually the game itself,
it's a book about the game, it looks like
you can get the game over by the Nintendo
Switch section, though"
her: "This is all so confusing, I'm just going
to get him a gift card. Can you ring up a
gift card for me?"
me: "I can't do that, I don't work here, but
I believe the cashiers here can"
her: "OH, I thought you did, well thanks young
man."
and she walked off. it wasn't exactly an exciting
situation, but she was very sweet and vaguely
confused by her environment, and I thought
it was adorable that it seemed like she was
trying really hard to get her grandson SSBU
and willing to venture into the wild to get
it
3 AM Sushi
M
I work at at 24/7 gas station graveyard shift.
I often get weird calls at night but none
quite as strange as the one I am about to
tell you. It's around 3 AM and the phone rings.
I answer cheerfully, "gas station name how
may I help you?" "Yes, what are your specials?"
This confuses me as specials is a weird word
to use for items discounted. As well as who
calls a gas station to price check? "I'm sorry
do you mean our discounted items? I am not
sure but I can go check for you." I say as
I go to look to see what's on sale. "Never
mind the special I want a Spider Roll and
a side of rice." Me completely confused, "Ma'am
this is a gas station we don't sell sushi."
"What do you mean you don't sell sushi! This
is Sushi place isn't it?" "I think you have
the wrong number. There is no sushi places
around here open at this time." "Oh?" The
person on the phone says confused. "Sorry
but this is a gas station name." I inform
her . "This is gas station name. Oh..." And
she hangs up. No yelling, no arguing. Just
pure confusion on both sides. Who orders sushi
at 3 AM anyways? And where can I get some?
Get out of my house!
M
This happened to my grandmother a few years
ago and really shook her up. She lives with
the rest of my family. Our house is one of
three units on the same property owned by
a guy who also has a construction company
down the road. Back when we first moved in
there was a sign with his company's name on
it in the front yard, I think because one
of the units was
available or to advertise his business. Maybe
both.
Anyway my grandmother is a sweet little old
lady who is really big on the stranger danger
thing. One day she came into our kitchen and
found some guy asking after the landlord in
broken English. She asked him what he was
doing in our house and he asked after the
landlord again. When she asked how he got
in he said the front door was open. For the
record, our front door is behind some furniture
so he had to have come around the side of
the house to get into the kitchen, where he
should have seen that it's obviously somebody's
house. She told him that the landlord's business
is down the street and to get out of our house.
Ever since then she's been really intense
about making sure we lock the kitchen door,
and she got the sign taken down.
Woman mistakes me for a Hot Topic Employee
to ask an interesting question about a shirt
M
A couple of weeks ago, I decide to venture
into my local Hot Topic (yeah...) to look
for a t-shirt. Now, I normally stick out in
a store like that, because I don’t seem
like the “type of person to shop there”
(I wear pastel pink dresses and hair bows).
In any case, I was comparing t-shirts near
the back of the store when a teenage girl
and her mother wander in and start looking
at the band shirts as well. The girl was looking
for a Billie Eilish shirt, but apparently
her mom was NOT having it.
“That girl looks EVIL!” The mom said,
pointing at the shirt.
“Mom, she’s not evil,” the girl explained,
“She’s just trying to get herself out
there.”
Then, the girl whispered to her mom, “I
wonder if that girl works here. She’ll probably
tell you.”
So, the mom turns to me and gestures to the
Billie Eilish shirt and asks, “Is she evil??”
Not really being a good judge of the evilness
of most musicians, I shrug and say, “I’m
not sure, ma’am. I don’t work here.”
The cashier and I had a good laugh about it
after
the two left.
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