Ways to Annoy your Grocery Clerk #5 – I Really Need to Go…

by PkWynn on October 12, 2009

Going on your break is a daring task. Trying to dodge customers as your trying to make your way to the break room or any preferred destination so you can remove yourself for a short time from your place of work. Take off your apron, remove the name tag, and hide the tie, we do whatever it takes to get that full break period without any interruptions but it simply isn’t that easy…

I need my 10-minute break and I can’t hold it any longer!  I’m constantly trying to move around in the checkstand to keep myself from going all over myself.  Crossing my legs and fidgeting as I’m checking out each customer in line, it was only a matter of time before the leakage starts.  Ugh, when is he coming back from lunch?  My 10-year class reunion is coming up and I needed to shed a few pounds so I went on a liquid diet which complicates things even more because I have to go almost every hour.   Finally I see him clocking in; I take my name tag off and pull down my apron just in case I don’t get any interruptions.  As I’m running towards the break room a customer approaches me…

Emo Wine Connoisseur: What is the difference between wine in a bottle and boxed wine?

Ugh,  Are you serious!

Need to Pee Me: I’m sorry I don’t know anything about wine…

Emo Wine Connoisseur: Can you find someone who can?

I find a 16-year old courtesy clerk and handed him the duties of providing him top notch customer service.

Racing towards the break room, I’m blindsided again by another customer as I’m passing by…

Polka Dot wearing Red Head: Hey! Hey!

Need to Pee Me: Yy…esss?

At this point it’s pretty obvious, I’m swinging my hips like I’m dancing to the song, The Twist.”

Polka Dot wearing Red Head: There’s no one at the seafood counter, can you help me?

Need to Pee Me: I’ll call someone to help you.

As I pick up the phone to call for help, I hear…

PAUL, WE NEED YOU TO CHECK IMMEDIATELY! PAUL!

Oh no… leakage…

  • http://www.phoenixism.net David Quintero

    Blah Paul!!! I’ll never buy Simply Lemonade from your store again.

  • http://www.mostlygrocery.com PkWynn

    LOL! but its concentrated.

  • http://grassblades.wordpress.com Van

    Hahaha, that sounds about right. It’s refreshingly awesome to find a fellow retail-monkey blogger!

  • Wintermute

    Whoops! Yeah no one’s ever at that seafood counter, they really need keep their employees tethered back there… ;)

  • tdot

    CLEAN UP in aisle 4!

  • James McGee

    I know your pain, there was this one day on payday where I was trying to get my income during my break and a customer wanted me to get them another eletric cart I thought to myself ( CAN’T YOU SEE I AM DOING SOMETHING !?! ), lucky the MOD didn’t call me when I went over the 15 minutes !

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