A lot of times people forget they have items below their shopping cart. 12-pack of paper towels, 24-pack of beer, laundry detergent, gallons of milk and so on; its only fair for the checker to see if the customer has any items below cart.
A short white guy, in his 20′s with spikey hair comes into my line. He’s wearing those really tight muscle shirts with cute designs on them and blue denim jeans, he has a swagger to his walk as he’s pushing his shopping into the checkstand.
Me: Hi!
Trust Fund Baby: …
Me: Find everything alright?
Trust Fund Baby: …
He finished loading his groceries on the belt and starts to swipe his credit card. While he’s doing that, I go around the register to see if he left anything behind…
Trust Fund Baby: What are you doing?
Me: Just seeing if you left anything under the cart.. I said nonchalantly
Trust Fund Baby: What are you implying! That I’m stealing? You think I’m trying to steal from you?
Me: What? No! Nothing like that, I’m just…
He cuts me off and digs into his back pocket and pulls out this paper…
Trust Fund Baby: You see this! This is my bank statement!
Shoves it in front of my face…
Trust Fund Baby: Read it! It says $100,000 plus! Why would I steal if I have this much money!
Me: Sssorry…
Trust Fund Baby: Next time, think before you do something!
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Yikes! Issues much? I can’t believe he actually showed you his bank statement.
Cheers for the photo comments on my blog, btw
You did the right thing. Just because someone has money doesn’t mean they are beyond trying to pull a fast one. You were right to do your job.
BTW that guy acted like a jerk.
he must have been crazy.
Hahahaha. Hahahah. Haha. People are insane.
We once had a shoplifter, who actually got CAUGHT with the stolen item try to say something similar. Even after the police arrived, she was still yelling at anybody who would listen, “This is ridiculous! I have 500K in my bank account! I wouldn’t ever NEED to steal from your shop!”
The colleague who had actually apprehended her, and was thoroughly annoyed by her behaviour, got really sarcastic, and said, “Oh? Oh really? That’s funny because the product in question is SITTING IN YOUR STROLLER UNWRAPPED. And as for the 500k? PSH. Get me some bank statements, and then we’ll take you seriously.”
The police thought it was hilarious!
So what if he has $100,000. His character speaks otherwise.
Ha wow, 500k! The stroller bandit is now apprehended!
He is lucky that you weren’t having a bad day. I know many people in our line of work that would have lost it over that one if they were not in a good mood. Good job on keeping your cool
Hey Paul! Thanks for checking in.. yeah it was tough holding it in. I think I’m lucky for not losing it and if I did, I would be blogging from the unemployment line =P.
so f’n what if he has $$ in his bank account.. a persons’ character doesn’t always show by what you have in your bank account.. what a jack@ss.. probably just another silver spoon idiot who thinks he’s above everyone