Hey folks! Usually I post a story everyday except weekends and I try to do it before midnight of each day but today I gotta work til midnight… So here’s one for you to read while I’m away working at the grocery store.
Customers leave all kinds of personal things behind in the grocery store, keys, wallets, phones, etc. Most of the time they come back to recover their possessions. Whatever it is we find, we put the item in our lost and found. The item stays in the lost and found until someone comes to claim it. We still have wallets, books, DVDs, and cell phones still unclaimed that had been lost last year.
A customer is inquiring about an iPhone he just lost…
iPhony: Hey, I left my iPhone here.
Me: OK, let me check if anyone turned anything in.
I ask the checkers and courtesy clerks but nothing came up.
Me: Sir, no one turned anything in.
He starts to get irritated…
iPhony: Its here! I know its here! [Pointing to checkstand 3] I was in that checkstand a few minutes ago!
I hand him a pen and paper…
Me: If you write your name and number down. I’ll call you if we find it.
iPhony: Call me my ass! Its an iPhone! No ones going to call!
Me: Please calm down…
iPhony: One of your workers must have it! Check their pockets!
Me: Sir, I’m not checking my co-workers pockets. We will call you if we find your phone.
He hands me the paper with his number…
iPhony: Call my number! Its here! Call it!
Agitated, I obliged.
I can see something vibrating in the plastic bag of groceries he’s holding with the ringtone…
{ 18 comments… read them below or add one }
omg, good for him! what a douche!
That’s a great story.
that’s hilarious. did he apologize?
No way! What a moron! Sheesh.
Oh my!! Did he apologize?
LOL…
Great story! I hope he apologized. Thanks for the first laugh of my day!
HAHA Karma bit his ass hard. Love it!
@Genesis – That’s the same word I was thinking at the time.
@Secretia – Thanks Secretia!
@Sharon – No he scurried off. I should have called it again because the song is pretty funny.
@Diane – That’s one word to describe him.
@Alicia – Do they ever?
@JStar – I’m happy its amusing!
@Melissa – Never got an apology, umm maybe once..
@Kris – Haha Karma!
That story had everything a person could ask for. Mystery, fear, plot thickening, and a drumroll ending. The only thing missing would be if he had said “Leave my number! I don’t have a phone!!”
Your comment will be featured on my FRIDAY’S READER’S SPECIAL with an answer to your comment and a link-back to your blog. Hope to see you there!
Paul how do you get through these people without a murder charge yet?
I would call him everyday and detail ALL of the sales going on at the store. Then I would list everything I had in my pockets, just for fun. Since he was *so* interested. It’s not harassment if he willingly GAVE you the number, right?
hilarious!
Nice. Did you at least get an apology?
@Dana – Thank you Dana! That would have been funny if he just denied it.
@Phoenixism – I’ve thought about it several times but I didn’t know what was more scarier, prison or the unemployment line.
@Kallay – HAHA, give him phone updates.. that’s a good idea.. if I still had his number..
@Abigail – I hope it was!
@Kay – Apology? What is that? Thanks for reading Kat!
HAHA what a douche!!
LOL, I know right! La Bamba as your ringtone… Com’on!
I wish!