Oh Belle , What a job ! I'm still laughing ! Linda in PA leaving for CA tomorrow ----- Original Message ---- From: Belle Shepherd <belleshep@cox.net> To: homespun@rootsweb.com; KYHeritageFolklore@yahoogroups.com; southern-chat@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 1:44:57 AM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Sears..K-Mart.. Hi all, When you work with the public or a large business, you are apt to meet all kinds. In my 17 years with Sears, every day was open to anew challenge Either from customers or fellow employees. We had our share of all kinds among us. Many movie and TV stars who lived in the New Port Beach area were our regular customers. John Wayne did a lot of shopping there. Security would let him in through the Employees entrance and let him shop for a couple of hours before the store opened. I met him on the stairs several times as I was going to work to the main cashier's office. A really nice man. The last year I worked, I was transferred to Customer Service as I had a back problem and could no longer do some of the work required in the Cashier's operation. We got all kinds of stuff in Customer Service, some of it was strange, some of it amusing and some just plain ridiculous. My first customer one morning was a small man from a large Asian country. Seems he had done lots of shopping at our store.Clothes, a ladder, paint, brushes, etc. Well, wearing his pants he had bought at Sears, he climbed his ladder he had bought at Sears, opened his bucket of paint, also from Sears ready to paint the ceiling in his bedroom. He missed the paint bucket, knocked it over spilling paint all over the chest of drawers where he had placed the paint. In trying to catch the paint, he missed, fell off the ladder . and split his pants. He was asking me to pay for refinishing the chest of drawers,replace the spilt paint and pay for a new pair of pants.By that time, I couldn't hold it any longer, I motioned to my Supervisor to come to my desk and meet the gentleman. It was only a few minutes until the whole Dept. was laughing loudly. I think the Supervisor gave him sort of policy adjustment, it was out of my hands at that point. On another occasion, man from another Asian country made use of a display toilet in the plumbing dept. I have several more incidents but won't go into them now. Regards, Belle ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ