Maybe he had several, and so didn't mind if he lost one?
Yesterday I had a customer come up to the counter with a stroller and ask if he could leave his kid there while he ran out to his car to get something.
Everyone reading this should respond with, "What the hell?! You can't just drop your kid off with the nearest cashier while you run out to your car!" If that is not your response, you might want to rethink having children.
Anyways, the customer was very insistent and got pretty upset that I wouldn't let him leave his child with us. I think I told him "no" five times before he angrily left the store. He kept restating that it would only be a short time, and that he didn't want to take his child out into the cold weather, so why wouldn't I let him do this? He kept saying that I didn't understand and I think he even said that I was being rude for not helping him. He even brought out his ID, saying that he was a respectable person and the father of this child (though I'm not sure how seeing his ID proves the child is his, nor does it prove that he's respectable), and then he said that it was okay because he worked for Microsoft and showed me his blue badge.
Jeremy pointed out that by not letting him abandon his child I was disallowing events to occur that in the past have led to such things as Punky Brewster, yet I still don't feel bad. I guess I'm just a jerk about these things.
Everyone reading this should respond with, "What the hell?! You can't just drop your kid off with the nearest cashier while you run out to your car!" If that is not your response, you might want to rethink having children.
Anyways, the customer was very insistent and got pretty upset that I wouldn't let him leave his child with us. I think I told him "no" five times before he angrily left the store. He kept restating that it would only be a short time, and that he didn't want to take his child out into the cold weather, so why wouldn't I let him do this? He kept saying that I didn't understand and I think he even said that I was being rude for not helping him. He even brought out his ID, saying that he was a respectable person and the father of this child (though I'm not sure how seeing his ID proves the child is his, nor does it prove that he's respectable), and then he said that it was okay because he worked for Microsoft and showed me his blue badge.
Jeremy pointed out that by not letting him abandon his child I was disallowing events to occur that in the past have led to such things as Punky Brewster, yet I still don't feel bad. I guess I'm just a jerk about these things.