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I learned a few things at work today.
I learned the girl customer's name is Tatem.
I learned the guy usually with her is her boyfriend after all.
And I learned her number. Sort of.
I was ringing customers and she came up to the register behind me by herself and said hi. We talked a little, but then I got customers who were explaining a problem to me. After rectifying their problem, I started bagging their stuff. As she was about to leave, I asked her to come to my register for a second. I finished bagging their stuff, slowed down (I bag at Warp Speed), and took a deep breath.
"Do you still want to hang out some time?" I asked her. "Yeah, I'd love to. My phone's not working at the moment, but I can give you my boyfriend's number!" Literally everyone around us (including my customers, the cashier behind me, etc.) said "OOOOHHHHHHH!" My customer said something like, "Wow, that's kinda iffy." I said to Tatem, "Yeah, I'm not entirely sure. It's totally up to you." My customer, in her brilliance, said, "So get her boyfriend's number!" I grinned at my customer and said, "You see me reaching for my pen, right?"
She dictated her number to me and said, "My name's Tatem, his name's Jay." We said our goodbyes and she walked off. I looked over at my customer and said, "Well, THAT was a completey unexpected response." She said, "Yeah, you asked her for a date and she gave you her BOYFRIEND'S number."
In the second or two between that customer and the next, after she'd walked away, I wore a huge grin. The situation isn't ideal at all, but that's all leaps and bounds ahead of anything I could have done a year ago.
Once, Weird Al was doing a meet-and-greet, signing CDs, etc. In his line came Coolio, who Al thought hated him because of his "Amish Paradise" parody of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" -- which was justified based on Coolio badmouthing Al at an award show, among other things. Coolio said what's up, they had a nice chat, and he might even have had Al autograph something. Everything went smoothly. As Coolio walked away, Al asked the next person in line, "Did that really just happen?"
Did this really just happen?
I learned the girl customer's name is Tatem.
I learned the guy usually with her is her boyfriend after all.
And I learned her number. Sort of.
I was ringing customers and she came up to the register behind me by herself and said hi. We talked a little, but then I got customers who were explaining a problem to me. After rectifying their problem, I started bagging their stuff. As she was about to leave, I asked her to come to my register for a second. I finished bagging their stuff, slowed down (I bag at Warp Speed), and took a deep breath.
"Do you still want to hang out some time?" I asked her. "Yeah, I'd love to. My phone's not working at the moment, but I can give you my boyfriend's number!" Literally everyone around us (including my customers, the cashier behind me, etc.) said "OOOOHHHHHHH!" My customer said something like, "Wow, that's kinda iffy." I said to Tatem, "Yeah, I'm not entirely sure. It's totally up to you." My customer, in her brilliance, said, "So get her boyfriend's number!" I grinned at my customer and said, "You see me reaching for my pen, right?"
She dictated her number to me and said, "My name's Tatem, his name's Jay." We said our goodbyes and she walked off. I looked over at my customer and said, "Well, THAT was a completey unexpected response." She said, "Yeah, you asked her for a date and she gave you her BOYFRIEND'S number."
In the second or two between that customer and the next, after she'd walked away, I wore a huge grin. The situation isn't ideal at all, but that's all leaps and bounds ahead of anything I could have done a year ago.
Once, Weird Al was doing a meet-and-greet, signing CDs, etc. In his line came Coolio, who Al thought hated him because of his "Amish Paradise" parody of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" -- which was justified based on Coolio badmouthing Al at an award show, among other things. Coolio said what's up, they had a nice chat, and he might even have had Al autograph something. Everything went smoothly. As Coolio walked away, Al asked the next person in line, "Did that really just happen?"
Did this really just happen?