For real, guys.  Of course, you should always be kind to your local retail workers, but take extra pity on them on Saturdays.  Your blissful day off is their busiest and most batshit crazy day of the week.  Long story short: Saturdays kind of blow.  (Nice when you get your bonus check, though.)

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If you don't work retail, let me drop some knowledge on you: 5 days in a row is fucking HARD.  On your feet all day, dealing with stupid, lazy, and occasionally rude people and, if you're me, those damned Flying Monkeys that we will have until the end of time.  (They scream.  LOUDLY.)  This is especially torturous if these 5 days include a weekend ( Read more... )

Random customer: *completely seriously* "Ohhhhh, Sherlock Holmes is in Mystery?  Who'd have thought?"

And then I nearly bit a hole in my tongue trying not to scream and/or cry.