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plantmom

Close only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades and...

Feb 23, 2011 10:39

Work yesterday was...interesting. They had me on register 22, near the front door. Mighty cold. Wool socks, long sleeved shirt, and an additional layer under the shirt didn't quite cut it. Oh well. I survived. About five o'clock, my EFT froze. The small terminal through which you run credit cards, etc. simply stopped working in a way which ( Read more... )

illness, cashing

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thediva_laments February 23 2011, 15:52:17 UTC

Dontcha just love retail???

I was puked on once by a teenager, who had previously been hitting on me, on a flight from Boston to Florida. He was in the middle seat between me and a bodybuilder and I nearly killed him. And then there was the bodybuilder who pretty much wanted to smash his skull. This kid was total FAIL.

plantmom February 24 2011, 02:51:50 UTC

Bwahahaha!

firynze February 23 2011, 17:45:32 UTC

Eeeeeeeep, I always feel sorry for the checkers stationed near the doors, in both summer and winter, but mostly winter. :(

VERY glad you didn't actually get puked on!

plantmom February 24 2011, 02:51:10 UTC

Thank you on both counts. I was briefly stationed back at number 22 today. I quickly told the coordinator who put me there about my experience yesterday. "It could only happen to you, Eleanor!" Like me, the weird stuff is attracted to. Hey, life is never dull!

digitalemur February 23 2011, 21:15:21 UTC

Possibly this happens when we don't validate our EFTs enough.

This is a running joke with a few of my friends-- the local grocery store EFTs always say "validating EFT" on the screen when they're communicating with the banking system, and so my friends got in the habit of saying "Nice EFT! Good EFT!" to help it along.

Yes, this is stupid, but I still think of it every time I use a debit card at a grocery store.

plantmom February 24 2011, 02:47:54 UTC

Oh, I think that's funny. I make aye lot of anthropomorphic jokes about our equipment - "It's tired from the holidays too! It's cold, it's having a bad day." My brother, ever the wag, says machines are human too.

tilia_tomentosa February 24 2011, 00:49:21 UTC

This is not the interesting story I would want to happen to me. :)

plantmom February 24 2011, 02:45:24 UTC

I know, but one takes what one gets sometimes. Today I was told that a little kid, standing with his mom at the customer service counter this morning, laid down a river of vomit across that counter. Me, I was lucky! :-/