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Regulars #1
03/06/08 22:42 Filed in: Stories
There’s an old woman that comes into the store on one of those electric scooter things which is absolutely enormous. She moans that she can’t get down the aisles because of the dump bins etc. so we have to move everything out the way or fetch stuff for her. That would be fair enough….but she’s not actually disabled, just lazy and bad tempered.
Our cleaner for the store had sealed off a couple of aisles while he cleaned the floor. He’d put hazard tape at each end of the aisle and every customer acknowledged that it was a little inconvenient but necessary, except the old woman. She ripped down the hazard tape and drove down the aisle on the newly cleaned floor and when the cleaner confronted her she said “I should be able to go where I want, when I want”. The cleaner replied that it had been sealed off for her own safety, but she couldn’t care less.
And how do we know she’s not disabled? She left her granny scooter on the ground floor while she went upstairs to use the toilets. I think she might be a sandwich short of a picnic, and possibly a shoplifter but I can’t prove it. I can only make the store harder to navigate by placing extra dump bins in her way.
Our cleaner for the store had sealed off a couple of aisles while he cleaned the floor. He’d put hazard tape at each end of the aisle and every customer acknowledged that it was a little inconvenient but necessary, except the old woman. She ripped down the hazard tape and drove down the aisle on the newly cleaned floor and when the cleaner confronted her she said “I should be able to go where I want, when I want”. The cleaner replied that it had been sealed off for her own safety, but she couldn’t care less.
And how do we know she’s not disabled? She left her granny scooter on the ground floor while she went upstairs to use the toilets. I think she might be a sandwich short of a picnic, and possibly a shoplifter but I can’t prove it. I can only make the store harder to navigate by placing extra dump bins in her way.
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