DON’T LEAVE ME HANGIN ON LIKE A YO-YO

Me: Hi! May I help you?

Customer: What’s your tattoo?

Me: Oh, it’s album art from my favorite album.

Customer: …which is?

Me: Oh, um… it’s ‘Underneath’ by Hanson.

Customer: (laughter) Hanson? Hey, that’s cool, I won’t laugh.

Me: Heh… okay. What’s your date of birth?

Customer: It’s (blahblahblah).

Me: And a phone number?

Customre: Why’s that?

Me: heh..

Customer: It’s (blahblahblah). So… are you wearing contacts?

Me: Um, no.

Customer: Oh, wow. You usually only see that on people with blond hair.

Me: Uh, yeah. Well, I’m brunette…

Customer: Yeah. Anyway. You’re really pretty.

Me: Heh, thanks.

Customer: Yeah, that’s cool. A girl with confidence, awesome. You don’t see that very often. Girls don’t take compliments.

Me: Heh…Yeah. I’m pretty cool.

Customer: (mumbles something.. can’t really tell what he’s saying) somethingsomethingsomething getting hit on.

Me: heh.

Customer: No, really.

(Mind you, I have no idea what he actually said. I heard the words “Then get hit on”. He said something along those lines, like, twice)

Customer: How much is that going to be?

Me: I’ll have to submit the claim, if you want to hang back a few minutes I can let you know.

Customer: Yeah, sure, just come let me know.

(customer walks off)

Me: Were you on the phone the WHOLE time?!

Tk: Yeah, but I heard. Wooow.

(I walk to out window to let dude know how much his RX is)

Me: Mr. Suchandsuch, That’s going to be 20 dollars today.

Customer: Great. I’ll wait.

(I walk back to in-window)

(Customer follows)

Customer: Can you take a credit card over the phone?

Me: Nope. We need the actual card.

Customer: Oh, okay.

(Walks off)

(Comes back)

Customer: I’ll wait.

Me: Okay, it’ll take like, 15-20 minutes.

Customer: OK. I’ll be down there.

Me: Um.. alright.

(walks off)

Me: (stares at Tk)

Tk: (Stares at me)

Me: He couldn’t tell anyone else. Couldn’t ask anyone about the credit card either. Bet you didn’t know I’m the smartest one here!

Tk: Well, you hide it so well.

(Pharm. calls his name to pick-up window)

(Joni hands him his scrip)

(Dude leans over the counter and waves at me)

I want to make a note that I was at in-window the whole time. The waiting area is at the far end of the pharmacy. Dude walked back and forth several times.

The end.

2 Comments

  1. Comment by Dan Waldron on July 23, 2008 4:16 pm

    I discovered your homepage by coincidence.
    Very interesting posts and well written.
    I will put your site on my blogroll.
    :-)

  2. Comment by tizzle kizzle on July 24, 2008 8:27 am

    true story! dude came on way, WAY too strong! (too bad, too, because he was pretty cute)

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