Tantrums

     Sometimes I wonder about the mentality of people. This little girl came in not long after I had started my shift. She had to be about 8 or 9 years old and she was a handful. She wasn't crying, but instead was throwing a tantrum like none I had seen before. She was trying so hard to cry she was bleeting like a billy goat - if it hadn't been so irritating I would have laughed. She carried on like this for a good 15 minutes as her mother checked out. I thought it would never end.
     Later a man came up to the service desk wanting to return something. My staff had already explained he couldn't return the item - it was nasty, no packaging, no receipt. Wasn't going to happen. So this man threw his own little tantrum - told me he will never shop at our store again and that I could stick the item up my ass. Well, that's original.
     Just goes to show there's no set age where people stop throwing tantrums.

[added later]
The mistaken quote of the evening... you know when you hear something that someone said, but it turns out the person said something totally different. Last night I was trying to get a register lane cleaned of a bunch of candy that we had put out. Later I heard a cashier say to me "All the candy has been put away and that man is queer." I turned to where he was pointing looking for someone, but no one was there. I was like, what man? My cashier was confused. I asked him to repeat what he had said: "All the candy has been put away and the lane is clear."