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Written by Marshall Brown
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 |
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  Encounters with morons are a given in retail jobs but I think I have an example that just might take the cake.
Years ago I had a job as a stocker in a grocery store. One night, while waiting for a truck to come in, the stock crew was killing time facing the store. For those of you unfamilliar with the term facing, this is where we go through the whole dammed store and make sure every product is facing the right way. It’s torture.
I was halfway asleep in front of some Bounty quicker-picker-upper paper towels when a small Indian man approached me. He had a puzzled look on his face. He hesitated and then asked, “Excuse me,where is the toilet paper for regular sized people?”
 I matched his puzzled look. Regular sized people?
Just as I was about to say something, my eyes wandered to the Bounty and then back to him.
And then it clicked. This moron thought the paper towels were toilet paper for fat people!
Wow, my first thought was that nobody will ever believe this story. I was shocked and unable to laugh.
Without saying a word, I pointed several feet away at the toilet paper. I have a no idea how many sizes os toilet paper there are in India but one thing is for certain, that guy was a complete moron! |
Marshall Brown
