Crazy customer stories

It was about 65 degrees one day and everybody was out in tee shirts and sunglasses. I was walking to my bus stop, taking in the rays when I see the oddest thing. I saw an elderly woman with a pouffy bun, wearing a skirt and high heels and a fur coat (?!?) riding her bike through an archway. She came to the opening of the archway, dismounted her bike, picked it up with one hand (she was holding her briefcase in the other), brought it to her shoulder and basically skipped down the 15 steps. She then dropped the bike to the ground, mounted it again and rode down the street. If only I had had my camera.

Once a young man came into the store, completely soaked from sweat. It was hot out and he had been jogging, obviously. He had long, wavy hair which was plastered to his head. He smelled so bad and was panting so hard--in my face. He wanted sweatbands, but because of the panting, I heard 'sweatpants' which I thought was odd because it was so hot that day and about 77 degrees inside the store. I lead the way because I didn't want to breathe him in too much, but then he stopped me and said "NO! SweatBANDS!" with a whole lot of nasty hot breath. So I pointed him to the right directions, then went to the counter. At that point, he had been in the store for maybe 4 or 5 minutes, but panting just as hard, again, in my face. He signed the receipt and I put it in the drawer. It was wet.

Once there was this guy buying something or other, but I noticed his last name was "Clark". He was a jovial guy and so I said something about my maiden name and how it referenced Superman. We were just laughing and joking around. I forget all the details about our conversation, but somehow he said something like 'if we got married, we should keep our own last names' and I added, 'but if we had a child, we should name him Kent Clark' and we laughed. And then he said, 'but that wouldn't really work because I see that you're married and I'm gay!' Hahhaha! We couldn't stop laughing after that, even my coworker who overheard all of it.

Some customers puzzle me. I was ringing up a family yesterday and they purchased three items. Their total came to over $100. The father freaked out and the mother said 'oh, my sweatpants were $45. how much was your hat?' I answered $50. You should've seen the guy's eyes pop out of his head. So they returned the hat, because he didn't really need it and had plenty of others. This happens more often than you think. And I'll never understand how some people don't check the price tags. They really don't, and then they're upset when they get to me, like I had anything to do with the pricing. Come on, people!