Monday, October 19, 2009

Do I Look Like An Aunty???

Over the last weekend was the yearly Metro Expo Sale, all the executives & above in Metro were required to be on duty either on saturday or sunday, we have to draw lots for it. We were being assigned to station at a designated cashier counter as a 'packer' to help the cashier. It was pretty interesting, you can see all sorts of customers; some asked for more carrier bags, acted like you owe them money, very demanding. Then came an old man in his 60s, he bought quite a bit of stuffs, as I was packing his goods into the carrier bag after the scanning. His wife handed 3 big granny panties


to the cashier, after being scanned, the cashier passed it to me, and I put it together with the rest of the purchase. The old man shaked his head and looked at me angrily and said "Aunty, the packet of food (please see picture below) is use for praying, how can you put the panties together with that"?


I was dumbfound upon hearing, I calmed myself down and did not said a word. I told myself "No...better 'tahan' and keep quiet, don't create trouble". I then packed the packet of nuts into another smaller bag and gave it to him and said it loud and clear "Thank you, Uncle", the funny thing was that he throw the packet of nuts back into the same bag, isn't it the same? And till now I'm still thinking do people offer nuts to their god. hmm...
Is not easy being a sales person as you may encounter nasty, unreasonable customers and you probably need to have lots of patience for that no doubt there are some good ones too :)

3 comments:

Poh said...

it's common lah Zhen! Most of the time i go supermarket also like that.saw lots of ppl doing that. even my mum also does that. those panties or pads cannot pack wif other "food stuff". frozen food cannot pack wif can foods , titbits( or not ur titbits will all soften...haha) those not edible stuffs ( spray, detergents, air refresh...etc) cannot pack together wif food stuff...haha:P

maomao said...

so ma fan hor! next time don't work at Expo liao. hee...

fyen said...

haha...so farnie! i will be more angry he call me "auntie" when he is an OLD uncle!