You know the jokes about “when a god was giving out brains and clearly someone missed the memo?” Yeah, the shoppers here embody that phrase and wear it with pride it seems, because there cannot be another explanation for why folks are just so dumb.

Guy steals stuff from store. Guard says to either pay or return it. Guy proceeds to fight Guard. Guard just grabs him and body slams him to the ground. Guy is screaming for help from the Security Guard - the one who is holding him down. He just kept yelling until the mobile guard came in to keep an eye on him until the police came to pick him up.

Drunk Man threw a tantrum, beating the packing side of the register zone, nobody even knows what he was yelling about. I asked to the people in the line, but they all just shook their heads and looked confused. Maybe his favorite vodka was being discontinued.

Another guy steals a loaf of bread - that’s it. But instead of just leaving the building, he starts shouting at the Security Guard, every curse he can think of, including wishing she grew a 2 meter dick from her forehead. She just retorted “why not 5 meters?“, before he eventually gets caught and dragged out of the store. Maybe if he kept his mouth shut, he could have gotten away with it, who knows.

Days later, some guy was shouting slurs at a Security Guard. Another shopper heard and ran lightspeed to punch the guy in the face and started a fight in the building. Slurer ran for it and later came back with his buddies, trying to goad the Good Shopper into coming out to fight. But then the sky opened up and rain started, so they ran as if they were made from sugar.

Another day, a lady was having problems with her card. It wouldn’t work. She tried it several times, but it did not go through. When asked if this was a new card, she said yes, so I guessed she needs to put it in the card reader and put the pin in (dunno, not my bank). She lost it. Like, max volume full on screaming about how her card arrived in the mail activated and nothing needed to be done. Me and others pointed out that an activated card in an envelope is a safety risk, so it needs to be activated after getting it. But she did not listen and kept shouting how her card is active.

After she stomped away and her unpaid stuff she was removed so I can keep moving the line, when the familiar shriek came from the bakery’s side. We all looked and there was Crazy Lady, screaming at the bakery girl how they are trying to steal her money, because her card works. She just took the pastries back and shrugged, stating Crazy Lady needs to get in touch with her bank then.

You would think after two places where the card does not work, that she would take the hint, get in touch with the bank and activate her card, yes?

She didn’t.

Same shriek came both from the pharmacy - didn’t see what happened there, but guess much the same - and the butchers shop, where she threw a monster of a tantrum, stomping feet, swinging her bag around, red faced screaming. Just screams about how we are all wrong and only she is correct.

I am certain if it had not been past the Jewelers work hours, she would have screamed at him too.

Honestly, you wouldn't believe how many people yell at the jeweler guy for one reason or another – prices wrong, too long to fix, etc. Like…you guys went to him, a guy and one assistant to help with the workload, so obviously things take time, why are you complaining now? Go to a big fixer then? I don’t get it. It’s like going to a restaurant and complaining they don’t have your order ready like a fast food joint!

Maybe it would just be another day with a y at the end for the Jeweler. He does also have more room to swear, since he is his own boss. Those are fun to watch.

Speaking of people arguing about facts - a common is about the receipts.

Don't get why they don't listen to what the professionals tell them – most misunderstandings about the receipts and discount are easy to solve, my store does it like this:
PRODUCT NAME
AMOUNT/WEIGHT X ORIGINAL PRICE - TOTAL
DISCOUNT – NEW TOTAL

I know the main rival store does it like this
PRODUCT NAME
WEIGHT/AMOUNT X CURRENT PRICE (and the current price is replaced with the discount price, thus not showing how much exactly you're saving)

But you'd think people would learn to read lower after the third time… like, is it not exhausting to be in the wrong and publicly tell folks you can’t read?

Even one time, a lady gives her deposit coupon, I scan, everything is fine. Hours later, her son runs in and claims I stole her coupon. He throws the receipt in my face and tells me to give the coupon. I just take the receipt and a pen and mark exactly where it’s shown that I scanned the coupon - right above where the receipt says BANK CARD, so

DEPOSIT COUPON
BANK CARD

I underlined and starred on both sides. He looked at the receipt, hung his head and left. What a little Mamas Boy.

There is a shopper, a young lady, seems to be totally normal, everything alright. And then she just starts yelling, pointing at an old man who was waiting for his wife, who was still shopping, claiming he was oogling her. Very loud screaming. The old man leaves with his wife, she just keeps yelling about being attacked by his “staring“, which was him just looking in her general direction.

See her another day, everything is calm, nobody is looking at her wrong.

Then I come back from a break and hear screaming across the whole store - everything from people attacking her, assaulting her, silencing her - particularly at the Security Guard and Floor Workers. Like, top of her lungs shrieks and screams, just several minutes of nearly non-stop screams, curses and shrieks. Pretty sure I spotted some girls sending a video of her breakdown on WhatsApp to friends. Security Guard and the Floor Workers just laughed and talked about her.

Admittedly, the cops, because she was causing a disturbance with her freakout, did take give her a ride to a clinic or anything, saying that since she hadn’t attacked anybody they couldn’t detain her. So, next time, we’ll see if anymore shows are put on.

A Floor Worker was complaining about the Deposit Machine being filled to the brim constantly, asking how many bags full of bottles do people bring to the machine. And then some people are just the heckling type, who yell ugly things at others, trying to look tough in front of their worm friends. What losers.

Dunno if something was in the air or a cosmic even caused madness, but people have been getting crazy lately. And the nights are getting longer now too. This will be a fun winter, now won’t it?

Alright, part 14, done! We’ll see if I have enough for a part 15! We got a new order/delivery system added recently, let’s see how bad this goes!