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Overheard a Customer today who had purchased two bras during a buy one get one free event.
She wanted to return the one she paid for and keep the other free one.
Overheard a Customer today who had purchased two bras during a buy one get one free event.
She wanted to return the one she paid for and keep the other free one.
Yeah, unfortunately, I do.
Which makes me really glad I got to just wander by, leaving the poor sales associate to handle the customer's increasingly irritating, increasingly louder, increasingly ruder comments. I suppose I should have stepped in but she (the Intimates lady) had everything under control...she was in the process of calling the Manager on Duty...which was NOT me.
Reminds me why I'm Support staff now!
I had a couple winners the other night.
On graveyard, I'm particularly prone to night travellers stopping in to use the restroom and get a bite to eat, and maybe gas up. We are literally just about the only thing open besides the nearest 24-hour Walmart Supercenter (about 20 miles away).
Well, one night earlier this week, this young couple (early to mid 20). She pays for the gas while he uses the restroom. They want to know how to get to Austin, Texas using Interstate 20. One problem: we're about 50 or so miles, as the crow flies, south of I-20. I explain to them this. I think they might have been high, but I had no proof. Because they keep insisting they want to get on I-20 to go to Dallas, then catch Interstate 35 south to Austin.
From where they were at my store, their plan to get back on I-20 at Dallas, then catch I-35 would have taken them about 100 miles out of the way in an upside down U. I spent about 10 minutes trying to get them to understand that they were south of I-20, and that the highway in front of my store would take them directly to Waco, Texas, where they could catch I-35 from there, and go to Austin like they wanted. Oy, veh!
Later that same night, this guy comes in, and goes over to our small supply of motor oil. Now at convenience stores, you're going to pay a little more extra for the general merchandise we carry (motor oil, toothpaste, cat food, etc.) than you would at, say, Walmart or Dollar General. This guy sees our price on a quart of motor oil. "It's outlandish," he grumbles. I make the mistake of trying to be nice and politely reply, "I'm very sorry, sir, but we do not set the prices at store level." (We're a 3rd-party-corporate owned and operated Exxon - not owned by Exxon, but a 3rd-party convenience store operator company. In any case, we really don't set our prices at store level like the mom and pop stations do. They can do that, because they own their store. My store is run by a corporation. We do what we're told, and we sell our goods at the price we're told to sell them at.)
"Yes, you do!" he snaps back. "I worked for Randy's Exxon, and I know how it works!" He starts ranting and raving, and carrying on, blah, blah, blah...and how he's not going to drive to Walmart at 2:00 in the morning for motor oil. I did what any retail professional would do when being lectured by a customer... I half-listened, half-tuned him out while smiling. What was I thinking about while this guy vented on me? Here's a brief summary:
After his rant, we go to the register where he asks me if we have any funnels so he can pour the oil into his vehicle. We didn't. When I told him that, he's like, "Aw hell, I'll just go to Walmart!" He puts the oil back and leaves. To my relief.
Swaggering US Olympic Gymnast Sam Mikulak
Just a note here >> Those that pray and call upon the higher power(s), if you would be so kind as to put in a good word to give strength to the good men and women who work in this crazy profession. They'll need all the prayers and all the strength they can get. For the next month and a half, from now until New Years, only one rule applies in most stores: The Law Of The Jungle. You think I'm kidding? I dare you to go to a 5:00am Sale.
Lucky me, I work in a convenience store. We won't have to deal with all of the day-after-Thanksgiving and Christmas season issues. .."
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My first job was at a camera store. It's been a long time, but there are customers I'll never forget.
A) Husband and wife come in. Their camera's broken. It's an SLR, the old kind with film and a metal shutter. What's wrong with it? They open the back and point at the metal shutter, which is obviously in the way of taking pictures since it's blocking the light between the lens and the film. To illustrate, the wife jams her finger into the delicate metal blades of the shutter, bending them at least a centimeter inward and rendering the camera instantly useless. I say, "Well now it IS broken," and submit it for repair just like they originally wanted (but didn't need).
b) Customer comes in, lays a photo on the counter. It's a beautiful shot of some mountains, marred only by a set of obnoxious telephone poles in the foreground. Customer wants to know if we print another one, can we flip the negative over so the telephone poles will be behind the mountains?
c) Numerous, freakishly numerous customers come in: "I can't get the film out of this camera." So you take it in the back to the 'darkroom' (really the employee bathroom), open it up and guess what there's no film in there. Customer: "You asshole, what did you do with my film?!?!?!?!"
Hot guys, willilikeit. But I save those images for my computer, although I do enjoy all kinds of guys.
But I'm a One Life To Live Kyle and Fish fan. And I'm also in the very long list of fans that when they were (unfairly) kicked off the show, I left, too. The minute I first saw Scott, I fell for him. Hard. And I don't mind saying: he's been in quite a few of my fantasies. God, the things I'd do to that man...
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I have to tell my co-workers at the store that one!b) Customer comes in, lays a photo on the counter. It's a beautiful shot of some mountains, marred only by a set of obnoxious telephone poles in the foreground. Customer wants to know if we print another one, can we flip the negative over so the telephone poles will be behind the mountains?
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I've honestly been trying to black out the bad customers lately, although it hasn't been too bad outside of minor annoyances when people don't listen to you.
Our photo machine was down for the morning and a tech was coming in. This couple comes in and wants it in an hour, I explain to them it will be longer than that but I could still have them done later. The husband is fine with it but the wife insists that she wants it in an hour.
I wanted to apologize to her and tell her I'm sorry that the world doesn't work the way you want and you don't always get what you want.
My co-worker made a comment that left me dumbfounded. We don't have a dark room for photo, but we have this dark bag, it's more like a small square tent. It is sealed by 2 zippers and there are sleeves you put your arm into that go all the way up you arm and are designed to pull outwards when you pull your arms out. I had to manually open a customers film casing, while I was doing this a customer came up to the counter so I took my arms out of the bag to assist them.
My co-worker comes up to me and says 'How do you know there is no light getting into the bag?'
I work at Dunkin' Donuts (You would be amazed at how many complete and utter fools come into this store).
Girl: I want a caramel latte'.
Me: Would you like that hot or iced?
Girl: What's the difference.
Guy: I would like 2 whoppers please,
Me: Sir, i think you are at the wrong place. Burger King is down the road.
Me: Hello Sir! Can i help you?
Old Guy: HOLD ON A SECOND
*Goes into bathroom*
*I walk into backroom*
Old Guy: That other guy who was just here was extremely rude i will be telling the manager.
I'm working the Black Friday opening shift (as Management) on the floor so I'm sure I will have some stories this time next week.
I'm willing to bet I'ma gonna have a few stupid employee stories, too.
I love when stupid customers complain about stupid shit or expect us to do their shopping/thinking for them.
Or when they complain that they have been waiting too long and want to blame someone when they don't realize there are 5 other people waiting too, and have been waiting even longer than you.
We usually talk shit about these customers behind their backs after they leave, and its something that happens very often.
and please READ the fucking coupon before you use it, NO I WONT clip it out for you, and NO its not my job to read the paper for you!
please be ready to check out when the time comes, not fucking stand there and beg me for discounts or coupons because your too fuckin lazy to find them yourself.
and NO i wont tell you when something is going on sale. thats the fucking point is that your not supposed to know.
I want to re-iterate that the worst customers are housewives who treat men like shit and are nothing but gold digging bitches.
and dont expect me to have "inside information" about a product i get tired of this all the time. i want to tell people that my knowledge of the product is what is written on the packaging!
you dont come into a store and buy eggs then ask the person stocking the shelf how to bake a cake!
All of you have my deepest sympathy. I've worked in wholesale most of my life. We have our share of idiots and assholes, but at least we already know which clients they are.
One Saturday afternoon my niece and I went to the local 21 movie megaplex. We were about fifth or sixth in the concession line and of course they didn't have enough help working, so it was taking some time.
Finally we moved up to the #2 spot, and the lady in front of us ordered three sodas and a tub of popcorn. As the sodas were filling, the clerk turned around and started shoveling popcorn in the bucket. The woman yelled, "No! No! Not that stuff. I want the fresh popcorn coming out of the kettle!"
The look on that kid's face was priceless. He looked at the woman, almost like he was waiting to hear her say she was just kidding. After a couple of silent seconds went by, he said, "Ma'am this IS fresh popcorn. Besides, the kettle just started cooking." She told him, "No, I want make SURE it's fresh!"
So the kid tops off her sodas and caps them, rings it up on the register and tells her the amount. She just stands there - not moving a muscle, waiting for her popcorn before she pays. The clerk repeats the total. And the lady makes makes a "harrrummph" noise as she reached into her purse. Once the clerk gives her the change, he steps back to the popcorn and waits for the popping to begin.
At this point my niece nudged me and gave me her look that said, "I know you're about to go off on the lady and the clerk, but please don't. I'm a teenager and you'll embarrass me terribly." The kettle started popping so I put my tools of terror away. Soon the lady had her "fresh" popcorn and moved sideways to gather up her things, We stepped up to order our drinks - a large and a medium Coke.
The clerk grabbed a cup and the ice scoop then stabbed the scoop into the unseen pile of ice. In a very emphasized manner I said, "No! No! I don't want that ice. I want the FRESH ice coming out of the ice maker. Be sure it Fresh ice!"
His jaw dropped and he looked at me with a face that said "Oh no! Not another one." Under his breath the guy behind me said, "Oh. SHIT" I was smiling at the clerk and shaking my head no to let him know I was kidding. My niece turned and was shaking her head no at the line behind us, letting them know that I was kidding.
Then we all started laughing. All of us except the lady with her fresh popcorn who sneered at me as she left the counter and walked away.
Had this one girl come through this morning, about 3:00am, park beside our number 3 gas pump, and literally start chunking crap out her driver's side window of her car. Nevermind that we have trash cans by every single gas pump! This girl "litter"ally scatters trash all over the parking lot next to her car. If I hadn't come out there immediately, she would have left it. But I came out there right away. She apologized, told me she would pick everything up (which, to her credit, she did), and sarcastically explained to me that her sister had stolen her boyfriend.
She did come inside to buy one of our mini palm-sized pecan pies, and a candy bar. I bought her a fountain drink on me. With that fountain drink, I hope I got through to her that not everyone in the world is out to screw her over. But her situation kinda sucks, too, so I can sympathize.
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One of the perks of working at my convenience store is that we get to bring our own music. As long as there's no cursing or sexually explicit lyrics (basically it has to be safe for little kids to hear, which I'm completely fine with) then basically, bring what you want.
I have literally just about every genre, I think, of music out there - rock, 1 country song (Hard Workin' Man), orchestra (you haven't heard video game music until you've hear the Legend Of Zelda concerto medley), etc. And, at the risk of having tomatoes thrown at me, one of my bosses turned me on to a little bit of Lady Gaga. In short, a little bit of everything. I do usually have some Darude playing, because I *LOVE* Virtanen's work (and, not gonna lie - the man is friggin' sexy! )
I don't play it loud, because I have a little MP3 hooked up to a small palmtop battery-operated speaker. Even at max volume, you can hear it, but it doesn't play so loud that it's an issue.
Well, the order of songs that play on my MP3 player are Feel The Beat, and then Sandstorm, and then it repeats my whole Darude folder over again, starting with My Game.
Well, Feel The Beat was playing, when this big tall dude walks in the door.
The song happened to be up to the noticable cresendo at the 2:41 mark, and the man turns around and just stares at my MP3 player trying for the life of him to figure out why it's making that increasing pitch sound. He just stands there and gawks like it's the weirdest thing he's ever heard in his entire life. I just smile at him and politely say, "Sir, there's nothing wrong with the radio. That's part of the song." And he's like, "Oh..." When he sees that it does continue about 15 seconds later, he then goes on and starts looking for what he came in for. What I wanted to say: "No, you idiot, that's not a bomb about to go off. It's called Music. Might not be your cup of tea, but it is mine. So move on, because there's nothing to see here."
About a minute later, it was on Sandstorm. This older woman comes in to pay for her gas, she writes a check, and I run it through our TeleCheck machine, like normal. Well, here come the guy, and he tries to ask me what I'm playing. (One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone interrupts me when I'm with another customer. It's not just rude to me - the employee, it's also rude to the customer I'm waiting on. Is it too much to ask to wait your damn turn? Then, I'll answer any question you want. You can ask me what kind of underwear I wear - boxers, by the way. Cotton cobalt-blue ones, the kind made from T-shirt fabric. Just all I ask is just wait your turn. Please.) Well I finish with the woman, and I answer, "It's called 'Sandstorm' by Villi Virtanen."
Now when I say this, the music is up to the 2:20 mark in the video. When the music goes into that long held note at 2:27, and doesn't release it until 2:33, the woman blurts out, "It sounds like something got stuck in the sandstorm, and didn't wanna come out." I wanted to take offense but I had to laugh at that one.
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I work in a photo department, and most of the customers I come into contact with really aren't that bad. And I like helping out appreciative people. Makes me feel all good and stuff.
That said, I think people must have been taking their stupid pills last night. In the last hour or so of my shift, I had two real gems.
1. I'm doing the nightly shutdown procedures on our photo machines. I have gloves on, and am rinsing things off. A guy comes up to me and asks a question that irritates me to no end: "Do you work here?"
Me: Yes, how can I help you? (What I want to say: "No, I'm just wearing this spiffy uniform and name-tag, and cleaning these machines because it's so much fun, dumb-dumb.")
Him: Where are your drug testing kits?
Me: Right in front of the pharmacy straight ahead.
He goes over there and just stares blankly. I have togo over there and point out where they specifically are. He was about six inches away from them.
And onto the other gem:
The store is closed.The lights are out. I'm letting the cashier out, and waiting for the manager to come up to set the alarm. As I open the door, some chick comes up and tries to come in the store.
Me: Store's closed. Sorry. (I was trying to be somewhat polite, meanwhile thinking how stupid can a person possibly be.)
Her: Really? What time do you close?
Me: 10:00. (The hours are posted right on the door. Two inches from her face.)
I shut the door without giving her a chance to repy. My manger comes up and we augh over it. My ride was waiting right outside, and they toldme they laughed their ass off.
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i don't work retail but I stopped by an upscale/specialty grocery store in a neighborhood where everything is upscale. I wasn't in a particularly good mood that day but when I got to the checkout there was one that had just checked out and was standing talking to the one in front of me. She would find reasons to continue stand there to continue her conversation breaking a hundred dollar bill into to fives, asking for a paper towel. Finally I said, "Lady you are being rude. You are holding this line up when you could have been half way home by now. Please move on and socialize elsewhere." She said, "You can't talk to me this way." My response was, "I just did and it's going to get worse if you don't get the hell out of the way." I was expecting my car to blow up when I got in it!!
^This made think of a question for people who've worked at Walmart.
The employees at my local Walmart are nice, polite and helpful. But, the customers are awful. Not just to the sales staff, but to other customers. Things like pushing a cart a full speed towards you, then acting all huffy when you don't or can't move and they have to turn a foot or so to get around you. They're just flat out rude most of the time.
It seems to worse with Walmart shoppers than at other stores. Have any of you guys who work in retail noticed this.
Years ago, when I worked at a book store:
I was at the register. A very angry woman came up to the counter and demanded a manager. I called one for her. It took him a few minutes to get there, and she got increasingly angry. When he arrived (after a very short time, really) she slammed a copy of our store newsletter onto the counter, pointed to something and said, "Look at that! It is an outrage!" We both looked, and saw nothing outrageous. Finally the manager said, "I'm sorry ma'am, but I am not sure what you are talking about." She screamed at him, "There is a misspelled word!" He looked at her in astonishment for a moment, and then burst out laughing. She went away in a huff.
Two I witnessed, both at a Subway:
A women spent a long time arguing with the child behind the counter (I swear she could not have been older that 14) about being over-charged. She insisted that she had been over-charged by 11 cents. The poor kid showed her in every conceivable way that she was not a victim of this injustice, and that he bill was correct. A more experienced clerk might have just given her the 11 cents, but this kid had no idea what to do and seemed increasing scared as the woman got more and more belligerent. Finally, I said, "Look, if I give you whatever the hell it is you think you are owed, will you shut up and go away?" She looked at me, shocked. "Here's a whole quarter," I said, slamming it down on the counter. "No get out of my way." She did, and took the quarter.
I was in line at a Subway behind a black woman (this is relevant) and her two kids. Her bill came to $20.37. She had a twenty, but could not find any change. The man behind the counter said told her that a credit card would work. "My husband has the card and is getting gas next door" she said. "He will be here in a minute. I am really sorry" I happened to have 37 cents in my pocket, and gave it to her saying, "Here. You are welcome to it." She thanked me profusely and paid for her food.
The man behind me in line said to me, "You shouldn't feed the n*****s. They will just keep coming back." Everyone looked at him in stunned silence. After a few seconds, the guy behind the counter said simply, "Get out".
Sputtering in outrage, our hero said, "You can't talk to me that way! I am a customer. Let me see the manager."
"I am the manager", the man said. He then handed the man a customer comment card and said, "If you would like to complain, I am sure my Jewish district manager or my black regional manager would be happy to talk to you. Leave now, or I will call the police."
Bad enough this slug said what he said at all, but he said it in front of children.
I work at a pizza place & a multiple daily complaint is the prices, wth do you want me 2 do about it?? I dont make the prices and i cant do anything to change them
another thing that peeves me is when people want you to bring them silverware & drinks & what not, you go up to a counter & order your food & when it is up ill bring it out, thats all I have to do I am not going to bring you silverware & fill up your drink (which is all in the same area)
when they get plates for their pizza & goto the salad bar and fill up the plate or get a one trip and make it an all you can eat
the amount of napkins people use is ridiculous & makes me wanna cry
Good morning all! Do you remember back in post number 74 in this thread, me telling you all about the rude ex-classmate who wanted lottery tickets and I couldn't sell them to her? She's baaa-aaack!
So, earlier this morning, I'm up at the registers while she comes in. I greet her the same way I'd greet anyone else: with a smile and a "Hi, how are y'all?!" She cuts me the dirtiest go-to-hell look she could. In my mind, I take that as my cue to dig my heels in. So dig I do.
This older woman she was with (the older woman was in the store first) meets her up at the registers. The older woman asks for a Swisher Sweet cigarillo. Well, we're out of Swishers until Monday morning when the truck comes. I offer the older woman any of the flavored cigarillos we have - strawberry, peach or grape. I come up to the register with a strawberry one and a pack of KOOL shorts, and the older woman tells the girl what I said, that we're out of the plain Swishers.
This girl literally jumps up and down and shouts, "Y'ALL DON'T NEVER HAVE NO SHIT!!! " I would say she acted like a 3-year-old, but frankly, I've seen plenty of 3-year-olds in my day that were FAR better behaved than this girl. When I have customers go off on me, I try to let the part of me that thinks it's funny take over. So I just smile at them both. While the girl continues her tirade, "THEY DON'T NEVER DO DEY (they) JOBS RIGHT!" Then the girl proceeds to trash talk about me to the woman as if I'm not even there. And I'm standing behind the counter, right in front of them both. Literally about 4 feet away from them. And I just smile.
She starts telling the older woman that she found out something I said about her, and just starts trash talking me, literally pulling allegations against me out of her ass. The only thing I've said against her was what I said on this thread, back in post number 74. And what I said in post 74 can be verified by viewing the security camera footage from that night. (We record both audio and video. You can hear what people are saying, and when they said it.) The fact that I said in post 74, that she was arrested on animal cruelty, that is verifiable by both police reports and by the local town newspaper. If I have said anything against this girl, it isn't anything that either can't be proven with documentable evidence or it isn't anything that is not already public knowledge about her. And since JUB is a gay porn site that just happens to have a fabulous message board, I doubt she's even been by here to even see post 74.
But I just smile, ring them up, and send them on their way. I then follow them back outside the store and continue scrubbing the front sidewalk with my deck broom, paying them no attention, and showing her that she's not worth my time. (Although, I will say that in some parallel alternate universe somewhere, I probably did throw that pack of KOOL cigarettes at her.) When dealing with difficult or rude customers, I follow the Golden Rule with a twist:
I choose to show class to people who show their ass.
Swaggering US Olympic Gymnast Sam Mikulak
Love this one from NotAlwaysRight.
"Navy Seal's Fate Is Sealed"
(The restaurant is near a Navy base and thus, sometimes, sailors and officers off-duty come to eat. A man and his girlfriend come in. They haven't reserved a table, were rude and snotty with my co-workers, complained a lot about the food and talked loudly and sometimes mocked the other customers. My manager decides that enough is enough when the man lit a cigarette after requesting his bill.)
Manager: "Sir, you can't smoke here."
Customer: "Yes I can."
Manager: "Sir, you're in a smoke-free zone. Either go away or put out this cigarette."
(The customer gets up. He's clearly taller and larger than the manager and glances at him.)
Customer: "Buddy, listen. I'm a Navy's lieutenant, so I'm not going to take crap from civvies. Just shut up and let me smoke."
(At this point, I decide to call the police when I notice another customer with his family getting up and going straight to the troublemaker.)
Customer #2: "Did I hear you're in the Navy?"
Customer: "Yeah, so?"
Customer #2: "You work at the base here?"
Customer: "What? Get the f*** out, you d*** civvie!"
Customer #2: "You know [name]?"
Customer: "Who the f*** are you and what the f*** do you want?"
Customer #2: "Do you know [name]?"
Customer: "[name] is my superior!"
Customer #2: "Well, I'm HIS superior, and as soon as I'm out of here, I'll make sure he lights your a** up."
(The second customer pulls out a military ID and shows it to him. The troublemaking customer goes white, apologizes profusely to the manager and the customer, pays his bill and storms off with his girl WHILE SOBBING. Turns out the man showed him his military ID, and he's a Navy's rear-admiral. Needless to say, we gave a huge discount to the officer.)
Swaggering US Olympic Gymnast Sam Mikulak
1/ some retail workers insist on come back 1 hour later.
Its an internal/secret policy so customers have to look around for other things
Example: chemists getting a prescribe tablets ... why 1 hour later ?
It only take them 10 minutes max.
2/ "that means its free!" is a joke from customers and you get annoyed ??
"Where in the fuck is your Margrine?"
I'm like....you see this "butter" here?
Everything ELSE IS MARGINE!
Unlocking the doors this morning, customers are waiting.
Customer at one door inquires 'Are you Open??'
(No, darling, I'm just unlocking the doors for the shoplifters. Paying customers must wait an hour...)
Customer at another door asks me 'Are you having a Sale?' while I'm standing next to a sign 2 feet wide and 6 feet tall announcing today's Sale.
^^ Thanks, Yooper. I needed that.
Swaggering US Olympic Gymnast Sam Mikulak
We have to answer our phone by the 4th ring. It's pretty annoying when I'm in the middle of the store and I have to pretty much run to the front, answer the phone and get 'What are you hours?'. Even though when you call our store number there is an option for the store hours.
Unfortunately this is the time year where scams/thieves like to come out and play. We need to have Photo ID for Money Orders. This guy wanted a $300 MO and I told him he needed his ID. He went outside and got it, I only glance at it because I have to put in the info on the machine anyway. As I'm doing it, I look at the expiration date and I'm like 'Uh, yeah this ID expired 6 years ago, sorry can't do it'. Of course he left and didn't come back.
It was my day off and a co-worker texted me and asked if I could come in that day. It was after a 6 day week and didn't want to so I said 'No, I cannot. Sorry'. Get another one from the same person 'Not even at 10?' What part of 'No' did you not get? wtf.
I work in a produce department at the supermarket.
Today this customer came in wanting to get some garlic. We were out of stock, have been for a few days, its unavailable or something. Anyway when I tell her that we don't have any she got into this big speech about how it's all mind control and we have items in stock for a while and people buy them and get used to them and then we take them away just to mess with their minds....
I admit I found her theory funny at first but 5 minutes of her listen to this crap just made me want to shiv her.
Regrets are for people who stop on the ground.
I'm heading for the stars.
Believe me, Kester, I get that speech all the time at my store. In fact, people who complain like that woman don't realize (or care) just how little control we actually have over what comes in.
We just had a reset of our snuff/cigar shelf at my store. You'd be shocked at the grown men who pitch the biggest, most childish hissy fits, because we're not going to carry their snuff anymore. I always love it when they ask, "Well, why not?!" As if the vendors and higher-ups are actually going to explain to us why they make the decisions about what to carry and what not to carry.
Our job is not to ask why. Our job is to say, "Do you want it, or not?"
Swaggering US Olympic Gymnast Sam Mikulak
How about a stupid work colleague story just for fun?
I'm technically in charge of store supplies (amongst about a million other things) but only being in the job for two months I really haven't had time to review everything that is available for the various departments for salesfolk to wrap up the treasures the customers buy.
I get a call from a Department manager asking me for 'shirt boxes.'
Now, we've got a supply of about 16 different size boxes. All of them are stored around the building wherever we can stash them (I just counted, we've got over 50 different 'stockrooms' of various sizes running from broom closet sized to cavernous dumps). All of the boxes in them are organized by measurements...15x9x2; 12x12x4; 19x14x3; and so on.
I ask the guy what SIZE shirt box he wants. He tells me he doesn't know, he just wants 'shirt boxes.' I try to explain to him I need to know what SIZE he needs. This conversation goes on for several minutes, quite unsuccessfully.
Somehow we got cut off (I learned my digital wireless phone shuts itself off when flying across a room ).
I retrieve a list of all the box sizes we own and find the guy. I explain to him this is the only 'list' of boxes we have, and what size off the list he would like.
He looks at the list and says that none of those are 'shirt boxes' and asks for a different size that's NOT ON THE LIST.
I tell him he can have anything ON the list but it will be impossible to get him a different size BECAUSE THEY DON'T EXIST (an expletive may have been used by this point, I'm not sure, because I sure was THINKING it at the time).
Finally, I take him to his main cash register stand and ask him to show me what size box he wants. He selects one and hands it to me, and says this is the size he wants.
It is the most common box size we use (15x9x2).
I show him the two cases of one hundred and fifty 15x9x2 boxes I took to his stand not an hour earlier. I then show him the pile of 18 CASES of the damn boxes, clearly labeled with the '15x9x2' label within 50 feet of his stand. I asked if he wanted more...which he replied to 'well, if you would have told me you had this many shirt boxes I wouldn't have bothered you.'
Nowhere, not on the box, the cases they come in, the order forms, the computer supply list, nowhere does this say 'shirt box.'
Last edited by Yooper; November 25th, 2010 at 01:17 AM. Reason: Holy crap! I didn't realize we had 50 stockrooms!
So today is kinda a big shopping day, but of course Friday will be bigger.
I had 3 different people "wave" at me from 20,30,40+ feet away.
Thats 3 more than I normally have.
I swear people get ruder and stupider when the rush is on. So many sheeple, so little patience.
Oh then I had some lady "shopping" using our checkout counter as her shopping kart. I wanted to slap her across the room because she left to find coupons and other stuff to buy! What is with people?
One of my favorite regulars at my convenience store is a guy who works for Dollar General. When he comes in, and if I'm not busy, we always like to bullshit and joke with each other while he pours his coffee. I looked at him Monday morning and asked him, "So have you had enough of Christmas, yet?" You should have seen the go-to-hell look he cut me.
Swaggering US Olympic Gymnast Sam Mikulak
Hey, Yooper, evanrick, Mikami, or anyone else, any whoppers you'd care to share from either Black Friday, over the weekend, or earlier this week?
Swaggering US Olympic Gymnast Sam Mikulak
I didn't have work on Black Friday (thank god) but either way our store isn't a big store so we don't get crazy. I don't work in any of the bigger retail stores.
Today was more of a Manager thing. This lady called for a holiday product, I looked in the aisle and didn't see it at all. I asked my supervisor and he didn't see it either, so he asked the Manager. He told us we didn't get it in at all this year. I picked up the phone and told this lady we didn't get it in.
Ten Minutes later my supervisor walks up and tells me that the Manager told him to tell me not to tell the customer that and he's only allowed to do so. I'm thinking to myself 'seriously?' I'm supposed to basically lie to the customer and make them believe that there is a chance that we could get the product and waste their time?
That makes no sense and is stupid on every level.
Actually, my Black Friday experience was relatively plesant, all things considered. I went to WallyWorld for the $198 laptops, which is what I'm on, right now.
The line for the laptops was at the backside of aisle 11 in grocery, next to the open coolers where they keep the shredded cheese, and dear God, was it cold. We made the best of it, though. We sat either in lawn chairs, on top of stacks of overturned mop buckets (we were on the cleaning supplies aisle), or on stable cases of laundry detergent bottles or bleach bottles. It was a good time shooting the bull, playing cards and basically camping out indoors.
When it to 5:00am, things went very orderly. We were handed tickets, 1 for each laptop we intended to buy. I got my two, and got the hell out of dodge. But you should have seen the ugly looks and evil stares I got from people who didn't stand in line and paid their dues like I did.
(Woo-hoo, 900th post! 100 more to 1,000. )
Swaggering US Olympic Gymnast Sam Mikulak
no i didnt work "black friday" in the sense that most stores open early that day, i dont work that early.
however i did tell two ugly bitches 'one at a time' because they were both talking over each other and to me at the same time.
under normal circumstances, that might be rude of me, but im pretty sure they knew they were being rude so didnt say anything.
if you can imagine bad customer habits, like not bringing coupons WITH THEM to the register, expecting me to find them, make everyone wait for them...those habits get worse this time of year. people are much less considerate, and so beholden to the idea that you have to get yours before its all gone drives me nuts.
Please people, be prepared to leave the store when you need to pay, not dig through your purse or shove newspapers and gift cards in my face expecing me to know what you want.
i also had one gentleman tell me that one of our stores was sold out of a particular product. this was one of those products that we would sell out of quickly on Friday morning for all those black Friday sales.
he then asked me if i had it. i told him i don't...and even if i did...i couldn't sell it to him for the Friday morning price. he then asked me to check to see if any of our other stores had the product. i said i could, but for some reason i don't think he understood that they wouldn't sell it to him for that price either.
this exchange lasted for a few minutes, but this gentleman, for some reason, thought that he was entitled to that product at a huge discount, just because he was at some other store when the product WAS on sale at a huge discount.
remember, customers have absolutely no proof to back up anything they say.
sometimes, you can take customers at their word, but believe me, there are many many more who will lie to you, give you huge sap stories about their dead grandma, just to get a bargain.
anyways...just remember that working in retail ruins the holidays for many people, and this is why.
I know its horrible as i am supposed to be nice, but my motto is, this is not the fucking hilton hotel. we do not have valet parking for your lazy ass, there is no room service, its not my job to shop for you.
Thought this video fit the thread.
10 minutes for yours, 10 minutes for mine, 10 minutes for every other script they get in a day (hundreds a day from what my friend, a pharmacy tech, tells me). do you think your script gets pushed to the front of the line just because it is the newest one?
not to mention checking with insurance companies to make sure everything is still valid and up-to-date, as well as checking drug interactions, THEN filling the script
so yeah, 10 minutes
When I worked in retail there was always a customer who would complain about having to wait in a line when there were other places to pay for your items you wanted to purchase.
I also saw one woman take razors off the shelf and start using them to shave her legs in public.
Guest: Why was the music in the mall so loud? Who are you catering to? You know there aren't just teenagers in the mall!
Me: I'm very sorry about that, I was just working with Security to get the volume turned down, it was pretty loud over here, too.
Guest: And now we can't hear it all! Do you think we're all deaf?
Me: *having realized there's nothing I could say to appease this woman, I just stood there with a look of stony silence*
Guest: *spewing more bullshit*
Me: *stony silence*
Guest: *begins to walk away while continuing to bitch*
Me: *stony silence*
Guest: *continues to walk away, turns back to look at me*
Me: *stony silence*
Guest: *leaves*
Guest: Is this were I can get a bus pass?
Me: No, you'll have to head to the Transit Office to get one.
Guest: Because I bought one and it's not working anymore (our city has electronic bus passes)
Me: That sucks. The Transit Office is pretty close by so they can help you with that.
Guest: So there's nothing you can do?
Me: No. We're a shopping mall, not the city transit. For problems with city transit, you have to go to the transit office.
Guest: Who designed this mall?
Me: I have no idea. It was built before I was born.
Guest: Who's idea was it to put steps that are too high out in the parkade to get into the mall?!
Me: No clue.
Guest: Well I think somebody should do something about that.
Me: Cool.
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Welcome to the website for HONDA Special Education Shared Services Arrangement. We proudly serve the needs of students with disabilities in Shallowater, Hale Center, Olton, New Deal, and Abernathy.
HONDA is a Shared Service Arrangement and is comprised of five districts: Hale Center, Olton, New Deal, Abernathy, and Shallowater.
HONDA is an acronym for Hale Center, Olton, New Deal, and Abernathy. Shallowater joined the COOP years later, and they decided to keep the name as it was.
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The web server is still having issues. I don't know why it cropped up suddenly.
Before the reboot, the server was exhibiting some weird behavior, but nothing would explain the crashes.
Hoping to Run Again :-(
Maybe there are gremlins on this machine.
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Run to Win24 Marathons, 17 Ultras, 16 States (Full List)
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Is it too late to blame Y2k? Hope you can get to the bottom of things, Eric, but don't stress about it and DO NOT stay up all night trying to figure things out if the fix isn't a quick one. Your priorities should be Eric > real, PAID job > your life > etc. ... > RA.
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The Asbury Park Press featured a story on Professor John Buzza and students from his entrepreneurship class on January 1.
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Monmouth University Professor John Buzza was featured in Bloomberg News BusinessWeek on December 12.
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Launch party set for Thursday, December 11.
October 28, 2014
Admission to readings is free and open to the public.
October 17, 2014
Chair and Specialist Professor of Music and Theatre Arts Joe Rapolla was featured on NorthJersey.com on October 16.
October 13, 2014
Monmouth University's affiliation with the Grammy Museum was featured in the Star-Ledger/NJ.com on October 10.
October 10, 2014
Monmouth University's affiliation with the Grammy Museum was featured in the Asbury Park Press on October 9.
October 02, 2014
A launch event and celebration will be held on October 10 at 2:30 p.m. in Lauren K. Woods Theatre
September 29, 2014
The Center for the Arts Springsteen Symposium was featured in the New York Post on September 23.
September 12, 2014
Rare Springsteen Photo Up For Auction Proceeds benefit Bruce Springsteen Special Collection at Monmouth University
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Bruce Springsteen Events & Auction at Monmouth University
August 21, 2014
Monmouth University music industry students from its student-run record label, Blue Hawk Records, performed and toured in Italy this summer.
July 28, 2014
Leon Hess Business School at Monmouth University students worked on the launch of the winning product as part of an Entrepreneurship class project! Congrats Nanina's in the Park!
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For 35 years this Italian company has produced all of its giftware and tabletop by hand, a process that has ensured the uniqueness of each item. And because every plate, bowl, pitcher, tray, and tureen is made of pewter (an alloy composed of tin and copper), every piece retains its luster, whether it's used everyday or simply kept on display. Valpeltro's candleholders, frames, and goblets with glass bowls and pewter bases may be clearly contemporary, but the company's medieval-inspired takes on other traditional pieces reveal a classic lean, too.


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Florida's sweet corn grower-shippers are expanding a television campaign to promote their products outside of the Sunshine State.
For the first time, the Maitland-based Sunshine Sweet Corn Farmers of Florida plan to run TV commercials in Midwestern and Eastern markets.
From April 14 through May 11, during the peak of Florida's spring volume, the trade organization plans to air commercials on stations in Buffalo, N.Y., Indianapolis and Raleigh, N.C.
In cooperation with the Tallahassee-based Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the ads are part of the agency's "recipes" TV campaign and plan to showcase easy recipes with Sunshine Sweet-branded corn and other Florida produce.
The campaign is part of a marketing effort to increase consumer awareness and Sunshine corn sales, Paul Allen, Sunshine Sweet's president and vice president and co-owner of Pahokee, Fla.-based R.C. Hatton Farms, said in a news release.
"The growers experienced a tough start last year that was followed by a record May," Allen said in the release. "This year we will be out there earlier with a stronger message for what is shaping up to be a great-looking spring crop."
The agency has seen strong increases in brand awareness and purchase intents in the 10 Florida TV markets since first airing the commercials in 2013, Susan Nardizzi, the agency's director of marketing, said in the release.


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The State Board of Education has begun the promulgation process to make changes to Indiana's educator preparation and licensure rules. The document containing these proposed rule changes is referred to as REPA 3 (or REPA III). REPA III was published as a proposed rule in the Indiana Register on December 18, 2013 along with the notice for three public hearings that will occur next month (January 13, 14 and 16, 2014) in northern, central and southern Indiana. Here is the link to the notice of the public hearings in the Indiana Register: http://www.in.gov/legislative/iac/20131218-IR-511130399PHA.xml.pdf.
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Today, the Psychological Bulletin published research by Julia K. Boehm and Laura Kubzansky from the Harvard School of Public Health suggesting that positive psychological well-being – such as life purpose, positive emotion, life satisfaction, happiness and optimism – can help protect against and slow the progression of heart disease.
Prior research in this area has focused on how risk factors like anxiety and depression are associated with cardiovascular disease. But this study is the first of its kind to consider how a health asset –psychological well-being – plays a role in heart health.


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Girls can develop their musical talents at Girls Rock! Chicago's annual weeklong summer camps, where they'll form a band, perform and record songs. But the camp doesn't just develop musical prowess, says Melissa Oglesby, outreach director. "Girls aren't encouraged to make noise the same way as boys are, so we give them that chance. It offers them more confidence, and that comes across everything they do."
The Chicago Children's Choir is addressing violence head-on with plans to launch an Englewood neighborhood afterschool program in the fall, offering a safe haven for kids. "Violence in Chicago has reached epidemic proportions," observes President/Artistic Director Josephine Lee. "We as a community must help our city's children find an alternative to the streets, and music holds the power to change their lives." The choir hopes to raise $100,000 to launch and operate its program.
Step Up Women's Network focuses on confidence, college-ready and career balance. Beginning in high school, the organization gives girls good foundational tools, then pairs them with mentors in their prospective careers. "We give them the tools to break that cycle of poverty, to find success for themselves as individuals," shares Managing Director Cassandra Gaddo. "We also give them tools to go back into their communities, and make life better."
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For example, a person can make you so angry in traffic that you may feel an urge to shout profanities, use obscene gestures or resort to violence. But that is not what you do. That is only an urge. It is an urge we learn to control.
All humans must learn to control their temper, stifle certain impulses and force themselves to behave like decent, law-abiding citizens. We are also expected to control our thoughts and behavior when it comes to people of the opposite sex or same sex.
Not controlling compulsive desires has led some people to acts of molestation and rape — even upon small children! Pedophiles may say they were born with such urges but the choice to act on them is inexcusable.
Many youths struggling with their sexuality wonder if having an attraction toward the same sex is an early indication they are homosexual. What do you think? Some heterosexual adults may recall a time when they felt sexually ambivalent in their youth.
Some may have felt an overwhelming attraction to a teacher, a movie star, a pop star or a close friend of the same or opposite sex for a time. Sigmund Freud even suggested boys in one stage of their lives (the Oedipus complex) are in love with and desire their mother, while girls in a similar stage (the Electra complex) desire their father.
Any youth who feel such impulses should realize that desires are simply desires. They do not define us. It is our actions that determine who and what we are. Not our inclinations.
As James 1:14-15 says, "Each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death." — New King James Version.
Has a person sinned simply by having salacious desires? Not according to the Bible. But if the desire is acted upon it can give birth to actions condemned by God.
Instead Colossians 3:5 says, "Don't be controlled by your body. Kill every desire for the wrong kind of sex. Don't be immoral or indecent or have evil thoughts." — Contemporary English Version.
Since God's Word condemns satisfying all sexual desires outside of marriage — same-sex or the opposite sex — such impulses put all humans in the same category. We all have a battle to fight.
Although the popular view is to embrace your sexuality and accept who you are, the Bible says we can do better than that. It tells us that some early Christians who had formerly given in to their desires were able to stop, turn around and change.
Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, "Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God." — English Standard Version.
This gives hope to anyone who is promiscuous, alcoholic, to people suffering from kleptomania, pedophilia or any other inclination contrary to the will of God — that change is possible. Having perverted impulses does not make one a pervert. Our actions define us all. Many people, with God's help, have learned to control their actions.
No. It is not an easy fight. But anyone who desires to please God must conform to His moral standards, even though it may be extremely difficult. 1John 2:1 says we have a helper with the Father — Jesus Christ.
Galatians 5:22, 23 says the fruit of God's Spirit includes self-control. So, If we pray for God's Spirit to help us act better than our imperfect urges, God will give us the help we need to succeed. The desire may never fully go away, but neither will God's love forsake those who suffer to uphold His high moral standards.
Nobel Prize winner and Indian philosopher Rabindranath Tagore wrote, "When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly.
"But when we find our center in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring elements and unifies those that are apart, then all our isolated impressions reduce themselves to wisdom, and all our momentary impulses of heart find their completion in love."
All civilized people must restrain certain impulses. No one can give in to every inborn tendency in life. We are all faced with desires we must suppress. Thankfully, only God Almighty gets to judge our actions. May He pardon our imperfect impulses in His Divine completion of love.
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The Fastest Man in the World wasn't the fastest man in Jamaica.
That honour goes to Yohan Blake, who got out of the blocks fast and finished the 100-meter final in 9.75 seconds to upset world-record holder Usain Bolt by 0.11 seconds in the Jamaican Olympic trials.
A shocker? Well, that's for the world to decide. One thing for sure, however, is that the calculus for the London Olympics has changed dramatically.
Blake is the reigning world champion but that victory, last year in South Korea, came with an asterisk because Bolt didn't run that night after being disqualified for a false start. This was their first rematch, their first real race since then. Bolt was considered the favourite, not only because of his world record – 9.58 seconds – but because Blake, his training partner had never run below 9.84 in his life.
Well, now, he has.
The 9.75 seconds goes down as the best time this year and also breaks the four-year-old National Stadium record; both marks were 9.76 – both held by Bolt.
As much as the numbers, though, it was all that daylight between Blake and Bolt at the finish line that told this story. Blake, the man known as "The Beast," let out a primal scream when he crossed. Bolt just sort of pulled up – no "To the World" pose or anything else to celebrate.
Asafa Powell will join them at the Olympics, after finishing in 9.88. In the women's 100, defending Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won in a Jamaican record 10.70 seconds, with Veronica Campbell-Brown in second and Kerron Stewart in third.
Blake beats Bolt.. the fastest man in the world.. by 0.11.
Jamaica National Olympic Trials 100m Finals
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2 Usain Bolt, Racers Track Club 9.86
3 Asafa Powell, Mvp Track Club 9.88
4 Kemar Micheal Frater, Mvp Track Club 9.94
5 Bailey-Cole, Racers Track Club 10.00
6 Nesta Carter, Mvp Track Club 10.01 1.1
7 Lerone Clarke, Unattached 10.07
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Football made in Nigeria | A short story by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Editor's note
Obi Nwakanma in a Vanguard essay in 2008 notes the achievement of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Achebe, according to Nwakanma, a Nigerian poet born in 1966—eight years after publication of a novel since translated into 50 languages—helped a continent claim its memories and helped restore a people. Achebe's father was an early agent of the Church Missionary Society, founded in London in 1799. He was, in Nwakanma's words, a "native informer."In the short story below, published in English for the first time, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu sketches the culture clash between colonialist and colonized, between mission worker and missionized, in football terms. The story was translated into French as part of the 2010 collection Enfants de la balle (JC Lattès).
Uzoatu details the football-immersion project of an outsider, Coach Clemence, whose zeal resembles that of Charles Tennyson in Victorian times. Of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes and fellow agents of empire, Tennyson said, "They taught the world to play." Scholar Wiebe Boer, himself a child of missionary parents and a product of Nigeria's secondary schools, observes that "none of Nigeria's major indigenous have precolonial words for the game of football."
The Western obsession with institutionalized play causes historians to record the day of the first organized game in the country, 15 Jun 1904, when students from Hope Waddell Training Institute in Calabar played sailors from HMS Thistle. Uzoatu assumes a native origin—that Nigerians, in fact, played the game before it became "sport." "It entailed any number of men or women running about kicking any roundish object," he begins. With an offhand mention of female players, Uzoatu posits how organized football may have pushed indigenous tradition backward. Boer in his research finds that Nigerian football administrators followed English colonial policy of preventing women's access to association grounds or referees.
Uzoatu in this gently comic fiction suggests a more nuanced understanding than that of missionaries and railroad workers and other sporting evangelicals "bringing" a game to the uninitiated. To be sure, "sports were as important as guns and the Bible in British colonial rule in Asia and Africa," Nancy Fix Anderson concludes in The Sporting Life: Victorian Sports and Games (2010). But Africa and Africans have claimed their own narratives. In terms that Nwakanma uses of Achebe, Uzoatu helps "restore to the African world the ornaments taken off her waist from those who have robbed her."
Uzoatu, who sends a picture of himself playing against Yakubu Mambo (the Super Eagles' No. 10 in the 1970s), employed football as cultural exegesis as far back as 1979. This was when Uzoatu's play Doctor of Football, under his direction, premiered at a high school in Anambra State. It is once again being produced around the country. In the subtext to the two-act production Uzoatu asks of Nigerians, "Do we believe our own traditions?" Or, "Do we believe what others say about us?"
The football doctor, a mysterious healer with specialty in sport, begins the work with a spirited soliloquy, updated to include a reference to Octopus Paul. The doctor is a virtuoso in the evasive arts. But he does not lack insight. He tells a young boy:
[P]eople should have faith in the charm made for them before it can be effective. … Magic alone will not make a ball not shot at goal to beat a goalkeeper. I always tell the children coming to me to work hard before they can be able to beat their opponents. Hard work is the magic.
The "never-ending game" to which Uzoatu refers may be this dispute over who gets to tell the game's story.
I thank Uzoatu for graciously sending this story as well as a 2010 edition of Doctor of Football.
by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
We played the game. It entailed any number of men or women running about kicking any roundish object. We had no special name for the game. Then the man from overseas came. He brought balls and boots and talked of football and soccer. Like most white men Coach Clemence came to Africa with a mission—to discover the beautiful game of football.
Coach Clemence came with many rules and regulations. And we all got hoarse complaining that he was complicating a simple game with his many rules. The bounce of the ball was beyond the ken of most of us. Kicking with boots put us in all kinds of trouble: the ball flew everywhere but the goalposts. It was all so cumbersome, like teaching a man to use the left hand in grand old age.
"Keep the ball on the ground!" Coach Clemence hollered, daring the noonday sun as he ran from one goal to the other correcting us. "The birds in the sky do not play football."
We suffered at the hands of this man. He made us run endlessly round the field building up what he called stamina. After the marathon running, kicking football was well-nigh impossible. Even so Coach Clemence insisted that we must play football. There was nothing like impossibility in the man's dictionary. You cannot play the man's game unless you have sapped all your energy running like a madman chasing after dry leaves.
"Who ever heard of the footballer with neither skill nor stamina?" Coach Clemence asked rhetorically while pushing us ahead to more suffering. "You lot deserve special places in the Football Hall of Shame!"
To give him his due, Coach Clemence led by example. He ran all the rounds with us and played ball like a maestro. He could keep the ball up in the air for an entire day, juggling masterfully as though the ball were tied to his boots. And he could whack a shot at goal. The goalkeeper once flew into the net together with his thunderously wheezing shot. And the man cried like a baby, ending his football career just as abruptly.
The first competitive match we played was against a team of some tourist friends of Coach Clemence. It was a massacre. We somewhat stood fixed watching the soccer wizards from London do all the scoring. They ran like the wind and danced past our ears like mosquitoes. They were more slippery than catfish in water. Neither skill nor stamina was on our side, a total mismatch. Coach Clemence had to stop the match after thirty or so torrid minutes to save us from further punishment. Even he had lost count of the number of goals scored against us.
"I quit," my elder brother said to me moments after the game.
He was gasping for breath, dying for oxygen. It had been his job to mark the fleet-footed left-winger of the tourists. My big brother, big and proud fellow that he is, was dusted on the corners of the field by the flying little wizard on the left wing. The wee ball player drew circles round my brother, dribbling, taunting and scoring. After the humiliation my brother picked up his climbing-rope and returned fulltime to his trade of tapping palm wine. All the entreaties from Coach Clemence could not get my brother back on the field.
"I can't afford to spend all my life chasing the wind," Brother Okoro said. "My younger one is still there and he may yet catch the wind."
"You can't afford to throw in the towel so early in your career," Coach Clemence pleaded, staring fixedly with imploring eyes on my brother Okoro. "You can still make the grade and earn tons of money as a football professional."
"It is a man who is alive that can earn money," Okoro replied, unmoved. "Do you know how many times I died in that field?"
"The beginning of every act is always difficult," Coach Clemence said, patting Okoro on the shoulder. "Once you have mastered the art, all the suffering you took would look glorious in hindsight."
"White man, I have played my last match." The finality in Okoro's tone could not be missed by Coach Clemence. "There is even no sense at all in fully grown adults running all over the place chasing an inflated balloon!"
The exit of Brother Okoro was an open wound felt by all our teammates. He was a natural wag who softened our suffering with his many jokes. In his absence everybody looked upon me to take up the mantle of team clown. I was a profound failure on all counts. One statement assailed my ears everyday: "If only your brother Okoro had been here …"
We played some other matches. We lost all the matches. The score on each occasion was scandalous. Coach Clemence had the same words for us after every defeat: "You learn from losing."
After one particularly humiliating defeat, a game in which half of our players scored own goals, one rugged man walked into our fold. Some said he had been a coup-seasoned soldier while others said he was an expired politician. Nobody was sure of anything about the man. A pudgy and crafty old stager, he was gap-toothed and his goggles were darker than midnight. He spoke quaint English that edged Coach Clemence's for incomprehension. He at first introduced himself as our Team Manager. In the next practice session he appointed himself Defence Minister, explaining that he had all the answers for all our defensive frailties. Next he called himself Sole Administrator. Coach Clemence could not hide his amusement as the strange fellow by and by took the titles of Head of State, C-in-C, Life President etc. The title Presido fitted him like a cap.
"They are my people," the man said to Coach Clemence, pointing at us as we sat head bowed. "I know their psychology."
In the football field he spoke to Coach Clemence in English while he talked to us in the native tongue. Some of his words to us were actually full-throated insults directed at the white man.
"Don't mind the white monkey," the man said, pretending to be serious. "May he dissolve under the hot African sun!"
"What's that?" Coach Clemence asked quizzically after we had burst out in laughter.
"Oh I was telling the boys to rise up to the magnitude of the British Empire," the man replied in grand English elocution. Then he turned to us and asked in vernacular: "Can this white nobody give birth to a black somebody?"
We continued to laugh much to the puzzlement of Coach Clemence.
"Don't mind the native morons," the man said, reverting to English. "They are laughing at my lack of knowledge of the local lingo."
Coach Clemence was none the wiser but would not be distracted. He upped the ante by taking us into the classroom to teach us football. He mentioned many incomprehensible figures and numbers: 4-4-2, 4-3-3, 4-2-4 etc. He drew many lines on the blackboard and plotted many graphs. He pointed and directed through arrows and curves. We got more confused by the minute. The classroom lessons continued interminably. If there was anything worse than being defeated woefully on the field it was being made to sit through the dreary lessons in the classroom.
"My people cannot get the hang of this teaching of football inside the classroom," our self-appointed President challenged Coach Clemence.
"Without a sound theory there can be no good praxis," Coach Clemence explained.
"How can somebody do on the blackboard what is played out there in the football field?"
"Presido!" We all rose in salute of our President for asking a question that we had all individually wanted to ask.
"Football is a game of the head rather than of the feet …"
We all shouted, interrupting Coach Clemence.
"In that case," Presido was saying, "the game would have been called headball instead of football."
Yes! We were all screaming in support of the thesis of our darling Presido, a true man of the people.
Coach Clemence shook his head and announced the end of the day's lesson. He then said that the British Embassy Staff Club had challenged us to a football match. Presido instantly volunteered to produce FIFA-graded match officials and a record crowd for the special match.
"This match I take as your command performance," Coach Clemence said, dismissing us for the day.
The football stadium was a wild forest of people and spirits on the august day. The pep talk of Coach Clemence minutes before the match dwelt much on the anticipated style of our opponents. He talked of the speed and accuracy of British football and asked us to watch out particularly for the overlapping runs of the full-backs. He mentioned a certain footballer of yore called Terry Cooper who by overlapping turned into a menacing demon for all opponents of England.
"We know what you mean," said Presido, interrupting as usual. "Overlapping means that somebody comes as a missionary and then overlaps as a colonial master!"
"Don't mix football with politics," Coach Clemence said.
"Don't listen to the white man," Presido said to us in the native tongue. "When we get into the field we shall play our style."
"Our style is home-grown freestyle soccer democracy played with military boots," shouted our dancing goalkeeper who had for some time been taking some private lessons at the insistence of Presido.
The match was not yet a minute old when the British left-back, overlapping, scored. He would have scored again in the very next minute but for the agility of our goalkeeper. Now instead of putting the ball into play according to the rule of the game our goalkeeper ran the full length of the field and threw the ball into the net of our opponents!
"The overlapping goalkeeper!" roared the crowd.
"Unprecedented! Fit for the Guinness Book of World Records! First in history!" I heard so many exclamations.
The referee looked at his assistants and at the excited crowd and then pointed to the centre of the field, thus counting our goalkeeper's caper of a coup as a goal. The British Embassy Staff Club players were dumbfounded. I could not understand what was happening. The referee was asking the Embassy boys to restart the game, but they refused to. Suddenly our goalkeeper picked up the ball and ran all the way to score again. The referee blew a blast on his whistle, jumping up in excitement like Presido and the crowd. The overlapping goalkeeper scored many more times, and the spectators could no longer be controlled for joy. They encroached into the field, passing the ball to us with their hands and feet. It was a melee. Nobody could leave the field of play. I looked in the direction of Coach Clemence but his place had been taken by Presido. And how Presido enjoyed the game! He actually came into the field to score a handful of goals with his hands and feet and head. How he gloried in "our style" of total football! He jumped and screamed and laughed, urging us on with his hands and feet and mouth. And we obeyed him, playing with all parts of our bodies and scoring with every section of our anatomy. It was indeed an original never-ending game.
© 2010 Uzor Maxim Uzoatu. All rights reserved. Used by permission.


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