Post by halsca on Jul 28, 2005 11:04:38 GMT -5
Here’s a quick sticky story. A while ago I was at Fry’s Electronics because I had to exchange something I bought earlier. I am not a happy camper, I don’t get that many days off anymore and I wanted to spend the day outdoors bike riding not hanging around an electronics store.
Fry’s has some pretty good stuff but their customer service particularly returns can use some work. Takes freaking forever, you’ve got dozens of people waiting in line and only a couple clerks to take care of them, if you’re lucky you might find one who speaks decent English AND knows what they’re doing usually it one or the other.
OK so I’m waiting in line, there’s probably 50 people ahead of me. I’m thinking just give up and try another day but seeing I was already there I’ll go for it. The return area is only a few feet from the entrance, you can get a great view of people coming and going.
My attention was captured by a couple of Asian girls and a geeky looking Asian dude walking towards the door. Both girls were hot, but one was hotter. This girl was sort of on the chunky side wearing a really tight short denim cutoff skirt and a tight green pullover top. On her feet was a pair of flip flops. She had waist length hair that was dyed light brown with gold highlights. She was also wearing mirrored sunglasses; I bet she thought she was totally cool.
I watched as they all approached the door then this girl steps in a big wad of gum, even with the sunglasses on I could tell she was shocked. Her jaw dropped her eyebrows arched; she looked back and checked out her sticky trail. She takes a couple more sticky stringy steps and her shoe pulls off her foot.
Now she’s mad as well as embarrassed, she bends over to pull her shoe off the concrete and her sunglasses fall to the ground. People laugh, the girl with her also giggles, the dude attempts to help but she shoves him aside and picks up her glasses then puts her shoe back on. The poor dude looks downtrodden I figure him to be some sort of relative because I highly doubt she’d treat her boyfriend like that unless he’s a total wimp.
The girl attempts to take another step but again her shoe comes off because it’s still too sticky. Now she’s really mad, she just removes the other one and walks into the store barefoot carrying her sticky flip flops with her. There is a security guard at the entrance, he stops her and I guess says she can’t come into the store barefooted. Now she’s REALLY mad and attempts to bully her way past the dude but he won’t budge.
The girl has no choice but to put her sticky flip flop back on and deal with it. She does and again it comes off much to the amusement to nearly everyone around. Finally her girlfriend offers her a tissue which she tries to use to wipe off the gum; it only makes things worse because some of it sticks to her fingers.
The whole time the girl is complaining rather loudly in her native tongue (I love it when that happens) and seems to be taking it out on the geeky looking dude. He’s gotta be her younger brother no one else would put up with that sort of stuff, I feel sorry for him but I still think it’s pretty funny.
Now the girl puts her flip flop back on, with bits of tissue stuck all over it and proceeds into the store, I could still hear it sticking to the floor as she walked by but at least it stayed on her foot. When they walk past me I can’t help but flash her a big grin and laugh. The girl gives me this dirty look and says something to the geeky looking dude but he just ignores me and they disappear into the store. Suddenly I’m not so uptight anymore, that lovely little scene totally made my day. ;D
Fry’s has some pretty good stuff but their customer service particularly returns can use some work. Takes freaking forever, you’ve got dozens of people waiting in line and only a couple clerks to take care of them, if you’re lucky you might find one who speaks decent English AND knows what they’re doing usually it one or the other.
OK so I’m waiting in line, there’s probably 50 people ahead of me. I’m thinking just give up and try another day but seeing I was already there I’ll go for it. The return area is only a few feet from the entrance, you can get a great view of people coming and going.
My attention was captured by a couple of Asian girls and a geeky looking Asian dude walking towards the door. Both girls were hot, but one was hotter. This girl was sort of on the chunky side wearing a really tight short denim cutoff skirt and a tight green pullover top. On her feet was a pair of flip flops. She had waist length hair that was dyed light brown with gold highlights. She was also wearing mirrored sunglasses; I bet she thought she was totally cool.
I watched as they all approached the door then this girl steps in a big wad of gum, even with the sunglasses on I could tell she was shocked. Her jaw dropped her eyebrows arched; she looked back and checked out her sticky trail. She takes a couple more sticky stringy steps and her shoe pulls off her foot.
Now she’s mad as well as embarrassed, she bends over to pull her shoe off the concrete and her sunglasses fall to the ground. People laugh, the girl with her also giggles, the dude attempts to help but she shoves him aside and picks up her glasses then puts her shoe back on. The poor dude looks downtrodden I figure him to be some sort of relative because I highly doubt she’d treat her boyfriend like that unless he’s a total wimp.
The girl attempts to take another step but again her shoe comes off because it’s still too sticky. Now she’s really mad, she just removes the other one and walks into the store barefoot carrying her sticky flip flops with her. There is a security guard at the entrance, he stops her and I guess says she can’t come into the store barefooted. Now she’s REALLY mad and attempts to bully her way past the dude but he won’t budge.
The girl has no choice but to put her sticky flip flop back on and deal with it. She does and again it comes off much to the amusement to nearly everyone around. Finally her girlfriend offers her a tissue which she tries to use to wipe off the gum; it only makes things worse because some of it sticks to her fingers.
The whole time the girl is complaining rather loudly in her native tongue (I love it when that happens) and seems to be taking it out on the geeky looking dude. He’s gotta be her younger brother no one else would put up with that sort of stuff, I feel sorry for him but I still think it’s pretty funny.
Now the girl puts her flip flop back on, with bits of tissue stuck all over it and proceeds into the store, I could still hear it sticking to the floor as she walked by but at least it stayed on her foot. When they walk past me I can’t help but flash her a big grin and laugh. The girl gives me this dirty look and says something to the geeky looking dude but he just ignores me and they disappear into the store. Suddenly I’m not so uptight anymore, that lovely little scene totally made my day. ;D
