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Dealing with people that can't make up their minds....That includes me. I'd like to blame it on having a "blond moment"....I cant...sometimes....I'm....wishy washy..Though I like it better when I see it in someone else....Then I feel "not" so dumb.
I dealt with a male customer once....I dont think this guy has ever made up his own mind....first and second impression...this man was BIG time wishy washy.
Story goes as follows.....
Mr. Man comes in and is looking at trees.....I go ask if he needs help or has any questions...Sometimes I wish I would of carried a fork in my hand to jab myself in the head for repetitive questions......
I am going to jump ahead a bit....artificial Christmas trees.....we had signs that gave the trees stats,lol.How many tips.....how many lights.....why the number of tips is important to people I will never know...
Sally: Helen, your tree looks fabulous
Helen: Thank you Sally.....it has 1250 tips....
Sally:WOW!....I need to get me one too!
This is what went through my head when I got the "how many tips does this tree have" question.See why I wanted a fork to jab in my head?It doesn't matter how many tips.....ITS AN ARTIFICIAL TREE!......The only person that cares how many tips is a tip nazi.
Back to Mr. Man.....
We are going through the song and dance of questions and answers.I try to be accomidating....He said he needs his wife to look at it,but doesn't know when he'll make it back.He has finally narrowed it down to a green spruce and a blue spruce....nice choices.
Me: Mr. Man....I'll cut off a small sample from each tree and you can show it to Wifey.
Mr. Man: I'd love that.....thank you ...nice lady.
Mr.Man goes on his way....I'm thinking I'm an idiot.....its an artificial tree....I spent over an hour with Mr. Man......and I cut off samples?.....Idiot.
Mr. Man shows up on the wekend with Wifey and kiddies in tow......Wifey doesn't look to impressed(I think shes a "real" tree person)...Mr. Man is looking "beat"......Wifey isn't happy....looks like Mr. Man won't be getting anything today.....be it tree....or....well.....you know  Wifey did look like a ball buster.Im thinking that by now he can shove those samples I gave him.....its an artificial tree.....you either want one or you don't.Needless to say they leave.....Wifey is infront.....Mr. Man is running to catch up to her.I think he was in trouble....she looked pretty sour.
It's now a few days after Christmas...time for the after Christmas blow out of the left over crap.Lo and behold its Mr. Man.The last I had saw off him was him playing catch up to his wife.He goes to the tree room.I kid you not this guy was in there staring at trees for almost 2 hours.After Christmas the prices are slashed in half......but.....theres always a but......all sales are final.....remember this "all sales are final".
He's yacking on his cell phone...gets me.....asks me the same questions as our first meeting.The two trees he decidind about are display trees....no box....he can purchase a tree bag if he likes....remember this...."no box".He's talking to wifey,boss,parents....I don't care...I will walk away from you if you are yacking on a cell phone...I have better things to do.....like mock you....or smoke...pick my nose...get the wedgie out of my butt....see,better things to do.
After almost 2 hours Mr Man makes his choice.....drum roll please....and the winner is.....THE BLUE SPRUCE.....excellent choice....and about damn time...Mr. Man was starting to grow mold. I will never forget his choice....its ingrained in my head til death do us part.
Anthony the stock guy takes it down.....Mr Man is at the register....He pays....Anthony loads the tree in his car....Mr.Man drives off....you think this would be the end of the story....its not.....
Heres where it gets funny....sorry I had to tell you the other crap first....You needed to know the particulars.....Do you remember the 2 things I asked you to remember? Its important that you do...if not.....scroll up....I'll wait.....Ok.....got it?.....good......
Less than an hour goes by.....Uh oh....is that?......Son of a bitch.....Its Mr. Man.....did he get lost? Why is he back?.....
My boss is running the register.....I'm there and so is Anthony the stock guy......
Boss: May I help you?
Mr. Man: I just bought a tree.
Boss: Ok......staring at him....waiting on him...
Mr. Man : Well, I have been driving around (Anthony and I look at each other and try not to snicker,the guy has been DRIVING AROUND) well....this tree doesn't have a box.
Boss: still staring.......
Mr. Man is looking at me.....hes getting no sympathy or help from me...I have given this man enough of my time....Im looking at him....then Anthony.....Anthony looks at me....the boss.....the customer....Boss is still staring at the customer.What Mr. Man wants is to return the tree....though he won't say it....he does everything but ask for his money back.....
This goes on for seems like an eternity.....no one talking.....we are all looking at each other except the boss....she is still staring at the customer....
Anthony: Isn't anyone going to say anything?
Me: snicker,snicker....inverted laughing....tears starting to form.....from not being able to bust my gut...im going to blow any second now...
Boss: (by now she is leaning her face in her hand elbows propping her up)Still staring at Mr. Man
Mr. Man : still hasn't said boo....still looking to me for help...he knows he screwed.he will never see that money back.
Boss: Well, I can give you a tree bag.
Right there is where I lost it....I didn't mean to hurt Mr. Mans ego/feelings.....I held it in as long as I could.I laughed so hard I had to go to the back of the store....Anothy following me.....we are both roaring.....Anthony and I laughed so hard we both were crying.....he fell into the fake snow(fluff/batting) face first.....I fell to my knees.....I have never been a praying person.....though it looked like thats what I was doing.We have customers surrounding us and we are carrying on like idiots.That was a good one.....of course I had to run to the bathroom....well......after having 2 kids.....well.....ladies you know what I mean......it took my and Anthony a few hours to recover.....everytime we would see each other we started to get silly and laugh all over again.
I don't know what happened to Mr. Man....I never saw him again after that day...Does he still have the tree? Did he tell anyone about his experience? Did we mar him for life? Did he finally get some from his wife?....I will probably never know....
Lets this be a lesson to you.......when you make up your mind....stick to it...you never know if I might be the one waiting on you.
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Posted by pitapie50 on 2008-03-30 07:20:00 | Rating: | Views: 58
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That's hillarious!!
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Posted by girlzone
on 2008-03-30 09:51:54
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LOL...thank you girlzone :)
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Posted by pitapie50
on 2008-03-30 10:13:18
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