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Sense Stays Home
Dear girl who was working the register in the SLC bookstore this afternoon when I popped in to buy a Hershey's chocolate bar,
Your inability to quit giggling and apologizing coupled with the snaking check out line made it apparent that you were still learning how to use the register. No problem, none of us were born with that skill. However, I lost all sympathy for you when I realized the primary reason for the hold up wasn't your own personal ineptitude, but the fact that you were handing out flyers and plugging a poetry reading that is happening on campus tomorrow to every single person. You also insisted on having a two minute conversation about poetry with each individual customer AFTER you had finished ringing them up, while the line of irate customers standing behind them grew longer.
Listen up, Genius, it is TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE to plug any event that is not related to the store you are working in to paying customers. That goes double when the check out line is growing faster than you mouth can run. If you do not want to be ratted out to your supervisor, I suggest you start behaving with a little more professionalism.
No love whatsoever,
The chick who replied "Not today" when you asked "Do you like poetry?"
And on a completely unrelated topic, all you writers out there will get a kick out of this little item that I found in McSweeney's: Thirteen Writing Prompts.
Your inability to quit giggling and apologizing coupled with the snaking check out line made it apparent that you were still learning how to use the register. No problem, none of us were born with that skill. However, I lost all sympathy for you when I realized the primary reason for the hold up wasn't your own personal ineptitude, but the fact that you were handing out flyers and plugging a poetry reading that is happening on campus tomorrow to every single person. You also insisted on having a two minute conversation about poetry with each individual customer AFTER you had finished ringing them up, while the line of irate customers standing behind them grew longer.
Listen up, Genius, it is TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE to plug any event that is not related to the store you are working in to paying customers. That goes double when the check out line is growing faster than you mouth can run. If you do not want to be ratted out to your supervisor, I suggest you start behaving with a little more professionalism.
No love whatsoever,
The chick who replied "Not today" when you asked "Do you like poetry?"
And on a completely unrelated topic, all you writers out there will get a kick out of this little item that I found in McSweeney's: Thirteen Writing Prompts.
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