No sales clerk.
 

On the way home from work, I stopped at a convenience store to grab a soda, a snack, some milk and a loaf of bread. It was 3:30 in the morning, and as I am walking around in the store, deciding which snack I want to get, I notice that there isnt a single person working in the store. This is pretty much rural america here, so it's not that suprising that there might not be a clerk out front at that moment. They may be in the back doing inventory/stock/something of that nature. Well, I walk up to the register with my stuff, and look for a bell, or something to single to the worker to come and ring me up. And nothing happens. I open the door to see if it sets off some sort of signal in the back that someone entered the store. And nobody comes out. I call out, "Is anyone here?" and get no answer. So I wait for another minute or so, and then just leave, and don't buy any of the stuff I was gonna buy. I'm not sure legality of the situation, as to if you can just leave the money for your purchase on the counter and take what you were gonna buy. I had approximately 5 dollars worth of stuff(more like 4.50 including tax), and was gonna leave a 5 on the counter as pay. Just a frustrating situation cause then I had to drive about 5 miles the opposite way from home to get milk for the morning.

Maybe there had been a robbery and the clerk was lying inside the office (?) tied up?

Probably just using the toilet - (old git remembers, feel free to fall asleep at this point ;) ) I grew up in the sticks and our local store didn't have a toilet so the shop keeper had to walk down the road to a friends house to go, this meant that the shop would be empty to 15-20 minutes at a time ... no problem, locals would just walk behind the counter and ring things up themselves, things were different in my day ;)

Reminds me of the scene in clerks where dante is slouching behind the desk and trusting punters to pay the correct price for stuff. His justification is that when people don't see a clerk they assume a camera is watching and thus pay correctly.

Bathroom is a possibility, but their mangled body in the cooler is another. That would creepy me out.

I'm pretty sure there was a robbery and you left the clerk there to die.

yup yup

I actually worked at a convenience store for awhile, 3rd shift, which means I was by myself. If i needed a late night bathroom trip, i locked the doors of the store, just to prevent such confusion.

I am betting on the bathroom break idea, though. Or murder.

Stevew, I hope you have a jackleg attorney from New York in your family.

Perhaps he was playing hockey on the roof?

Cute font Cringer.

Same here.

Thanks. It's new. Hopefully it doesn't give off an unmanly vibe or I might have some jackass saying potentially offensive statements as he tries to insult me for no reason at all.

I can't imagine anyone here doing that though.

Probably feel asleep on the can. Or you were on candid camera.

Or he was using a camera to take pictures of himself while on the can.

He was making love to a taquito in the back room.

An extra cheesy one I hope.

It was eventually.

ZOOOM.... Right over everyones head. :)

You freaking Clerks.

Little touchy this morning?

Nope. But I am sure SkyDog could come up with a good way to describe it.

Damn, you took my line.

He wasn't even supposed to be there that day.

There are so many signnificant others around here, so perhaps I'm confusing things, but isn't this your wife's font? That's confusing to me. And I need to be placated before I can sign off on your font change.

If it's not hers exactly then it is close enough for me. :)

edit: only problem is I keep forgetting to use it and have to go back and do it. :D

so back to the topic, did you think to alert the police?

There was nobody there. It was like Night of the Comet.

I figured the clerk was having sex with a dead chick in the bathroom.

It's definitely different. Yours is possible to read if I squint, so I won't just ignore it automatically -- if I'm in a good mood, I might read it.

I really think the more important question is, is if it's okay to leave money for your purchases, or if they have to be rung out. AKA the honor system isn't okay.

You should've grabbed some scratch-offs and ran.

So, up to the point that you needed milk.. were you sleeping in a shed?

Two wrongs don't make a right but I suppose this was bound to happen. Solidarity and all.

SI

well, Earl did leave money on the counter for his donuts, so that must make it okay...

FM

As a practical matter, I don't really see you getting busted for theft here. I think that there is a pretty strong argument that you are not stealing anything. You may be violating store policy, but you are not stealing.

Just my 2c, though.

I don't own a cell phone, so calling the cops wasnt really an option.

Could not let this pass without a little acknowledgement... :D

I have to highlight your new text if I want to read it. My background is black, so the darker colors are almost impossible to read.

At some point in the next few days, I'm going to rummage through the Admin control panel to see if there's a way to restrict font/color usage.

that's an idea, bring us back to the days of text-only billboards and no WYSIWYG editors...:rolleyes:

FM

Damn. I had to go to acronym finder to find out what WYSIWYG means.

Yeah, that's a problem- so much for dynasty reports.

Just make people who use them normally (which amounts to 2 now, double from last week) use one of the skins where it looks unreadable ;)

SI

What You See Is What You Get- basically an editor like Word or Dreamweaver where it colors text for you rather than having to code it up manually.

SI

Thanks. Found it on www.acronymfinder.com as well. Acronym finder is a handy website for those who can't remember acronyms.

Cool- hadn't seen that before. Typically, I just look it up on wiki or dictionary.com. That site is a bit more thorough.

SI

Go back the next morning and ask the dude where he was last night, because the store was empty. I might do that if I were curious enough.

Who said anything about doing it for everyone? If it is a User Group option, then the problem is solved very easily.

Cam took mine... :(

And dola-


Dude...wtf is the problem, really?