No. I've worked in a fashion retail store and that entails watching customers and such other people meandering around the merchandise.
Don and I were just off work one day and both looked pretty grungy. We went to The Big 5 to buy him new work boots. The guy helping us was taking forever in the back to find his size. We meandered over to the sock section thinking we might buy some new socks since we were right there. Three Big 5 workers swarmed around us, pretending to be customers. It was such an insult, we didn't buy the socks. We did buy the boots and have not been back since. It really was uncomfortable. I'm sure if we had walked in with nice, clean, khaki shorts and clean shirts we wouldn't have been treated so rudely. Case and Point: Never judge a customer by their attire. Just because we didn't look the part doesn't mean we didn't have money to spend and would have gladly. The good news about this story is we went to REI instead. It's a better place to shop with great merchandise. I highly recommend it. :) :)
This post was edited by Merlin at August 24, 2018 8:43 AM MDT
I guess it's kind of a store. I've worked as a yard-man at a drive-in theater. Catching people who sneak in in their buddies' trunk, sneak in the back gate, run over speaker poles, etc.
It wasn't the only thing that was illegal during that those trips into the drive-in. We were poor white folk in a big country. We only had 2 dollars and 17 cents between us. That only got one couple in. We even had to bring our own popcorn. That wasn't drive-in legal either. Have a heart. Poor people like to go to drive-ins tooooooo.
P.S. Just to be clear, our parents didn't know. Had they, we would have been grounded for life. I'd still be in my room on Tillamook St. :) :)
Oh I've bought steel-toed shoes, I just didn't wear them at that job. I was a machinist, for many years, and steel-toed shoes were one of the pieces of safety equipment we wore.
LOL ... the drive-in in our town faced a freeway access overpass. So there would always be a line of cars parked on the shoulder, watching the movie. But they couldn't hear anything, until the theater updated the speaker system to a short-range AM broadcast signal.
Finally, the city or state posted "emergency parking only" signs ... but then everybody strangely had "flat tires" that they had to change there. LOL
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