On the Job: Incidents and Insights #1

Working in retail provides one with many stunning insights into the human psyche...well, maybe that is going a bit too far, however, it does provide one with many amusing stories to recount.

Today a couple of my co-workers and I shared a chuckle over a frazzled elderly lady who came through the line. She vented to us about the stress of having to shop for and cook an early Thanksgiving meal for her whole family while her husband "the big Jerk" was out deer hunting. Not to mention that no one else was helping her fix the meal...and so on. As she made out her check she exclaimed, "This is why I have high blood pressure! And the Doctor says to remove the stress from my life. Goodbye family!"

This could be the first of many work-related tales published for your reading enjoyment!