Had a return today from a gentleman who didn't like the flip flops he'd bought.
"These have two problems," he told me very seriously. I put on my best grave attention face. "First of all, I want you to see this." He took a flip flop and pushed it across my counter as if it were a Hot Wheels special edition car. It went about six inches. I had a really, really hard time not laughing, especially since he looked even more serious. "Did you see that?" he exclaimed. "I wore those on a vinyl floor and almost had a very serious fall. You should pull these all off the shelves immediately."
I imagined demonstrating the Hot Wheels flip flop to my boss and almost laughed out loud again. I think my serious face cracked a bit around the edges. "I don't think they'll let us do that."
"Then you'll just be part of the pay out for the lawsuit against the manufacturer when someone is seriously injured in these."
I thought about people suing because they wore high heels in sand and broke their ankle. Mmm, not so much.
"The second thing is that they have this cloth on the bottom that's peeling off," he said.
"Yeah, that's really bad." I finished processing the return, thinking about kids skating gleefully around hardwood floors in these things, and why more people don't sue manufacturers for making those hard plastic bottomed slippers that are far, far worse than the Hot Wheels flip flop. But I left it alone. "Sorry those didn't work out for you."
He gave me that 'you'll be hearing from my lawyer' look and stalked off.
I also had a lady dash in. "I just bought this," she said breathlessly, setting hair color on the counter. "I just want to trade it for a lighter color. It's way too dark. I didn't notice until I got outside."
The color was 'Clove,' a very dark, reddish, almost black brown. "Sorry, I have to run this as a return unless we're trading it for the identical color."
"Can I go grab the one I want?"
"I need your information--"
She left her ID on the table. I filled out the stuff while she was away. When she came back, she had a very, very dark brown, but without the reddish tones. "This is the one I want," she gasped. "How much longer will this take? We're buying a pickup truck and I have to meet someone."
And you're buying hair color ...? Now? Oh, never mind, it's not worth it. "Just take this to the cashier and you're all set."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome." Enjoy your almost indistinguishably dark brown hair color. It'll cover your light brown hair ... a lot.
I expect to see her back tomorrow.
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