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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:26 am

Sometimes at work, funny things happen. Do any of you have any stories of such times?

Here's mine:

At the library I work, one of the other employees is some kid in high school. About 15 or 16, I believe. He's a Page like me, which means he also puts things away and keeps things organized (or, he's supposed to; he's actually kinda lazy, and likes to talk and be on the computer every chance he gets).

Anyway, one time he was putting the checked in children's books on one of the back shelves, so they'd be in order when put back into circulation. He looked at one of the books and said/asked, "Canada's a country?"

I had a good laugh with that one. It was just so silly and random. xd

Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:31 am

Dark_Lady_Jade

Sometimes at work, funny things happen. Do any of you have any stories of such times?

Here's mine:

At the library I work

I worked in a library for over 7 years. I'll have to remember some of the crazy things we did.

This past week the video store I work for has been in the process of closing it's door. During this time we've had to organize everything and price things to sell. The Store Director, my boss, has been carrying the phone around to answer and explain why we are closed to anyone to happens to call.
Prior to leaving I was saying goodbye to everyone working and walked past Tracey when the phone happens to ring. Knowing everyone is in a pretty foul mood I've been acting a clown lately while still getting work down. Trying my best to keep moods light.
At the point of the phone ringing she reaches into her back pocket to retreive the phone when I lean in and say "Thank you for Calling Hollywood Video, How may I help you?". Poor woman couldn't answer the phone she was laughing so hard.

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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:30 pm

Some of the funniest things can happen even at a grocery store. 3nodding I work at one, which is why I can say this. Anyway, I'll have to keep posting some of the humorous things here. This is a classic one that happens quite regularly during summer time.

They have watermellons on sale and a customer (usually oriental or hispanic, I have nothing aganist people like this, but they always seem to be the ones that do this) that say they want EVERYTHING in a plastic bag. When they say everything they mean EVERYthing! Well, I started to sack a watermellon into this one couple's plastic bag for them and proceeded to hand it back to them, but the watermellon fell out breaking the bag. I insisted that I should put it in TWO plastic bags to prevent it from slipping out. They refused saying that they would only take one. I grumbled under my breath and some how finally got it to stay. When I arrived home that day, and shared my story my brother gave me a novel idea. Returning to work the next day, another couple insisted on only having one plastic bag for their watermellon. I smiled and put the watermellon into the bag and, instead of grabing the bag by the handles, I scooped up the watermellon and handed it to them like a baby. They smiled in return and said, "At last someone knows how to do it right!" As they were leaving the store I heard the same voice scream, "My watermellon!" I looked out only to see they picked up the bag by the handles and the watermellon exploded all over the parking lot. I just had to smile and laugh; besides I was told it is no longer our problem after the customer receives their groceries and is in the parking lot; it is now THEIR groceries not OUR products. rofl

The only other thing off the top of my head that I recall being funny enough to put into words right now is during Christmas and Thanksgiving we always have plenty of turkeys, geese, and ducks (all frozen of course) coming through our line in bags and sometimes they don't have handles. Well, it got to the point where one sacker and I had worked out a system. I would slip my hands around the bird and it would slide across the scanner (beep!) and the sacker would have a bag ready for it (usually plastic) and it slid right in and then he'd put it into the cart (aka: buggy, wagon, etc.) and continue with the groceries. The customers never notice because they always seem to be so busy getting their groceries unloaded and onto the belt for me to ring up. blaugh

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:34 pm

Hmm...I'm trying to think of really funny ones. I think the best one was when I was an RA at my university and someone was running around in the buff in the rain, slipped and scraped their bum. I had to help another RA bandage up their scraped bootay outside. rofl

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