Tales from a Walmart Greeter - #1

As most of you know, I start last month working as a greeter at Walmart, and I must say, this is the perfect job for someone like me who loves to people watch. There are so many different and interesting people who come through my door everyday, and I have accumulated so many stories so far, so I decided to create a new blog series about my daily greeter tales. Enjoy!

~I'm in a power chair, obvious to anyone who knows me, and even if you have just met me, it really isn't hard to miss that. Sure, it may not be a manual chair, but it has wheels and a joystick controller, and it is pretty clear it is not a regular chair or recliner. Yet, for some reason, a few times a week someone, mainly really old guys who can't barely walk into the store themselves, have to make some sort of comment to the effect of "Just sitting around here", or "Taking it easy", to "Hardly working eh?". The best had to be yesterday though, when a cranky old man asked me if I was "Loafing on the job?". Yeah buddy, I'm loafing around...give me a break! When I told him no, that I was in a wheelchair and unable to walk, he actually had the audacity to say "Ya right" as he walked out of the store.

~(This from another greeter) - A man comes through the door to leave the store with a big flat screen TV in his cart, with a cashier in tow. The greeter tells the man he needs to see his receipt for the TV, to which the man replies, "Oh, I haven't bought it yet, I am just going to take it to my car to see if it will fit, and if so then I will come back in and buy it". The cashier looked shocked, as he was just told by a supervisor to help them man, and had no idea he hadn't paid for it yet. So the greeter calls for a supervisor to come over, and the guys tells his same story and the supervisors says OK, until the cashier pipes up and informs that he hasn't paid for it yet. He was then promptly told he needed to pay for the TV, and if it didn't fit in his car he could come right back in and return it. Good try buddy, that's like taking a cart full of groceries through the door and saying, "I just want to see if these will fit in my trunk...."

~Guy spills garden soil all over the entrance, then looks at me and says, "Well, aren't you going to clean it up?"

~Another guy spill ice all over the floor and says "Hey look, now I gave you something to do today" as he runs out of the store.

~A woman has a return and I stop her so I can scan it and give it a return sticker. She is on the phone, and when she approaches me, she throws the bag on my lap and tells the person on the phone, "Yeah, I'm at Walmart, you know how when you have a return you have to take it to the dumb ass greeter so they can give you a sticker...yeah what a total waste of my time, guess they have to give the old people and retards something to do".