catching up

Last week at the bookstore:

A customer was walking up to the front desk to pay when she stopped in her tracks, staring in horror at one of the magazine displays.

"The Jonas Brothers are on the cover of Rolling Stone?! That's a sign of the apocalypse, right?"

I'll make your life easier - just look under "future projects" to understand the full horror issue at hand. That "D" word? Yeah. They sponsor the band.

I can't say I had any argument with what the customer said.

The other day, I had a customer buy a gift card. After she paid, she realized that she liked another design better, so she decided to put the gift card, that she had just paid for, back in the display and take out another one. I nearly jumped over the counter in my effort to convince her not to do that.

Luckily, my cry of "NONONONONONONO!!!!!" managed to wake her up and see the mistake she was making before she forgot where she put the gift card she had purchased in the display.

More gift card fun:

We have a new return policy starting on September 1st, which has cause a lot of, um, fun.

The customer is now supposed to return items within 14 days, and must have a receipt. The biggest exception to the new rule is that gift receipts will be accepted for 60 days.

So, I had one customer look at the new policy and yell "WHAT DO YOU MEAN GIFT CARDS ARE ONLY GOOD FOR 60 DAYS?!

Yay reading comprehension!