Today

Okay, here we go with the noteworthy, sometimes irritating & just plain weird characters I've encountered that I can remember:

• in-a-hurry-no-need-for-a-fitting-room lady - It was your ordinary frantic Saturday. D & I were assigned at women's denim. An Eastern European (I'm assuming from her looks) lady grabbed (!) my arm and asked for her denim size. Okay, so I did the locator thing and walkie'd it back not knowing she already asked D to help her ( she apparently grabbed D's arm too) . Anyway, when the jeans came, she grabbed them from me and dropped her pants right there and tried on the pair. Yep, right there in plain sight on the sales floor. Imagine my horror! I immediately told her that we had TONS of fitting rooms in the back of the store but she just shrugged me off. Uhm, okay, whatever you want. I ended up shuffling around trying to cover her like I was playing patintero which was silly. Why oh why did I even feel embarassed for her!?! They probably don't have fitting rooms in their country's retail stores or something. HA! She was back in the store again a few days ago. I helped and made sure to shuffle her toward the rooms. Bah!

• that small talking DOM (dirty old man) - This was just Eew... He (a guy in his very late 30s probably w/ jet black hair, I'm thinking Italian) started like any other customer. He was asking for the 1969 belts. We didn't have any left so I ended up having to take off the one on the manequin. Okay... so blah blah blah, belt this, belt that. After awhile, he was telling me about his job (actor daw!), where he lived, what clothes he had THEN he suddenly asked out of nowhere for my number. UGH. Tantanan niyo ako ha!!! Ayaw ko na sa Men's! Buti kung bata, bata at may itsura noh! Ano ba!?! Biased eh!

• impatient-messing-everything-up couple - I noticed them going through the piles of boot cut cords so I asked what size they needed. They didn't need help daw! Okay fine! But I still insisted since they were messing up the tables big time. They kept moving from one table to the next. Mess here, mess there! ARGH. They couldn't decide whether they needed a 2R or 4R so I told them to compare the person they were buying the cords for to me. I'm a tiny person so I'm a zero. THEN, they change their minds. They asked for zeros now. When it took me awhile to find a couple of pairs BECAUSE of the mess they made, they bugged me impatiently. Don't these people get that it just doesn't work that way??? A size doesn't miraculously appear out of nowhere snap snap you know. I'd appreciate a little patience.

• booze lady - Now, I remember helping her once before. I sent her off to the fitting rooms with a couple of pairs. T then goes out looking for more sizes and told me that there was this seemingly drunken lady in rooms. She'd come out of the room with the jeans on and shake her booty in front of the mirror. It seemed that she reeked of liquor too. I was due to check rooms and haha! It was that lady I helped and she was indeed shaking her booty. When I went past her, I did smell liquor. She must have been tipsy or something. She must have spent close to two hours in the store. She spent a great deal of time talking. Hmm... I guess she had problems or something. I hope that in the time that she was in the store she was able to release some of the stress. sort of. haha =)

• rude trio - The LP agent asked me to monitor three persons who were acting weird. They were suspiciously floating around the store. Two guys and a girl. I offered assistance like we always do to let them know we see them and the girl snapped back and said " We DO NOT need assistance!" B*atch!!! Ang sarap sigawan na magnanakaw ka!!! Leche!

• tape measure woman - I was assigned in rooms yesterday. I had this one nag of a lady ask me to measure the hips of a pair of pants for her. Her idea of where the hips were was just waay off. She was being a prick about it and kept entering the space where we maintain clothes which was off limits. I had to tell her to just step out. I was alone for abit there so I had to leave her and attend to the others. When I went back, she was freaking in the off limits area again and this time, the stuff she said she was going to buy were on the cart with her bag. So I asked her politely to please take her stuff and we could deal with the hip-measure issue outside even if I was starting to lose patience with her. I wanted to snap "Woman, do me a favor and get out of there!!!" She wouldn't budge. Then I had to open doors again so I had to leave her. It was a good thing that A came back so she dealt with it. Why oh why do these people think that they are the ONLY people we have to attend to?!?

Okay, that's six stories!

About that job interview 'practice' this morning. The company turned out to be a PR/events promotions firm for mostly non-profit organizations (fundraisers & charities). THAT got me interested. They wanted to fill in an entry level management position in marketing I think. The interview was casual enough. It was like the person that interviewed me and I were just chatting. It went smoothly. I didn't think I'd hear from them right away but I got a call back this afternoon. I'm set to go with them to an event (I think) tomorrow as part of their screening process. I wonder how this will turn out. At this point, I really don't know what to think but I am curious. I'll find out more stuff tomorrow.

And oh, I also got more peaches and pears from the grocery. Soya milk too!