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funny walmart story

crosspost from: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=444469

So I generally choose not to patronize walmart for several moral reasons...but today I was in desperate need of some CD-Rs so I could mail a file to my university and the only place anywhere near me that sells them is Wally world. So I grudgingly got on my bike and made the 4 mile ride on some pretty dangerous roads only to find that they have no form of bike rack whatsoever. That's typical for this area so I've become used to just taking my bike into stores...in fact I usually use the basket on the back as a shopping cart.

So I walk into the walmart and the most evil grandmother I've ever met grabs my arm with her claws and says I can't bring it into the store. I explained to here there was nowhere outside to lock it up and that I had brought it into that particular store with no problem. She insisted that I had to leave it in the foyer and I calmly said that I wasn't going to leave a 600 dollar bike just sitting in the foyer and that I'd like to speak to her manager.

So the manager comes out and says I can't bring the bike into the store, so I explain to her that there are safe places for people who drive to lock their cars but there is no safe place for me to lock my mode of transportation. She says that I should have driven there I told her that I didn't own a car and that my bike was my only form of transportation and I couldn't risk having it stolen. She said I couldn't bring it in because they sell bikes in the store. So I said but those bikes don't look anything like this and this is clearly not a brand new bike, so why is that a problem. She insisted that for the safety of the other customers I couldn't bring it inside, so I asked her why she thought a bike controlled by an adult was more dangerous than a shopping cart being pushed around by someone's bratty kids. So she switched back to the excuse that they sell bikes in the store so I couldn't bring another bicycle in. I was starting to get really frustrated since I had ridden all the way there seemingly for no reason, so I asked her if they also sold shirts in the store. She said yes so I took off my jersey and said well then I'd better not bring this in either. She got kind of flustered and said that it was a different situation but couldn't explain why. So I said that if they also sold shorts in the store that I'd better not wear those in either and I took off my shorts. Same goes for the shoes and sunglasses. Now I'm standing there in my spandex and a sports bra and I ask here if I can leave my things behind the customer service counter where they will be safe until I finish making my purchases and she said that I couldn't come into the store without shoes on, to which i responded "but I certainly can't wear shoes into the store because you sell those here and someone might think I've stolen them." She threatened to call security if I didn't leave so I told her that I would never be coming back to that store again and that I was glad I hadn't driven there since the gas to go four miles was probably more expensive than what her underpaid employees make in an hour.

Her expression when the shirt came off was absolutely priceless...I was pretty tempted to take off the spandex too but I wasn't sure what constitutes indecent exposure in Virginia so I figured I'd err on the side of caution. Still I had a decent sized crowd gathered before the end of the discussion. Anybody else have issues with Satan's superstore?

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incredible.

it reminds me of the time that i tried getting a 7-11 slurpie in a travel mug and it totally freaked the guy out. it was a 20 oz travel mug, and he said in a stern, annoyed voice "none of our slurpie cups are this size.....I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO CHARGE YOU." I said, "I don't know dude, uh...medium? That's bigger than this, i don't mind paying the extra dime." With a huff and rolled eyes, he reluctantly rang me up. then he said with the same tone, "people just dont get slurpies in travel mugs." to which i replied, "sorry i ruined your day, man. just trying to save a tree."

people freak their shit when something is "different." especially in a culture like 7-11 or walmart.

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Yeah, this was my experience running a climbing gym. Some employees could deal with a degree of flexibility in their decision making (that is, I trusted them to make the right decision in particular situations where "rules" could be bent), others just couldn't. It was by the book or nothing.

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Great Wal-mart story! Um, yeah...after the top and shorts came off how could you not say ok, but thats just me.
Here's a strange one. Next time anyone is in the Kennywood area go to the Dairy Queen across the street(down the road a bit) try ordering an Ultimate Burger w/o the tomato. They wont do it and the explination I was given was that it would no longer be an Ultimate burger. My wife didnt believe me so years later we went back with her family and I ordered again minus the tomato and was given the same answer, this time I argued I was alergic to the red fruit but to no avail. I was directed to another menu item that didnt have tomato. Give it a shot, it's wierd!

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walmart sucks anyway. you're better off.

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But stuff is so cheap there! All that nice made in China stuff. People wonder why gas prices are so flippin high.

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crazy story. sounds like some shit i would do.

i think it's funny to watch "rank and file" people flip-flop as they are forced to think outside of their tiny box by someone presenting obvious logical flaws in the reasoning (or lack thereof) behind the rules that they blindly follow.

try using the "wrong" cup to get a mountain dew squishee at the 7-11 by william pitt union. lady actually made me dump the squishee into another cup and threw the other one away! WTF?!

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lady actually made me dump the squishee into another cup and threw the other one away! WTF?!

I have heard the excuse that they use the number of cups to track their sales. So, if you sell X number of medium drinks you better have used the same number of cups.

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Which still doesn't explain why they made them throw away the "wrong" cup.

But yes I've heard that as well.

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dammit... "reload" is my enemy. no way to "delete" an accidental post? oh well.