USAF385
US Veteran
I've been preoccupied the past few weeks finishing my basement. It was half finished a few years back and I'm finishing the rest of it to make it all nice and... finished.
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Anyway, I was in my local Home Depot today picking up some quarter round moulding when this woman came up to me.
"Oh good, don't go anywhere!" she exclaimed while she pulled out her phone.
I was kind of curious to see where this was going, and I wasn't in much of a rush, so I waited patiently as she fumbled with her phone. I've been asked plenty of times in the past to help someone in a store with something.... get an item off a shelf or something like that. At first I thought that was where this was going.
Nope.
She pulled up a picture of a bar-code that she had taken. Apparently she had purchased some moulding recently and wanted to get more of the same, but she didn't know where to find it. I was rather confused why she'd be asking me this when it dawned on me....
.... I was wearing an orange shirt. She though I was an employee. Not some home depot like shirt... no.. an orange t-shirt that says "AIR FORCE" in big letters with "Davis Monthan AFB" underneath. I had to laugh since I was in very grubby jeans and looked rather disheveled. It's not like I was wearing the home depot apron! I let her go on with her question and then did what most people in my position would have done:
I played along. I had worked in customer service in the past and have gotten pretty good at bar code deciphering and decoding the product layouts in stores, so I read the bar code and quickly found what she was looking for. Of course, she needed a specific length but wasn't sure how much. She said she needed 96 inches but wasn't sure how much she should take. I told her I generally go a foot or two over and she thought that sounded good, so she wanted a ten foot length.
I then realized I was going to have to cut the molding for her in order to keep on playing along, so naturally I toss it on the cutting table, pull out my measuring tape, and cut her a nice ten foot section. I handed it to her and asked "Is there anything else?".
She then asked where the paint section was, and since I've been buying copious amounts of paint (my fiance loves painting) I was able to point her in the right direction.
So.. BE WARNED! Do not wear orange to the Home Depot unless you want to be put to work!
I just hope she told the cashier how helpful the young man in the lumber department was.
This has actually happened to me before in Gander Mountain... I was wearing khaki pants with a green polo and someone came up and asked me where they could find a certain product. Again, I happened to know where it was....
** I just deleted a big long paragraph where I went off topic describing everything I've been doing.
**Anyway, I was in my local Home Depot today picking up some quarter round moulding when this woman came up to me.
"Oh good, don't go anywhere!" she exclaimed while she pulled out her phone.
I was kind of curious to see where this was going, and I wasn't in much of a rush, so I waited patiently as she fumbled with her phone. I've been asked plenty of times in the past to help someone in a store with something.... get an item off a shelf or something like that. At first I thought that was where this was going.
Nope.
She pulled up a picture of a bar-code that she had taken. Apparently she had purchased some moulding recently and wanted to get more of the same, but she didn't know where to find it. I was rather confused why she'd be asking me this when it dawned on me....
.... I was wearing an orange shirt. She though I was an employee. Not some home depot like shirt... no.. an orange t-shirt that says "AIR FORCE" in big letters with "Davis Monthan AFB" underneath. I had to laugh since I was in very grubby jeans and looked rather disheveled. It's not like I was wearing the home depot apron! I let her go on with her question and then did what most people in my position would have done:
I played along. I had worked in customer service in the past and have gotten pretty good at bar code deciphering and decoding the product layouts in stores, so I read the bar code and quickly found what she was looking for. Of course, she needed a specific length but wasn't sure how much. She said she needed 96 inches but wasn't sure how much she should take. I told her I generally go a foot or two over and she thought that sounded good, so she wanted a ten foot length.
I then realized I was going to have to cut the molding for her in order to keep on playing along, so naturally I toss it on the cutting table, pull out my measuring tape, and cut her a nice ten foot section. I handed it to her and asked "Is there anything else?".
She then asked where the paint section was, and since I've been buying copious amounts of paint (my fiance loves painting) I was able to point her in the right direction.
So.. BE WARNED! Do not wear orange to the Home Depot unless you want to be put to work!
I just hope she told the cashier how helpful the young man in the lumber department was.
This has actually happened to me before in Gander Mountain... I was wearing khaki pants with a green polo and someone came up and asked me where they could find a certain product. Again, I happened to know where it was....
