Frustration

I need to vent about four  things today.

1.    1.    Promises not kept. I am getting more and more frustrated with some people making commitments that they do not keep. I wonder how sincere some are at the time they make the promise? I don’t mind the truth, I really don’t. I know that sometimes the truth can be very brutal but I would rather hear the brutal truth then be told a shallow promise. Honestly, I am really weary because this is becoming the norm and not the exception.

2.     2.   I love our customers, I really do. I would do anything for the majority of our customers. But…there are a few people who come into our shops and expect to take up a table for four people, use the WiFi all without even buying a cookie. We are a “for profit” business and when people do this the paying customers may not have a place to sit. It isn’t fair to our regulars and paying customers and in general it is just poor manners. What is even worse than that; people bring in food and drink from outside our business and expect to use our tables, trash, bathrooms, WiFi, and not buying a damn thing! Hello!!! Seriously, do you think Outback would let you bring a steak in from Texas Roadhouse and eat it there??? Then don’t bring a cup of coffee in from McDonalds and expect us to let you use our seats, tables, etc… I would just be embarrassed to do this someplace. The real kicker is when you ask them to purchase something and they get mad! You mean to tell me you are mad because I want you to purchase something at my store that is supplying you with a table and WiFi that you will use for the next four hours? OMG, HOW DARE ME!

3.      3.  Smokers! I smoke, Okay I admit it but I am a neat smoker. I have no real issue with someone smoking; I own a smoke shop after all!  We have two ashtrays outside our building on Wabash. One ashtray is on the West side and one is one the east side and yet smokers still throw their buts on the ground! We sweep up dozens of cigarette butts every day. These ashtrays are in view, you can’t miss them.  Another thing smokers will is do put their cigarettes out on the building. Who they hell raised you that you would think putting your cigarettes out on my building is in any way acceptable???  …and pick up your trash. Smokers are the biggest litterers. There is a trash can on the west end of the building, throw your trash in it please!

4.     4.  Sam’s Wholesale Club. Look people, just because they have little old ladies giving away free samples of food on the weekends please don’t think you sample everything else too! Who does this? Who opens the pickle jar to sample it? Four times I have picked up a jar of pickles and four times I have gotten pickle juice down my arm. I hate pickle juice! Really, if you’re hungry I will buy you a jar of pickles, it only cost $4.00 for a jar the size of a Buick so you can have all the pickles you want. 

Thanks for letting me vent!!!