Meijer

• A cute guy came up to me and asked where the Housewares Department was and came back a few minutes later and asked me out on a date but had to turn him down because I was already in a relationship.
• Discovered an abandoned cart completely full of groceries in our Juniors Department, complete with melted ice cream, spoiled meat and warm milk. It's like they put everything that could possibly go bad and left it there for a laugh. Lame.
• A guy committed suicide by shooting himself in his car in the parking lot.
• A guy tried to get a cash advance from a stolen credit card and took off running across the store but was caught by security because his ride took off without him.
• When we were closing the store in 5 minutes on Christmas Eve (the only time the store EVER closed) and people were still flooding in to get last minute things. My co-worker, Margaret, saw a woman grab a cart and she ran up to her, took her cart and yelled in her face "We're closing!!!" My hero. :)
• A homeless man would always come into the store around 2 or 3 AM once a week. He would walk around for a couple hours, buy a soda but never bothered anyone or anything. The perfect customer!
• When a girl came up to me to asked if she could use the dressing room so she could try on some clothes. I said, "Sure, go on in, it's open." Unknown to me, her boyfriend followed her into the women's dressing room. Security came over and asked if I allowed the boyfriend to go in too. "Umm, no!" Luckily there was no other women in the dressing room at the time.
• I was working the day before New Year's Eve 1999 and as I was restocking, this crazy lady randomly starts talking to me about Y2K stuff. I wasn't really paying attention to her but the last thing she said to me was "I don't think Y2K is gonna be a big deal because the power goes off every year when the new year changes over anyway!" I gave her a WTF face and she walked away.
• When I got lots of free food and drink coupons to use in their cafe from Security Lady because she was impressed by how good a job I was doing. Through years of working in retail, this was the only time I've ever been rewarded for a job well done. Sad. :(

Carson Pirie Scott

• Co-worker and I were talking about being sad that we couldn't visit our out-of-state families for Christmas because we were working on Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas so it wouldn't be possible to travel. Some bitch comes up to us and says "I couldn't help but overhear that you wouldn't be seeing your families for Christmas. Well my son is in Iraq and I won't be seeing him at all!! I'm taking my business to Macy's!!" She then slammed her jewelry on the counter and stomped off. Like it's our fault that her son is in Iraq? WTF??
• A guy wanted to buy a 75% off watch with a 20% off coupon. The coupon clearly states that clearance items are not valid with that offer. He couldn't except that, so he stormed off saying "I'm going to report you to customer service!" They probably just laughed at him because I never heard anything about it.
• An hispanic lady handed me her items, her credit card and simply said "Pay". It was apparently one of the few English words she knew.
• A woman never stopped talking on her cell phone the entire time I was ringing her purchases up. When I told her the total, she literally threw her credit card at me and continued talking. That phone call must have been very important.