customers_suck

Greetings! First time poster.

I do a regular weekly shift at a charity store I won't name, whose organisation's initials are SA and is famous for its brass bands, if you follow me. Anyway, onward.

I'm working on the register last Saturday when a harmless-looking old woman comes up to pay for something - a religious book, as it happens. Not my kink, but to each their own. She asks me if I've ever read anything by the book's author - no I haven't, I reply. She asks me if I've heard of the guy that's written the foreword - again, no I haven't. She gushes about the book's author and the guy that wrote the foreword for a minute or two, and I smile and nod. We do get customers that will have (usually short) conversations with staff. That isn't the suck.

No, the suck is that instead of having a short conversation and leaving it at that, the lady then proceeds to door-stop me - i.e., what felt like 30 minutes of proselytizing. Have I accepted Jesus, state of my soul, etc., etc. A couple of things she said I very nearly responded to, like when she said something about the state of a person's soul being the most important issue, but didn't, because hey, this is a charity store, and that wouldn't be charitable.

But she just. Kept. Going. This lady had come into the store, bought one 50-cent book, got a free plastic bag into the bargain - and somehow this means she can take the next however long to try and convert whatever staff she comes into contact with. Finally, she left, leaving me with a seriously raised blood pressure level. Half an hour later, she came back - only this time I was in the back, looked out, saw her, and stayed in the back.

(According to the manager, this lady has been in before, and is a Jehovah's Witness. Again, not my kink, and if she's happy with that, great - so long as I don't have to be involved. But you have to really wonder at the lack of consideration of a person that not only a) won't stop trying to convert someone when their entire body language is screaming 'GO AWAY PLSTHX' and b) goes into a store run by another Christian denomination to do it.)

Thankfully, a customer this annoying is a rare commodity. If I see this woman, again, however...I'm on break. Don't care if she sticks around 'till Doomsday, I'm on break.

Thanks for listening, and I hope I passed that audition! :)