Target lessons

So, if you follow me on Twitter and/or hit up Eagan Target frequently then you know that I work there a lot... With that reality, there are a lot of positives and negatives. Negative: I miss out on a lot of shit, Positive: I get a lot of frequent customers that come through my lane who I build a somewhat relationship with. I've got a set of old ladies who always come through my lane when I'm working the morning shifts and buy Yogurt Parfaits. They then proceed to ask me to take the lid off the parfait---old women will never learn. One of my favorite regulars is this 50 year old dude i call "Coupon Man."

He earned the name after I was first introduced to him about a year back. He came through my line with 400 dollars worth of shit. He left my line only spending 160 dollars. Fairly impressive, eh? Coupon Man is that dude.... or so I thought.

He's always been super nice to me. Like, one of those old men that continue to call younger teenagers "Man" or "Dude" to help them feel like they're still in the same age bracket (We all have an uncle who is guilty of this..). While I was scanning his items, he would always tell me stories of his morning runs or of the parties that he throws at his cabin. He even invited me to go up to his cabin sometime (which in hindsight is a creepy request from a 50 year old man), but he was just that nice of a guy.

Tonight, he came through my line with 20 12-packs of Coke. We have a sale going on where each 12 pack of coke products are only $2.50, so I don't blame the dude for trying to save a couple bucks and load up on those pops (and he most definitely had a couple coupons to cut the cost even more). However, my manager, who was nearby, spotted what Coupon Man was doing and she told him that he can only buy 6 packs of pop with that current sale. Coupon Man (i'm gonna call him CM from now on) was pissed.

"Well where the hell did it say that?! I didn't see that shit written anywhere. You know what, screw it! You take it back then lady! I can't believe this!!"

When my manager (who is actually a fairly nice woman, herself) proceeded to return his pops to the back of the store where they came from, CM continued to bad-mouth her to me.

"Can you believe they give women like her power?! No brains, but has a badge! Am I right, Jack man?"

-___-            (my first ever stale face emoticon. dope)

I was super caught off guard. This is the same guy that invited me to his cabin and told me that I probably have the women flocking over me.

Lesson of the night: You can never truly judge somebody until you see how they react to something NOT going their way.

Think about it.

-Jack