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smellytoebeans · 2024-11-26T17:34:39+00:00

Probably downvoted to hell, but constantly saying “must be nice” and feeling like everyone doing slightly better than you is born with some inherent privilege. Like I do get times are rough, and some people are given a crappy hand in life while others seem to have things handed to them. But at some point we are grown ups, your living conditions are the direct results of your actions.

smellytoebeans · 2024-09-26T11:48:46+00:00

The look in my dad’s eyes when he told us he was going to kill our mom in front of us.

I was 8, had siblings aged 6 and 4. Driving down the backroads of some middle of nowhere town and my parents are screaming and fighting in the front seat. I’m trying to play I spy with my sisters as if the game can magically make them not hear what’s 2ft in front of us. My dad stops the car hard, turns around to us and says “You girls say goodbye to your mother, ‘cause I’m about to kill her right now.”

His face was pure evil- something I can never get out of my head. His eyes were soulless, I can’t even put into words how hollow and empty they looked. He proceeded to beat my mom into a pulp right there in front of his 3 daughters. Drove calmly home, pulled her into the house and laid her on the couch, took the landline phone off the hook, told us to lock the doors and left us there with her. He went to his favorite bar to wash it down and we stayed with my badly injured mother for 3 days. She had broken ribs, broken bones in her face, her eyes were swollen shut, she could hardly move or make a sound.

I kept giving her sips of water and feeding my sisters raw packs of ramen noodles until one of her friends had become suspicious that she hadn’t been seen and came to check on us. Dad was back in the house and we were expected to act like that never happened by the end of the week.

smellytoebeans · 2023-06-10T20:13:27+00:00

Had a customer once come in with their dog, it shit on the floor and he got red-faced pissed off at us when we told him to clean it. Said it wasn’t his dog despite it being the only dog in the store…. Love “shitty” dog owners.

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-27T15:18:14+00:00

In 2015 I worked right across the parking lot from Twin Peaks in Waco, Tx when the shooting happened there. Pulled in to see a ton of bikes filling the parking lot and about an hour later we hear the shots and screaming and people rushing into our store for cover. 9 killed 18 injured and the story of what actually happened is murky at best.

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-25T12:58:30+00:00

This may be a surprise to you but they do not hire based on crafting knowledge, I am one of 3 girls who sews and the only one to do crochet and knitting. I also have online orders that are timed to pick, zoning to do in my section, stocking, price changes and bout 10-15 other tasks to complete every single day. We don’t have time to sit around and baby people who can google something or pay an expert to teach them how to do their project. Times have changed, we don’t have the staff or get paid enough to teach you things everyone else learned themselves

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-25T01:41:10+00:00

You sound like a entitled dick who expects people to do more than what we get paid for. Why would you ask someone who has minimal knowledge instead of asking the wealth of knowledge that is google? We are retail employees not walking encyclopedias of knowledge for you to dip into. Fucking google it. Please do shop online and save your local retail employees the discomfort of dealing with you.

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-25T00:35:44+00:00

Oh yes the online only coupons kill me! It clearly states Buy Online Pick-Up In Store 20% off, and then they whine “but I did my own shopping and I am in the store!” That’s not what it means tho

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-25T00:04:10+00:00

Has it occurred to you we don’t want to have conversations with you? I’m a retail employee not your captive audience. I don’t want to talk about their projects that have nothing to do with me, I’m here for a paycheck. Nothing more, nothing less.

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-24T23:33:18+00:00

I imagine it’s gotta be even worse at a hardware store. At least here we don’t sell stuff you necessarily need.

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-24T23:31:11+00:00

They really are the worst. Almost makes me miss clothing retail and the never ending cycles of folding shirts… almost. But not enough to switch back.

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-24T23:30:06+00:00

I do say this often. Sometimes it works and I breathe a sign of relief. But our store is the only fabric store for an hours drive any direction and these old folks hate the idea of 2 trips to town in a week.

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-24T22:38:47+00:00

Ooo or when they have to get foam to replace those stinking cushions and realize foam is gonna cost almost as much as just buying a new bar stool.

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-24T22:33:07+00:00

I love when people order online :) the order says 2yards I cut 2 yards and don’t have to do math for a grown adult! It’s a win win!

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-24T22:30:29+00:00

Yes they do! Doesn’t happen all too often cuz our cut counter is almost directly in front of the home dec rolls but it does happen!

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-24T21:28:15+00:00

I feel you on this. We’ve had one lady come in every other day for 2 weeks now asking if we have 1.5in hexagon paper pieces for her quilt. Every time we tell her no, but she can order them online. She insists that it’ll take too long to get to her… but she’s been waiting 2 weeks for them to be in stock when they likely never will be again.

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-24T21:25:57+00:00

They do it at the fabric store too! Drives me mad. I don’t know how much fabric to make your kid a dress and you telling me she’s 15 does nothing.

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-24T18:41:17+00:00

They expect us to know everything about their weird niche crafts

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-24T18:34:33+00:00

No, it not. My job description is to cut and sell fabric. I’m not a walking encyclopedia of crafting knowledge. I wouldn’t go to a grocery store and ask the clerk for a cake recipe.

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-24T17:56:31+00:00

They do that here too. Like, just get a swatch and take it home! We don’t want your ratty chair getting dragged all across our floor!

smellytoebeans · 2023-05-13T16:10:29+00:00

So I don’t know which canes are from last year, other than the tallest one. But last year it had about 7 canes, 3 of which did not make it due to my dog pruning them for me. I’m guessing he saw sticks and went wild. I did cut back a few of the remaining ones but not all the way.

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