11-23-2012, 05:44 PM | #196 |
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Every day is the carnival at the shop!
I didn't tell the story about the midget on my first day. It wasn't that important, but there was a midget in. And he was tailing this woman who was looking to try to sell us the world's worst student acoustic guitar. For five minutes I thought it was her kid in tow, and so did my coworker. But no, at the last minute we realized it was a midget. (And every Friday is Black Friday...!) |
11-25-2012, 08:29 AM | #197 |
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Yesterday an elderly gent came in and paid the last $25 of many regular layaway payments on an alto sax.
He was overjoyed to have made the last payment, and gave me a fist bump when I handed him the instrument. As he walked away, I turned over the last layaway receipt he got, the one we gave him last week, that showed he had one final $25 payment to make. |
11-25-2012, 09:30 AM | #198 |
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Hey, you got any pogo sticks?
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11-25-2012, 09:37 AM | #199 |
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Not unless that's code for something?
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11-25-2012, 11:00 AM | #200 |
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Lol, no ... Ripley put it on her list... Theyre not cheap!
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11-25-2012, 02:20 PM | #201 |
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Ref: "HORN"
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11-25-2012, 03:37 PM | #202 |
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Uplifting.
Thanks for sharing, UT. I love this thread.
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11-27-2012, 08:35 AM | #203 |
To shreds, you say?
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We find them at the transfer station. I'll keep an eye out for one.
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11-27-2012, 08:37 AM | #204 |
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What's a transfer station?
My middle niece (of the younger set) got a pogo stick for christmas last year and she spends HOURS on it. We'd laugh so hard, we'd be inside and there would be S's little head bouncing up into sight of the window. Boing boing boing. |
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11-27-2012, 11:47 AM | #206 |
To shreds, you say?
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Sort of.
Here, it's you buy a ticket (2.75) to take your trash to the transfer station (recyclables are free) and then you pay a boatload of taxes to have the trash sent to a burnplant.
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11-27-2012, 12:09 PM | #207 |
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Can anyone go to the transfer station?
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11-27-2012, 12:19 PM | #208 |
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A guy comes in and wants $5 to get to the Children's Hospital to visit his son. He attempts to get us to buy an ancient boombox. We don't take it.
He comes back with the boombox that he uses in his kitchen. It's newer, but it's covered in grease and the antenna is broken off. I explain that we have to be able to resell these items and so a boombox covered in grease is not something we will take in pawn. He comes back with a highly scratched adult DVD, and a copy of the 3rd season of Martin. We don't buy adult DVDs and we give him $1 for Martin. He's still out there somewhere looking for shitty items to bring us. But I don't think his son is at CHOP. I think he wants a bag o weed. This occurs every hour of every day. |
11-27-2012, 01:58 PM | #209 |
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Isn't CHOP rather a tactless nickname for a children's hospital?
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11-27-2012, 03:27 PM | #210 |
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Well, it could have been Children's Hospital University of Metropolitan Philadelphia... or CHUMP.....
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