News from WalMart...

So I work for WalMart...(insert joke here)...and most of the time I don't mind it. It allows for plenty of funny stories. The store I work at is not a Supercenter, it is just a little grocery WalMart. I handle at the service desk all kinds of complaints and questions, as well as helping people use our little digital photo kiosks, and making balloon bouquets when people order them. But we don't do that awesome Harmon's thing where we just give out free balloons.

I was complaining to a coworker about an adorable...but totally bratty!...little girl who was BEGGING non stop for a balloon for the whole 5 minutes it took me to help her mom make some money orders. Finally I was finished helping her mom and I decided to go ahead and give her a balloon. So I ask what color, I put the string on, curl the ribbon, and bring it back to her. She doesn't thank me...she says, "I want one of those clips." (These are the weights that we put on the bouquets.) I said no. (Hee-hee!) Anyway, a few minutes later, as my coworker and I have moved on to another subject, a man comes to the counter where we are talking. This is a man, probably mid to late 20's. And he asks for a balloon. He was apparently standing near enough to our counter to have heard our story, as he burst out laughing at the looks on our faces and then walked away to check out.

As everyone knows, I like to have the last word...and so as not to be out done, I made him a balloon...and presented it to him at the register as he was checking out. He was SO embarrassed! And I still laugh at his not-small form walking out of the store with his little blue balloon in hand. It was awesome.