I hate when customers won't leave at store closing time, so I make a clever plan to get rid of them.

I've worked in a supermarket for ten years.

You get your share of Karens, and the only thing you can do is smile politely.

But what I hated even more after an eight-hour shift and having to close up the supermarket

were the customers who came in five to ten minutes

before closing, who just do their shopping like no one else wants to go home. There was a time that I was

scheduled every Friday closing shift and pretty much every Saturday closing shift. The store closed at

eight. We weren't open on Sundays back then. Also, on Saturday, we had to take out all the

cash drawers and manually count all the money. We could start doing this when all the customers had

left and the front and back doors were locked. So, customers coming in five to ten minutes before

closing time and taking their sweet, sweet time to shop, were hated. Hated with passion. My shop had a procedure.

We'd barricade our entrance and turn our front door on only opening when people wanted to leave

the store at about five minutes before closing. We'd remind customers at quarter to 10 and

5 to closing time that the store was going to close and please go

and pay for your groceries. Normally, we had very few incidents. This one, however, is burned

in my memory. It was a Saturday. As head of the cashiers for that night, I had the honor to make

or break the day of our beloved customers. I'd had to deal with

my fair share of Karen's, male and female, and I just wanted to go home. So I followed the

procedure, asked one of my fellow money handlers to set the front door and stay there to handle any

customer. At two minutes before closing time, a man comes running to the door. My colleague

asks what he needs and reminds him that the store is going to close and he won't have

much time. He says he just needs formula. Since I was busy with the customer, she let him in. Guy

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