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What is going on everyone and welcome to our slash in title parents.

Now today's first story, as you can tell by the title, is one of the weirdest requests

from a customer I've ever heard asking an employee, why aren't you smiling?

It's a weird one, let's get into it.

Why aren't you smiling?

One of my biggest pet peeves when working in retail was the countless times that customers

got mad over situations that were out of the employee's control.

Being out of a certain item, machines breaking, price changes, items being reshelved, everything

that was left to the higher ups, not the overworked and underpaid staff.

I've got many stories of people thinking I can magically make their favourite items

be back in stock, or that I could change the price of a certain item.

Here's one story where the outcome was actually satisfying for a change.

When I was 18, I used the work at a convenience store, and one of our regulars was an elderly

lady who bought the same bottle of off-brand Frappuccino and smokes every single day.

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