(warning: long story)
So, I thought I’d share another tale from my time working at a pool store several years ago! Be forewarned, this is a serious wall of text coming.
As anyone who has worked in retail knows, you will always have at least a few quirky “regulars” who come in to your store. Sometimes it’s a good kind of quirky, like “She bakes cookies a lot and so brings us some when she comes in.” Sometimes, however, it’s a bad kind of quirky. This one customer we used to have was the bad kind of quirky.
This customer (not his real name, but we’ll call him Mr. Rogers, because I always thought he looked like he could be Mr. Rogers’ evil twin brother) had a nasty habit of coming in to the store about 5 min. before we close. This would happen every time he came. Now, when doing a water test back then, it would take a couple of minutes. we didn’t have those fancy colorimeters that use lasers to measure the chemicals. We were doing old-fashioned titration and using other reagents to measure everything. Normally it didn’t take too long, but it definitely took longer after we had already cleaned everything up for the night. Not to mention, it can be a messy process, meaning we’d have to clean everything again before we close up.
This is a truly wonderful story, and should totally be read.
