Bad customers

Posted by Janice on October 25, 2009

This morning I woke up early and decided to do some shopping.  I needed to go to Wal-Mart to pick up a few things, and I had a $30 gift card burning a hole in my pocket!  So off I went!  Walking down the main aisle past the pharmacy I noticed a young man lying on the floor, squirming around, a big grin frozen on his face!  I thought maybe he was having a seizure!  I asked him “are you all right?”  He just continued to squirm, and as I watched it was evident that he had something spilled on his left knee that he was trying to wipe on the floor!  I saw an older man about fifteen feet further down that same aisle looking at something on the shelf.  I called out “excuse me sir, is this man with you?” 

He looked up and said “yes, he is, why?”  I pointed to the man on the floor, and the older guy came up to him and made him get up, saw that he had broken some kind of gel container and was wiping it on the floor.  He was asking “what on earth did you do?”  Confident that the older man was now in proper charge I went ahead with my shopping.  About twenty minutes later I walked past that section of the store and saw the gel still smeared all over the floor!  I just had to shake my head at the nerve of that older man not contacting an employee to clean up that mess.  I imagine he also didn’t bother to pay for the item his companion had broken.  Things like this make me sad.