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Some customers can turn an empty parking space into a full-blown personal crisis.<\/p>\n
One shopper<\/a> was furious about eight accessible spots in a crowded grocery lot.<\/p>\n She wanted more parking, despite the store being surrounded by city streets.<\/p>\n Her final solution was truly something.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s see how this one played out.<\/p>\n This is random and happened years ago, but it still bothers me a bit. I worked for a long time for a grocery store chain.<\/p>\n This is about when I was a lowly assistant manager.<\/p>\n On this occasion, I was working at a store in a downtown area that had been gentrified. The building the store was in used to be something else so its layout was unique.<\/p>\n One busy afternoon, I got called up front to \u201chelp a customer,\u201d which was always a code for a complaint. I straightened my awful company tie and headed up front.<\/p>\n The customer in question was a conservatively dressed older women (CDOW).<\/p>\n A rude customer started to ask about the parking spaces.<\/p>\n CDOW: How many handicapped parking spots do you have?<\/p>\n ME: I\u2019m not sure ma\u2019am (looking out the window into the parking lot), about 6, I think. I see there are some empty ones.<\/p>\n CDOW: You have eight. Why do you have so many?<\/p>\n ME: Well, I know we are required to have a certain number but I don\u2019t know what that number is.<\/p>\n CDOW: You are required to have 8?<\/p>\n ME: I\u2019m not sure. Probably.<\/p>\n CDOW: Are you the manager? Why don\u2019t you know? (at this point she wanted me to understand that I was scum of the earth and likely an impostor)<\/p>\n This manager explained rationally.<\/p>\n Me: (This flipped my switch from \u201cbend over backwards\u201d mode to \u201csay whatever to get this witch out of my face\u201d mode.) Assistant Manager and it has never come up before.<\/p>\n CDOW: I come to this store every day and I spend a lot of money here. I can never find a parking space because your parking lot is too small and you\u2019re wasting all that space on empty handicapped parking spaces.<\/p>\n ME: Yes the parking lot is small, but you know this building used to be a major old school department store and so when we turned it into the grocery store the parking lot was already in place. One of the costs of being in such a neat area, I guess.<\/p>\n But she wasn\u2019t satisfied with the answers and stormed off.<\/p>\n CDOW: you should have put in more parking.<\/p>\n ME: I wish we could have but the building and the current parking lot are bounded on all four sides by city streets.<\/p>\n CDOW: If you couldn\u2019t provide me parking you shouldn\u2019t even have a store here (storms off)<\/p>\n ME: (under my breath) well, that would clear up your parking problem \u2026<\/p>\n Never Miss a Story<\/p>\n Sign up to get our BEST stories of the week straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re not going to listen, don\u2019t bother asking.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s read some of the reactions of other users.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a hilarious response.<\/p>\n This one shares a valid opinion.<\/p>\n This makes sense.<\/p>\n If you enjoyed this story, check out this post<\/a> about an employee who isn\u2019t happy with the company\u2019s new time tracking rules, so decides to find a way around them.<\/p>\n And here\u2019s another funny retort.<\/p>\n An older customer argued that empty accessible spaces were being wasted because she couldn\u2019t park nearby.<\/p>\n When told the lot couldn\u2019t expand, she suggested that the entire store shouldn\u2019t exist there.<\/p>\n Enjoyed this story? Readers who liked this also read this story<\/a> about a grocery cashier who gets into a standoff with a customer who hasn\u2019t paid for everything in their basket.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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