Walking Among Us

I figured the day was probably going to be weird when I arrived at work only to see a customer standing in the parking lot staring at our front doors.

Like...we have this little 'through road' that goes in front of store that's between the building and the main parking lot.

And the dude was standing in the middle of that road. You know...where cars like to drive by...staring at our doors with his dog in hand.

It was kinda creepy....like he gave off such a weird energy. Like that of a gun slinger preparing for a gun fight....with our doors.

Apparently he'd shown up 20 minutes earlier for Grooming.

But Grooming hadn't opened yet. And the customer apparently took the refusal to be let into the store that early....in an odd way?

Like what normal person stands in the middle of the road staring at our doors?

*exhales*

He even had a cowboy accent when I asked him if he was there for grooming and let him in...

So weird.

But I tried to put the odd encounter from my mind....

Only to more....odd customers entering the store.

Like I don't know if it was a day for the old gods to walk among us, or if the Fae were out in number.

(Or like half these people seemed to be stoned/tripping on drugs) but

I also interacted with a hippie like gentleman who moseyed his way into the store in pjs and a sweatshirt with a cup of starbucks in hand and when I asked him if he needed any help he was like "How's the playground here? You all getting along well enough at the pet store?" 

Like....O.o definite hippie speak. 

And after chatting for like a minute he continued on down the aisle to the back of the store where he stared at the crates lining them for like thirty seconds....before he turned around and walked right back out the front doors.

Didn't stop.

Didn't shop.

Just in and out.

So weird.

We had another couple in the store as well....also in pjs....who came in soon after we opened....and literally shopped in our store for FIVE hours.

They didn't leave until like nearly 3pm. 

It was like they had to look at every single item in the store.

And they ended up not buying a good twenty of the who knows how many items they eventually brought up.

It was crazy.

Like who spends FIVE hours in a store that they don't work at? Especially a pet store?

Like at most I could see people spending an hour here as they decide what products to get for their pets and such.

But FIVE hours?

*shakes head*

Such a weird day today at work.

Such a weird day.

Until you next find these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi