Last Minute Shoppers

 I will never understand the last minute shoppers.

Like. Sure. I get that you forgot to get food and didn't realize you were out and need to dash out to grab a bag so that you can get your pet their dinner.

But it's the customers who like...decide to gather all the supplies they need for a new pet...ten minutes before we close. Or the ones that decide that they need a new pet...ten minutes before we close.

It's just weird. 

I don't understand why people would wait all day to do that last minute. Or impulse buy things....it's just weird. 

And it's sooo annoying for us workers who just want to get everyone out of the store and the doors locked for the night.

It would be nice to close actually on time. And not have to wait for the last minute shoppers to finish their last minute shopping.

Tonight was one of those nights.

Where there were a ton of last minute people in the store. *exhales*

The worst though was a mob of like 20 college students -all in pairs- who came in ten minutes before we closed. None were wearing masks which was irritating. But the worst thing was that they all wanted a single goldfish each. So like 10 goldfish total. But each pair was buying one so they had to be bagged separately.

And it wasn't a simple catch and grab. No the kids wanted to pick their goldfish as they were looking for the 'fastest swimmers' 

Which led me to believe that they were wanting to race the goldfish (how would one do that?) and such and that we probably shouldn't be selling said fish to the group. 

Only my newbie petcare person had already helped like half of them. So it would be hard to say "no you can't" when half of them already did.

So I ended up swooping into the rescue to help catch the goldfish as quickly as possible to get everyone out of the store as we only had like 5 minutes until close and a good 5 or 6 more people needing help.

Which since I have like...8.5 years of experience at work catching fish....it was a cinch for me to catch the specific goldfish the college kids wanted.

Which impressed them with how quickly I could scoop them all out and get them bagged as it was taking my coworker a lot longer to catch the fish for the other people. 

Yay experience lol.

And it was great to get complimented so much in like the five minutes I helped out.

But didn't stop me from being annoyed at the kids for being last minute shoppers and needing a 'complicated' order at the end of the work day. XP 

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

-Sarnic Dirchi