Art by Shel Silverstein, via Rachel Hills.

Client: Can you change it to say “Continue” instead of “Skip?”

Me: Of course!  It’s funny, that’s actually what I originally put there but you asked me to change it. It’s nice to be right once in a -

Client: NO! YOU WERE NOT RIGHT! I WAS RIGHT! TWICE!

(Retail | Illinois, USA)

(We have candy canes leftover from a holiday event sitting on a shelf above my register. A woman has just left her seven or eight year old daughter guarding a second load of purchases while she puts the rest in the car. The daughter is clutching a care-worn doll.)

Girl: *very politely* “Excuse me, I noticed you seem to have a bowl of candy canes up there. May I have one?”

Me: “Sure, as long as your mother says it’s alright.”

Girl: “Well then, I guess you will have to ask her, or I will have to ask, or…” *lowers her voice* “…the doll’s soul will have to ask.”

Me: “You know what? I can ask her. Yeah. I can totally ask her.”

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