getsome
02-01-2011, 07:06 PM
Two stories, one great, one terrible...Went to my local gun shop Saturday afternoon to pick up some .44 special carry/house defence ammo and while there I took my S&W 4506 in with me to see if they had any leather holsters for it...The guy was super friendly and spent a good deal of time looking and did come up with a very nice holster made for a Browning High Power but it could just as easily have been made for my gun and it fit like a glove...The package was old and dusty and didn't have a price tag so he says how about $25.00 for it and Since I was thinking $60-80 for a nice well made holster that sounded great...He didn't even make fun of my bike inner tube on the grip...I got out with a nice holster and a box of 50 Winchester Silvertips for a shade over $50 bucks and had a nice conversation with the fellow to boot...Smiled all the way home.....Now for the bad...Later that evening the boss asked me to go to the grocery store for some items she needed for a wedding shower she was giving to some poor misguided child at church on Sunday afternoon...I said sure and headed to a close by store which I won't give out the name but it sounds like Kroger...I get there about 8:00pm or so and it closed at midnight but they were running all over the place with pallet jacks restocking shelves and blocking isles...Well got through that and found all the stuff on her list and a few items I wanted and headed to the check out and guess what, they had 18 check outs and NONE of them were open....The only way to get out was the self check out lane which i despise with a passion but gave it a try...Well after choosing English and cash I attempted to scan my first item which was a store package of celery but the plastic bar code was wrinkled and it wouldn't work so I hear ding ding customer assistance needed at isle 2 and here comes a fat arse lady with a scowl on her face and she couldn't get it to go either so I said forget it and moved on...I did get a couple items to work and came to my bag of cucumbers which had to be weighed but that wouldn't work so ding ding customer assistance needed at isle 2 so fat arse says what kind of cucumbers are these...I said big bumpy green ones, why?...So she gets an attitude and stomps off to the produce section to find the same thing I had, a big pile of cucumbers with no price on the sign...well she comes back and manually rings up a price and heads back to her non work station...Now I'm getting the hang of this POS until I get to the bag of dog food that wouldn't scan....yep ding ding customer assistance needed at isle 2 so she looks at it and says this is part of the recalled dog food from China and has to have a special code entered if I wanted it so I'm thinking yea I want to murder my dog why not but just kept cool and said no thanks and set it aside...Last item was a bag of ice that by this time was melting pretty good and it wouldn't scan...ding ding customer assistance needed at isle 2...I didn't wait for Godzilla and just left it leaking all over the place next to the 50 lb bag of poison dog food and went to put my cash in to the machine from he!!...The total was $54:00 and change so I put 3 brand new (from the ATM) $20.00 bills in and ding ding customer assistance needed at isle 2....Here she comes again looking at me like I was the dumbest hillbilly moron to ever fall off a turnip truck but the problem was that the machine was out of change and needed manager input in order to complete the transaction...So butt head stomps off to the managers office and comes back with my change and throws it on the counter saying thanks for shopping at Kroger but not in a nice way...She didn't realize I had my CCW in my pocket and it's a good thing I'm a real nice guy and not some hot head cause things might have gone bad real quick with several holes being drilled into that A-Hole talking cash register... As I was leaving I smiled and said thanks for the customer no service and you will be a super model before I ever come back to this crap hole of a store but have a nice evening....:cool: