I was working last night when a regular customer came in looking for one of my bosses (she ordered some special socks for him) and then out of the blue he opens up to me about how he’s going through a divorce all of a sudden (she sprung the decision on him that same day I guess) and how she’s leaving him and his children for some guy from Georgia she has only been dating for two weeks. So I had to play sympathetic ear to the whole thing, while he went on about how his pastor is helping him and how his wifes sister is trying to talk her out of it. This went on for about 30 minutes before he heard we were closing for the night and ended up leaving. That was the end of it.
Until tonight when he made a beeline for me (again near closing time). The first thing he asked was when the whole divorce thing blows over in a month would I like to be taken out to lunch… Wow, only 24 hours after talking about how he was crying about his wife leaving him he suddenly wants to start some form of relationship? Who only knows my name via a nametag? I was polite of course and told him I tend to keep relations between employees and customers as professional as possible, so I tend to keep to myself (which is true). He nodded and understood then wanted to know if I went to Church, or to be more accurate “What Church do you go to?”. Intrusive much? I explained to him that I work every Sunday so that’s not possible. Then I explained that I’m a busy person between work and working out of the home on computers, which he questioned. Then he wanted to know if I used wordpress and wanted to know if I could work on their churches website because their current developer is in and out of hospitals on oxygen all the time. Being that I was way behind on my work tonight due to being understaffed (as usual) I finally had to tell him that I needed to get back to my work… Oh! Not that this matters or anything, but he looked to be in his 50’s. ANOTHER one of those I can add to my list.
Dodged the holy water on that one. 😛