u/TX_Farmer

I’ve collected and used fountain pens since high school. I got my first Waterman pen in ‘00 at high school graduation. I currently have 30+ pens which I use in regular rotation. (My favorites are Pilot Metropolitan 🙂 and Kakuno). Me and DH aren’t rolling in money, so we frequent 2nd hand stores. I was rummaging through a bin of pens at a thrift store and spotted the Montblac cap design and thought, “Knock off?” Nope. Completely legit Meister rollerball ($300+) pen sitting in a tub of ballpoints. ✒️

The store where I work closes at 8:00. The manager makes announcements about closing starting at 7:45, then at 8:00 we tell customers to head to the checkout. Most customers have a sense of urgency if they’re coming in last minute. We can’t start cleaning until all customers are out of the store.

Last night at 7:30 the worst family ever came in - 10 family members of various ages. The babies were screaming, the toddlers were pulling stuff off the shelves and running away from the adults like it was a fun game. The grownups were wandering around filling a couple carts with random items, yelling to each other, changing their mind about stuff and setting it down… They moved through departments and left destruction. At 8:00 we’re telling them to leave. We get a bland, “Okay” and are ignored. A 10 year old wandered off and Granny went running to find her. The babies are still screaming. They left several carts of merchandise because - oops - nobody has a way to pay. 😒 It took 20 minutes for them to actually leave. Because of their nonsense we were stuck cleaning until 10:00 instead of being done at 8:30.

How are people this awful!?!