re: #696 thedopefishlives

Me, I’ve always tried to be nice to the retail servicepeople, especially after working a summer in a small-town hardware store and having to BE the serviceperson.

I’m working in the Museum one day when there is this gawd-awful SCREAM and the sounds of a fight. Two or three of us haul buggy to try to find out what is going on and this 30 year old woman is hammering our 16 year old volunteer’s head. Took two of us to pull her off.

Turns out Volunteer’s older brother - who is a real man about town - got this woman in the family way years ago and then split. The 16 year old didn’t even know her. He’s changing a light bulb and suddenly this strange woman goes apeshit and knocks him off the ladder.

Lawyers got involved and it got to the point that the boss and I both had to give depositions, but it never went to trial. I assume someone settled.

And the 16 year old never worked there again. Can’t say I blame him.