Adorab-LOL

So I love me some LOLs.

No not laughs out loud. Little Old Ladies.

That sounds super creepy, yes, but come on. Who doesn't love an adorable old granny? They are some of the BEST customers. They can also be some of the worst. We won't get in to that.

Anyway I got to thinking about the adorable LOLs today for some reason and two work related LOL stories sprung up.

The first was from around Mother's Day. I was helping out in floral and this nice old lady came up to me and asked if I knew how to kill a plant. After a pause and a pardon me? She said it again, she wanted to know how to kill a plant. Her son had gave her a poinsettia and now had sent her a new plant and she was sick of the poinsettia and wanted it to die.  After I told her how I once too had tried to kill off a poinsettia without actually murdering it, just with neglect, and failed her best bet would be just to uproot it and throw it out. She seemed a little sad with the harsh method.

The lady absolutely made my night. Who asks how to kill a plant that isn't a weed? It was awesome.

The other LOL of note wasn't so much adorable but it was another one of those "are you serious?" questions. I was stocking some cantaloupe and she asked me what "that" was while pointing at the sticker on it. Confused I asked for clarification that she meant the sticker and she said yes. I gave her a slow and confused "it's for the cashiers...so they know...what it...is?" Her response was something along the lines of "Oh I thought you tested them to see if they were ripe and corked them back up." I let her walk away because I didn't really have a response besides a "No....no...no." ....Really?! She thought we drilled a hole and took a core sample of all the cantaloupes? Really?

Oh and I think I found my first people to hate at the new store. I had a few who if I saw coming I'd walk the other direction or really, really want to at every other store. Now I already got a new one. I also might have a few potential replacements for eye candy. And! And! And! Tech Man was in today! All my fears about never seeing him was for naught. He put a smile on my face.