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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 2:08:32 GMT
So, in the driving thread I wrote that I worked in a parking booth.
Parking for the first 29 minutes was free.
30-to 59 minutes was 35 cents.
OMG you know how many people would bitch over that 35 cents? A lot.
Now when a plane would come in you get a line of people trying to get out of the lot. To get the people out fast, we would have a stack of coins to give out as change for $1.
Remember people bitch about the 35 cents.
So the customer drives up hands me the $1 and I give them the stack of coins back.
My husband would do the reports every night and the till was always over everytime I worked. He could not figure out how the till was over because nobody ever over paid that 35 cents!!!
So he put the overages into the petty cash. About a month and a half later he decided to count that petty cash and there was over $100. Then he got a little puzzled. Nobody every overpaid! They bitched , not overpaid.
So he decided to help me. during a rush, when the rush was over, he counted the till. It was over.
Wth? THEN he looked at my stack of coins. Instead of having 2 quarters, 1dime and nickle, I had 1 quarter, 1 dime and a nickle. I was short changing everybody a quarter. AND NOT ONE PERSON EVER COMPLAINED! EVER.
The sad part of this story. My husband decided that he would have a pizza party for the employees with the money. When we went to make the plans and pay for it, the money was gone. We know which of his employees stole it , he didn't have that employee arrested.
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Post by Lexica on Feb 15, 2017 2:16:31 GMT
Oh, that ended up a very sad story. How are you sure you know who stole the money? Do you have a camera trained on where it was being held?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 2:57:40 GMT
Oh, that ended up a very sad story. How are you sure you know who stole the money? Do you have a camera trained on where it was being held? [b The person who took only worked one night a week. My husband counted the money before we left , he should have taken it with him. I stopped the next morning to get it to pay for the party and it was gone. My husband called it severance pay. |
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Post by Lexica on Feb 15, 2017 4:36:34 GMT
Your husband is a very generous man. Stealing, lies, and hurting others, these things are so abhorrent to me that I really don't think that I could have been as generous as he was. I hope the person realizes he was given this gift of "severance pay" and changes his ways. I'd hate to think he will continue to steal from his next employer.
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Post by workingclassdog on Feb 15, 2017 5:17:23 GMT
I just noticed something recently.. I run credit cards for payments during billing. They call me, I input their info in the computer. So then I have to check a little box that says 'email receipt'. Except I never noticed it before and never checked it but I always tell people their receipt will be emailed. Not ONCE since around last May has anyone called me back for a receipt. So either no one has noticed or maybe the program still emails that receipt. I have no clue.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 5:26:45 GMT
So, basically, someone stole the money that you stole from your customers? I find it sad that you don't seem to feel bad for stealing the money in the first place. And yes, you stole it. Doesn't matter if it was 25 cents or 25 dollars. You took money that wasn't yours.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 5:43:16 GMT
So, basically, someone stole the money that you stole from your customers? I find it sad that you don't seem to feel bad for stealing the money in the first place. And yes, you stole it. Doesn't matter if it was 25 cents or 25 dollars. You took money that wasn't yours. I didn't even realize why I was doing until my husband figured it out. The funny part was that people bitched about paying 35 cents for parking, but never counted their change. At least we didn't plan on keeping the money for ourselves but were using it to treat all the employees. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 5:44:29 GMT
I just noticed something recently.. I run credit cards for payments during billing. They call me, I input their info in the computer. So then I have to check a little box that says 'email receipt'. Except I never noticed it before and never checked it but I always tell people their receipt will be emailed. Not ONCE since around last May has anyone called me back for a receipt. So either no one has noticed or maybe the program still emails that receipt. I have no clue. [br I would never have noticed. |
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Post by jameynz on Feb 15, 2017 6:00:57 GMT
I have a funny work story - I am a property manager, and have to do inspections on properties on a regular basis. All tenants are notified of the day I will be there - and between the hours of 9am to 5pm. I also advise the tenants, that I usually do inspections in the morning.
This day, I went to the house - I was talking to the Mr. tenant in the kitchen, whilst his partner was in the shower -she obviously didn't know I had arrived.
She came out of the shower,with a towel wrapped around her, and walked down the hallway towards me and her partner.
Only, she was a big girl, and the towel didn't meet in the middle. I saw it all lol
Another one - I was 8 months pregnant at the time, and starting to slow down at work - took on a new property, and had to do the initial inspection (before anyone moved in).
I knocked at the door, which was wide open...a boy came to the door - however, what caught my eye was the adult male in the kitchen, naked, who jumped behind the bench so I wouldn't see anything. All good.
I was at the wrong address, I should have been next door.
I did my inspection - and went out the back door to check the spouting, paintwork, gardens etc. The naked guy was sitting on the back step having a coffee and a smoke - still naked.
I had to pretend not to see him and look the other way at the spouting, the paintwork, the gardens etc.
I cannot walk around my local supermarket - a lot of my clients shop there, and quite a few work there. Takes me so long to do my shopping!
My colleague, her husband is a prison officer - they say the same thing - lots of *his* clients (ex-prisoners) are shopping there and will say hi!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 6:59:14 GMT
I have a funny work story - I am a property manager, and have to do inspections on properties on a regular basis. All tenants are notified of the day I will be there - and between the hours of 9am to 5pm. I also advise the tenants, that I usually do inspections in the morning. This day, I went to the house - I was talking to the Mr. tenant in the kitchen, whilst his partner was in the shower -she obviously didn't know I had arrived. She came out of the shower,with a towel wrapped around her, and walked down the hallway towards me and her partner. Only, she was a big girl, and the towel didn't meet in the middle. I saw it all lol Another one - I was 8 months pregnant at the time, and starting to slow down at work - took on a new property, and had to do the initial inspection (before anyone moved in). I knocked at the door, which was wide open...a boy came to the door - however, what caught my eye was the adult male in the kitchen, naked, who jumped behind the bench so I wouldn't see anything. All good. I was at the wrong address, I should have been next door. I did my inspection - and went out the back door to check the spouting, paintwork, gardens etc. The naked guy was sitting on the back step having a coffee and a smoke - still naked. I had to pretend not to see him and look the other way at the spouting, the paintwork, the gardens etc. I cannot walk around my local supermarket - a lot of my clients shop there, and quite a few work there. Takes me so long to do my shopping! My colleague, her husband is a prison officer - they say the same thing - lots of *his* clients (ex-prisoners) are shopping there and will say hi! Was he worth being naked? |
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Post by jameynz on Feb 15, 2017 7:08:51 GMT
megmc - I cannot remember lol
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Post by scrappintoee on Feb 15, 2017 10:12:56 GMT
That's so weird that people get SO annoyed at such a small amount! Ugh, some people will find ANYthing to complain about!  jameynz....LOL at the *almost* naked woman and the TOTALLY naked guy! Have you ever seen "nudie guy" at the store? ...so awkward!  I have LOTS of weird work stories, but I'll post later---I need to come up with the weirdest/funniest ones when I'm not so tired. |
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Post by tracyarts on Feb 15, 2017 11:48:20 GMT
I worked at a small women's clothing boutique. There was this younger man who would come in about once a month and say he was looking for something his girlfriend might like. And he always made sure he said "for my girlfriend, April". He never gave off a single red flag or triggered any of our creep radar. He'd just come in for a quick browse, make a bit of small talk, which is normal here in Texas, then leave. After the second visit we decided that there was no April, and came up with some theories about him. I thought maybe he had a crush on the younger salesclerk who worked with us but was too shy to show his interest. My boss said maybe he was a crossdresser trying to work up the courage to buy himself a dress (not unheard of in our experience, so a possibility).
So, this went on for at least a year. Until one day I was working the floor by myself while my boss and one of the other salesclerks were working in the back inventorying and tagging a shipment, and he comes in with a young woman. He walks up and says "this is my girlfriend, April", I told her about your store and that she needed to come take a look when she had a chance.
I excused myself to the back room for a minute and told my boss and the other clerk "OMG she's real, April is real, and she's HERE!" My boss thought I was yanking her chain, but realized I was serious and they both almost ran me over rushing out to get a look at her. It was like seeing bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. The rare and elusive April finally made an appearance.
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Post by mikklynn on Feb 15, 2017 13:07:20 GMT
So, basically, someone stole the money that you stole from your customers? I find it sad that you don't seem to feel bad for stealing the money in the first place. And yes, you stole it. Doesn't matter if it was 25 cents or 25 dollars. You took money that wasn't yours. Oh for heaven's sake! She didn't intentionally short change anyone, so how is it stealing? She made a MISTAKE! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 15:12:51 GMT
$100 = 400 quarters That's not a mistake.
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Post by Doxiemom on Feb 15, 2017 18:43:11 GMT
When I was in my early 20's I worked as a receptionist at a fairly small company. Several times a week a man came in with flowers (sometimes one rose) for one of the women that worked there. The man would just leave the flowers with me and then leave. I knew this woman was married with a small child. So every time he delivered flowers I would call her and say "your husband dropped off flowers." She would come get the flowers and act all flattered and embarrassed.
One day another employee was there when the man came in and I then heard me make the call to the woman. She says to me "that is NOT her husband." It turned out to be the husband's friend and I guess this woman was separated shortly after.
If felt really silly after assuming it was her husband but she never corrected me of course!
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Post by sharlag on Feb 15, 2017 19:18:58 GMT
tracyarts , that sounds like something me and my coworkers would do! Just this morning, a fellow walked into my workplace. A coworker said, "Hi, are you Harry?" He looked down at himself and said, "I don't think so..." ____ My sister worked with a really nosy woman. The woman would go through my sister's desk when my sister was out. So my sister started taking fake 'notes' as if she were involved in key management meetings and decisions, just to torque off the nosy coworker. ___ Another of my coworkers/businesspartner/owner has a huge, elaborate saltwater fish tank that's in view of the customer entrance. This coworker let the fish tank go to pot from neglect. The few surviving fish are swimming in murky, dead-fish laden debris-filled water. A customer walked in and loudly exclaimed 'What's wrong with that fish tank!?!'
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Post by ilikepink on Feb 15, 2017 19:39:43 GMT
A place I worked for a while had a service technician that would steal just about anything. I had been there only a short time, and after cleaning the bathroom on a Friday afternoon, opened a new package of toilet paper and put the rolls in a cabinet (not big enough to hold them all in the package, but individually there was space). First thing Monday morning, the cabinet is empty. I felt horrible that I had to go back to the store and get more; the boss laughed and said the tech probably stole it. Not the first time, but I had a hard time believing it. Some time later, he was being picked up by his wife, and she was heard to holler out the car window to "be sure and grab some toilet paper". WTF?  How sad, that you are okay with stealing something like that; and what nerve they had, stealing something like that. |
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Post by scorpeao on Feb 15, 2017 20:10:26 GMT
So, basically, someone stole the money that you stole from your customers? I find it sad that you don't seem to feel bad for stealing the money in the first place. And yes, you stole it. Doesn't matter if it was 25 cents or 25 dollars. You took money that wasn't yours. No, stealing is with intent. What she did was a mistake. |
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Post by MerryMom on Feb 15, 2017 20:22:02 GMT
Years ago, I worked in a large hospital ER department. There was a little play area in the waiting room with a little table/chairs, some books, some of those Little Tikes waffle blocks, those large cardboard "brick" blocks, etc. A few plastic trucks, nothing too elaborate. Anyways there was a plastic toy storage container shaped like a big football that held the waffle bricks. Several times, the kids would take out all the blocks and get inside the toy container and wrestle around and we'd have to tell them to stop.
Anyways, this one day, an older man came to me and whispered, "I think that boy just pooped in the football" and he pointed out the boy. Sure enough, this 10 YEAR OLD boy, pooped inside the football-shaped toy container. I walked over to the parent or whomever was with the boy and informed her of what happened, I bent down and whispered it to her so as not to embarrass anyone. She says to him very loudly, "Did you just sh*t in the toy box?". Of course everyone's head turned towards us. The boy didn't deny it and the mother just looked at me like "What do you want me to do about it?". I said "I thought you would want to know", but thinking, "Ummm, how about telling your 10 year old son to not take a dump in a toy box". I called housekeeping and they removed the toy box.
A half hour later, the older man came to me and said, "That same boy just pooped again in one of those bricks. " Of course I immediately think "He sh*t a brick???" and I'm trying not to laugh. I walk over there and sure enough, Young Mr. Poopy dumped again inside one of those cardboard bricks, he took it apart and then pooped in it and then tried to put it back together, but because he had torn one of the slots, the brick wouldn't stay closed. So now we have to shut down the toy area, block it off, housekeeping has to come and sanitize it.
I went again to the mother and informed her that her son pooped again in the toy area and it is now closed for sanitation. She blinks at me and says "Are you saying my son isn't sanitary?" I told her that I wasn't privy to whether or not or son was sanitary or not, BUT him taking a dump in a toy area wasn't sanitary for other children to be there. She said, "How do you know it was my son?" I told her that another person in the waiting room saw him do it both times and pointed him out to me AND the only other child in the waiting area were a few toddler age kids. Anyways, the older man came over and told her "Yes ma'am, it was your son. And the second time he came over, I told him not to poop there and he did it anyways." So the mother flounces off with her son in tow.
Note: her son had to walk past the rest rooms in order to access the toy area. I never really noticed him playing in the area, I think he would walk over there to poop and then went back to sitting by her.
I have all kinds of weird stories about the ER.
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Post by annabella on Feb 15, 2017 20:48:41 GMT
Wth? THEN he looked at my stack of coins. Instead of having 2 quarters, 1dime and nickle, I had 1 quarter, 1 dime and a nickle. I was short changing everybody a quarter. AND NOT ONE PERSON EVER COMPLAINED! EVER. Oh I believe you, who counts change! |
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Post by blue tulip on Feb 15, 2017 21:05:59 GMT
Years ago, I worked in a large hospital ER department. There was a little play area in the waiting room with a little table/chairs, some books, some of those Little Tikes waffle blocks, those large cardboard "brick" blocks, etc. A few plastic trucks, nothing too elaborate. Anyways there was a plastic toy storage container shaped like a big football that held the waffle bricks. Several times, the kids would take out all the blocks and get inside the toy container and wrestle around and we'd have to tell them to stop. Anyways, this one day, an older man came to me and whispered, "I think that boy just pooped in the football" and he pointed out the boy. Sure enough, this 10 YEAR OLD boy, pooped inside the football-shaped toy container. I walked over to the parent or whomever was with the boy and informed her of what happened, I bent down and whispered it to her so as not to embarrass anyone. She says to him very loudly, "Did you just sh*t in the toy box?". Of course everyone's head turned towards us. The boy didn't deny it and the mother just looked at me like "What do you want me to do about it?". I said "I thought you would want to know", but thinking, "Ummm, how about telling your 10 year old son to not take a dump in a toy box". I called housekeeping and they removed the toy box. A half hour later, the older man came to me and said, "That same boy just pooped again in one of those bricks. " Of course I immediately think "He sh*t a brick???" and I'm trying not to laugh. I walk over there and sure enough, Mr. Poopy dumped again inside one of those cardboard bricks, he took it apart and then pooped in it and then tried to put it back together, but because he had torn one of the slots, the brick wouldn't stay closed. So now we have to shut down the toy area, block it off, housekeeping has to come and sanitize it. I went again to the mother and informed her that her son pooped again in the toy area and it is now closed for sanitation. She blinks at me and says "Are you saying my son isn't sanitary?" I told her that I wasn't privy to whether or not or son was sanitary or not, BUT him taking a dump in a toy area wasn't sanitary for other children to be there. She said, "How do you know it was my son?" I told her that another person in the waiting room saw him do it both times and pointed him out to me AND the only other child in the waiting area were a few toddler age kids. Anyways, the older man came over and told her "Yes ma'am, it was your son. And the second time he came over, I told him not to poop there and he did it anyways." So the mother flounces off with her son in tow. Note: her son had to walk past the rest rooms in order to access the toy area. I never really noticed him playing in the area, I think he would walk over there to poop and then went back to sitting by her. I have all kinds of weird stories about the ER. wow!  |
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Post by warrior1991 on Feb 15, 2017 21:46:13 GMT
I worked in an office with about 10 people in it. For every birthday, they would buy an ice cream cake and everyone would stand around the receptionist counter and eat. As I'm lactose intolerant I didn't have any, but would be friendly and chat with everyone while they ate. Each time they would ask me why I wasn't having any cake. I would tell them, I was lactose intolerant and couldn't have any. They would then talk about how sad that was. Every birthday they would get an ice cream cake. My birthday came around after about 8 birthdays (in only a few months), and yep, you guessed it. They got an ice cream cake. They were so mad when I said no thank you to a piece of cake. I had to tell them (again) that I was lactose intolerant and could not eat it. I couldn't tell if their shock and surprise was real or if they forgot and were trying to cover for not remembering. I just laughed and treated myself to a nice dinner with some gift certificates the president of the company gave me.
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Post by mcscrapper on Feb 15, 2017 21:58:04 GMT
I work in a busy ER, too and I've had a grown azz adult pull her pants down in the middle of the waiting room and poop in one of the chairs. The lobby was full of patients and visitors - i mean like standing room only FULL. She is a regular and got butthurt because she came by ambulance for the 5th time in 4 days and was sent out to triage.
Working in the ER provides us with the best stories at parties and gatherings. It just depends on how graphic you wanna get. Oh the stories I could tell!!! My family thinks I need to keep a journal of all the craziness. After so many years, the stories become just another day at work but I will always have those few that are really memorable.
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Post by mallie on Feb 15, 2017 22:15:42 GMT
A place I worked for a while had a service technician that would steal just about anything. I had been there only a short time, and after cleaning the bathroom on a Friday afternoon, opened a new package of toilet paper and put the rolls in a cabinet (not big enough to hold them all in the package, but individually there was space). First thing Monday morning, the cabinet is empty. I felt horrible that I had to go back to the store and get more; the boss laughed and said the tech probably stole it. Not the first time, but I had a hard time believing it. Some time later, he was being picked up by his wife, and she was heard to holler out the car window to "be sure and grab some toilet paper". WTF? How sad, that you are okay with stealing something like that; and what nerve they had, stealing something like that. I used to consult at a non profit that had a cleaner who stole small decorative items. Knick knacks, vases, baskets, etc. They took to going to Goodwill and buying reallllllly ugly and poor condition stuff just to see if she would steAl it. She did. Then she started stealing soap and employee's personal toiletries, like bottles of lotion. Why they didn't fire her, I do not know. |
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Post by tduby1 on Feb 15, 2017 23:26:09 GMT
So, basically, someone stole the money that you stole from your customers? I find it sad that you don't seem to feel bad for stealing the money in the first place. And yes, you stole it. Doesn't matter if it was 25 cents or 25 dollars. You took money that wasn't yours. It wasn't intentetional and I am sure they had no way of notifying the customers to refund them. it sounds as if she somehow got it in her head that the coin stacks needed one quarter and got in the habit of building them with one rather than two. My mind sometimes works like that. |
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Post by edie3 on Feb 16, 2017 0:11:28 GMT
I do CT scans, and depending on what body part I am scanning, I will make them pull down their pants. Of course, I give them a sheet to cover with before they pull down their pants. Anyway, I was getting a patient off the table. He rips the sheet off and says, "I dont care if you see my c0ck" and sure enough there it was. Not worth it, though....
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Post by scrappintoee on Feb 16, 2017 6:34:17 GMT
peasquared .....GROSS !!!!!  We used to have pot-lucks for everyone's birthdays. Some of us were VERY leary of eating anything made by a certain co-worker who had SCARY hygiene habits!  ( for example---we ALL witnessed when she'd go to the bathroom and then walk straight out without washing her hands ....ALL the time!! ) Yeaaa, I am NOT eating food she made at home!! I loved making cakes for all the birthdays, and would joke *privately* with a few of my closer pals that they didn't have to worry about my cakes since I was/am VERY hygienic --especially when cooking and/or baking ! OMG, both of those pooping stories are so gross---I dunno how y'all could handle that! ESPECIALLY the Mom of the boy who pooped TWICE! She had to have been mentally ill / in denial (?) to NOT realize how gross that was, not to mention, did she ever look into WHAT would cause her son to do that !??! tracyarts .....I would've thought the same thing because of the way he always said her NAME (who does that?)....that's a bit weird. Funny how she actually DID exist after all!  edie3 .....ewwww  Not only does he sound gross, but I HATE that word !!!!!!!! And, I love how you said "not worth it" warrior1991 ....that's a shame that you never got to enjoy the cakes. I was curious, do any over-the-counter meds help with that? I'm asking because I have a friend who has lactose intolerance; however, if she takes a Lactaid before eating dairy, she's okay.
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Post by pastlifepea on Feb 16, 2017 13:05:15 GMT
Oh man...these are some funny stories. I'll share one. I worked in a large hotel. A nice hotel. We had many regulars that we came to know pretty well. One man was a very no nonsense business man that usually stayed several nights a month while working in the area. Another regular was a "religious" leader that conducted some sort of services in the hotel room he rented about once a month. However, this was not like a mainstream religious group. The leader wore some sort of red robe, had a shaved head and goatee, and generally gave the impression of some sort of either witchcraft or Satanism. We never asked because we didn't want to show interest and potentially be "recruited" or make him angry because he was kind of freaky.
At some point, we put these two regulars in rooms next to each other. Mr. Business apparently was walking out of his room and the room with the "religious" group was propped open and Mr. Business saw they had some candles burning in there. He hollered at them and told them they needed to put them out "before they burned the G-D hotel down." This did not make Mr. Red Robe happy.
A little later was cocktail time in the atrium. There were lots of little tables outside the bar and next to a large koi pond and waterfall. We started getting complaints from guests that there were people in red robes "casting their powers" across the koi pond to someone having cocktails. Sure enough, Mr. Business was sitting there having martinis while the religious group was about 20 feet away across the fountain throwing their pointed arms out at him, I guess putting some sort of hex on him. Mr. Business did not give one crap and just kept drinking, but it was freaking out other guests so we had to ask them to stop. Fortunately they did.
At checkout, Mr. Business told us about the candle incident so that was how we knew what had started the whole event.
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We used to have pot-lucks for everyone's birthdays. Some of us were VERY leary of eating anything made by a certain co-worker who had SCARY hygiene habits! 
( for example---we ALL witnessed when she'd go to the bathroom and then walk straight out without washing her hands ....ALL the time!! 
Not only does he sound gross, but I HATE that word !!!!!!!! And, I love how you said "not worth it" 