He faintly smelled of urine

LadyFunkenstein

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I need to make some extra money, so I took a job as the evening/night assistant manager for a retail store.

They hired me on the spot because of my many assets:

1. I can count to ten without using my fingers.

2. I am *almost* as smart as a chimp. But I don't cross the human/chimp line, which would have made me over qualified.

3. I passed the criminal background check.

4. I have a pulse.

The general manager is fasting for Ramadan. He kept talking in Arabic on his cell phone. I suspect he is al Qaeda, and they are hatching a scheme to make bombs out of cheap leather jackets.

The other assistant manager "Rob" came in at five and worked with me until we closed at 9:30. I heard him before I saw him: his voice sounded like Edward Norton. I love Edward Norton. So when we shook hands, I leaned in to smell him. Naturally.

He faintly smelled of urine.

I watched Rob as he showed a woman a pair of fingerless gloves, helping her to try them on while her husband seemed bored. Rob looked at me, and raised an eyebrow. Like The Rock.

Once the couple left, he came over very excited. "Did you see that? Did you see it? I fondled her fingers in front of her husband! Right in front of him! Did you catch that?"

"Is this some kinda fetish or something? Finger fetish? I never heard of that," I asked, jokingly. He denied, of course. But for the rest of the night, he insisted that every female customer try on those damn gloves.

He got a free sandwich from Subway, from a buddy of his. He never ate it. "I like to let it get good and soggy. I'll eat it around midnight."

At the end of the night, we dropped off the cash receipts at the bank. We took my car, because he is "philosophically opposed" to driving. "Where can I drop you?" I asked.

"Just a couple of blocks, then pull over. "

I took him to his destination bid him farewell. "Nice to meet you too, Funkenstein.
Wait. I have a confession to make. You know that thing you said about the hands. You know, the fetish? Well, I don't have a hand fetish. I have a foot fetish. I just thought you'd want to know that." Then he got out of my car.

Which now smells faintly of urine.
 
Luxey, glad to see you are back.

Lilminx, who the hell knows.

I'll spray down the car tomorrow.
 
hilarious
reads like a sitcom of sorts
you should turn it into one.
 
What "kind" of retail store are we talking here?
The peer employees sound like maybe you are shooting below your standards for the kind of joint you should be working at.
 
LadyFunkenstein said:
Luxey, glad to see you are back.

Lilminx, who the hell knows.

I'll spray down the car tomorrow.

Thanks for the ride, by the way.
 
*ahem* why in the hell did you have to name your co-worker "Rob" of all names?

I'm a bit pissed off here.....whoops...I mean...uh....nevermind. ;)
 
nice vignette!

make sure you carry mace for future car rides with the digit fetishist
 
I'm sorry for stinking up your car but I just had some fun with my wife and was still a bit frisky.
 
Seinfeld had a similar episode! I think he got rid of his car.
 
Watersports?

Probably. But I don't have to ask; if this is so, he will voluntarily tell me. People tell me these things often. Apropos of nothing, strangers - really, men in particular - tell me all about their weird twisted desires. Sometimes I am intrigued, sometimes I am repulsed, but I always keep a straight face.

I am going to keep this job while I look for a "career job" in the day in the hopes of shutting down my business and moving by the end of the year. Besides, working here dovetails quite nicely with my recently revived Christian Sense of Suffering.
 
I think maybe I will quit. Later today I have an interview for a "real" job, but for the last hour i have felt horribly depressed, sick almost. I've been trying to snap out of it for my interview. Then I just got the idea, "Maybe I should just quit." And I suddenly felt better.

It isn't even all about urine boy - it's been a long time since I've had a "Follow the rules, retard," job. At least 10 years. I could probably sit in a corner and fold sweaters all day for a month or so, but to watch over the teenagers and make sure they are putting tags on jackets correctly is too damn much.
 
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bg23 said:
hilarious
reads like a sitcom of sorts
you should turn it into one.

Or better yet (since I don't watch sitcoms), just keep bumping this thread every time something new & bizarre happens. This is assuming you don't quit, of course.
 
chefsuess said:
You write well.

If you stay a bit longer, I'd like to read further installments.

And congrats on the job. I mean it. Often overqualified people don't get hired at all. Did you have to disguise your intelligence at the "interview?"

That's funny you should say that. I applied to four or five places: The first onewas obviously unimpressed... so everytime I filled out an application I dumbed it down. The last one, I said I've only had two jobs in my life. There was a "customer service" questionaire attached and I completed it as follows:

Q. What would you do if you had an unhappy customer?
A. Go ask the Boss.

Q. What if your co-worker called in sick? What would you do?
A. Go tell the Boss he will tell me what I should do.

Q. What if your coworker was stealing? What would you do?
A. GO GET BOSS NOW STEALING IS WRONG!!!!!

And voila! Hired on the spot as assistant manager.

If I were to stay, I wonder what I will smell next...
 
I can see this as a sitcom! It could be called 'Funkenstein' and I can totally see Steve Carell playing the foot fetish guy!
 
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