WOOLWORTHS
Working at Woolworths
was a kick. I got to pal around with old ladies with names like "Roberta"
and "Doris" and "Bev." They were great. They all
had bad attitudes and chain smoked in the breakroom. I confided in one
of them about my plan to get married for financial aid. She thought
it was a fine idea, and even offered to loan me the money for the license
($80). I'm glad I didn't marry Griff, though, even for financial aid.
There was also some
exciting but unconfirmed gossip about Rosa, the Cuban cashier with coils
of black hair like piles of snakes. It was rumored that she was a "princess"
before Castro came to power and that she and her family were waiting
for him to die so they could regain their former glory. This was supposed
to explain why Rosa would never get her own bags from the storeroom,
but would demand that someone else get them for her.
There was also some
great cracker trash action at Woolworths! Once one of the customer service
managers caught some ladies stealing underwear, and she chased them
out into the Gulf Coast Mall parking lot. She grabbed one of them by
the shirt, but the thief wiggled out of it and continued running, tits-to-the-wind,
heading for the south trail.
Unfortunately, I did
not witness this chase (nor the subsequent apprehension), but I heard
all about it and agreed wholeheartedly with the upper eschelon's decision
to promote Amy to head CS Manager.
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