On skate shoes and possible shenanigans
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tijay makes a lengthy post about a kid coming into the store wearing heelies. Kid, while skating, apparently trips over the steps on a nearby escalator and bangs his head.

Result? 911, kid half-dead, in coma (prolly and hopefully died on the way to the hospital, he bleed all over the escalator making 4 people clean up after him. Bitch. His mom is crying and yelling at everyone, escalator gets stopped. People complaint about elevators that are slow and that we need to fix our escalators.

Then we have team meeting, and at least three people confess that they told him and his mom to stop skating. Making our liability 0. At least now, we have banned these goddamn shoes.

That incident just made my day. I will remember it on the bright side for the rest of my life.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand they're off. 324 comments and counting.

Edit: The wank, it hits stupid_free--many thanks to

hangingfire for the link.

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icedark_elf
2007-05-15 06:52 am UTC (link)

At the Walmart where I used to work, we had those metal bars that used to divide up the short lanes, for 15 items or less. Kids were always climbing on them, and we'd always ask them to get down cause if you didn't and the boss caught you, you could get fire. Most of the time, the parents are reasonable, and they'd tell their kid to get down.

The rest of the time, they'd ignore you or tell you to stop telling their kid what to do/them how to parent.

Part of the reason we asked the kids to not climb is because the parts that were parallel to the floor weren't in right, and would turn in their holders.

We'd have kids go thump all the time. More than once, they'd have to go to the hospital in an ambulance. Never saw it in the paper, but mostly because it happened so often. I bet if someone had tried to sue the store, it would have made the paper.

I could see what the OP describes easily enough, if exaggerated. When she started about stopping the mom saying to not publish, though, that made me roll my eyes.

But, yeah, I can see where you are coming from on finding that believable. Pretty easily, too.

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