Can't Change The Spots.
Scene: Last night at my local grocery store. I'm standing in line with my purchases, thumbing through a trashy magazine that I don't intend to buy. I overhear Grocery Manager and Cashier talking about a customer they just had in line.
Cashier: You know what? I am sick and tired of that guy treating me that way. He talks to me like I'm an idiot - I can't freaking stand him.
Grocery Manager: That guy? He's a jerk. He'll always be a jerk. He's been coming here for years.
Cashier: I'm going to tell him off the next time he is in my line. Let him know he can't treat me that way.
Grocery Manager: (squaring off his shoulders and looking down at the Cashier) Nah, don't bother. I went to college. I'm educated in the ways of these kinds of people. I know his type, so don't waste your breath. You can't get a lion to change its spots.
Cashier: (staring blankly) What?
Grocery Manager: A lion ... you can't get that thing to change its spots.
Cashier: I think you mean a leopard. Right?
Grocery Manager: (grunting) Hey, you've got a customer here. Start ringing, okay?
I laughed so hard that I ended up buying the trashy magazine by accident.
Comments
LMAO Dumb people are fun.
Posted by: SuperG | April 9, 2008 11:38 AM
Too funny! Spots...lions!!
Posted by: Amber | April 9, 2008 11:43 AM
Apparently he didn't study Nature in college - just the "ways of the jerks..." LOL
Posted by: Nicolep | April 9, 2008 11:46 AM
That's awesome! Reminds me of the classic George Bush "fool me once" line. I tell ya. People like that! You can't teach an old canary new tricks.
Posted by: Carey | April 9, 2008 11:54 AM
LOL!!!!
Love those moments!!!
Darn Lion, why won't it change its spots!!!!!!!
Posted by: CALpumper | April 9, 2008 12:03 PM
I think he meant a tiger. You can't get them to change their underwear.
I took art history in college. I know these things.
(That was a good conversation you overheard. It's like a little treasure.)
Posted by: Shannon | April 9, 2008 12:06 PM
OMG!!! That is so great! It just goes to show that college doesn't always make you smarter. :) I have a college degree and am working on my Master's. But I have always said the longer I have stayed in school, the dumber I've gotten. :P
Posted by: Cara | April 9, 2008 12:36 PM
I wonder what major you study 'those kind of people' in. I am a career counselor and I would love to direct people to this new profession. :D
Posted by: Sara | April 9, 2008 12:49 PM
It's nice to know our colleges are busy producing bright individuals like this manager.
Posted by: Albert | April 9, 2008 01:30 PM
"I went to college. I'm educated in the ways of these kinds of people."
This shall be my new mantra :)
Posted by: Kathy | April 9, 2008 02:38 PM
OH MY GOODNESS- how funny!! I would have done the same thing probably!
Posted by: erin. | April 9, 2008 08:54 PM
And here I thought working in customer service gave you experience in "those sort of people" (whoever they are). Although, tsk tsk - the employees shouldn't have let you hear them gossip like that.
My cousin worked in a grocery store for a long, long time and it made him rather jaded. I guess I feel a bit of sympathy for the manager. ;-)
Posted by: geekgirl | April 10, 2008 12:41 AM
Don't be ashamed of buying trashy magazines. I always buy one at the store under the pretense that it's "for my wife." Really though, I buy them if Angelina Jolie is on the cover.
Posted by: Nick | April 10, 2008 09:35 AM
That's great! It reminds me of some of the profs I work with. Many of them come across as snobby and "too" good for the "common" folk. Eye roll!
Posted by: Rachel | April 10, 2008 10:57 AM
Hey you know the old saying, when life gives you lemons, you make orange juice.
Glad you got a little OJ out of your trip. :)
Posted by: Michelle | April 10, 2008 12:55 PM