whirlwind

How is it that some people can walk into a store and just leave a path of destruction behind them? I mean, I expect it from most kids (which is why I no longer work at the bookstore) but adults?

There were these people in the store today. They were only there about 10 minutes, but I seriously thought a tornado had hit. I literally followed on their heels putting things back in order that they has somehow managed to skew. It's not like we have piles of crap either - everything is already very neatly arranged with the bare minimum of product on display. Yet these two women somehow managed to make the store look like it had been picked up and shaken.

One lady decided to take it upon herself to open the glass case in which we keep expensive wallets. Knowing the trauma that I would have to endure if the hurricane was allowed to be in the case, I ran over and was like is there something *I* can get for you? And she was like, no I'm just browsing, do you want me to stay out of here? No we have it closed off to the public, but you are special so please go in and get your grubby fingerprints all over things as you make them look like they survived some sort of explosion.

They were then making fun of things because they were pricey and finally ended their spree of terror by buying some crappy cheap thing which did not cover *my* costs in playing disaster recovery for them.

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Unrelated:
A guy came in and laughed at the store, then put his heavy shopping bags on top of a display - which, btw had nothing else on top of it. "Let me put those behind the register for you" I said. "Why, you don't want another store's bags in your window? Ha ha ha" (guffaw) "No, I don't want you to break the light box because I don't think you could pay to replace it."

That shut him up real good.