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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nonamazing" data-source="post: 1918460" data-attributes="member: 12118">I work in a chain bookstore in the middle of a semi-scuzzy downtown neighborhood.  Oh, the horror stories I could tell you...in fact, I think I will!Many of the strangest things that happen at our store occur in the men's restroom.  We're constantly taking books and magazines out of there (which we always handle with gloves and immediately send back to the publisher).  But sometimes things happen that just defy explanation.  Like the time someone poured a can of beans all over the floor.  Or the time we found an entire set of clothes (with shoes) tucked behind one of the toilets.  Or the multiple times we've found half-eaten take-out food from the italian restaurant right beneath us (I mean, who eats their dinner in a public restroom?).Because we've had so many problems with those restrooms (and I'm being nice--I haven't told you any of the really bad stuff), the managers decided to put locks on the bathroom doors.  We had to put locks on the women's restroom as well, not because the women had caused any problems, but because we were afraid the men would just use the women's room if they didn't feel like asking for the key.  So the other night, as I'm heading to the back, I notice a woman having a hard time with the key.  She tells me that we've given her the wrong key.  I take the key, give the door knob a twist, and it opens right up.  She looks at me angrily and says, "You did that on purpose!"We have a lot of scammers and con men who try and hit our store, and not all of them are very bright.  One thing they try to do is find a recepit in the trash, sneak a copy of that book from the shelf, and try to return it.  Only sometimes they can't find the book, since the recepits we use don't always have the complete title on them (if the title is too long, part of it gets cut off).  One time we had a guy come up to the desk, look down at a little piece of paper in his hand (which we can obviously tell is a recepit) and ask, "Do you guys have, uh, Calvin and Hobb?"  Sure enough, after we take him downstairs and give him the book, he's back less than five minutes later asking to return it.  I'm still stunned at how stupid this guy was, not only has he appearantly never heard of Calvin and Hobbes, then he tried to return, to me, the book I'd just gotten for him off the shelf.</blockquote>

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