Tuesday, December 7, 2010

The Fruit Lady

So this lady and a guy just pulled up in a truck and she entered our facility. I said "Hello" and she said hello back, she then she placed two apples and an orange on our reception counter and said "Would you like to buy some fresh fruit today?"


Well if I did I would go to the market and purchase it. I said "no thanks." she said "why not?, It's fresh and homegrown." I would not think that is a selling point. But I am not a fruit salesman so I'm not sure. The fruit didn't even look good. It was lacking in color. Anyways " I lied and said "oh I just bought a bunch of fruit for Thanksgiving" She got pissed off, rolled her eyes at me and stormed out.

Quite frankly, I'm sure she a meth addict. Who the hell peddles fruit in a shopping center with an attitude?


11 comments:

  1. I am facsinated by where you live and the people you encounter.

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  2. I am with Margaret! I love the people you deal with day to day..cracks me up!

    I think you need a "No Solicitin" sign...you have them coming out of the wood work now!

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  3. I work in an office building, it's ours with no other businesses in it. At least once a month people walk into the lobby and offer us cook books, meat, etc. One time a visitor had left the lobby door unlocked when they came into my office, and while we were talking a guy came in and when he found the door unlocked, walked in and began wandering the halls. When I confronted him he said he was there to sell us some meat he happened to have left over from a nearby grocery delivery. The only nearby grocery is Kroger and they don't buy meat off trucks without their name on them!

    The cook books are left for us to "consider" and then later they come back to get our order. We put them on the counter in the lobby and that's where they stay till they come back!

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  4. Believe it or not I actually work in a very upscale shopping center in a ritzy part of town. My neighborhood is another story it used to be really nice but its slowly going down. There are lots of old houses around me and two big churches, a funeral home, and a community center. I'll try to take pics one day. It seeems like a nice part of town. I think I just attract looneys.

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  5. I find this rather funny and reminds me of a parent I had. She came in to school with a shopping bag full of green beans that she grew. Wanted to sell them to any one. For $10.00 you would get that bag full of not only green beans but the leaves and stems too. She got upset too when no one would take her up on her offer....

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  6. It would have been hard for me to not laugh at her and just say 'get the f**k outa here!'

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  7. That is the most bizarre thing I've heard lately!

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  8. Wow, how many oranges would she have to sell to make get an ounce of whatever? What's the fruit-to-meth conversion factor?

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  9. Meth addict...good call.
    The question is: where did she get the fruit from? The meth addict fruit department?

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  10. I found this to be a fruitless story...

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