Working at a Thrift Store/39 Couchs and a Tshirt - PHTS 1

Potter's House Thrift Store opened June 2009 in Fayetteville Arkansas. We began this adventure because 1) Alex needed a job, 2) It was a way to make money for a non-profit, and 3) I guess I needed a job. Anyway, I volunteered at the store for about a year before I was hired part-time (3 days a week). Then in July 2010, I was hired full time. Coming from 18 years of being at home on my own time clock and not being bothered by the people of the world, this was a definite change. I adjusted ok to the people I worked with but the customers are a different story. Some are ok but some just drive me crazy. I decided to begin writing about the events of the thrift store because some days they are random and funny and some days they are crazy and sad. Some times to help me cope with crazy people, I just say " maybe her husband beat her this morning before she left." Well today was no different. I was up at the register helping Sandra and Megan with the line of people. Sandra centered my attention on a lady that needed help with a friend that had a fire and needed a donation then right behind her was a man that wanted to tell me that he bought an electronic device at the store and when he got it home it did not work so could he get some money off the coat that he was buying today? Okay. My inside gut is saying "are you crazy?" How do I know you bought an electronic device at this store? Do I just take your word for it when many of the people who come in this store steal and lie to us? It is crazy! I told him I could not since he did not have his receipt or his broken item. He said he just did not have alot of money. I told him like most of the people who come in here and I was also thinking to myself the ones who work here to but I did not offer that information. After that event happened, I was telling Austin and he said he had to tell a lady no today that he could not help her figure out if things worked. If she plugged it in and nothing happened, it did not work. He also said that another lady was telling him a lamp did not work. He went and got a light bulb and it worked. Viola! Lamps dont work without light bulbs. It seems as though dumbness settles on the people that come in the store but I am wondering if it is because the prices are so low that stuffitis makes people crazy and so they just don't think and it seems as though they are just idiots. Well, that is my story for today! I am asking God to show me how to love the idiots at the thrift store and thanking him for those that love the idiot in me.