I worked in a school uniform shop in Chatham last summer...
...times were hard you see. The shop employed naiive students over the summer which was obviously their busiest period; so everyday there were swarms of podgy stressed out families "needin a new tie and polo shirttt" and kids moaning, "Cant I get my trassis from New Look these ones are gay". Etc Etc

I actually used to play a game in my head where I would guess what school the family coming through the door went to. Slow + Inbred= Shitty Comprehensive (I went to one so not being a snob) Dazed + Patronising= Private School.

I digress...anywho kids are fat these days. Not always morbidly obese (always hilarious to serve a kid who needs a 52" blazer that had to be specially made) but I swear at least 8/10 kids that came through the door were overweight. You would think that the kiddies would be the problem with the job, but it was actually their fatter stupid parents who were the worst offenders, as they would see it as their divine right to be served solely by you amongst the 10,000 other customers, and would get highly irate if you had sold out of something.

One human man-boob was buying his dawwwerrr (daughter) a school uniform for her first day at primary school. Primary school uniforms are rather cute these days with bear logos and cardigans in an aray of colours (v annoying when little Sazuki-Chanel wants a gween one and you only have blue left!) and their parents are uber proud of little Shaznay-Crystal in her very first uniform and take photos on their mobiles to send to Nan.

Anyway things are going fine with the man-boob until it transpires that we are out of his kid's size in cardigans (because they're such little hefters we were selling an awful lot of age 11+ clothes to 6 year olds appaulingly).
"What!? Why don't you have none left??"
"Um...well, we have sold a lot of that size..."
"But she goes to school in 3 days, whashe supposed to wear??!"

Aha; therin lies the problem. What kind of twat goes to buy his child's entire school uniform for her first day with only 3 days to spare!? Of course I couldn't really say that but was sorely tempted, so merely tried to hint this with a:
"Well the schools are going back soon and we have sold out of so much and have been very busy..."
He doesn't really accept/comprehend this simple fact so goes to rant at my boss for failing his dawwerr. He genuinely seemed shocked that we had been selling a lot of stock.

Sorry for length and lack of funny but it amazed me how many people came storming in to buy an entire school uniform with mere days to spare and then got irate with the staff when we sold out. Perhaps they thought no one else buys their school unifom in summer...
(Eldoofus, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 19:15, 6 replies)

Was it...
School Time on Railway Street? Or the other one?

Good to see a fellow chatham-ite (who understands what a shit hole medway can be) here on b3ta.

Welcome!

/relurks
( WeakLemonDrink, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 19:29, closed)

im sorry but i was really
hoping for tales of nubile 6th form girls struggling with with some fiddly buttons on a crisp white blouse a size too small
for the...

i'm sorry you'll have to excuse me
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 19:41, closed)

Same sort of thing,
I drove a wagon many moons ago. Occasionally, I'd have to help out in the shop (frozen foods) if things were busy.
Christmas Eve,4pm, and the amount of CUNTS who complained that we had very few turkeys left...twats.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 4 Sep 2008, 19:48, closed)

They're all over...
I work at a popular dog boarding kennel in California... This year we finally started an office-wide tally for customers who called on Good Friday to leave their dogs with us over Easter...and then were absolutely floored to discover that not only were we completely booked, but had nearly forty other clients on a waiting list. And their ace up the sleeve for "confirming" a kennel reservation when we're 'booked'? "Oh, I *had* a reservation-- I made it last week with Donna, so you'd better take my dog!"

Oh, yes, of COURSE we'll ignore those 40+ waitlisters, as well as the 90ish people who had the foresight to book in advance for a major holiday... You are so clever to use Donna's name, especially since we have never employed a woman named Donna in twelve years of operation.

Twats, all of 'em. Especially those who use our hours of operation sign to get a leg up to call over the fence to ask when we open. Sheesh!
(spacecat888 is just gonna finish this page on, Fri 5 Sep 2008, 6:17, closed)

School clothes!
I've also worked selling School Uniform this summer, and I was amazed at how late people are prepared to leave it.
Literally a day before the schools went back a man asked me 'Why don't you have any uniform in stock? The schools all go back tomorrow.' Me: O_o
(Freeman999, Mon 8 Sep 2008, 22:27, closed)

Used to live there,
and Strood! Fucked off to the Channel Islands 10 years ago, and I'm NOT ooming back. It was chavvy 10 years ago, well before it was fashionable :)
( loonybean giving as good as he gets since, Mon 8 Sep 2008, 23:57, closed)