When I was working as a service clerk at Walgreen’s back in 2008- it was really late one night and during the last hour when the store would be open. I had just rung up a woman’s merchandise- and then saw that I did NOT have enough cash to give her as the change that was showing on my register.

So I took out enough quarters to make up the amount that I had to give to her. She started fussing at me that she did NOT want a bunch of quarters- and ordered me to give her cash. I told her that I did NOT have the correct amount inside my register- and then she rudely demanded for me to call my manager out to bring some.

There were several people lined up behind her- and I thought it would be rude to make them have to wait. Since this was NOT long before we would be closing- the register I was working was the only one open. Otherwise- I normally could have had another employee take over a different one and check out those other customers.

I paged the only assistant manager on duty- and let him know that I needed that amount of cash brought up to the register. It took almost 5 minutes for him to come out- since he was working in the office and busy handling paperwork. So I saw those other customers NOT looking very pleased that they were being held up.

The guy finally came walking up- and gave that rude woman what she demanded. I was so glad when she walked out of the store- and felt like apologizing to those other customers for being made to wait just because she thought that she was ‘so special’. It was people like her who made me hate having to work in retail.