A very, very strange customer encounter today [View All]

[jmowreader]

I was getting ready to go outside and unload some wood from a truck when a woman asked me for help with bathtubs. No problem, I went over there to help.

When I get about halfway between the forklift battery chargers and the bathtub aisle, she walked up on me from behind and PUT HER ARM AROUND ME. Like I was her buddy or something. I never saw this woman before and I never saw no shit like that, either. Dude, my own WIFE won't walk up behind me and do that--she's afraid I might get War Flashbacks or something and flip out. Yeah, I freaked some, but I just ducked down a bit and stepped away.

Her reaction was kinda strange: she got all huffy and commented that I had a "problem with me touching you." Yes. I do. I didn't tell her that, but total strangers grabbing me for no reason whatsoever is absolutely not appreciated. And then she spent the rest of the five minutes or so that I was talking to her and her husband (sold them a $400 bathtub and around $200 in drain, faucet, showerhead and other necessary items in the process) she stood about six inches away from me.

Like I said, REAL strange.