The pawn shop I work for takes in computers and laptops for their pawn loans, but only if the system meets several requirements. To offer the customer a price, there has to be a product key (so we can restore their computer to factory settings in case they never pay on their computer and we claim it after it becomes too far overdue), a moderately sized RAM and hard drive, and a processor that is somewhat up-to-date with current standards. In other words, the newer a computer is, the more we can offer them on the loan. Well, a woman came into the shop today and was looking for a loan on her laptop. I went into it to find the information I needed to price it and realized there was a disc in her disc drive. I asked if she wanted the disc taken out. She did. And to our great surprise, both mine and the customer's, when I opened the drive and took the disc out, it was a porno! The picture on the top of the DVD showed a woman sticking her naked butt in the air in the direction of another lustful looking woman. The customer gasped and quickly grabbed the DVD out of my hand and away from any eyes that might glance in that direction, apologized, and then rushed out of the store with the DVD. She returned moments later and assured me that her boyfriend was in big trouble.
In order to buy things with the generous employee discount that my pawn shop offers, one is required to have worked at least thirty days and have passed their first review after those initial thirty days. As it has been over a month and a half since I commenced my employment, I asked my boss when I would be having my review so I could start buying things. She said that I could go ahead without the review because the management was very behind on giving reviews and that it would probably be a few weeks before they would get to me. Having hoped for this response, I was very happy and mindlessly blurted out how I had been setting aside certain DVDs that I'd wanted to buy, calling it my "stash". My boss's mouth slumped into a frown and she told me that I should not have been doing that. I quickly apologized, inwardly scolding myself for speaking so thoughtlessly. She said it was okay but that I shouldn't do that any more, that if I wanted to buy anything that I needed to either put in on lay-a-way or purchase it immediately. I feel kind of guilty and somewhat embarrassed, but I don't think it'll stop me from dropping a hundred dollars on DVDs sometime next week. I have a very nice copy of Jumanji hidden away and can't wait to bust that one out.
A mother and her daughter came into the shop today with an RF modulator, a small DVD player, and a TV/DVD combo that was princess themed, complete with a wand-shaped remote and tiara that hooked into the top of the pink TV. The prices she was given for her belongings were not what was had been expecting and she told me she needed to step away from the counter for a moment to make a phone call. I told her that would be alright, thinking she needed to call someone to see if they still wanted to go ahead and sell their items at our prices. The woman and her daughter, however, didn't reappear for a half hour, and when they did, the mother was carrying a laptop computer. She asked me to appraise the laptop, I did, and it was still not sufficient, but she eventually took the offer on our loan price and used the money to purchase a pink violin for her 9-year-old daughter. The daughter was hilarious. She was very excited to be getting the violin and showed her mother how to measure the violin using her arm to make sure it was the right size for her. She also showed her mother the correct way to carry the violin and then proceeded to show her mother the wrong way, swinging it around by the neck and nearly dropping it herself. I'd never seen a mother so nervous in my life. She had her daughter set the violin down and then repeatedly told her she would need to be careful with it. She didn't seem to trust her daughter at all, and with the few moments of high energy that I witnessed, I think I know why. The violin comes with a 30 day money back guarantee, but I honestly don't know if it will stay in one piece that long.
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