One thing I really enjoy is when a customer talks on the phone while they're in the pawn shop because it often provides me with opportunities to overhear things--funny things, inappropriate things, sad things, outrageous things. Today, I will share two such instances.
Instance #1 : There is one particular woman who comes into the store on a regular basis. She is probably in her late twenties and very pretty, but she is also very strange. An encounter with her never fails to simultaneously dumbfound and entertain. Her most recent visit had her pacing around the store on her cellphone. She was confiding into whoever it was on the other end about some private information--who she had slept with, who so-and-so thought she had slept with, who she hadn't slept with, and what she was going to do about the rumors so-and-so was spreading about who she had supposedly slept with. She either didn't realize everyone could hear her or she just didn't care. With her, there is no telling.
Instance #2 : Today, I overheard another interesting conversation when a woman and her young daughter approached the counter. The woman was on her phone but handed it to her daughter and instructed her to tell whoever it was on the other end about "what happened to the dog". Intrigued, I discretely listened to the young girl fumble for words as I rang up her mother's purchase. After a few moments of the girl muttering incoherently, the mother became frustrated and grabbed the phone from her daughter to tell the story herself. Apparently, they had left their dog outside in it's kennel earlier that day. While they had been away, this dog--named Sebastian--had gotten up onto it's doghouse, tried to jump over the kennel wall, but failed and ended up hanging itself from it's collar. The woman's voice was shaking while she told the tale and I felt horrible for her, her daughter, and the deceased dog. Although, at the same time, I was trying not to laugh because I sometimes can't believe the things I overhear.
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