Seems that everyday it is something new. We get called names all day long, not many of them you could tell your mother. Yeah, that good.

Here at the shop we have a white board that we keep a tally of all the "friends" we make. Like this morning for example. As this guy walks in the door, he starts asking if we take cordless phones.

One of my co-workers, we'll call him "M", politely informs the guy that we do not.

After 'M' tried to breifly explain why we don't, the guy becomes frazzled. "What the hell kind of pawn shop is this that you don't take cordless phones? It's a Sony."

To which I had to pipe in and say "The kind of pawn shop that doesn't take cordless phones. Thank you, have a nice day."

At this point, phone man goes off on a tangent about us and another pawn shop in town and how crooked we all are (because we don't take cordless phones???).

Now this is the point where I have a little fun with the guy. "Yeah, that's right. We are all in competition with each other to be more mean than the other guys."

Mind you, the whole time we have a handfull of customers who have been the recipients of our good nature. They are looking at this guy and us with puzzled looks. After he (phone guy) leaves the store, one of the customers tells me that he would have taken care of the problem if I had just given him one of our Tasers to test.



Even our customers have a good sense of humor.