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Why you should NOT work in RETAIL!

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    Thats your fault!!
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    getting crap all day from the managers
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    (laughs)
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    Like fire alarms, everything they do
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    Fire Extinguishers kind of fire
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    Oh my God this place has been broken into
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    It was grim! This bitch
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    is on her own in a haunted warehouse
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    Toxic as all shit!
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    (Intro music playing)
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    (Gibberish) It makes me feel beautiful!
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    (Laughter)
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    Oh my God girl, it’s been tight
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    How this ring light is working? I don’t
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    even know because my niece, she
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    tripped up on it. Sent it! She might as
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    well have yeated it across the room
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    Sent it away
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    for seven working days.
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    Catipulted into the wall
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    and it’s still alive
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    I don't know
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    what the lightning
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    is like
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    in here, but I’ve got
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    the curtains open at
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    the moment
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    I don’t know whether I’m going to shut
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    the curtains and get some lighting in here
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    I don’t know. So the lighting might change
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    throughout the video. I have no idea no
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    idea what to do, don’t know what to do
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    I can do it
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    moments before I started filming I had
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    a gulp of coughing
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    another reason I am still shocked that I
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    am still alive.
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    I literally
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    take gulp of
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    coffee while I’m doing
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    my makeup. Dilly me!
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    I was about to sneeze but I
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    was mid-swallow
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    So I panicked and tried
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    to swallow. I still got coffee up
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    my nose!
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    What’s up and welcome to my channel
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    I next do a video
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    This video is going to be so
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    hard to do. Oh my God!
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    My mates have been begging
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    and dying for me to do this video
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    I was supposed to have a little audience
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    here but they’ve not arrived yet
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    Oh my God girl! This is so hard talk about
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    (Effect runs across screen)
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    Retail. Working in retail.
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    This girl has had her fair share
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    plenty of experience working in retail
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    quick disclaimer
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    this is not a video to go and get
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    out at the managers nor the customers
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    this is just about experiences that I have
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    endured while working in retail
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    though they might not work there
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    anymore or shop there anymore
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    why do I feel so nervous to do this
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    I’ve recently just left one of those jobs
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    that was toxic as all shit
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    working in retail in the UK
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    before anyone starts to work in retail
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    people forget to advise you about the
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    following: customers have no filter.
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    whatsoever!
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    they have no filter
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    nor common sense
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    not a percent of decent humanity
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    or compassion
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    managers think they rule the mini kingdom
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    we got the shoplifters
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    we’ve got the karens
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    we’ve got all of them
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    the wise people that have
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    worked in retail in the past
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    that have survived
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    never share their experiences and wisdom
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    this is going to be episode one because
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    I have got like eight notebooks of all
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    the weird shit I have experienced working
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    multiple stores. I’m even considering
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    writing a book but
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    this girl doesn’t want her ass sued just
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    yet. We’re just going to dive right in
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    (squeals and laughs)
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    I’m going to kick off this video with one
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    of the most funniest fucking situations
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    so this was about the job that I recently
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    left. My mates will even tell you
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    I don’t use my brain, ever
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    they’re shocked that I’m still alive
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    this is like one of the examples
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    when you watch like a horror movie and
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    your friend or your relative sits there
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    next to you and goes
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    ”oh if that happened to me, if I got
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    broken into, I would punch them in
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    the face”
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    and then when a sort of situation like
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    this happens to you, you turn
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    like a deer in the headlights
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    I had to close down with one of
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    the, two of the managers
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    he’s no longer in the store anymore
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    he no longer works for the company
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    this was hilarious
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    so, I was closing up with this
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    manager, so I’m going to call him Taylor
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    for some weird reason
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    It’s me, muggin
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    did the closing up and the cashing up with
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    the manager
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    99% of my shifts and it was a bitch
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    I hated it
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    you know when you’re just like for
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    God sakes I just want
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    to go home
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    and especially when something goes wrong
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    when cashing out
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    there’s something missing in the
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    Flow. You can’t go home until
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    it’s done or when the alarm doesn’t
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    set itself properly and it just makes
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    you want to cry
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    you just want to go home
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    back to motherland
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    sitting in meudi
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    Watching Scream
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    Just recovering from the trauma that
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    I went through that day
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    we were cashing up
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    everything was going spiffingly well.
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    Taylor if you’re laughing
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    you’re going to hell
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    me, muggins, end up having to cash up
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    almost every single night of the
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    week. To set the scene, we’re
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    in the office right everything’s going
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    spiffingly well. So then Taylor goes “you
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    know what would make life a
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    lot easier?”
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    You know me, I want to get out as quick
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    as I can is it going to get us out
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    quicker? he gave me both out cards
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    and said “clock us both out, I’ll be
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    turning on the alarm system
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    and then we can meet in the middle
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    and then exit the store
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    Brilliant!
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    So this was a supermarket
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    Oh yeah it was haunted as all are
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    you know dead people and ghosts
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    like me got a lot of uh story times to
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    tell you about that one
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    set back the scene, I clock uh…
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    it’s already eerie
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    when you are in a supermarket
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    and the lights are really dim that
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    it’s almost dark, it’s very eerie
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    this place was haunted as all are
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    we knew there was going to be a delivery
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    coming in but normally a delivery guy
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    would unlock the door from the outside
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    himself, in the delivery, and leave
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    in, late in the evening, right about
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    tenish to elevenish
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    well more like canter down the aisles
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    to get to the back room because
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    I was too fucking scared to walk
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    around in the shop floor
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    that’s haunted as all ass
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    eerie as hell, it’s like 10 pm
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    so picture this, when you’re clocking
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    in and clocking out
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    you’re on a system against the wall
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    so on the wall behind you is the fire exit
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    door and the door where the deliveries
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    come through (laughs)
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    normally the delivery man never got there
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    until way after that we left
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    he forgot to give the shop the memo
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    to say that he was coming a little earlIer
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    didn’t give us a tip
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    nay nay
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    gosh shit like this has to happen to me
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    so I’m clocking us out facing the back
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    wall in this retail park there’s a lot of
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    um shoplifting, raids, clocking out
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    La-df-da ing
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    going as quick as I can and
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    then I hear this BOOM in the milisecond
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    when you’re in that sort of situation
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    you’re in an eerie large store that’s
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    very dark
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    and the warehouse is haunted as all ass
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    already a millisecond thinking “okay,
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    the ghost has thrown a box”
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    happened quite often in this store
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    I hear the back door boom open
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    remember when I said to you if you was
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    in a horror movie and some broke into
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    your house like a crazy murderer broke
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    into your house what would you do
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    you get that “oh I’ll get a bat and
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    hit him on the head” “ oh I’ll find the
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    sulfuric acid in the kitchen somewhere and
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    throw it in their face”
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    “oh I throw a hammer at their head”
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    no, for that millisecond I thought “shit, someone has broken in”
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    I was triple the size at this time, so this
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    bitch couldn’t run fast enough
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    (laughs)
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    not even a half a milliseconds I’m
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    thinking oh my god this place has been
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    broken into
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    this bitch is on her own in the haunted
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    warehouse, doors wide open, someone
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    will break in and murder me
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    a million ideas and a million scenarios
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    were flying through my head
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    come to the part of the self-defense
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    mechanis my back is planted
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    against this system (laughs)
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    my first instinct was to put my hand
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    behind… oh my God… everyone thought
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    this shit was so funny they watched
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    the footage from the CC TV footage
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    over and over again cause they thought
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    it was hilarious not funny
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    cause I couldn’t see who was at the door
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    because he’d opened the door
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    gone behind the door to get the brick to
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    keep the door open
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    this bitch she’s keeping her back planted
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    against this system my hands are like
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    this like trying to find something to lob
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    and launch at this person
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    i find something in my hand but at the
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    same time when this situation happens
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    to you you don’t think
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    was it a hammer? No
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    without even half a split second
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    quarter of a fraction inch of a second
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    thought this must be the delivery guy
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    no, I thought I was gonna get murdered
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    So I (laughs) long yeeted across the
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    warehouse (laughs)
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    this is one golden Chloe moment
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    This is just one of the reasons that
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    I would not survive if I had
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    a murderer encountment
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    thing in my hand that I yeeted across
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    the warehouse (laughs)
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    was a roll of sellotape (laughs)
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    let that sink in let that sink in
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    I don’t talk about this often because
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    it makes me feel so silly
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    my eyes were facing the floor
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    not a good position to be before
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    running away from some sort of
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    mass murderer but alas it was not
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    a mass murderer nor a burglar
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    it was the delivery man it was the
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    delivery man a very confused
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    very offended (laughs)
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    scared delivery man he just
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    boomed out “oi calm down love!”
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    the roll of sellotape was right at his
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    feet I literally end up knees down
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    to the floor with relief
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    why didn’t you knock why didn’t
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    you tell the manager that you were coming
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    rude! Embarrassingly tail between my legs
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    waltz back to the office
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    I’ve got a very confused manager
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    going “where have you been?”
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    but when he found out how I reacted to
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    this situation of my near death experience
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    thought it was A star fucking hilarious
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    so I was off for a couple of days after
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    that after that embarrassing encounter I
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    come back and we close up together again
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    goes “oh, I remembered to look at the
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    footage. Do you know how fucking hilarious
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    it was to watch that?”
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    not only me and the manager saw that
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    footage, a large amount of people saw that
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    footage I felt more of an idiot than I
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    already do I’m not gonna lie it was
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    hilariously funny but at the time there
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    was a lot of break-ins and a lot of like
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    shoplifting, burglaries around the area
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    at that time I was like a little bit on
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    edge I was at the ready tape in hand
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    at the ready I never thought my eyes
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    could go as wide as they did
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    we watch the footage and he zoomed in at
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    least like 80 times my eyes were like
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    this (gestures large circles with hands)
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    Fuck you roll of tape
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    not gonna lie that was not funny
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    it wasn’t funny at the time but it’s now
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    hilarious and slightly worrying because if
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    anything like that happened to me
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    I would be in hot poo poo
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    oh God I mean it could have been anything
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    it could have been a stapler it could have
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    been anything no I had to get a bloody
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    role of tape as if that bitch was
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    gonna save my life but a little bit after
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    That I kind of decided not to do the
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    Closing up anymore it wasn’t that that
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    put me off, it was the ghosts actually
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    this is another story that just literally
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    Popped into my head so this is when
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    I worked in Mark’s an Spencer’s
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    back when I was like part-time modeling
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    because I was in college at the time
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    I think I was there for quite a while
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    that’s all I remember
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    I remember a lot of the experiences
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    but one of these experiences
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    was pretty grim you know when these
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    retail companies they say how much they
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    respect and look after their employees
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    umm I don’t want to be sued by Mark’s and
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    Spark’s to be honest with you
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    I ain’t got much Google AdSense for that
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    shit set the scene think of like an
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    abandoned swimming changing room
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    this Mark’s and Spencer’s was very old
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    I would do the early morning shift
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    like the stacking up in the morning
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    the employee bathroom it was grim
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    mate walking through the back of the
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    building early in the morning was grim
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    you had this girl that used to go partying
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    in that same area she’d go into the
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    changing rooms (laughs) in the staff
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    room have a quick Power Nap
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    this girl was fresh as a daisy back there
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    and could like that she’d come back to
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    life within minutes not anymore
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    walking through this echoey eerie
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    alleyway you’ve still got people passed
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    out on the ground from the clubs
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    across the street you’ve got the crazy
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    guy asking you money for drugs
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    imagine that think of Harry Potter the
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    Order of the Phoenix how eerie
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    that alleyway was when the Dementor
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    come through that was the kind of
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    alleyway a Dementor would definitely
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    of fucking flown in there scared the
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    crap out of ya during the day fine
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    but in the night early in the morning
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    I’d get there for like 4:30 in the morning
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    I would literally poo myself like run you
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    know those moments when you’re a kid
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    I’m lying there I still do it to this day
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    when you turn the light off you
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    marching half way up the stairs
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    you’re like I can do this I can do this
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    then you feel like there’s some sort of
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    slender man behind you you fucking canter
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    up the stairs that kind of feeling that
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    you when you were setting your ass down
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    this alleyway I mean I got paid weekly
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    the money was good everyone there was cool
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    we had I had some good time working in
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    there anyway leaving the scene of the
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    Dementor alleyway you went to this door
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    that you would lock yourself in from the
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    back of the door not in the office
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    like during that feeling when you’re
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    running up the stairs thinking there’s
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    some sort of boogeyman behind you you
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    start to punch in the numbers like a
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    freaking idiot you run up these very high
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    set of concrete stairs smash my knees in
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    every freaking morning I think I’ve still
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    got scars on my knees cause of that
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    desperate to go for a wee because this
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    girl drunk two red bulls while she was on
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    The bus on the way there yeah this
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    building was haunted as well waltz to the
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    toilet it was grim mold leak spots up the
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    ceiling I shit you not there was some
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    girls that had to go in together because
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    they were too scared to go in it was
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    prison vibes the store was lovely but the
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    back well I run to the toilet sitting down
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    holding me leg up high because oh yes
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    it’s like prison toilets i forgot I was
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    in prison now there was no lock
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    on the door so my leg is out high
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    my leg is right out there keeping the
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    door shut while trying to pee at the same
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    time it was very hard to concentrate
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    I swipe the toilet paper while I’m doing
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    this the employee doesn’t even think
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    the door just swings open lo and behold
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    you see me naked from waist down
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    (laughing) swiping position
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    oh my God I felt so sorry for her
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    cause she was an older lady and I
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    was mortified for her, I should have been
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    pissed off because she should have
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    thought “hmm I’ve been here for several
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    years now, I’ve been here for two decades
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    now, maybe I should knock the pissing
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    door nay nay course not it’s my life
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    isn’t it she’s standing there looking at
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    me naked from waist down I’m now
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    looking at her (laughs) with my
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    (inaudible) there are times people
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    have seen me in the worst of times that
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    was a moment beyond that she can see
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    my cleanly shaved (laughs) she’s no
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    longer here I’m joking funny enough
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    she was just stranding there shocked
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    not like “ugh” waltzes out and I feel
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    exposed pull my leggings up and
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    I’m looking any myself in the mirror and
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    there’s a bit of mold there at least
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    someone saw my hoo haw
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    no one ever sees my hoo haw that’s a
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    Very rare sighting anyone sees my hoo haw
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    God just so happy it was her who saw my
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    hoo haw and no one else another thing I’ve
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    just remembered working in that store
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    it was just one of those moments
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    It was the first customer I had
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    he was rude as all ass
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    this is when I was on the till
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    Had to cover for the clothing department
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    aaaah I feel dirty remembering it HLEGH
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    first customer of the morning, it was 7 am
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    stores like that, like markses and stuff
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    opened a lot earlier
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    during christmas time. first customer of the day
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    he was an an absolute ogre
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    he was lovely, plesant, very very rude
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    He waltzes up to me, doesnt pass me these trousers he wanted to return
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    oooh nay nay, course not, first customer of the day!
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    seven AM, flashes the bag in my face
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    good morning how can I help you?
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    so youre returning this, then?
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    deep evil voice Yes
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    as if hes asking me who the fuck im talking to
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    I have the best retail face, I can smile for miles
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    but this guy, hes not going to take the contents out of the bag
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    he wants me to do it, me, muggy
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    as soon as im halfway, pulling the contents out the bag
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    I smell a stench, old marajuana
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    and uhm kitty pee
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    I know the smell of kitty pee
  • 14:35 - 14:37
    Im holding the back of my checks, im thinking
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    that smell, I cant handle it
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    I had [indistinct] horses for years
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    20 a day at some times, they all came back in a day
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    cleam up baby bums
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    but this smell... I bet a dead body was wearing it
  • 14:48 - 14:50
    Pulled it out of a forensic scene
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    and tried to return the bitch
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    working in retail youd be shocked what people try to return
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    trust me. I push the buzzer underneath my till
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    cause I know that this isnt going to go spiffingly well
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    all of the managers at that store, as grim as the place was
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    the managers were amazing
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    Had our backs, I didnt even need to explain to her
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    cause she could smell it
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    Just trying to get it out of her throat
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    thats how strong the stench was
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    All i remember was a MMMaaassive back and forth
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    he doesnt walk away with credit, doesnt walk away with a refund
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    just leaves the pants, pants like trousers
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    we'll get to that one in a minute
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    we're standing there looking at this set of pants and
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    im lookin at it like girl what do we do with these
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    walk down the road and incenerate them?
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    Put em out of their mysery
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    Cant remember if it was called a return box or a debit box
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    in these "debit boxes"
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    the shit you find in there
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    will make you lose faith in human beings
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    not only we saw a pee stain on it, on the back of the trouser leg
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    there was a poo stain, definetly cat poo
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    that was in the return box for months
  • 15:55 - 15:58
    and that smell, never went
  • 15:58 - 16:01
    everyone at the store room just sort of tried to avoid it
  • 16:01 - 16:02
    like the plague
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    another one is when people come from another planet
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    there is a small amount of people that think you can return used underpants
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    I kid you not, in the recent store I worked at
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    we would not return underwear at all
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    we sold underwear but we would not return it at all
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    makes sense right?
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    this woman... thiiiiis womannnn..
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    is very self absorbant, self rightous
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    woman waltzes to my till
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    has to be my station doesnt it, thats where shit goes wrong
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    passes the box of mens pants in my face
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    just waves it in my face, not like hey can I return something
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    this is why retail workers are such misrable bastards
  • 16:41 - 16:43
    she waves this box of underpants in my face
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    and at first I thought, cause of these werd experiences ive had
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    that they were unopened
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    Its on the recept somewhere I think
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    its in very fine print, but you can still read it
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    its still very very easy to read
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    and shes trying to return them
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    and i try to explain to her four times, I cant take these back
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    we cant exchange or refund these
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    we're really sory, but unfortunately due to our policy
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    we cannot return or exchange underwear
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    very nicely, I was famous for being the most bubbly person on the till
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    the managers didnt like that
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    probably on the next epsiodes but anyways
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    This woman is now getting so angry with me
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    I call one of my managers that was lovely
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    I call em over cause im like.. girl
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    I need your help ASAP I cant get rid of this bitch
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    she comes to my rescue, she explains to her
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    shes really nice and polite back with her
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    I thought ok shes gonna exit the building
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    she wants to do a last minute performance
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    comes back up to me like its my fault
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    its YOUR fault you bought pants that are the wrong size
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    if youre a store assistant or a checkout chick
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    its YOUR fault
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    she then tells me she wants to sue the company
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    she wants to sue the company for this policy
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    that we cant exchange or return underwear
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    I said babe, coulda been anything, a bottle of ketchup
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    you coulda got a bloody mug, box of matches
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    nah it had to be underwear
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    and I was having a very long day already
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    Doing all that crap all day, bugging the managers
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    laugh
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    then shes threatening to sue me!
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    like its my fault!
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    but nonononono when the manager explained to her
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    about the tills and the policies she was absolutely fine
  • 18:13 - 18:15
    but then she turned to me like she wanted to murder me
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    and sue my fat ass
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    please read the recept for the policy
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    99.9% of companies in the UK do not exchange or return underwear
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    you might have a rough idea why
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    I have this story an old manager told me
  • 18:29 - 18:31
    from the store I've just come from
  • 18:31 - 18:32
    He told me the story
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    but he's no longer there
  • 18:33 - 18:35
    I actually asked him what is the most
  • 18:35 - 18:38
    like weirdest return situation they had
  • 18:38 - 18:39
    There was actually
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    a SNEAKY cleaver bastard
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    that would buy perfumes
  • 18:43 - 18:45
    open up the package, take the perfumes
  • 18:45 - 18:47
    and just replace the weight with
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    with like sand or anything weighted
  • 18:49 - 18:50
    put it back in the box and seal it
  • 18:50 - 18:51
    like he'd seal it
  • 18:51 - 18:53
    apparently this women cost the company
  • 18:53 - 18:55
    a lot of money
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    turning the perfume, like
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    getting the currency value back for it
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    waltzing out the store
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    and nice perfume to go home to
  • 19:01 - 19:02
    she can go home
  • 19:02 - 19:04
    and enjoy the hard earned cash
  • 19:04 - 19:06
    and enjoy spritzing until her heart
  • 19:06 - 19:07
    earns content
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    I thought that was hilarious
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    GENIOUS
  • 19:09 - 19:10
    the next story is
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    that we got forced to work
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    while the store next door to us
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    was on FIRE.
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    like fire alarms everything
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    the needed a fire extinguisher
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    kind of fire, till the fire brigade came down
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    we were still told
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    to scan as usual
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    I wish I was making this up
  • 19:25 - 19:27
    this is like my therapist
  • 19:27 - 19:28
    Set the scene
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    scanning the lobby
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    in the checkout
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    BEEP BEEP BEEP
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    honestly I still hear the beeping
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    like that in my head
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    Trama triggered HAHAH
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    set the scene
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    normal day as usual
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    the store is a nightmare
  • 19:39 - 19:40
    it was always very busy and a nightmare
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    one customer comes to me
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    casually going through his things
  • 19:44 - 19:45
    "did you hear that there's a fire
  • 19:45 - 19:46
    next door"
  • 19:46 - 19:47
    I'm like looking around like
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    you know me my anxiety hits the roof
  • 19:51 - 19:52
    an employee next door
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    had a cheeky
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    ummmmm
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    cigarette. don't know the full story
  • 19:57 - 19:58
    of how she got caught
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    it rolled under a pallet of
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    very flammable things
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    the stock room got engulfed in flames
  • 20:04 - 20:06
    and some of the store caught fire
  • 20:06 - 20:08
    a manager from the shop next door
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    is flying to my till
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    because she knows I've got
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    the calling out thingy
  • 20:12 - 20:13
    a couple of stores ive worked
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    I was one of those ladies that goes
  • 20:15 - 20:17
    "clean up on isle 6 please"
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    "Vomit on isle 2"
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    I was one of those
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    She comes to me and goes
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    can you call a manager over
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    I need a fire extinguisher
  • 20:23 - 20:25
    Why the store doesn't have
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    a fire extinguisher, they are making
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    a ton of money every five seconds
  • 20:28 - 20:29
    employees are underpaid
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    but alas they don't have a
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    a fire extinguisher to save their lives
  • 20:34 - 20:36
    my head sounds to my manager
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    "this is code red,
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    we need a fire extinguisher"
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    so I call to my manager
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    she RUUNS to the isle
  • 20:41 - 20:43
    like she's looking at me like ive done
  • 20:43 - 20:44
    something wrong. and there's always like
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    (In evil voice) what have you done
  • 20:45 - 20:47
    wait for a second girl
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    let me explain
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    she runs get the fire extinguisher
  • 20:49 - 20:51
    that manager next door
  • 20:51 - 20:53
    runs to extinguish something
  • 20:53 - 20:55
    so im feeling a little bit nervous
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    I look at my manager
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    "Girl what's going on,
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    I'm feeling nervous now"
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    like matter of factly goes
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    "oh the store next door is on fire"
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    "SIT"
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    run through the fire call
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    NO.
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    turns out the store next door
  • 21:11 - 21:12
    was on fire
  • 21:12 - 21:13
    Yep.
  • 21:13 - 21:15
    like so chill, we were told
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    to proceed as normal
  • 21:17 - 21:19
    even though next door was engulfed flames
  • 21:19 - 21:21
    fire engine arrives
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    customers are coming going
  • 21:23 - 21:24
    "why are you outside"
  • 21:24 - 21:25
    while they are shopping
  • 21:25 - 21:27
    this is an example that
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    customers have NO filter
  • 21:28 - 21:29
    nor make sense
  • 21:29 - 21:30
    why are you shopping there
  • 21:30 - 21:32
    if the building next door
  • 21:32 - 21:34
    Is engulfed in flames
  • 21:34 - 21:35
    burning, London's burning
  • 21:35 - 21:38
    the store next door is burning
  • 21:38 - 21:39
    why are you shopping
  • 21:39 - 21:41
    my anxiety, was up the roof
  • 21:41 - 21:42
    but I was smiling
  • 21:42 - 21:43
    "would you like a bag with that"
  • 21:43 - 21:44
    it felt like
  • 21:44 - 21:45
    you know like the Titanic
  • 21:45 - 21:46
    the boat is SINKING
  • 21:46 - 21:47
    Don't DIEEE
  • 21:47 - 21:49
    first class people were being evacuated
  • 21:49 - 21:50
    by boats
  • 21:50 - 21:51
    the workers and the peasants had to
  • 21:51 - 21:52
    stay behind and DIE
  • 21:52 - 21:53
    HAHAHAH
  • 21:53 - 21:55
    That's how it felt
  • 21:55 - 21:56
    Fire engines outside
  • 21:56 - 21:57
    there was a lot of flammables
  • 21:57 - 21:58
    apparently in the back of the building
  • 21:58 - 22:00
    next door, they could have exploded
  • 22:00 - 22:01
    pallet with lots and lots
  • 22:01 - 22:02
    of flammable wire
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    it could have gone BOOM
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    we DIE
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    nah nah nah
  • 22:05 - 22:06
    we were just told to work
  • 22:06 - 22:07
    as per usual
  • 22:07 - 22:08
    WHAT.
  • 22:08 - 22:09
    true story
  • 22:09 - 22:10
    my dad didn't believe me
  • 22:10 - 22:10
    no no no
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    the workplace should be
  • 22:11 - 22:13
    taking the employees outside
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    so you know they don't die
  • 22:14 - 22:16
    GAHAHA so theres no deaths in the building
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    Oh you know its okay
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    we are probably like you know
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    inhaling fumes
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    but no as long as we are making
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    money for the greedy company
  • 22:24 - 22:26
    its absolutely totally fine
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    dandy as rain.
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    the building probably burnt down
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    at one point but people weren't allowed
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    to leave.
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    that's probably why there was ghosts
  • 22:33 - 22:34
    in thereeee
  • 22:34 - 22:35
    yes that place was very haunted
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    but im going to wait until the next video
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    and talk about it
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    buckle up for the next episode
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    because the next episode
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    is going to be very juicy
  • 22:43 - 22:44
    this one was just a taster
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    I avoid any retail place nowadays
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    like the plague
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    you know like when someone
  • 22:49 - 22:49
    comes from the army
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    where they kind of like
  • 22:50 - 22:52
    avoid guns, bombs
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    that kind of thing
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    yeah that's how I feel
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    about going to retail
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    so if you enjoyed this
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    give me that thumbs up
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    and if you haven't already make sure
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    that you subscribe to my channel
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    and press on that bell, and you know when I next do a video
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    and ill see you beautiful little raindrops
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    in the next video
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    TADAAA
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    plucky outro music
Title:
Why you should NOT work in RETAIL!
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