It’s Not Their Fault There’s A Helium Shortage
Not too long ago, I was picking some things up at the dollar store. As I was in line checking out, I hear a lady over by the balloon counter asking about getting some balloons blown up or something. The employee tells her that, at the moment, they can’t blow up balloons because they don’t have any helium due to a helium shortage. The lady gets pissed and asks how long they’ve been out of helium and the staff tells her they’ve been out for a while. She asks when they’ll get more and they tell her they don’t know. She says Ok and the employee goes into the office.
The lady starts to walk away, but turns around and knocks on the office door calling, “M’am, m’am!”
When the employee emerges from the office, the customer asks her for contact information for the owner of the building/property (not that they could do anything). The employee tells her that she doesn’t know who owns the property and doesn’t have their contact info. This makes the lady more mad and she asks for a manager. The employee goes back into the office and a manager comes out. This customer asks her all the same questions about the helium and the owner’s contact info. The manager calmly and politely explains that there’s a helium shortage, she doesn’t know when they’ll get more, and she doesn’t have any information on the owner.
The lady points to the sign stating they’re out of helium and says, “I know you guys just don’t want to do balloons because they’re only a buck!”
The manager continues to explain that there’s a legitimate shortage. Helium bitch keeps asking about the owner. The manager on duty says that if she wants to speak to the store manager she can call in the morning.
Helium bitch’s reply is, “No. I’m gonna call corporate about this and find out who the owner is because this is ridiculous.”
Manager tried again to explain that there’s a helium shortage and there’s literally nothing they can do and the lady snaps back, “Well I guess you have nothing to worry about then!” and she storms out. She even glared at me, an innocent bystander as she left because I’d been watching this whole fiasco.
The cashier just laughed and shook her head.
