Paul Howlett 27: The Daily Funny

I work in the entertainment department of a huge store. I was restocking CD-Rs when a middle-aged woman came up to me.

Her: "Excuse me, but what is in those colorful boxes? I'm looking for toys as a present for my nephew, and I just know he'd like a colorful box like that."
Me: "Well, the toy department is upstairs, b--"
Her: "...and in case they're jack-in-the-boxes, could I get one custom made, because I bet you don't have the color combination I'd like anyway."
Me: "They're...not jack-in-the-boxes, ma'am. They are CDs."
Her: "Oh! Kind of a big box for a CD. Does it come with lots of leaflets, or is it just air? I hate that way of--"
Me: "No, no, no, you see, there's ten CDs in one box."
Her: "Ten?! Oh my goodness, that's a lot of CDs. What kind CDs are they?"
Me: "Well, we have CD-Rs in these, and CD-RWs over here. These ones are scratchproof, so they cost a little more--"
Her: "Oh, I don't know about these modern things so much. Have you got any jazz?"
Me: "Excuse me?"
Her: "See, an old person like myself, I haven't even heard of scratchproof music before. I like jazz."

I tried to hold my poker face for every cent of my hourly wage.

Me: "No, these CDs are empty. We have jazz over th--"
Her: "Yes, I was over there, and there was nothing new. I already have them all at home. But do you have any jazz in these bulk boxes?"
Me: "No, ma'am, I'm afraid we're all sold out of the jazz ones."
Her: "Well... this box is $8.99, and at the jazz section I'd pay more for only one CD!"
Me: "That's true, but these are empty, as I--"
Her: "This is a pretty good deal, ten CDs for less than a tenner!"
Me: "Undoubtedly, but--"
Her: "I'll take this!"
Me: "Ma'am, the CDs are empty. You won't hear anything."
Her: "Oh?"
Me: "I buy these myself all the time, and there's nothing on them."
Her: "Maybe your volume wasn't loud enough. Or you had unplugged your speakers?"

When had she become tech support to me?

I took a long, long break after that one.

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