07-12-2010, 08:11 AM
One must say, when you are working nightshifts at stores, you can meet some interesting characters. Will at some point tell you about some that I’ve met, the ones that you just remember always, but this time I’m gonna talk about what happened last night on my shift.
Started off I got to the store I was to work at, 3 teenagers were outside and stuff and I went inside. Soon, they come in, and one of them says someone has damaged my car, run a key over the paintjob. I rush out and check it out, “April’s fool!” the girl yelled and giggled like it was her best joke ever (yes, she really did say that). I would have said something nasty to her if I didn’t think how stupid she was. Plus she was clearly a bit tipsy, which just made her look sad. I go back inside, the three teenagers hang around some, yammering and talking, clearly coming from some party, then they head outside as more join them. I sit down behind the register and read a book, when the door opens and a kid says the trash can outside is on fire, “Some other people did it!” he claimed as I came out with the fire extinquisor and try to put it out. Took a while, and I think I inhaled a bit of the smoke. Nothing serious, but enough to make me feel a bit dizzy afterwards with a nasty taste in my mouth. I demand the group to leave, so obvious they did it but they refuse. I spray a bit on the pavement in front of them, but I think that just made them stubborn.
I go back and call the police, tell them what has happened and that the group I’m sure did it are still outside. Takes them about 12-15 minutes to arrive, and they JUST missed the group by 2 minutes tops. I tell them what happened, do my best to describe them, they wander outside to the direction I saw the group head to, but its pretty clear they’re gone. Soon after the police leave, a guy from the security company I work for arrives as I had reported to them as well. He asks what happened, stuff like that and is looking for some papers that I have to file a report on, when a guy comes in running into the store screaming “There’s a fire at the back!”
We run to the other side of the store where the trucks deliver food and supplies for the store, open the door there and woosh! The fire was quite intense. It was one of those big plastic dumpsters that had been put on fire. We grab a hose near the door and manage to put it out. Thankfully the fire didn’t spread out or anything. The firefighters arrive but they soon leave as it was over, the police men return, ask for a description again and this time they look around harder, but again its clear the group is long gone out of the area. I just know it was them, probably a dare or just to show off. Maybe I provoked them when I nearly sprayed at them with the extinquisher, but this just shows how stupid some kids can be, even more so when intoxicated which I know some of them were.
I remember when I was waiting for the police to arrive for the trashcan, one of the girls in the group walked passed the store, then a minute later came back running fast. I did go up and looked, and saw the group leave, so I think she saw the fire. Another of their friends had walked passed earlier in the direction to the dumpster and I think HE did it. I just hope at least on of them gets caught, they’ll squeal on the rest. Like I said, a few of them were at the store, so the cameras got them, but unless someone from the police recognizes them, chances of finding them are slim at best. If one of them had bought something and paid with a credit card, that would have been a different matter, but they didn’t.
So yeah, that was my shift last night. Heh, my last shift at that store to boot. Got today off, and then am working out the week tomorrow at another store that’s said to be a peaceful one, which I hope is true. After THAT, I got a whole week off. Boy, do I wish that was coming now, but I digress.
Anyway, decided to tell ya all about this, figured it’s quite a story, worth telling it around here and there.
Started off I got to the store I was to work at, 3 teenagers were outside and stuff and I went inside. Soon, they come in, and one of them says someone has damaged my car, run a key over the paintjob. I rush out and check it out, “April’s fool!” the girl yelled and giggled like it was her best joke ever (yes, she really did say that). I would have said something nasty to her if I didn’t think how stupid she was. Plus she was clearly a bit tipsy, which just made her look sad. I go back inside, the three teenagers hang around some, yammering and talking, clearly coming from some party, then they head outside as more join them. I sit down behind the register and read a book, when the door opens and a kid says the trash can outside is on fire, “Some other people did it!” he claimed as I came out with the fire extinquisor and try to put it out. Took a while, and I think I inhaled a bit of the smoke. Nothing serious, but enough to make me feel a bit dizzy afterwards with a nasty taste in my mouth. I demand the group to leave, so obvious they did it but they refuse. I spray a bit on the pavement in front of them, but I think that just made them stubborn.
I go back and call the police, tell them what has happened and that the group I’m sure did it are still outside. Takes them about 12-15 minutes to arrive, and they JUST missed the group by 2 minutes tops. I tell them what happened, do my best to describe them, they wander outside to the direction I saw the group head to, but its pretty clear they’re gone. Soon after the police leave, a guy from the security company I work for arrives as I had reported to them as well. He asks what happened, stuff like that and is looking for some papers that I have to file a report on, when a guy comes in running into the store screaming “There’s a fire at the back!”
We run to the other side of the store where the trucks deliver food and supplies for the store, open the door there and woosh! The fire was quite intense. It was one of those big plastic dumpsters that had been put on fire. We grab a hose near the door and manage to put it out. Thankfully the fire didn’t spread out or anything. The firefighters arrive but they soon leave as it was over, the police men return, ask for a description again and this time they look around harder, but again its clear the group is long gone out of the area. I just know it was them, probably a dare or just to show off. Maybe I provoked them when I nearly sprayed at them with the extinquisher, but this just shows how stupid some kids can be, even more so when intoxicated which I know some of them were.
I remember when I was waiting for the police to arrive for the trashcan, one of the girls in the group walked passed the store, then a minute later came back running fast. I did go up and looked, and saw the group leave, so I think she saw the fire. Another of their friends had walked passed earlier in the direction to the dumpster and I think HE did it. I just hope at least on of them gets caught, they’ll squeal on the rest. Like I said, a few of them were at the store, so the cameras got them, but unless someone from the police recognizes them, chances of finding them are slim at best. If one of them had bought something and paid with a credit card, that would have been a different matter, but they didn’t.
So yeah, that was my shift last night. Heh, my last shift at that store to boot. Got today off, and then am working out the week tomorrow at another store that’s said to be a peaceful one, which I hope is true. After THAT, I got a whole week off. Boy, do I wish that was coming now, but I digress.
Anyway, decided to tell ya all about this, figured it’s quite a story, worth telling it around here and there.