Happy Friday!
After yesterday’s morning escape and a few text messages to Eddie it was decided that we would be going to Petco to buy a real ferret cage for Pickle. We were armed with $20 in gift cards and a coupon for 10% off the total purchase, so we were able to get a decent 3-level cage for about $100. So far she seems to be ok in there, although we do need to rearrange her hammocks a little bit. Plus, it’s big enough to support another ferret should we decide to get one when we move out. I’d like to cover 1 of the floors with fabric so that it’s not just hard plastic (the other 2 floors have tubes in them so it’d be damned difficult to cover them). I’m sure we’ll probably end up taking the little slide thing out too, just so that she’s got more room in there that’s not taken up by plastic crap that she won’t go near.
This morning we took the escapable cage outside and left it on the sidewalk in front of our neighbors’ house. I had every intention of posting it on Craigslist in hopes to salvage some of the cash we put into it, or even Freecycle, but that would require finding someone willing to pick it up while I’m home in the mornings, which is unlikely. When I got back home at 7am it was still out there, but when I got back out of bed a little while ago it was gone, so someone must have liked it.
We’ve started keeping a little book at work where we write down all the strange, perverse, and completely moronic things that out customers say to us. What we’ve got in there so far includes
- “Where can I find the cream for janitorial warts?”
- “I’m not spending $26 on no twat cream!” (said by a customer picking up meds for a raging yeast infection)
- “Mustard… you know that stuff the police spray you with when you fight them?” (customer response to question about allergies)
- “The bears took my Vicodin. Can I get it refilled a week early?”
It seems like almost every day we’ve got something to write in there. I can never say my job is dull.
Tags: pets, pets, work, work
January 12th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Maybe I should keep track of funny things I hear but then again I’m not supposed to share any of it.
I wish our cats had a fun thing to play in like Pickle
January 12th, 2007 at 11:59 am
The Dawn theme shows bugs in IE7, until i fixed them = no release, sorry.
January 12th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
@Robin - technically I’m not to either because of patient confidentiallity and all that, but my boss is fine with it so long as I’m not using anyone’s names.
And I once went to a vets office that had a huge enclosed “cat room” about the size of a large closet. It was filled with cat shelves that 2 cats spent all day lounging on.
@milo - aw, it’s a great theme, it sucks it’s buggy in IE
January 14th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
[...] Oh yeah since pickle was pulling a Houdini last week, and escaping from her cage, we stopped at Petco, and picked her up a new one, I think she likes it, as it is taller than her other ones. I like it better than her last one. [...]
January 23rd, 2007 at 12:24 pm
[...] Before I got in, the customer we’ve now named “crazy-wierd” came in. He was briefly known as “mustard man” after his comment on a mustard gas allergy. On his first visit to our store he told a fabulous story about how he’d only recently been released from the hospital after a 4 year stay because he’d fallen 100+ feet and broken every bone in his body and “puked up” his liver. He came in wanting us to refill any medication he had on file with us from before his accident. Yeah, not going to happen. He came in a couple of days later wanting the same thing, and was told he had to see a doctor if he wanted anything filled and billed to insurance. He spent 20 minutes arguing with my boss about how he hated doctors and he wanted her to just write out a script for him so he wouldn’t have to pay all that money for his insulin and whatever else he wanted. Threatens to call his lawyers because we’re witholding lifesaving medications. On his way out, he also stole a chocolate trout. [...]