As much as I complain about customers I hate, some I don’t mind. I’ll joke around with them and not mind when they come to the counter.
One customer had been coming for a long time and will usually order the same thing, so I remember him. He started teasing me about my hair a long time ago, because I dye it a different color all the time. At first, it annoyed me. but then I started telling him he’d look good with green hair, orange hair,etc. he promised me he’d dye it.
Soon came October, and every time he’d come to the deli Id tell him I was disappointed that he hadn’t dyed his hair yet. He said for Halloween.
He still didn’t do it. Mind you, he’s got to be in his 40′s, but still, its fun to tease these people back. I hate when people comment on my hair!
Then he said he’d dye his hair before Christmas.
So last week he came to the deli and I told him he didn’t have much time left.
“I know, I know,” he said. “It’s not christmas yet. there’s still some time.”
He left and came back about twenty minutes later. I was helping a customer find something and Joe (I know his name from when a friend of his came to the deli talking on her phone and told me ‘joe says hi’) shoved a bag in my hand and said “This is for you.”
Then he took the hat he always wears off and he had sprayed red and green stripes in his hair! I was literally dying of laughter.
I actually annoyed him into doing it.
In the bag was the two spray colors he used, so I sprayed half my hair red and the other half green on my day off. I went out with Mindsay Mohan that day and I had so many comments on it.
As I was crossing the street in the ghetto an old white man in a suit rolled down his window and yelled that he liked my “christmas colors.”
Then two young girls were next to say they loved it.
Then, I was walking into an apt building and a man on the top floor yelled down something about hair. I ignored him and he screamed “excuse me” until I looked up at the 7th floor. “I really like your hair,” he said.
So if so many people like my colored hair, why is it a problem with jobs? bleh to that!