you cant make this stuff up (record store story)
The_Hook_Up
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dude pulls up to the shop. shingaling is watching dude sitting in his car. I asked him what was up. shingling says 'that dude is doing bumps in the car!" I say "no way, are you sure it aint nasal spray or something?" "No, he is doing bumps."dude (probably about 45 yo) gets out of the car and comes in the shop. Sure enough, dude is wiping his nose every 3 seconds while he asking where the yardbirds records are. I cannot help myself and go and grab The best of Eric Clapton. I obviously start playing "cocaine" just to see if dude freaks or gets super paranoid, I am just curious to see what his reaction is. Dude starts looking around when the tune starts and goes "all right!" and starts singing along! No shit. he then comes to the counter and asks if it is for sale, and I assure him it is and it is his if he wants it. He says "yes i want that!" he then says "this is just like Hi fidelty, you put this on knowing I would buy it huh?" He then gets on his cell and is jabbering to someone. He then asks where the reggae is and wants some suggestions for some classic reggae LPs...I suggest toots "funky Kingston" and peter tosh "equal rights" and he scoops them. all the while explaiming how pleased he is with the shop and still jamming and singing "cocaine' to himself.too funny.
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I use to work for that guy.
Or was it this guy?
you let him use his cell in the store !?!
isn't that against the bossman's posted store policy !
you know what that means???
that means it's the highest quality fidelity.
p.s.
i would have loved to see this guy. i bet he's got some ill stories from the 80's.
yeah, but let it slide, cause we wanted to eavesdrop and see what dude was going on about on the phone...he was telling his buddy "They have this record and this record!" So, it was kinda like advertising...but yeah we have a no cell phone policy and permission from the owner if someone ignores us when we ask them to take it outside to play Black Metal at a very ridiculous volume to make phone chatting impossible...
lol
How many drunken episodes have you seen vs. Cocaine episodes?
Well for one dont want to hear someone yammering on the phone..most people are discrete but all it takes is one yahoo blabbering really loud to be really annoying. Also it cuts down on the rudeness of people checking out but yappin' on their cell phone and having to wait for them to take a break in their convo to answer our "cash/card" "do you want a bag" etc questions...if you gotta get intouch with someone about a record you are looking at, do it via text message...if ya dont, you get the tender sounds of Immortal or Adios Gringo drowning out your cell phone conversation. 99% of the folks asked to take it outside do so, only have had to crank the music twice in my best recollection
Ur still callin it blow?
200% AGREEMENT.
It's the worst in restuarants. How many times have you seen people sitting and talking on their phones through a meal and not with each other? What's the point??
I know Millie's in LA doesn't/didn't allow them and if I ever owned a resturant, I don't think I would either.
Same here
The chain had gone into receivership and morale was low. We had about six people on the floor and I was on cash when some guy made a run for it with a pile of CDs. We had glass doors that he took for open doors. He and his (actually the store's) large pile of CDs bounced off the pane and on to the floor. No one moved an inch; he had enough time to recover, pick up every CD, open the door and run out into traffic, where he almost got hit by a car, fell down again, spilt the CDs again, picked them all back up again and disappeared down a side street. It was pure slapstick which I'm not usually a fan of, but I'm laughing my head off just remembering it and writing this.
hahahahaha! This reminds me of this time as a kid waiting in line at the casher at Warehouse to rent a VHS (yes, this is "back in the day" for me), when my mother opened the door out of politeness for some guy who racked a two foot stack of CDs. The security guard, a very flustered, unarmed 200+ pound guy, was freaking out at her: "why the hell didn't you stop him?!? He's getting away!!! Oh shit!". The thief dropped a couple, which I think were Jewel, early Foo Fighters, Hole or some crap like that
There's a awesome burger joint here in Seattle, The Red Mill, that is super militant
about the cell phones. If they catch you, all the kids working there, which
is usually around 6-8 yell at the top of their lungs "NO CELL PHONES IN THE MILL!".
It's rad to see somebody get caught, I've been a couple times when it happened.
Dude - your mom sucks at her security guard job. Warehouse should have fired her immediately for letting that shit occur.
Hold on - I never thought I'd live to hear the phrase
This is Frickin' fantastic. I need to do this sometime..............
whats even funnier is that of the three names he mentioned - Hole, Jewel and Foo Fighters - the Fighters are the only ones who still seem to be hot.
as best as i can tell Jewel is fading while Courtney Love suffers from Bobby Brown/Whitney Houston Disease (she's so busy making an ass of herself in the media that everybodys forgotten she made records in the first place)