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A friend linked me to this yesterday, and I just had to share. Written and drawn by some guy who works in a comic book shop, Our Valued Customers is a webstrip in which he quotes actual things he's heard his customers say.



Some other stand-outs beneath the cut...





























Date: 2010-11-09 11:14 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] cuntfucius
It happens quite often!!! Probably a few times a day. My coworkers were always very polite, if a bit awkward at socializing, so their attempts to flirt were always just pretty sweet I guess, and very respectful once I turned them down. The customers, not so much. They're usually pretty creepy and there is this one guy that always says the "Giggity" thing every time I go on a ramble about some continuity knowledge or w/e

re: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4o3yLHCqaI

Date: 2010-11-09 11:15 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] cuntfucius
^ btw that is like verbatim the talks I hear guys have on alien babes in green lantern

Date: 2010-11-09 11:19 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] punishermax
Alright so a few things

1. I'd forgotten that clip and the fact that it works so god damn well to this day is magical.

2. If yoou actually use the word "Giggity" when you are aroused be something then I'm pretty sure you've committed a mortal sin and you will be sent to the newly constructed 10th circle of hell.

3. Has a guy, after finding out you're not interested in them from a sexuality standpoint, ever gotten angry at you? I'm sure hat has to end reeeeaaally badly for the whole store.

Date: 2010-11-09 11:26 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] cuntfucius
1. Isn't it!?!? I STILL LAUGH AT IT WHEN I WATCH THE CLIP, and when I think of all of the similar conversations I've overheard and eavesdropped on ever-so-politely.

2. I know. I think he just is trying to be funny, but it comes off as so obnoxious. I was recommending Life with Archie to somebody and he popped in, and I didn't even see him enter the story, and made the most generic threesome joke ever. I just think it is the saddest thing ever that he exists.

3. I have two coworkers by my side almost always who are incredibly thoughtful and really good at picking up on my discomfort :) and steering away guys who are harassing me. I can stand up for myself, but it actually really helps me out, when they take the burden off of me since I'll just be seen as a bitch or a stick in the mud or whatever. I've had that happen at a lot of other jobs, but never at this job. People have never accused me of leading them on or anything, but I have had the generic "Get your mind out of the gutter, I just wanted to be friends" comments after I refuse to give my number for like the tenth time.

Overall I get slight discomfort from some advances, but most are annoying in their frequency/persistence, but less offensive than what I've experience, interestingly enough, than working in let's say the food industry or retail.

Date: 2010-11-09 08:43 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] punishermax
"So I was just saying that Green Lantern is getting reall-"

"Yeah, green, red, but we're all pink on the inside huh ~suggestive eyebrow waggle~"

"...Funny. Anyway Archie was-"

"Yeah, Betty, Veronica, why do you gotta choose between em ~crotch grab~"

"Wow, thanks for that, you able to find it alright in there? Want me to get Steve to find it for you?"

"Maybe you can find it ~eye waggle~"

"Really? That-that's your pick up line. You want me to find your dick? Like, it's so small you lost it? Should I send a fucking search party out to find your schlong? Can you just leave already?"

"But-"

"No. Just fucking go. I don't need your money, it ain't worth hearing you joke like Dane Cook's secret half brother he has locked in his basement and you smell like Satan's asscrack. So fucking go"

"Frigid bitch..."

"Yeah, I know, I'm so frigid taht I didn't immediatly blow you after you used pick up lines from a dating simulator. They usually work on the maids with huge tits and glasses who call you Onee-chan but not so much in the real world."

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