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Alt text: a text post that reads: Work in retail long enough, and you'll eventually realize the rules for dealing with Customers are exactly the same as dealing with the Fae:

  • Avoid eye contact.
  • Never reveal your full name.
  • Accept nothing They offer you.
  • Never verbally agree or disagree with anything They might happen to say.
  • To apologize is to acknowledge a debt owed.
  • Under no circumstances are you ever to thank Them.
  • Remember that They are incapable of reading signs in human languages.
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
  • Time flows strangely around them: You'll get trapped in a conversation for 30 minutes, but when you look at the clock only 5 minutes have passed.
    You could swear they only arrived 2 minutes ago, but they have been "waiting for an hour!"

  • Do not shake their hand lest they trap you in their embrace. (From experience)

  • In order to banish them you must deny them 3 times (at least)

  • They have an obsession with the power of names. "Do you know who I am?" Or "I know (owner's name)" will be used as if the words have power on their own.