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September 19, 2024 06:53AM
Personal gaffes? -laughing hard- I'm sure after checking all those bathrooms over the years, I've walked out at least once or twice with hiney-biney stuck to my shoe, dragging a long streamer of it behind me.

Oh, the visual...

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September 19, 2024 11:36AM
So, I was out doing gas stations. Made a quick stop at a grocery store because I had a coupon for a free donut. Got glazed. Back in the car I scarfed down the donut and scurried on to my next stop. Time is money, you know. No time to loiter.

Anyway, three REVEALED audits later, as I went to leave a station, I had a little itch under my nose. Right where the nostril meets the upper lip. So I scratched lightly with a fingernail and this hunk of donut glaze falls into my lap! No, I didn't eat it.

How embarrassing. I had been interacting with staff, being all official and professional, with a gob of what must have looked like dried snot or drug residue hanging under my nose. Did I check restrooms with mirrors? Yep. Did I take vest-selfies in those mirrors? Yep. Did I ever look at my own face in those mirrors? Nope. Not once.
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September 19, 2024 12:14PM
@Okie wrote:

hiney-biney, you say the darndest things smiling smiley
We have a saying in my family:

Check for hiney-biney before you drop trou.

Yep, we're country alright. -lol-

If your path dictates you walk through hell, do it as though you own the place. -unknown
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September 19, 2024 12:17PM
@sestrahelena wrote:

Anyway, three REVEALED audits later, as I went to leave a station, I had a little itch under my nose. Right where the nostril meets the upper lip. So I scratched lightly with a fingernail and this hunk of donut glaze falls into my lap! No, I didn't eat it.
My apologies, ses, but -lolololololol- thanks for the Thursday morning laugh.

If your path dictates you walk through hell, do it as though you own the place. -unknown
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September 19, 2024 03:15PM
I had a cheat sheet on a small piece of paper. I went to pull it out when I was in the change room and didn't have it!
No problem doing the shop. I retraced my steps all around the store, back to my car , never found it.

I don't know if a staff picked it up, or if they would know what it was. I avoided that store for quite a while.

And at one point I was temporarily banned from that store, for being recognized. But it didn't seem to stem from that incident.

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
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September 19, 2024 10:59PM
This was embarrassing... I drove an hour and about 40 minutes to do a KIA test drive shop. It was bonused well, so I didn't mind the drive and figured I might do some Instacart deliveries afterwards. I had an appointment set up at the dealership in advance. Pulled into a parking lot nearby to review the guidelines before going in, and discovered that I didn't have my driver's license with me! I suddenly saw it in my mind's eye, sitting on my dining table after I'd cleaned out my wallet. Grrr.

I had to email the dealer, reschedule the appointment, contact the scheduler, go home (hoping I wouldn't get pulled over for any reason), and head back up there the next day. I made sure to schedule extra shops and other gigs that week to make up for it.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/19/2024 11:01PM by shopnyc.
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September 21, 2024 05:53AM
@shopnyc, the same thing happened to me yesterday! I left my entire wallet at home the day I was doing a route. I didn't notice it until my first shop when I went to pay. I luckily could pay by phone. I had to remove a wine bottle from a Kroger pickup since I didn't have my ID though (boo hoo).

Today was embarrassing. I had shopped an athletic store weeks ago and went there again for non-shopper related reasons. The cashier there somehow recognized me and blurted out, "were you the secret shopper on <date>?" Maybe he remembered the interaction he had with me. I was so mortified and just said, "What? No" and promptly left. Now I can never go back there again.

I was also rear-ended by someone a few days ago and still dealing with insurance run around. This week could be better! Thanks for allowing me to share. smiling smiley
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September 21, 2024 12:42PM
I outed myself once, and had to abort the shop.

It was back when I would do a cellphone shop, and early in the interaction I stated I was out shopping with my wife when asked about my reason for visiting.

Later the associate mentioned said spouse in their pitch, to which I replied, "I have a wife?!?!?"

Never used that excuse again...

Have synthesizers, will travel...
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September 21, 2024 05:48PM
I drive a convertible and had the top down driving home from a grocery store shop. I had tucked the receipt securely (I thought) inside a folder. Somehow, with all the other paperwork I had in the car the wind caught only the receipt, pulled it out of the folder and it flew away while on the highway. Like an idiot I drove back and forth, sat in traffic and scanned the side of the road for the receipt at least 3 times before returning to the store to get a new receipt. That added at least an hour of my time and probably 15+ extra miles.

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September 21, 2024 08:48PM
@MsJudi
Do you now take a photo of receipt before you drive away? I've never lost a receipt so dramatically, but I have learned the hard way

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
Alexander Den Heijer
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September 21, 2024 08:54PM
Not usually, but I keep the ragtop up now when I have papers in the car...mostl of the time. Plus it seems most of my shops get reported on site with my phone nowadays.

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September 21, 2024 10:21PM
Mine is similar to Prince's and reminded me of that time. I did not find it funny at all. I did a restaurant shop and had one of those shoulder shopping bags with my folder for that company that had my cheat sheet in it. It had fallen into the dark Netherlands under my table and I totally forgot to take it. I walked to my car just across the street and realized I did not have it so I ran back into the store but they had already cleared my table (must have been within the 2 minutes allowed.) I asked the manager and he led me to the back where I was horrified to see one of the servers had my folder out on the counter and was looking for any identifying information so they could contact me to let me know they had it. She was paging thru my shop paperwork. I dont know if she figured out what that was but I grabbed it back from so quick she was probably dazed. and ska doodled out of there.
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September 22, 2024 12:15AM
One time I left my voice recorder on a shelf in a drug store. I realized it when I got back to my car and went back in to where I thought I had put it down. It wasn't there. I figured it was worth a shot to ask at the counter if they had it. My description to her of a "small cell phone-like gizmo" was pretty uncomfortable as she held it up and said, "You mean this?" Hope they didn't hit the play button...lol

After 20 years of doing this gig, I could probably go on all night with crazy stories.

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September 22, 2024 03:04PM
@Mellifluy wrote:

I was also rear-ended by someone a few days ago and still dealing with insurance run around. This week could be better! Thanks for allowing me to share. smiling smiley
Aww, so sorry, Mel. I hope you're physically okay and the insurance hooha gets sorted out quickly.

If your path dictates you walk through hell, do it as though you own the place. -unknown
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