Beautiful Angels or Monstrous Regiment?

This week I popped round to 'Sunday Girl's' to see her baby and keep her up to date on the gossip that wafts through the Hall of Plenty. And what a lot of gossip there is, who's doing what, who has done what and even, who has done whom. Cleansed of all salaciousness, I got to thinking on the way home about the women I work with and how I have never, on this blog, expressed how much fun it is to work with them.
 Yes, I know this is all about horrid customers and what it's like to work in a store, but some of that has got to be why one keeps going back. A large part of that, apart from the money that I earn that is quickly siphoned off me and turned into stuff for the kids, is the little band of ship mates that sail the fraught seas of retail under the watchful eye of She who Must Be Obeyed.
We as a team have been through so much together,births, deaths, marriages (obviously not to each other) aspirations, crisis, disasters, betrayal, illness, it has all been there. And throughout that we have supported one another like family,yep squabbles, tears, laughter and the big slipper when we are naughty. (We are  naughty quite a lot!)

Today I would like to dedicate this blog to my sisters of the rough sea's that make each day a little brighter.

To you, ya whingey bunch of  bottle sniffers I say this, we are not a nylon encased, over made up Monstrous Regiment of tut pushing devils sent from Hades to rip your money out of your innocent pockets. We are real women, Beautiful Angels capable of grace and compassion. Alright we are blessed with the rather special ability to turn a Bulldog in a Beauty Queen ( That's a whole different blog) but we are women of courage and shall remain so even in the face of a ten percent sale.

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The Winning Entry. - 'What a W****R

So my friends the time has come. I know you have been waiting with baited breath to see which story has won my competition and I assure you it was tough decision to make, but finally we decided on our winner.
Please let me introduce ''Doris'' and her story;

'I am not a Cosmetics Consultant but I do work in retail and have a lot stories of about abusive customers, however this story was told to me by a dear friend who worked in a Perfume Department for many years before she retired.
On a busy Saturday sometime ago my friend was working at her counter. A nice looking, mature, couple came to her and enquired about the fragrances. When they had decided on one, the lady left her husband to pay and wait for the bottle to be gift wrapped while she went to buy herself face cream. My friend was busy wrapping when the gentleman started to talk to her about how long she had worked in the store and asked if she enjoyed her job. Everything was normal until the gentleman told her he had noticed her around in the store a few times before. She laughed and said that it was very possible because she had worked there for a long time. Then he told her that he thought she was a very good looking woman. My friend thanked him for the compliment and tried to hand over the bag with his perfume in. Suddenly he took her hand and told her he would think about her that night whilst he was having a wank. Furious, my friend removed her hand and marched over to his wife at another counter, handing her the fragrance and asked her if her husband often told people that. The wife asked what he had said, my friend told her and left the poor woman to deal with it. We do not know what happened after that because my friend did not look back and went on her break. But before she retired they still came into the store only they stayed well away from her counter.'

I'm sure you will agree a worthy winner!