Making lemonade out of, um... lemons

Last week, my boss came down with a very sore foot, to the point of limping around and being even less productive than usual. His doctor diagnosed him with gout, and put him on anti-imflammatory drugs. While this has eased his foot problem somewhat, it had an unwanted side effect: the runs.

(I will now pause respectfully for the 75 people that left this thread in disgust.)

Beginning with Monday, his usual single daily bathroom bombing has proliferated into 4-5 absolutely horrid, rancid chemical warfare attacks. He has even used the Lysol that I purchased and left in the bathroom (he finally got the hint), but to no avail. At best, the Lysol simply combined with the otherworldly aroma, creating an even worse (and more flammable) olfactory effect, that may have caused permanent brain damage to yours truly.

Yesterday, around noon, with 2 nauseating bowel explosions already in the books, an SUV pulled up, and my heart sank. This was going to be a stuck-up snot. I knew, because she parked right in front of the door, despite having 5 open spaces in the parking lot. My suspicion was confirmed when Miss Snot opened the door, and immediately shouted "HELLO!", apparently offended that someone wasn't there to hold the door open or perform courtesy cunnilingus on her. As I begrudgingly went to the front to help her, my boss quickly got up, muttered "hoo boy", and waddled to the bathroom. Yes, my day was going just swimmingly!

The lady immediately started complaining about her vacuum, calling it the "worst piece of garbage I've ever owned". Of course, Miss Snot never actually touches the vacuum herself, unless her Guatemalan cleaning lady, Gisele, brings it to her and says "no work". But hey, it's all my fault, I guess! As Miss Snot droned on and on, I heard several grunts coming from the bathroom. Wonderbars. Now, not only do I have to deal with Miss Snot, the the horrific odor is going to permeate throughout the entire...

...store...

OOOOOOOOOHHHHH!!!!

A buzzing, flickering 10-watt bulb appeared over my brain-damaged head. In an instant, my mood lightened. My eyebrows furrowed down, making my eyes nearly close into sinister slits. An evil grin appeared on my face. My hands came together into a praying position, rubbing together with with anticipation over my evil plot. But, I had to play this cool, so I immediately ended my Montgomery Burns imitation, and set my plan into motion.

Miss Snot wants to barge into my store, and give me mindless grief? FIIIIINE. I will give her top-notch service, making her experience every aspect of my store. EVERY aspect. Oh, she was going to suffer.

At this point, my boss had finished his lavatorial destruction, and emerged from the hapless bathroom. I wanted to get a good circulation going to the front of the store, so I went to the back, on the pretense of getting a screwdriver, even though we keep one under the front counter. As my boss waddled past me, it hit me. JESUS. The smell was so vile, so rancid, it actually ripped a hole in the fabric of space and time. A swirling accretion disc formed around the event horizon of what was once our work bathroom. So far, my plan was going perfectly.

I came back to the front, then made an excuse to go back again, just to make sure I had set up the putrid airflow sufficiently. As I worked on her machine, slowly, Miss Snot's expression changed. What was once a bitchy glare had disappeared. Now, a look of angst was apparent. She began to squirm around, and look around with passive franticness. Oh, but she couldn't leave! Not while I was giving her exemplary service!

Five minutes later, I pulled out a hair scrunchie from her vacuum, that had been the cause of her problem. Ordinarily, this would have taken about 15 seconds. But I wasn't done yet. Leaving her vacuum opened on the counter, to prevent a hasty evacuation, I began to show her some of our fine cleaning products. Despite the fact that the AC was blasting, she was beginning to sweat. She was no longer complaining; at this point, she was probably more concerned about leaving the store before going into a full seizure.

When I thought Miss Snot had suffered enough, I put her vacuum back together. She dry-heaved out a quick thank-you, and practically ran out the door. With a satisfied smirk, I walked into the back. Passing my boss, I said with a smile, "Thanks, Rich!". He gave me a puzzled look, then went back to surfing porn, passing time until the next cataclysmic bowel movement.

It just warmed my heart, being able to give such thorough, in-depth, lengthy service to such a nice, sweet person like Miss Snot. Teehee.
 

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