At work yesterday there were an inordinate number of items left in the store by customers. These are people who for some reason or another take an item out of a pocket, a purse, or just set down something they had been holding, then upon deciding they’ve had enough of New Balance for the day simply walk out without them.

Now I am usually one of these forgetful people with items like that, which is why I tend to keep things like my cell phone in my pocket at all times and never just carry it around–it would be gone in about 3 seconds. So I can understand how it happens…well not quite.

One of the items was a cell phone, and thankfully the guy was not walking that fast and I was able to catch up to him and return the phone without too much effort on my part. Another customer left his Mastercard, which almost got used to order pizza…well maybe not, I’m not a terrible person. The last, and easily the most humorous was a man who left his cane. Now I shouldn’t laugh at that, at all, but if you walked into a store using a cane, sat down on a bench, and got up, wouldn’t you probably reach for that cane when you were going to walk out? I certainly would. This man, who obviously needed said cane, made it all the way out of the store and a few steps down the hall before a fellow employee grabbed the cane and chased the swift senior citizen down the hall.

So the lesson for today: Check for credit card, cell phone and cane when leaving a store.

And I apologize for no links today…I’m feeling a bit lazy…