When your filter doesn't work.

In hindsight, I'm pretty proud of this comment, but at the time it was absolutely mortifying. Anyone who works in customer service will understand that you have to make jokes otherwise you'll literally go insane. People are inherently the worst.

But again, I'd like to bring you back to the days when I was a cashier for Home Hardware. Now, for those of you who don't know, you can have an account at some stores. You sign your name and receive a bill for all your expenses at the end of the month. Mostly businesses but some personal as well.

It was a day like any other, zoning out to the monotonous scanning of item after item. I am the sole cashier and I have developed a slight line up. And for a small rural town, I mean maybe three people in line. I give my current customer their receipt and bag and they walk out the door. The next person comes up and starts emptying their cart:

Double AA, triple AAA, D batteries, C batteries before setting a massive car battery and jumper cables on my counter. Now, as a cashier, I couldn't give a crap about what you are buying, but the excessive amount of batteries gave me pause.

But I don't get paid enough to care, so I blandly asked if they had an account. They told me the name of a local funeral home and I said, "what? You trying to bring them back to life?" This funeral director had the audacity not to laugh at the funniest, most quick-witted thing I had said all day. Which was utterly mortifying to me. Luckily the lady behind him just lost it.

So lady, whoever you are, thank you. Thank you for being a decent human being and not making me feel absolutely horrible for making a joke at the expense of the dead.