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Micah Kebschull Essay 3The Children of SubwayThe smelly, old commoner, the Wal-Mart employee, and the confusing customer can be compared to different ages of children. Everyday that I work, these customers can be loveable but can also drive you up the wall.       The first kind of customer reminds me much of a baby. They mostly eat, sleep, wet themselves and can barely move on their own. There happens to be one man in particular that has a few nicknames like “Pee
Stench Man.” He didn’t so much as bother me until after a few months. He is the kind of annoying customer that comes in a motorized shopping cart, has a scent of urine with the radius of about twenty feet, and sleeps in the store for two to four hours after eating the whole inventory. One day, after making the first half of his order which consisted of a foot-long sub, a soup, a bag of chips, a soda, and about twelve cookies, one of my co-workers, Kyle, went to change garbage’s during Pee Stench Man’s two hour nap. Suddenly the oldl man cursed and left in a hurry. This was only for Kyle to find a nice, yellow puddle of urine. What a lovely gentleman he was not. Customers like him, are enormous babies who need special tending.        The second kind of customer is the Wal-Mart employee, who reminds me much of a four year old at a grocery store.  They both love to whine until they get what they want. These customers always walk in like they are on a mission. When they come in during our meal rushes, they complained to the customer in front of them that they are so tired and that they only have a fifteen minute break. Then the next thing they do is expect special treatment from Subway employees. “Oh! Will you please open forty-one packets of ketchup and squeeze them onto my hotdog bun because I am incapable of doing it myself.” Like a young child they are very particular about how they want things for examples they will ask, “Will you please wipe this table off even though the rest of the dining area is spotless?” Occasionally, when they don’t get there way, they will even try to tell me, “Well, uh, Joan lets me do it.” This phrase reminds me of a child saying, “But mom, you let Charlie have a mountain dew!” If I didn’t find spanking to be such a cruel punishment used on children, I would suggest it be used on these Wal-Mart employees. The third customer is very confusing, kind of like a kid in high school. You can never be to sure as to what they are doing. Unlike kids though, these customers are a waste of time. They walk in with their carts, look at the menu, ask you a hundred questions, and then they leave. By the time that is over they’ve wasted five minutes of time that could be used to clean the oven. Some of these customers try to figure out weather they want food from the deli or from Subway. That reminds me a lot of a student who thinks that they like pop music one week and then the next they love heavy metal. My favorite part about these customers is the fact that they love to look at the menu and right at the very second that you’re done washing your hands, they turn around and walk away. They, like teens, are very frustrating and I sometimes don’t understand what they want. Customers that come into Subway are much like kids who just need a life lesson. We put up with a lot of crap just to get our job done and to make customers happy.  It’s too bad we can’t ground them for how they act.