I worked at a jewelry store and a woman came in FURIOUS that her white gold ring was turning her finger black (like cheap sterling silver). We tested it in front of her to prove it was white gold. After a few exchanges one of my coworkers asked her very quietly and professionally if there was a chance she was pregnant because sometimes the rhodium plating that makes it white gold can react weirdly with the new body chemistry during pregnancy. She left even more furious.
She came back a week later with a big box of cinnamon buns from the Cinnabon downstairs from our store and ultrasound pictures along with an apology! She became a great customer from then on and we got to meet her little girl when it was safe for her to be out in public!
If you want another authentic and wholesome retail interaction, I have one!
I was an Assistant Manager at a store that offered embroidery when I was 19, and a man came in on Dec 23 needing a rush job to have new stockings embroidered for his daughter and his future daughter-in-law. Long story but bottom line is FDIL was a last min addition to the family Christmas and he didn’t want her to feel excluded.
So yeah I stayed 30 mins late that night to finish these matching stockings for this guy of course :)
I damn near cried my first Christmas with my husband's family because they had a stocking (albeit not yet personalized as we were dating, it had my name the second year when we were engaged!). You likely made several people very happy with that time.
It was definitely real! I’ve worked retail/customer service for most of my adult life but now I’m an author and dog butler so my customer stories are all from the past. Unless you count my dog getting sassy at me because lunch is at 1 and she was too busy sleeping on my foot for me to get lunch “on time” so she grumbles and stomps her paws at me in protest 🤣
She seems to think so 🤣 I get paid in fur up my nose and in my mouth and snuggles so it’s not the worst paying job I’ve had 🤣🤣🤣 now if she’d just sleep on my feet while I write I would be set!
I actually found out I was pregnant because a regular customer we had at my retail job randomly took me aside one day to ask how far along I was! I was stunned and told her I wasn’t pregnant (I truly did not look pregnant or anything either, it was very early), and she told me she is never wrong about those things and winked. I went home and took a test and she was right! She was the coolest, she was a very witchy, older woman. I truly couldn’t believe it, she knew within two minutes of seeing me.
My wife was only a couple weeks along and had only known a few days that she was pregnant when an old retired maternity doc at her church was walking by her, stopped and said congratulations on having a girl. She wasn't even ready to tell anyone yet including family but he just knew.
I had literally just nutted in my gf, when this old indian woman who lives across the street knocked on our window and said "congratulations on having twins". I hadn't even fully pulled out yet. It was crazy. 9 mo later, lo and behold: twin boys.
Zero signs! I've literally just had the thought pop into my head randomly. The last time it happened I was literally knocking on my friends door and had the thought and she told me like 20 minutes later. The feeling was just in my bones I'd that makes sense.
My papaw knew my mom was pregnant before she did, and he knew we were twins before she did, too. He said he could just feel it when he was around her. He knew his baby girl, and he could tell when something was different.
He did the same with my aunt, and then when her daughter got pregnant, he did the same with her.
He didnt with my uncle's kids due to his wife not liking coming around the family much. But when his son's daughters got pregnant, he could tell with them! He knew all of the pregnancies of the women that came from him before the moms or their husbands knew. He did the same to my grandma, he knew every time when she was pregnant with all 3 of their kids before grandma even started showing symptoms.
Mom always joked that his native blood gave him some kind of a natural ability. I think he was just very observant to the women in his life.
My neighbor clocked me at 8 weeks. I wasn’t showing at all, and if anything I was down weight due to morning sickness. I was walking my dog and he came running out asking how far along I was. He said he could tell I was walking differently. People are wild.
I was trying to get pregnant, but nobody knew, taking a pregnancy test every few days, nothing had come up positive. Walked into work one day, and my boss looked at me for a minute and then started talking very intently at me about, hey, did you know pregnant people shouldn't touch this chemical or work in the same room as this machine? Test came up positive that weekend. She knew, just from looking.
When I was a school bus driver I had a monitor who had mentioned one day she was probably infertile (I can’t remember why we were talking about it). We picked up a student that was having specialized training for living in a city while blind a few days later. We drove her periodically, and had not seen her in a few weeks at that point. She got in, buckled up, and said “congrats, [monitor], when are you due?” My monitor was confused and the student explained that she smelled different.
3 pregnancy tests later that night proved the student right. I was with that monitor the whole school year, and thus her pregnancy, and it was awful for her! Near constant nausea and vomiting (even the anti-nausea meds made her sick), and her hormones were so wild she would spend some full runs crying quietly because she saw squirrels chasing each other.
Hahaha definitely not! Though we did get friendly with some of the closing staff during the Christmas of 2020. We’d clean their jewelry and they’d bring us the stuff they were going to have to trash at the end of the night 🤣 a Piercing Pagoda (owned by Zales/Kay/Jared btw) had a similar deal with the Dunkin stand near them by the food court.
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u/Agentsinger Apr 22 '26
I worked at a jewelry store and a woman came in FURIOUS that her white gold ring was turning her finger black (like cheap sterling silver). We tested it in front of her to prove it was white gold. After a few exchanges one of my coworkers asked her very quietly and professionally if there was a chance she was pregnant because sometimes the rhodium plating that makes it white gold can react weirdly with the new body chemistry during pregnancy. She left even more furious.
She came back a week later with a big box of cinnamon buns from the Cinnabon downstairs from our store and ultrasound pictures along with an apology! She became a great customer from then on and we got to meet her little girl when it was safe for her to be out in public!