Today, I was trying on some shoes when I felt the heels break underneath me. Not only did they cost two paychecks worth, but as I was leaving I heard the sales girl say that "we really should have a weight limit for who can try on our products." FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was working at a shoe store and was helping a dude try on shoes. He looked like trouble and I wanted to finish with him. When he finally picked his shoes, he abruptly stood up and ran out of the store with the shoes on. The cost of them was deducted from my salary. $240. FML
Today, I was serving an incredibly rude woman at work. The ladder I had used to get her two pairs of shoes came crashing down, and hit my face and neck. She only bought one pair, and ten minutes later returned them after, complaining they were too expensive. FML
Today, I was in a shoe store. I picked up a shoe so I could look at it, but when I put it back on the shelf, the whole shelf fell down, making all the shoes fall to the ground. The people behind the counter started clapping. FML
Today, I was trying on clothes in a store that had just screens set up for changing. As I took off the first pair of pants had I tried on, my foot got hooked in the cuff and I fell out in my underwear in front of the whole store. FML
Today, a middle-aged woman came into the shoe shop where I work, and asked me to help her put on a pair of boots that were obviously too small. Simultaneously as I knelt down by her feet, she booted me in the face while we tried to get them on. FML
Today, I wore a new pair of heels to an interview. Halfway through, as they were showing me around the production floor, one of my heels snapped. I was forced to finish the interview wobbling on one heel like a drunk flamingo. I wasn’t offered the job, but they did say, “You have great balance.” FML
Today, I bought some shoes, but pissed off the lady working at the store by returning them 5 minutes later. She yelled at me and ripped my receipt in half, everyone in the store watched as she threw a handful of pennies at my face. FML
Today, while trying on clothes in Macy's, someone decided to throw some shoes over the wall and into my changing stall. I now have a black eye. FML
Today, I went to get new shoes. I'm a pretty tall girl and I have proportional feet. I asked the cute guy who worked there for a size 9.5. He burst into laughter before putting on a shocked face and saying, "Oh wait... You're serious." Goodbye, self esteem. FML
Today, I stepped on the scale this morning and it actually shattered beneath my feet. FML
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fueledbyamy 0
geeze, leave her alone. people can break heels easily without being big. my best friend is 60kg, and really tall, and she broke a pair of heels when we were out the other night. honestly, they can be easy to break, she might not have been a big person. even if she is, some of you arseholes need to shut the **** up, cos theres no way in hell you're perfect, let alone the op. and whats so bad bout trying on something you might not buy? i try on shoes and clothes that are expensive that i dont have an intention of buying, but just want to see what it looks like, and then maybe save up and buy it. plus, two paychecks worth? ever thing maybe she has a part time job whilst at school or uni??! i say complain to the manager, cos that was rude what the girl said. and dw about what some of the idiots on here are saying! :)
apastry 6
Why does the thyroid gland always get mentioned in fat threads? Most people aren't fat because their thyroid doesn't work. They're fat because of unhealthy diet and lifestyle. I'm sorry if you genuinely have a thyroid problem, #92, but just because you have it, it doesn't mean every other fat person does. Mentioning it every time there's a fat thread only helps the fat OP keep blaming their weight issues on something or someone other than themselves.
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upsidedownfrownn 5
Let's be honost. You all need lives rather than insulting someone who you have no clue wether they're what you call fat or not. We all have different ideas of what fat is and what it's not. And who ******* cares anyway. Oh right the people who have nothing better to do with their time.
damoki 8
How flimsy are these shoes?? We're you walking on them improperly or something?? I don't see how they could break otherwise, I would have refused to pay, that sucks girl!!
hollyanne27 9
What a bitch, and bitches need to be. BITCH SLAPPED. So try know were they stand.
hollyanne27 9
**they.. ** where
Szaszaspasz 26
I tried on a pair of 5" heels. I gimped about four steps hissing in pain; "Foot cramp, foot cramp." Customers and staff in the store cracked up. I was glad I inadvertently brightened their day, but relegated anything higher than 2" as masochistic.
SheTheOtaku 21
Made my day! :) I once got stuck in a shirt I was trying on.
SheTheOtaku 21
That's when you turn around, and tell her you agree that she really shouldn't try on the shoes, and leave.
sionis 3
Lol op you must be morbidly obese, but I bet it's just a thyroid problem and not the 3, triple sausage bacon muffins you have for breakfast everyday
wheresthesafety 31
Just letting you know, there is no law that enforces "you break it, you buy it". Even if the store puts up a sign that says so (if a store put a sign that said "you look at it, you buy it", would it be enforceable?). It's the store's risk to display shoes for trying on purposes, and if they want to reduce the amount of breakages, maybe they should enforce a weight limit. In saying that, the salesperson shouldn't have let you hear that, and I think you should go back and complain, and ask for a refund.
LyricaSilvan 30
Tell her they should also have a limit for how bitchy a salesperson is allowed to be. That'll shut her up.
BumpkinsBigBash 8
why would you try them on if you know you can't afford them
Taiiametai 8
I would have questioned the integrity of the product. And probably called the sales girl out, too.