TSW Shenanigans

Saturday night at TSW right before we're about to close two 11 year oldish boys come in. One of them goes to one side of the store and starts laughing hysterically. "I can't believe someone took the time to DO this," I hear him say. I have no idea what he's talking about. The boys leave. Me and Alex look at each other puzzled. She walks over to where the boy was, "Oh."

I go where she is and take a look. We have these pink glitter keychains with letters A-Z and names and such. Someone, I'm thinking 13 year old boy, arranged the letters so that they spelled a couple of dirty words. Obnoxious? A little. So I fix it and put the keychains back to their proper places. You think after 5 years you would have seen everything customers can do, but no.

Tonight young high school kids a couple guys and girls come in. I see one of the guys go over to the keychains and say "Man, our words are gone!" I immediately know it was him who did it. So I keep an eye on him. Later, while a couple of his friends are getting shirts made I see him over at the keychains making noise. I just know he's doing it again. I debate for about half a second about whether I'm going to say something to him.

I walk over and stand right beside him and look at what he's doing. It looks like he's spelling out I love [dirty word]. He has about 15 of these letter keychains in his hands.

"Are you spelling dirty words?"

"What? Oh, uh, no, I don't know what I'm doing now."

"Uh-huh"

"Can I spell something if it's not dirty?"

"No, we'll have to move them back to their right places anyway."

"Oh, okay I'll put them back."

My heart is racing because that's generally not something I do, but I just had to, and it was so funny to catch him off guard. I half expect him to keep going and spell something but surprisingly when I checked after they all left he had put all the keychains back exactly where they belong.