Rantin’

So we had this lady come in to work today with her daughter.

We have some pretty screwed up customers sometimes but this lady is near on topping the list. This was the second time they’ve been in in the past two weeks, lucky I didn’t have to serve them this time.

Anyway, her 12 (pretend there’s emphasis on the 12 there) year old daughter was trying on some clothes and her mum was waiting for her to finish. She’s completely drug-fucked, you can tell. She stares at me and the other staff forever. Just stands and stares and listens to everything we were saying to each other. And omg when she talks to her daughter I just wanted to yell at her.

My coworker unfortunately had the honour of talking to this mum while her daughter was trying on the stuff.
• She accidentally admitted to using drugs (and tried to cover it up but yeah)
• She was saying how she wants her daughter to be a model and she’s been making her do all these photo shoots, but she thinks her daughter needs to lose weight or she won’t get anywhere in life and modelling. Oh and she wasn’t tall enough. Daughter needs to grow. (the daughter was quite skinny and tall for her age anyway)
• She didn’t want to pay for a professional photo shoot so I’m pretty sure I heard her say she just uses her phone
• she insists on making her daughter look 18 in photos
The change rooms were right next to where they were talking so I guess the daughter heard everything, though it’s probably not news to her.
And the last time she came in her daughter bought like $15 worth of stuff and the mum was like ‘you can pay me back double of that for all the trouble you’ve caused, I need my cigarette money!’
How the hell is a 12yo meant to pay a parent back, especially with 50% interest.

Omgosh. And the way the mum and daughter were just yelling at each other the whole time telling the other to shut up every two seconds.

Her daughter is a lovely person, and she’s pretty and skinny and nice and yeah. It’s a shame about her mum though.