
I love me some H Mart. Awesome, cheap fruits and veggies, plus plenty of foods I can't identify which is always fun.
Jake and I stopped by after lunch to get some veggies for dinner. When we checked out, the cashier told us they had a new loyalty card ("like Kroger!" she said, very excited). Heck yeah I wanted one. Then she pointed me to customer service to get it.
Now, the customer service desk at H Mart is always an adventure. Today was no exception. First, there was an employee trying to buy his lunch, but the lady behind the counter kept making him do things. Move this table there, put that rack of stuff here, shift all of these things and your total is $5. It took about 10 minutes for them to ask what I wanted. By this time, Jake's pretty much had enough of sitting in the cart.
I start to fill out the form and the lady takes my receipt and the fresh H Mart card and disappears. She reappears some time later and takes note of Jake's unhappiness. Then she produces a lollipop from somewhere. One of those big, round ones like a Tootsie pop. Anyway, she's handing it to Jake and repeating "say thank you" about 4 times before I come out of the fog of filling out the form in time to hear her say "he not want to say thank you." I tell her that he actually can't yet, he's only 16 months, blah blah blah.
She looks me up and down sideways, nods her head and says "mmmmm. Lack of education."
I literally pulled something trying not to laugh. By the time I got to the car I had tears.
Before I could get to a polite distance to howl, she also pointed out that he was eating the paper wrapper. She either thought I was a complete cretin or there was a definite communication barrier there.