#12

As much as I am not a small town girl, and as much as I hate waking up early, there are a few perks to my job here in Stillwater.
One being that I constantly have access to INSANELY good deals, the other that I get to meet so many cool people.
Seriously, although the ratio of rednecks to seriously awesome customers is about 25:1 (or something like that), my regular customers really do make my job bearable. And they make me like the small town feeling that you can't avoid once you enter this town. I know their names, and they know mine. They tell me about their families, and their days, and where they have come from, and everything else you could possibly think of. I wish they could meet the other regular customers, because I think we would all be friends if they all shopped at the same time every single day.

Here's just a smidgen of the awesomeness that is the Stillwater Goodwill regular customers:
1. Marian -- We first got to be friends when we found out that his 3 daughters had names eerily similar to my sisters' and my names. Ever since then, I've pretty much wanted him to be my real life grandpa. He's told me war stories, educated me about buying stocks, and just swapped anecdotes with me. Today, he waited in line behind a customer just to chat for a second before he left. Not to buy anything, but just to see how I was doing, and what I thought about life at the moment. Definitely a favorite.
2. Marcia -- What to say about this lady. She is so fun! Sometimes she comes in twice a day. I've never seen her in a bad mood, and she always has something funny to say while she's shopping. I love how she makes fun of things for being stuff that old people would like, when she's not exactly the youngest herself. I want to be like this lady when I get older... especially after seeing some of our other older customers who are probably the sourest people I've ever seen.
3. Carolyn -- Not like any of them would be reading this, but to all of the OSU Chi-Os, get to know your cleaning lady. This lady comes in almost every day, buying stuff for her kids or grandkids. She's quirky and, just like Marcia, is never in a bad mood. It's always fun to swap stories with her while she shops.

So yah, those are just a few of our regular customers. We also have Mack, who is pretty much Stillwater's own Morgan Freeman, and Susan, who will be moving back to Louisiana after the end of the year, and Maunette, who is always a super sweetheart, and Brenda, who I just met, because she just moved here from Tennessee. We have other regulars whose names I don't know yet, but that's not to say that someday I won't learn them. With time I hope to get to know more of them!

Oh, and to the lady who NEVER EVER smiles, SOMEDAY I swear I will make you smile!