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8. Working in retail at Fred Meyer after I retired..
Wed Jun 18, 2025, 06:29 PM
Jun 18

from 40 years in a cubicle. Didn't know squat about the store but as soon as I put on that black apron, people would ask me where to find things. I learned quickly that beer is on aisle seven.

One night a young man came in the store, and asked me to help him get a machete and some bear spray out of the locked cabinets. I helped him with that and he went on his way up to the front of the store where the registers are.

About twenty minutes later I heard from another employee that there had been a scary situation up in the front of the store, and police had been called to deal with a man who was acting crazy and was waving a machete around.

I never fessed up to my contribution to this dangerous situation. No one was hurt, and he was arrested.

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