i did it too, but i was at $6.75 an hour.

that reminds me of a really good story about it involves a helping a lady out to her car the DAY after i got my '90.

i was seventeen, working at an undisclosed super market. i was helping a woman out to her car with a full cart load of groceries. she walked up to a minivan parked right next to my nice, shiny new truck. as i was unloading the groceries into the passenger side of her car, her cell phone rang. she reached into her purse, pulled the phone out, and answered. without a second glance, she took her very large purse, with four little metal castors on the bottom, and dropped it, from about a foot up, onto the hood of MY truck.

i stopped, and as calmly as i could, aske, "ma'am, would you please take your purse off of my new truck?"

she looked at me like a racoon staring into the headlights of an oncoming car, DRAGGED her purse off of my hood, then looked at my truck and said, "Oh what do you care, its only a little piece of ---- toyota!"

to that, i replied, "oh, what do i care? their only your groceries." and i set the bags down, and walked back into the store, leaving her with a cart 3/4 of the way full of groceries. she tried complaining to my manager, who had a beautiful fully restored '67 Mustang GT sitting on the other side of the ladies minivan, that she would have done the same thing, or possibly worse. the lady was furious, so she called the store manager. the store manager actually wanted her to come back in and file a damage report, so that the company would be able to fix the scratches on MY truck. let's just say she never came back again... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" />