It's late and I'm on mobile so if the formatting is off I will fix it in the AM!

I used to work for a smoothie/juice place, and I was super awesome at that job for while I was there. I have a bunch of encounters with rude people, ironically angry yoga-nuts, soccer moms, and the like. But this story is from my very first day on the job.

So there I was, chipper and excited to follow my manager for the day to be shown how everything works and to start learning how to do the job. It was summer, which meant sometimes there were long lines as we weren't a very large store. When lines would get super long, it would be all hands on deck for whoever was working at the time. The long lines also means sometimes we would run out of ingredients until our next food delivery- this is important.

On this day, everything was running smoothly (heh. Smoothily.) until The Beet Lady (BL) came in. My manager will be M, coworker CW.

CW: Hi! What can I get started for you today?

BL: I'll have (a juice that had beets in it).

CW: sorry ma'am! We're out of beets right now- I would be happy to make you the juice without the beets, or maybe get you something else?

BL: hmm, no. I'll have the beets please.

CW: Oh! Well, like I said, we're all out of beets and so-

BL: no you're not. I want them. Get me your manager.

-record scratch-

Lady. Why on earth would we lie to you about not having a certain item? Personally I don't like beets, so the desperation for this veggie seemed so silly to me at the time. At this point customers behind her were confused, as was the crew. I should mention at this point that yes, we really were all out of beets.

M: -comes over- hi! As CW said, we don't have any beets in stock right now, but we're getting our next shipment in on T-

BL: THATS WHAT YOU SAID YESTERDAY I WANT BEETS AND I WANT THEM NOW YOU DIRTY LIAR!

My manager is really trying to keep it together at this point. My coworkers and I are looking at each other with "is this lady serious?" expressions. Customers in line are starting to stare.

M: uh... no, I'm sorry, I don't have any beets to serve you.

BL: I want to speak to your manager right now!

M: I am the manager.

At this point BL screeches and storms out of the store, bumping into another customer forcefully and making him spill his just-purchased smoothie. We made him a new one for free, and the customers who witnessed it were all very apologetic to the crew.

For the rest of the time I worked there, if we ever ran out of beets we would screech "I DONT BELIEVE WE'RE OUT OF BEETS GET ME THE MANAGER!"

I can only assume she was beet-deficient, or perhaps she needed a beet to finish a sacrificial ritual of some sort. Funny thing is, we were right next to a store that sold beets- we just couldn't use random items not from our stock source.

Edit: These beet puns are amazing. You guys are awesome <3 reading them beets working, that's for sure!