Baker saves the day during the heatwave after a colony of crickets living inside an air-con invades a shop: ‘My lizard will feed well tonight’

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This happened a number of years ago but it is a story I still tell and probably one of those work stories I will never forget.
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I worked for a supermarket, on this particular weekend we were having a heatwave. As I worked in one of the non-food sections this particular store never switched on the air-con.
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The next day we had a major visit scheduled, some extremely high profile high ups were coming for a store walk around. Remember this.
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Naturally everything had to be perfect for the next day so we were super busy with a massive job list and an attempt to keep the shop floor as tidy as possible. A customer asked me for
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help, a normal question, I had to get something from the warehouse for them. On the way I remember seeing a cricket toy on the floor. At the time, our toy section sold some
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life sized very realistic cricket toys. I took note so I could go pick it up after I was done with the customer I was helping.
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On the way back, I bent down to pick up the toy and it moved. It was no toy at all, it was a real cricket. I suddenly hear one of my co- workers from the next aisle along, she was the
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sweetest little old lady who just worked a few hours in the week to buy stuff for her grandson. I ran around the corner to help her as she is running towards me with her hands in
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her hair ruffling her hair around. I look down the isle and we have 5 more crickets down the aisle. Real life crickets, and one of them just landed in my co-workers hair.
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Remember how I said they never switched the air-con on in my section? Well they were testing it for the big visit the next day. They
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had not switched the air-con on for so long that a bunch of crickets had made a nest in the air vent and rained crickets down onto the shop floor.
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Me and this co-worker stared down this aisle, baffled at what to do. It was defiantly one of those 'l do not get paid enough for this' moment, also I do not do well with bugs at all.
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That's when a few customers came over to ask what was going on, to which I only pointed and said the work 'crickets'. The customers also stared down the aisle dumbfounded as we
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were. My section leader then comes over thinking there was trouble with the customers. When we explained, she too did not like bugs
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and stared with the rest of us. The security team seeing a big group of us then decides to come over, once again they did not know what to do.
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So there we were, 2 colleagues, 1 section leader, 2 members of security, 5 customers baffled why we had crickets raining down upon us. It is that moment a women who
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worked in the bakery section comes over with a huge box scoops up all those crickets like a pro. She walks past us all nods like a champion and says 'My lizard will feed well tonight' and walks off.
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And thus ends the tale of when my place of employment tried to recreate one of the plagues of Egypt upon us on a casual Sunday with crickets rather than locusts.
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I no longer work there, but the store does now use the air-con in that section regularly. Whenever i hear it go off as i am shopping I do look up nervously to check, you can never be sure lol.
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