Ali Rambles: Happy Birthdays + Funny Retail and Commission Stories! 😂 💀
Added 2025-08-06 10:30:36 +0000 UTCFeel free to share your own retail stories if you like! Apologies for the sniffling at some points. Idk why but my nose/allergies started to flare up randomly lol. Oh, and look forward to a surprise on YouTube later today! :3
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I’m really happy you enjoyed the stories Kench haha! It was definitely a wild time in my life but I’m happy they can provide some entertainment now :P My best guess with the old guy and the speedo is maybe dry skin? I have no idea. Either way, it’s not something I wanted to deal with hands on! 😭 The slime girl guy was by far one of my favorite customers ever. Not only did he commission me every month but he would frequently buy YCHs (your character here’s) from me. Which is essentially when you draw a pose and someone buys it to have their character drawn into it! Idk where slime girl guy is now but I hope he’s doing well ✨ Tbh, the other guy with the “reference” didn’t surprise me in the slightest. He was already giving me some weird vibes but of course it was only after he paid me- making it a little difficult to back out at that point 💀 I can confidently say my time dealing with people like that has desensitized me to a degree. I’ve seen so many different things that I feel like it takes a lot to shock me anymore- which I suppose can be both a good and bad thing haha! 😂
alichu
2025-08-09 05:42:01 +0000 UTCI do have a light hearted story about an older woman either joking with me or trying to flirt, still not sure. So to paint a picture, I work as Quality Associate at a Food Lion, which is just a fancy way of calling me a janitor. Either way, I was dust mopping the floor, i.e the long green broom with mop tassels that you collect dust with. So, I'm in the Produce section, and I just left my mop near the peaches, I went into the actual produce department, and walk out to see an older woman looking right at me. Around late 40s too early 50s, red lipstick, and a sorta beehive haircut. And she's looking dead at me while standing right next to my dust mop. I think nothing of it and walk back to my dust mop, as soon as I grab it, she says "Sorry, I accidentally spilt some grapes on the floor." Before I look over to the area where the grapes would be, I give the usual customer service answer "It's fine ma'am. No problem. 😁" I look to where the grapes are, and see no grapes on the floor, but I look at my dust mop, and see a singular grape on top of my dust mop. I'm confused, was this the grape she was talking about? But before I could ask her that, she says the thing which still confuses me. She says to me, before I could even look at her... "Just don't be too rough with me." Im hella confused, but maybe she's talking to someone else. Nope! No headphones or ear pieces, nor a phone in sight, while still looking at me. But what's worse, was my answer. I look at her, directly in her soul (here eyes) and I say. "Okay. I won't." And then I walked away with my dust mop. The reason why my answer was the main source of embarrassment, because for some reason, whether to maybe preserve this person's dignity, or to let her down easy. I said in a way that didn't express embarrassment or even uncomfortablility. I said in a way as if I had gotten caught pulling trying to mess with someone, and they told me to stop. So my answer came off as more playful, then I meant for it to be. 😰 Too this day, I don't know if I was getting flirted with, or just teased. Not the first time I got flirted with by an old woman. But that story is kinda fucked up, but if you wanna hear it, I'll post it either way! 👍 Also have a great day/night! 😁
BlueAsh173
2025-08-09 03:49:38 +0000 UTCDefinitely my favorite Ali Ramble, I love hearing stories from other people. A woman free-balling, and meeting someone famous is certainly interesting... but the third story with the old man is crazy. For the record, men don't try swim trunks like that... we either put them over our pants, or buy some that are gonna be loose, and then tighten them up. Honestly, I thought women tried bras on like that, just free-balling, and I still don't know, plz bestow upon me the answer. But nut draft is crazy work. As someone who owns a pair, I can say that they don't shed skin like a lizard... So I don't know what that guy's deal was. The guy's kink had his slime of to be covered in certain things, and was into sports... unless you signed an N.D.A, could you tell us if the slime girl turned yellow during the act or...? Also, a PP pic for reference is kinda funny. Being shown genitals of any variety out of the blue must've been gross, but I'm glad you can look back on it and laugh. I'd personally love to share stories about working. But I feel their a lil messed? What's too far would you say, cuz I want to share this experience. I need a confession booth.
BlueAsh173
2025-08-09 03:29:06 +0000 UTCThat was a wild ride, holy hell. Retail Storytime with Ali should be like, once every month or two, cause even just these were incredible to hear. ------------------------------- Every time I hear the stories from anyone who's worked for a long time in retail, I'm always fascinated by everything they say. I've never worked retail, not really, so just hearing about the wide rainbow of shit that humans have done and continue to do is morbidly fascinating. That Speedo story in particular got me to gag a little when you said "it's flaky", that's not normal even for men. Remind me never to get old, it sounds gross. I'll live and stay young forever instead. ------------------------------- The Hot Topic stories got me nodding my head a bit too. Like, I also grew up hearing about the image of the mega-goth store, but I was a bit sheltered as a kid and never got direct exposure to most subcultures until I was in my 20s. By the time I finally got to see a Hot Topic with my own eyes it had already started putting pokemon plushies and anime shirts right by the front entrance and so the image was just different than what I'd heard. Employees fangirling over a band with a grungy aesthetic and a lady going tits out mid-store for a piercing sounds just a little bit more like what I expected, lol. ------------------------------- Re: Commission stories, I love that first guy. I don't "know" Slime Girl Stu, but I feel like I *know* Slime Girl Stu.... you know? :P Something comforting not just from the artist side of having a regular, but of seeing a dude know exactly what he's about and lean into it a consistent (and at least it seems healthy) amount. Not sure what the sport is, but especially in the Ali Art Style, sporty fashion can be super cute, I respect his tastes in theme and in choiche of monster girl. ------------------------------- Second guy is just gross, and I'm sorry you had to deal with him. Even if he really *had* been genuine that he thought it was necessary to send """references""" (and I don't believe for a moment that it was), no warning / no asking if it's ok ahead of time would have still made it just as bad. I love your response, though. "Your fursona doesn't even have the same anatomy!" is like the funniest thing you could've said 'cause out of all of the responses you could have given, it's the most professional and artistically relevant complaint, like, morals aside he just didn't think this through on an artistic level either. ------------------------------- No coffee for me, I listened to this at night—hope you enjoyed yours, though! And no hate on pumpkin spice, it's not my go-to flavor but I've had a PSL before and it's def popular for a reason.
Kench
2025-08-08 04:59:31 +0000 UTC
