Any of you ever had to give customer service to a Star ? movie star, singer ??

Let me tell you a story about me and this one LOl

  Back when I first started cutting meat I had the misfortune to have to wait on " Minnie Pearl " when she came down to spend time at Point Clear, Al. this was where the wealthy, from as early as the 1800s from Mobile, New Orleans and across the United States chose to spend their summers in Point Clear.

 For some reason she always came in around 6:30 on Sat night, half drunk.  We closed at 7, at 6:30 I had to have all the meat ready to be pulled out the meat case on pans or have grocery carts behind the meat case to throw the big stuff in. At 10 mins to 7,  I & a young 14 year boy had to start pulling it. Then had to wash and be out of the market by 7:30when she came in she would give me **** about having the meat on the pans, I always told her I would find or get what ever she wanted. this was never good enough for her and she would just bitch about it, I told my market manager and store manager about her, both told me to over look her and do my job. One Sat night she came in half drunk about 6:45, CUSS me out because I had every thing ready to pull, again I offered to get anything she wanted. Not good enough, She told me that the next time she came in there and the meat case looked like that, she would call the main office and have my ass fired. My market and store manager called the home office talked to them about it and they were told if she did it again for me to tell her to find another place to buy groceries lol Well I was 17 at the time, AFRAID of this big mouth hussy lol So my market manager told me the next time she came in to call him, he lived 5 mins from the store. about 4 months later here she came, CUSS me out and told me she was going to get me fired, I called the boss, he came right on up and told her we didn't need her business anymore. We heard she called the office on us both but nothing ever happen about it.

  Now this was in 1960, in the late 1960s Nashville entrepreneur John Jay Hooker persuaded Cannon and African-American gospel singer Mahalia Jackson to lend their names to a chain of fried chicken restaurants established to compete with Kentucky Fried Chicken. After initially reporting good results and enjoying a public stock worth $64 million, the venture collapsed amid allegations of accounting irregularities and stock price manipulation. The ensuing investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cleared both Cannon and Jackson of involvement in financial wrongdoings, but both were embarrassed by the negative publicity.

A note, Amazingly, during the frenzied build-up, no one had bothered to figure out a recipe. Consequently, no two Minnie Pearl restaurants served the same chicken. And with that hit-or-miss approach, a lot of that chicken didn’t taste very good.

  I ran back into her in 1970 at a A&P in Mobile, Al. She looked at me and said, you that little smart ass that use to work in Fairhope and started bitching about the meat case. She couldn't find anything worth having. Since our first meetings I had learn to open my mouth lol Out of my mouth comes, WELL guess you need some Chicken for supper tonight, I hear you short on chicken now a days. I can give you a deal on some we cut for MPFC that they didn't pick up for some reason !! I saw the hussy twice after that, she would see me and look away, never stop at the meat case.