The Audacity of Some Customers

There was a customer today that came in with her son (maybe 5-6 years old) They looked at the games, action figures, and stuffed animals, and were mostly looking for something to spend some Christmas money on. The entire time her kid was staring at me, and acting shy when I looked over.

They came up to the register buying a cheap $6 game but what really caught me off guard was the mom saying “go ahead and ask him, he probably gets it all the time.”

In my head I’m thinking about how he’s probably going to ask me what he can get for like $10, I get that a lot from kids. Maybe he wants to know how much the backpack costs. Maybe he wants to know how old he needs to be to work my awesome job.

“Did you know that you look like Ned from Spiderman?”

I was floored. In highschool my friends told me the same thing when Homecoming came out. I guess that’s what I get for being a fat Filipino boy with floppy hair.

But the audacity of the mother. “He probably gets that a lot.” Like how are you gonna say that about Ned from Spiderman!?

Anyway I just wanted to talk about what has quickly become one of my favorite interactions with a customer since working at GameStop.

Edit: For anyone curious, I love this interaction. “Are you Ned?” Has become one of my favorite questions, especially from kids. I used to hate it, because I wanted to be Spiderman, but at the end of the day, I’m not him. I. Am. Ned.