Excite News
Quote: Panorelli was with a client and had just bought some lumber when the client picked up the pencil sitting next to a cash register for Panorelli to use. Panorelli pocketed the pencil and was met in the parking lot by a worker who asked for identification.
The worker presented Panorelli with one letter saying he was banned from Home Depot, and another advising that he would be hearing from the company’s lawyers.
Look, I’ve worked crappy jobs in my time… and there are plenty of times that I would have loved to have banned an evil customer from the establishment—maybe even from the human race, come to that—but not over a pencil... Yeesh…
So much for common sense!
(Although the article notes Panorelli as saying he won’t be back, even after the Home Depot corporate apology… So he himself is not immune from stupidity… What more would he have them do? Give him a $100 gift card for his troubles? He did, after all, actually make off with the pencil- it’s not like they were arbitrarily going after him, merely overreacting a bit…)