On Christmas and New Year’s Eve, many U.S. residents traditionally go shopping. Some people pick up groceries to serve the holiday table, while others are looking for gifts for loved ones. The influx of customers these days is customary for the employees of the Fort Collins, Colorado, grocery store. Laurie Jones is a gift store clerk at the hotel.
She, like many of the town’s residents, has encountered the local fauna more than once. But it’s one thing to see deer from a distance; it’s another to see them right in the store’s showroom.
The woman got a job as a salesperson a year ago. During her work the deer family often appeared at the entrance of the store, but not once did the animals go inside.
According to the store employee, the deer came in and started looking at the goods. She was first attracted to the sunglasses, then to the ice cream and chips. The animal strutted around the store, examining the products and not paying attention to Jones.
The girl knew not to feed wild animals. However, how to drive out a deer without bait? It clearly was not going to go out itself, wandering around the premises, as if choosing gifts. And then the saleswoman decided to break the rule, took out a peanut bar and led the guest out the door.Then Laurie returned to her workplace, but just before the store closed, the reindeer returned. And not alone. She had brought with her little reindeer cubs.
The cubs stomped in the doorway and didn’t dare enter. It was amazing and funny at the same time,” Jones recalls.
The saleswoman guessed that the animal had brought her cubs hoping to beg for a candy bar for them, too. So she gave the little ones a treat, and after they ate the treats, the guests made a habit of visiting the store. And then Laurie realized that feeding the animals was a mistake.
You can’t feed wild animals, or they would come begging for food every day.
And so it happened. Soon other females with children started coming to the store. And then the males began to come to the porch as well.