Early?

A customer showed up at the door with his dog at eight am this morning.
Which overall isn't unusal.
As most of the time the grooming department is open by that point. So I often see people coming into the store at that time to drop off their dogs to be groomed.

Except....I did think it was kinda odd today.
Because it's New Years Day.
Therefore, most people have the day off.
And like even our store hours have shifted to account for that so we opened an hour later than normal as well. 
So like....why have an early morning grooming appointment?

Plus.
Our groomers hadn't yet shown up. 
Though I expected them to at any moment because if there's a grooming customer here then obviously a groomer should be showing up.
--unless they partied too hard or overslept or something. 

In any case.
Since the 8am hour was here...and no groomers were in sight.
I double checked with the manager in charge to see when the groomers were coming in.
She didn't know. Didn't know which ones were coming or when they were coming off the top of her head.
So she went to investigate.

And discovered....
That the guy's appointment wasn't until Nine.
The first appointment of the day wasn't until Nine.
The groomers wouldn't be showing up until Nine.

Because groomers aren't usually there much earlier than the customers.

Nope.
Apparently the guy had just wanted to drop off his dog An Hour Early. 

Which.
On any other day, probably could have worked out.
But not today. When our hours are weird.

So he ended up leave the store with his dog to go do something for an hour until his appointment time and the groomers came.

It was a nice try for him though.
I applaud his attempt.

-Sarnic Dirchi