Two minutes to closing and I run into the customer I dread the most -- the customer in a hurry. When someone is in a hurry, I can never work quickly or efficiently enough to please them and they usually get mad at me for slowing them down. I hate being the person that slows someone down.

Anyway, the customer asked in a rush where a certain section is. There was no way I could point them to the right spot before closing, because I'm slow. I told them they should ask at the reference desk, and then I had to blabber on saying "I don't know how to . . ." Didn't finish the sentence, so they could be thinking I'm an incompetent idiot at anything.

They probably thought I meant I don't know how to find the section. I do know how to, but I didn't know how to articulate how to find it in a hurry.

If any of my coworkers overheard me say that, they'll report me. I'll get in trouble again for being unprofessional and my coworkers might push harder for me to be fired, because I obviously haven't learned my lesson from last time. They'll believe I was being rude and stupid on purpose, and that I don't care about my job.