英語検定ライティング準１級（第128回）

コンビニ「使わせてもらえることに感謝な話」

There are many convenience stores in our neighborhood.
In fact, there are numerous difficult tasks and jobs.

１年前の話で、ドラッグストアの駐車場にいたら、警官に連れられて中年男性が出てくる場面に遭遇した。彼はその店の未使用のトイレットペーパーを何度も持ち帰っていたとのこと。
About a year ago, I encountered the shocking scene that a middle-aged-man came out of the drug store with himself surrounded by two police officers, and also the reason was more astonishing : he has been coming home with unused bathrooms’s paper for several months.

商品ではないので万引きにはならないのだろうが、犯罪ではある。料理店や美容室では毎月の紙代が大変らしい。自宅でもそうだが紙の使用量は多い。それは排泄が多いという証拠だ。
It is true that what he stole aren’t commodities, so he wasn’t accused of as a shoplifter, but he is a branded thief, we should agree.
By the way, numerous restaurants or beauty salons have been suffering from high expenses about a large amount of toilet paper.
Similarly, we use a large amount of it at home, which means that we frequently do what matters there.

あるコンビニ店の話だが、客が使う紙の量や水道代や芳香剤は月に５万円以上もかかるらしい。使い方の悪い客もいるし、店のスタッフだけの使用ならならないかと悩んでいるのだとか。
At a convenience store, it costs over 50 thousand yen a shopkeeper to cover the expenses about toilet paper, water bill, air refreshers, which numerous customers use, an online article says.
There are not a few customers who cannot utilize the bathroom politely, which makes him think that only staffs there could use such a facility with annoyances.

更に何も買わずにトイレだけ使って出て行く客もいるし、その客に限って挨拶もしないらしい。自分にも見覚えがあるのだが、今後は控えよう。挨拶してトイレを使って何かを買う。
Several customers leaves there with buying nothing even after they finished using the room, who absolutely never greet a staff, which is extremely rude.
From now on, we should ask whether we could this room, after that we use, finally we should buy something.

客の側からすると適当に仕事をしているように思えるスタッフも、客からは見えない何かに困っているのだ。でもそれらの業務を的確にこなせる人って、どこでも活躍できるだろうなあ。
There are several store staffs with no vital tasks, we imagine, but actually they make positive contributions to the store, whose efforts or pains we cannot understand from a distance.
When a clerk could his or her businesses appropriately, such a staff performed an amazing ability everywhere.

A shopkeeper’s stories have made me change my mind.
We have something we should understand around us.