I worked as a night guard at a Grocery Store. They left a STRANGE set of rules.
August 20, 2026
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5 min readAaron needed money badly, so when he saw an ad for a night guard at a closed grocery store in a run-down Pennsylvania strip mall, he took it. The job paid twenty-one dollars an hour for an overnight shift, and the only other person he met on his first night was a woman who handed him a folded set of rules before speeding away without giving her name. The rules were strange: do not go down aisle seven, do not look down aisle seven; ignore knocking sounds from the freezers; return stray shopping carts immediately; clean up any blood in the meat aisle but do not touch it; if you see a woman in the store, go to the break room and stay there until she leaves, making no eye contact; if the jazz music stops, go to the break room until it resumes; and under no circumstances end your shift early. Aaron assumed it was a test of how well he could follow absurd instructions. He was wrong.
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What you'll learn
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- 2 (01:01) **Aaron Takes the Night Guard Job** - The narrator accepts a suspicious night guard position at a closed grocery store for $21/hour
- 3 (03:35) **The Rules Are Revealed** - Aaron reads the bizarre set of eight rules left by his supervisor Clive
- 4 (05:59) **First Patrol Begins** - Aaron starts his first patrol, noting the unsettling emptiness of the store at night
- 5 (08:36) **The Crying Voice from Aisle Seven** - Aaron hears someone sobbing and discovers it's coming from the forbidden aisle
- 6 (13:33) **First Break Room Refuge** - Aaron locks himself in the break room and examines the security feeds
- 7 (15:31) **Second Patrol: The Moving Cart and Silent Music** - Aaron notices the shopping cart has moved to a cash register and the jazz music has stopped
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Show Notes
Who needs a night guard anyways? Written by: BlairDaniels
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