30 Bizarre Customer Blunders That Will Make You Question Reality
“-Unless you have need of knitting implements, kindly get out of this shop now.”
The lady scurries out quickly. My friend deflates and starts laughing nervously, shaking like a leaf.
The previous shop before my friend’s had been a library for 15 years. The one before the library? A hair salon.
Lady had been at the very least 22 years late to her appointment.
Or she walked in the wrong shop since the hair salon was right next door.
Used to work In a musical instrument shop, pianos in the window , a single file path to the counter , that went through about 20 pianos and keyboards , the counter is a giant novelty guitar amp. With guitars hung on every free inch of wall space .
Lady comes in , trips over a couple piano stools In her rage filled stomp over to the counter , slams a receipt on the counter and immediately starts shouting, conversation was as follows :
Lady:“ I ORDERED THIS TV FOUR WEEKS AGO AND ITS STILL NOT ARRIVED , WHAT SORT OF BUSINESS ARE YOU RUNNING HERE ?!”
Me: “ well that must be frustrating for you but I’m sorry to say we sell instruments not TV’s , I think you’re looking for the Sony shop a couple of doors down the road “
Lady” so you’re calling me a liar !? I bought a £500 tv from this shop 4 weeks ago ! I’m not stupid I can see the tv on the wall !”
Me “ So that single tv is the one we use to monitor cctv and let customers know they’re on camera , we have a lot of issues with theft and stock loss , again I think you want to be talking to Sony staff the shop is like 50 meters down the road , and your receipt says Sony , this is not Sony , we don’t sell Sony items here , we sell guitars and pianos .”
Lady : “ where is your manager , I was in this shop 4 weeks ago and one of you sold me a TV that hasn’t showed up , there were TV’s on the wall like that and speakers like those you have over there . You’re a liar and you’re calling me a liar or stupid , either way I want my refund NOW “
Me : “ Well I am the manager , I have worked here for 4 years and can guarantee you we have never sold a TV to yourself or anybody else . You’re being rude and you need to leave now .”
Best part is she threw the receipt at me and a couple racist slurs , stormed out .
She comes back in 5 minutes later and starts shouting whilst I’m helping an actual customer
“ WHERE DID YOU PUT MY RECEIPT ?! YOU STOLE IT DIDN’T YOU “
I pulled her receipt out the bin as it was just resting on top , gave it back to her and gave her a sickly sweet smile “ so did you find the correct shop on the end or are you just going up and down the road berating random shop workers ?”
She got a bit dumbfounded and just stood with her mouth moving but no sound coming out so I held the door open , pointed at the giant Sony sign visible from the doorway “ that is the Sony shop by the way, good luck!”
Closing shift at a Starbucks, was like 10pm at night and this couple come inside and walk up to me at the front counter saying, “The deli across the street is racist towards white people.”
I really had no response besides just standing there for a few seconds before saying, “…did you want to order something…?”
I love when customers traumadump on me.
“OK sir that will be $2.15”
“Yeah my dog just died and my son was arrested. My mom’s house burned down last week too”
“Oh.. would you like a straw?”
I work for a marketing company.
A customer saw one of our “BLM” designs and immediately went on a rant about how Black Lives Matter is evil.
It was for the Bureau of Land Management.
Uber driver
Once had a girl I picked up from a karaoke bar that was obvious upset/distressed. Asked if she was okay.
“Yeah, I just did karaoke”
“Oh? That’s pretty cool”
“I did a song for my dad that died a year ago”
“Awe that’s sweet of you”
Nothing else was said until I got her home, which was only a couple blocks away. As I pulled in this is what she said.
“I’m not going to give you a bad rating for this BUT you could have been more emotionally available for me”
I just said “I’m …sorry?” And had to stop myself from bursting into laughter. I felt bad for her of course but that was just the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard from a passenger. Especially prefacing it with “I’m not gonna give you a bad rating for this but…”
Second story
Picked up a lady, she was distressed, I asked if I could do anything for her and she said “not unless you can take back the last forty years of my life”
It was a very silent awkward ride.
Work in radio. Got a call on the contest line one time.
“Yeah, I need a hotel room,” said the caller.
“OK. How would you like me to help you?”
“Well…book me one!”
“You’re aware you called a radio station’s contest line, right?”
“Yeah. Don’t you book hotel rooms for rock stars when they do a show in town? Book me one!”
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