People are strange.

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  • FearAnLoathingJ
    FearAnLoathingJ Posts: 337 Member
    Just here because now I'm singing The Doors' song. Thanks...now it's stuck in my head.

    me too! :laugh:
  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
    See now...if I saw the lady and her wagon of parakeets staring at the duck, Id think it was wierd, but then be curious why they are staring, and would have probably stopped to stare too. Maybe the duck did something really really interesting! I woudlnt want to miss it! LOLOL

    Sadly I would have too! Like, hm, what's that duck doing?


    This one is from yesterday!

    Group of four women come in. Two older, two younger. Tell them if they spend 25 more dollars, they get a free beach tote. The younger girl walks away to get her sister and was gone for a good solid five minutes. They finally come back and they have it all in order and one of the older women pays with her card. At this point they start talking amongst themselves in French. She gets all the way to the point where she's asked to sign the touchscreen. At that point, you can't go back to pick a different payment method. You have to sign it. I guess they had decided that one of the younger girls was going to pay instead, so they told me to go back, she didn't want to pay.

    I told them I was sorry, but she'd have to sign. What I could do was call a manager and have them post void the transaction, which would refund the money to the card. One of the younger ones starts yelling about how it's ridiculous, she's not signing anything, she can just hit cancel. I was like, you can try, ma'am, but I don't think it'll work. Sure enough, she hits it five or six times and each time it gives her a "EEEEEHHH" noise. Finally they let me call the manager to void it, meanwhile the younger one calls me a ***** en francais. I speak French well enough to have a conversation and of COURSE I know the curse words, so on their way out, I told them to enjoy their purchase and have a nice night, in French. The look on her face was hilarious.
  • dunnodunno
    dunnodunno Posts: 2,290 Member
    The strangest thing I've ever had happen at work was a customer who came in to return something at the customer service desk. After I completed his return he turned to me and seriously asked, "is the store open today?" I wanted to say, "if the store was closed do you think I would be here to do your return & if the store was closed how would you come into the store?"
  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
    Today we read a bad review of our store from the surveys at the bottom. We got rated a 1 by a lady who was mad that we refused to pull up her bridal registry for her...we don't HAVE a bridal registry. And I don't mean our store. I mean the entire company does NOT have a registry. :noway:
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    bump
  • SteelySunshine
    SteelySunshine Posts: 1,092 Member
    Today we read a bad review of our store from the surveys at the bottom. We got rated a 1 by a lady who was mad that we refused to pull up her bridal registry for her...we don't HAVE a bridal registry. And I don't mean our store. I mean the entire company does NOT have a registry. :noway:

    Wait wut? Someone should fix that over sight pronto.


    And to think I just stopped by to say how much I love love love this thread.
  • blt0087
    blt0087 Posts: 115
    I work at Best Buy (a huge electronics store, for those who don't know), and we get this phone call at least twice a day..
    "Thank you for calling Best Buy, this is _______, how can I help you?"
    "Yeah, can you transfer me to the electronics department?"
    "Is there a certain department you're looking for?"
    "Yeah, the electronics one."
    Smh...

    One day I had a customer come in and ask if we sold mattresses.

    And this one is my parents, but still funny/strange nonetheless. When we lived in Ohio the people above us would always have band practice till around 2am on the weekends. Since my dad was a youth pastor, we'd have to get up early every Sunday to make it to our 9am youth service..anyway, one night my parents had gotten sick of it, and after weeks of asking them to keep it down, they decided to take matters into their own hands. They got up at about 6am one Saturday morning after said neighbors threw a party and proceeded to turn up some gospel music at full volume, vacuum the ceilings, and yell as loud as they could to one another. Lol
  • whitebalance
    whitebalance Posts: 1,654 Member
    And this one is my parents, but still funny/strange nonetheless. When we lived in Ohio the people above us would always have band practice till around 2am on the weekends. Since my dad was a youth pastor, we'd have to get up early every Sunday to make it to our 9am youth service..anyway, one night my parents had gotten sick of it, and after weeks of asking them to keep it down, they decided to take matters into their own hands. They got up at about 6am one Saturday morning after said neighbors threw a party and proceeded to turn up some gospel music at full volume, vacuum the ceilings, and yell as loud as they could to one another. Lol

    Ha, I did this too! After one too many loud, obnoxious 2am parties next door, I got up and mowed the lawn at 5am. I've never done such a thorough job -- that tiny yard was gorgeous by the time I was through with it an hour or two later. :devil:
  • SuperSexyDork
    SuperSexyDork Posts: 1,669 Member
    I was a fast food manager for a few years... So I have some lovely tales.

    Like the guys who came through the drive-thru and ordered 50 double cheese. We asked them to park in a spot while they were being made.

    When I came out they asked, "Where's _____ (name of someone who doesn't work there)? He told me if we came through and ordered 50 cheeseburgers he'd give us our weed."

    Oh and one time I answered a phone call asking for someone that doesn't work there. I made the mistake of saying that she doesn't work at this restaurant. (I only knew that she worked at another one because we were friends) He then proceeded to chew me out for not telling him where she was. He said he was going to make a complaint to the BBB and wanted my name. When I told him my name he refused to believe it and insisted that I, "tell him my real name" because what I'd told him was "f'n bullsh*t!" I hung up and he called back to harrass me some more.
  • 42hockeymom
    42hockeymom Posts: 521 Member
    Well, one day I was driving to work. We live on the North shore of a lake with just one road that goes around, so it can get busy. So here I am on my way to work when I see these people pushing a stroller, just one of those umbrella strollers, so I slow down because, hey that's the polite thing to do. La la la la here I am passing them and I glance over to see the "baby" and it's the BIGGEST cat I have EHHVVEERR seen! I mean like 20lbs! And it's all strapped in and sitting just like any baby would be in a stroller.

    I worked for many years on an ambulance on an Indian Reservation. Oh the stories! How about the 16 yo girl who thought she was 6 weeks pregnant and thought her water broke and was in labor. That little girl I felt sorry for, my male partner stepped outside while I had a "talk" with her about the birds and the bees about being pregnant, and what happens during that time. Now, remember I said thought she was pregnant, we had to have a talk about that too because she didn't know how babies were made and how a woman knows she's pregnant. She just "felt" pregnant. I wanted to cry with that one, I really did. Do not ask me how a girl in today's society got as far as she did and not know "The Facts of Life" They do teach that in school up here.


    Another call was for a gal in her 20's who had an ear ache. We get up there, my partner (who was the founder of the Tribal Ambulance Service and a big Muckity Muck in the Tribe) asks her why she called the ambulance and she answers "Well I didn't have enough gas to get me to the clinic (five miles away) and I don't get my check for a few more days. He told her to take some Advil and call a friend to take her the next day. Something you're really not supposed to do, but this guys my boss, and high up so I just stood around quietly for that one.

    Lastly, we had a lady who was CONVINCED she was going to "expire" by the end of May. She'd gone to the doctor and he told her if she didn't quit smoking and start taking care of herself she probably wouldn't live for much longer. Now he never gave her a date, though. So all month long we'd get multiple calls to go to this woman's house, she's going to expire. One day in my 8 hour shift I was there 5 times! She was dying oooohhhhh she was dying! So, my last call there that night, I called her doctor, I said to him "Doc I don't know what to do with her, we can't transport her because she's perfectly fine. Everything is normal she's healthier than I am!" He told me, "Just transport her, I'll meet you at the hospital". So in we go, she's in her bed, she's dying she can see the light, the angels are calling. I tell her "Ok sweety we're going to take you to the hospital Dr. so&so said to" She JUMPS out of bed and runs down the hall, out of the house, down the stairs to the ambulance, she was had the doors open by the time we got to her! We had to call Social Services for her. In 3 weeks of May we'd been there more than 35 times. One thing, though we did all say "Won't we look like a**holes if she does die on May 31". So we really held our breath that day! She didn't, she's still alive today! And this happened 6 years ago!
  • dunnodunno
    dunnodunno Posts: 2,290 Member
    I work at Best Buy (a huge electronics store, for those who don't know), and we get this phone call at least twice a day..
    "Thank you for calling Best Buy, this is _______, how can I help you?"
    "Yeah, can you transfer me to the electronics department?"
    "Is there a certain department you're looking for?"
    "Yeah, the electronics one."
    Smh...

    One day I had a customer come in and ask if we sold mattresses.

    And this one is my parents, but still funny/strange nonetheless. When we lived in Ohio the people above us would always have band practice till around 2am on the weekends. Since my dad was a youth pastor, we'd have to get up early every Sunday to make it to our 9am youth service..anyway, one night my parents had gotten sick of it, and after weeks of asking them to keep it down, they decided to take matters into their own hands. They got up at about 6am one Saturday morning after said neighbors threw a party and proceeded to turn up some gospel music at full volume, vacuum the ceilings, and yell as loud as they could to one another. Lol

    LOL, sweet payback:).
  • dunnodunno
    dunnodunno Posts: 2,290 Member
    I love when the electric goes off at our store & people still expect us to ring them up on electronic registers.
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    Well, one day I was driving to work. We live on the North shore of a lake with just one road that goes around, so it can get busy. So here I am on my way to work when I see these people pushing a stroller, just one of those umbrella strollers, so I slow down because, hey that's the polite thing to do. La la la la here I am passing them and I glance over to see the "baby" and it's the BIGGEST cat I have EHHVVEERR seen! I mean like 20lbs! And it's all strapped in and sitting just like any baby would be in a stroller.

    Obviously the freaking cat weighs 20 lbs because they never let it WALK. :laugh:
    People are insane.

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