People are strange.

Do you work at Victoria's Secret? I worked at Sephora and we would get together with the Vikki and Guess girls (we were all in the same area) and trade stories. Some of the best ones were when people got caught stealing by our LPO. Tackles, screaming, scratching, biting. After I had to leave when my husband got stationed our guy ended up in the hospital because someone got him in the arm with a box opener. One of the best ones I had was a woman who spilled nail polish on her own shoes and then tried to get us to pay for them. She said they were $200 Coach shoes. But I had the same ones. $30 from Target. There was also a group of frat guys who were doing some kind of initiation thing and we did all their makeup for them. They bought a whole bunch of cologne from us so that they weren't wasting our time, which I thought was considerate.

Pfft...roomates. Im so glad I dont have to deal with that anymore. My roomie sucked *kitten*! Your story reminds me of her...not to say she would call the cops constantly but she was the rudest, nit picking, fake *kitten* hoe bag I have ever met.

I once watched a woman at the gas station wash her whole car with the little squeegie thingie for cleaning your windows. That was like, 5 years ago and I still shake my head when I think about it.

LOL! This is pretty common in our city since we have a ban on washing cars because of drought. Lots of squeegie spot checks. But my hubby took it to the extreme once. He was riding his motorcycle across country and used the squeegie to scrub the bugs off his leather coat. :-)

Oh BOY. As someone who has worked in experiential marketing for 3 years, i have some interesting ones!

Once we were promoting a butter brand. And oh so many consumers asked:

"is there dairy in it?
"can i eat it?"
"Is it non fat?"

We have also been abused before when doing alcohol promotions because people literally think we are trying to 'con' them, when really it is a licensed promotion with FREE ALCOHOL

Another time we were promoting a mint, which involved fisherman jumpsuit things. One random man came over and started touching one of the girls suits and was like, "is this real leather? Now doesn't that feel lovely. It would make a great negligee". But he said it in such a routine manner, that it was almost hard to pick up on what a creep he was.

I've witnessed people who think it's appropriate to grope brand ambassadors, try and steal merchandise from us and abuse us when we stop them from taking BOXES of stock from our set up.

And those are just ones off the top of my head.

People are absolute effing weirdos.

Just here because now I'm singing The Doors' song. Thanks...now it's stuck in my head.

ha ha me too!!!

I spent 7 years in customer service. I have tales that would curl your toes.

We had a man come in once whose breath was so bad, you could smell it after he'd been gone for a half hour.

I had one man that would only see me when he'd come in. He had a hair trigger temper, a very high type A...and he was an EMT.

We had seen one woman get out of her nice car, put on a ratty coat just to come in and ask for a discount on her bill.

Lol,hilarious post and stories!

Here's one! Years ago when I worked in corporate America, I was a showroom consultant for a high end plumbing and appliance (appointment only) showroom. Our average sale was $10k+ and we sold high end stoves/ranges, hoods, subzero pimped out refrigerators, outdoor kitchens, gold plated faucets, toilets that magically flushed themselves, etc. our clients were celebrities, crazy wealthy folks and athletes- either building or remodeling their million dollar homes! ...so, needless to say, we weren't Home Depot and u had serious bank if you were meeting with me!

Any who.....a little old lady walks in (with no appointment), so NO ONE WOULD WAIT ON HER, so I opted to help. To make it even more interesting, she wanted a toilet seat....a $10 toilet seat. Well, I still wanted to help her and sat and listened as she's describing the seat!s She starts talking about her lower back and how she has back pain alot. Then she starts to tell me about these great "stick on" heating pads (they had just come out with this awesome invention )! I was intrigued....so to help me better understand her story and sympathize with her pain, in the middle of our showroom she starts pulling her pants and underwear down to try and show me this stick- on patch her doctor gave her. I almost flatlined ________ and thought "my peers are going to think I'm molesting a 90 year old woman! I was sooo embarrassed and grabbed her pants and pulled them back up! She was totally oblivious to how odd that moment was,lol!

And yes, I did sell her a toilet seat! Lol

For my job, we have to do some online trainings that get updated each year. This year, they put in a section for why you should not hit your client or any other person you work with. :noway:

Not work related, but puffy heart's post reminded me: one day, I was leaving for work and there were three kids playing outside unsupervised at all. This would be perfectly normal, but I leave for work at 9:50 pm. Three kids (oldest was probably 6-8, other two were toddlers). Outside. At night. No adults. Heavily populated area. Seems like a good idea... They were still out there when I got back at midnight.

Oh Sunshine, I would have done the same thing! lol I had a strange neighbor...whenever I played music even if softly, my downstairs neighbor, I swear it would take a broom to the ceiling and could hear her screaming to stop it. After a couple times of that, I just stopped playing music but shed still do that and even went out on the balcony to scream and curse me out.

I had a neighbor who did the same thing but he would play porn really loudly at 6 am. Other neighbors even complained about it because it was so damn loud! My music was never complained about, though...

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

Just here because now I'm singing The Doors' song. Thanks...now it's stuck in my head.

Lol me too

Just here because now I'm singing The Doors' song. Thanks...now it's stuck in my head.

Seems like im the only one that didn't get the song stuck in my head does that make me strange like the girl in the perfume store?????

People are strange when you're a stranger.

I work at an insurance agency. Last year a client called to say he was coming in about a very important matter. He arrived 30 minutes later to talk to the manager. He proceeded with a long involved story about how he needed to get his car from point A to point B but had run out of gas. He asked to borrow $2. He was drunk.

My neighbor would put their dog out at 11pm every night. They would leave it outside to bark for anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours. Then he would be back out at 6am barking for another hour. I approached her one day and nicely asked if she was aware that the dog was barking for hours at a time in the middle of the night. Her reply? "Well that's his schedule."

I do volunteer EMS & am no longer amazed at the reasons people call 911. Once, at 3am, a guy called for transport to the hospital because of a toothache. He lives across the street from the hospital. He met us at his front door with his bags packed for the 20 second trip to the ER.

A lady called from a bus stop, telling us she twisted her ankle. But instead of going to the nearest hospital, she opted to go to the hospital 20 minutes north. When we arrived, she hopped off the back of the ambulance & walked away. She told us thanks, cause while she was waiting for the bus, she realized she didn't have bus fare. We tried to get her for misuse of the 911 system but she had give a fake name.

when I worked at wal mart you would get people like this all the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXXtYHfM0r8