Ridiculous things customers say!

[Darkclothes]

I was in an Italian restaurant today in the UK. The menu was in English. The woman at the next table asked the waiter if the prawns were cooked! He said yes of course they are. She then said that it didn't specify on the menu- it just said 'King prawns with baby tomatoes in a creamy sauce'.

The waiter then said, well it doesn't specific that the chicken is cooked- but most people realise it is. DH and I starting laughing to ourselves. It made me wonder, what other bonkers things have you heard customers say?

My niece was working in primark. It was her first job she was 16. She was working the changing rooms one day and a nurse tried to push in, saying I’m a nurse I’m allowed to go first. My niece said sorry you will have to queue, the nurse threw the clothes at my niece, told her to F off you fat bitch and stormed off!

The clock one is eminently sensible!
Some are silent and some tick really loudly
I’ve asked this question and happily paid more for a quiet one

Of course. I’m certainly not making any assumptions - just considering possibilities 🤷‍♀️ I only commented as I thought that the poster I picked up on was being unreasonable in the way she was responding to previous pp.

I own a little shop that sells fabric and haberdashery. No end of interesting customers. One of the best was the chap who didn’t see why he had to buy the whole box of pins because he only wanted one “to get splinters out when he was out and about”. Before I took the shop over, it had a sister shop over 50 miles away. I sold a piece of fabric to a very posh lady who had dithered over which colour she wanted to buy. One end of the fabric had been cut at an angle by the supplier, so I made a point of showing her that I was cutting it in line with the shorter end - so she’d actually end up with more than she was paying for. A week later my colleague at the other branch called me because the blooming woman had turned up there and complained, wanted to return the fabric for a refund because “The girl in the other shop didn’t cut it straight”. I was 43 at the time.

No-one cares about the bloody prawns! Let it go!

yup. I have got an analogue clock that doesn't tick

"I bought this Sellotape but it's too sticky. Don't you get a lot of complaints about it being too sticky?"

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Especially if brought in marks and sparks.

Ha ha - the intention of my original post was hoping people would stop arguing about it - a point badly made obviously.

My husband & I kept our surnames on marriage, so our cats have had the surname of whoever signed the adoption papers or first took them to the vet!

We tend to forget who's who & it's quite odd seeing it on communications from the vet. The current cat is mine, apparently, while the previous one was DH's.

Many moons ago you could buy boxes of
paracetamol where the tablet included the antidote. Extortionate expensive

Ah the magic "out the back" in supermarkets.

I swear some people think it is a magic portal to the warehouse delivery hub!

When there was a milk shortage because of a lack of drivers in Covid we had empty fridges. It was on the news, it was in the newspapers. We had signs on the fridges and we had to ration sales, all this was VERY clear. As soon as we got any in it sold out almost immediately.

"Have you got any milk out the back?"

What the hell were they expecting me to say? "Yes we have, we didnt put it out on the off chance YOU came in!"

FFS......

Whenever I'm in a supermarket, there are always staff refilling shelves and fridges from cages and pallets. It's clearly coming from somewhere isn't it, and I think we can assume it's from "out the back".

Obviously I don't think it's Narnia out there and expect there to be an endless supply of every single thing in the store at any given moment, but is it totally unreasonable to ask that question? I was staring forlornly at the empty space where courgettes normally live in Waitrose yesterday, and a staff member came over with a load of courgettes to restock. If I'd asked him 5 minutes earlier if there were any courgettes "out the back", he'd have said "Yes, I'm just about to bring them out."

Our sons have my dhs surname
So all the pets have mine … that seemed fair 🤣🤣🤣

Yeah we kept a bottle back just for you.

i don’t think so.

About three weeks before I left, we had a milk delivery. Manager and the milk delivery driver didn’t notice that two of the trolleys had another supermarket chain’s milk on it. I found these on checking the dates and rotating.

We had no Green (semi) 4 pints or 2 pints of the supermarket’s own milk. Customers asked us if we have got any semi milk. No. We couldn’t say we have some but we have (other supermarket) as they would want them. We couldn’t sell them. Obviously got the money back from the milk supplier and colleagues, food bank and a couple of former colleagues got free milk!

I just cant see the justification in asking someone is a large busy supermarket to schlepp all the way into "The Back" to find out if you can have moussaka this week without having to nip somewhere else to buy a courgette. But then I have done the job.....

There are courgettes in moussaka? That's news to me.

Not traditionally but you can make it with them if aubergines are too expensive or not available and I have a couple of recipes that use a mix of the two. My father uses them because my mother doesnt like aubergine.

Oh
I always ask @TallAndSkinnyWithAnUnusuallyLargePelvis if there’s something missing from the shelves. No one has ever moaned, they just go and look ‘out the back’
Is that wrong?

Well no its not wrong but as someone who did the job for a while, I know that I got moaned at for not doing whatever it was I had been doing to go Out The Back to find out if we had xyz. But equally if I said no and didnt go to look and they complained, I would get shit about that too.

So I would weigh up whether it was worth them spending time doing that (which in a large place like say Morrisons, takes ages, or I could just nip into the corner shop.

You can actually get silent analogue clocks. People like counsellors use them so they don’t put pressure on the silences during sessions. 😁

Many years ago when I had a seasonal job in TooShop I was told to ‘go out the back’ sit down for a couple of minutes then come back and say you couldn’t find it, that way they felt you’d look and you got a little break. The only thing in ‘the back’ was the old sale stock that hadn’t sold, some of it was donkeys years old and it just got pulled out every sale time.

One of my favourite ones to witness was when I was in a posh jewellers and a lady came in to have her watch serviced. It was a patek philippe which is super spendy. She then demanded to borrow a brand new one from the shop window while it was away because clearly she couldn’t be without one for 2 weeks.

I was
she didn’t like being told no!

There's
macaroon bar ( Scottish delicacy with a solid white middle dipped in chocolate and sprinkled flakes of desiccated coconut )
Macarons - those small chewey almondy discs ganache in the middle
and coconut macaroons that are baked coconut , eggs white , sugar on rice paper that dissolves in your mouth

Depends what she was after

Ceviche is marinated in lemon juice, the acid ‘cooks’ the fish.
Salt and do the same thing with beef or fish