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?

Flight attendant many moons ago when the planes used to have TV screens running the length of the single aisle. I was out my seat doing post landing things, seat belt sign was still on and the screens were still reading we were at an altitude of 34,000ft (they were always breaking/freezing) A woman tugged my skirt and told me the screens were distressing her, I was like 'er, why?', she got really shitty and started on about being led to believe we were still above the clouds, I just responded 'you did feel the massive thump as we landed on the tarmac didn't you?'

Mind you some people do seem to lose all brain cells when travelling.

Actually the waiter was rude as fuck. The creamy sauce could be Marie Rose where the prawns are not hot which is what I assume she neant. And you and your DH were rude for joining in. Did you enjoy belittling this lady op?

This happens more than you think
Another one is we do 4 ice creams-3 'basic' and a limited edition one-its Mars bar this time
At least once a shift,they come in,want a plain one so order mars but take off the sauce and topping
I tell them to order a smartie one but ask for no topping as its exactly the same end product,but a lot cheaper
I normally get a blank look and 'but I don't like smarties'
Some people leave their brains at home

Did she try the old "For all the good these were, I may just as well have shoved them up my arse!" ?

Working in a charity shop it was surprisingly frequently that I would be asked “do you have this in X size/X colour?”

😃😃

Actually I get this!! I ordered prawns in Sicily once and a whole plate of RAW PRAWNS came out!!! So it’s obv a thing there!!!

I worked on front line for a district council

chap comes to the counter and proceeds to complain to me that every single time he parks his car on the zebra crossing zig zags, the parking warden has given him a ticket and its victimisation. The chap tells me the warden is waiting there ready to pounce

I had to be careful as management never had our back

I asked him how he would feel if a child was knocked down on the crossing due to him parking there, very softy and quietly

He got up, huffed and walked out

I wanted to say in his face

ffs what do you think is going to happen...stop fucking parking there

It probably has a special name on TikTok - a 'McNookie' or something!

Apart from all of the other bonkersness there, tugging on your clothes to get your attention is something that a toddler does.

What adult even thinks to do that rather than just calling out "Excuse me'?!

I always thought it was only 2 packs of pain relief, but our local co-op will let you have 2 paracetamol and 2 ibuprofen packs.

The prawns certainly would be cooked. They certainly would not be selling raw prawns in a Marie Rose sauce. Cold doesn't equal not cooked.

'I pay your wages' when I worked in a shop.

I was once working in a shop where we offered cashback on a debit card, a lady came in and tried to use her credit card for cashback. I explained we could only do this with a debit card. She looked absolutely baffled and genuinely couldn't appear to understand the difference between the two.

Someone else wanted £50 cashback which I gave him and he then yelled at me that I'd given him too little. I counted it again in front of him, he'd mistaken a £20 note for £10. Obviously then stormed off with no apology 😒

They would still be cooked tho. You can't eat raw prawns

I didn't mean raw. I meant hot and changed my post to reflect that. Which is what I think this lady would also have been getting at. Some of the posts on here are where the customer is massively unreasonable but the lady in the op's post was just asking a question. There was no need for snarkiness from the waiter and the op / husband laughing at her

"You sold me this item yesterday ( I hadn't been in for a few weeks prior) and it's not working..." 🙄

After being asked to come back into the store to pay as his payment had declined "I owe you nothing, you should be paying me to come back in here, my times more valuable I make £25 an hour, you don't"

The prawn dish was under the section 'Hot entrees'. Even if it had been in a Marie Rose sauce- would they be raw???

If you read my OP, DH and I were laughing to ourselves! Not out loud. It was the womans husband who burst out laughing out loud.

I worked in a jewellers which sold one of the bead charm bracelet brands. A customer came in very cross, she'd dropped her bracelet on a tiled floor and smashed all the glass beads, and was demanding we replace them. I (repeatedly) explained that it wasn't a manufacturing fault, as glass will break if dropped on something hard, so I couldn't just give her new ones. She replied "you keep saying they're glass, how is that relevant?!"

Because glass is fragile!

Here's hoping he at least bought her dinner.

*DalzielOrNoDalzielAndDontPascoe *
That's the instruction we were given at work, and the tills flagged up if we scanned more than two items of pain relief in the same transaction.

People would complain if say, for example, they had 2 x paracetamol (or items containing paracetamol) and Calpol, saying "It's for the kids!"
I know that. They know that. But the till just recognises that they're items containing analgesics.
I used to tell them that if they needed larger amounts of pain relief, to go to our instore pharmacy and speak to the pharmacist.

Could you make the disabled to be opened by radar keys only?

They have looked into this,but the people at the top refuse
They don't have to deal with anyone having sex in there,so are not bothered by it
In fact they claimed it never happens!

*Callipygion *
Every time l've bought pain relief at a self scan till, it flags up that it needs to be approved by staff, understandably, we did that on checkouts.
But a while ago l bought some in Asda (at a self scan till) and it didn't. It just let me pay for the items, no approval needed, which l thought was strange.

Another funny one I read one time, was a woman had bought one of those salt lamps and then rang in to complain it had disappeared. After asking a few questions, they finally worked out that the customer had put the salt lamp into the dishwasher…….was very confused to be told that yeah salt dissolves!!

In a soft play centre, huge body builder Dad screamed in my (terrified, teenage) face that we should hire security guards to keep primary age children out of the toddler zone. Because he wasn’t watching his toddler who got knocked over by an older child when I was in the toilets cleaning up someone’s giant pile of sick.