Those that work in customer service, What is the strangest thing you've ever seen a customer do?

[amyrose2712]

My personal favorite happened during an in house only chicken wing special-10cent buffalo wings. We caught(well we SAW her but never actually said anything to her) a lady wrapping up individual chicken wings and putting them in her purse. I don't recall how many she stuffed in there, but I will never forget her, eating one, then slowly scanning the room to see if anyone was watching and quickly stuffing it in her purse. Still to this day, can't imagine WHO would eat them after being stuffer in her purse wrapped in a napkin. Jeez, if it were my purse there would have been a bobby pin and a couple of certs stuck to them. People are just weird.

[suninvited]

1. I managed convenience stores for twelve years

and have seen TONS of weird things.

One day I caught a lady opening loaves of bread and sniffing them, then closing them up and putting them back on the shelf. When I asked her not to do that, she claimed she couldnt buy bread without smelling it first.

[Call Me Wesley]

2. You'll have to watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38m-wnbHPLA

[DebJ]

4. Subtitle: What TSA agents will do when they retire.

Can I bring a flyswatter on a plane?

[amyrose2712]

14. Ok that was kinda odd. nt

[kimi]

16. That was funny!

Thanks.

[kentauros]

18. I love that movie!

Another one of the great food-movies. Thanks for reminding me of its quirkiness :D

[ceile]

35. That's funny!

[Jokerman]

3. I saw a customer masturbating in the "Mature" video section.

The "Adult" section would have been much more private and the selection was better.

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. If you had said that you had caught me... HIM in the...

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..."Cooking" video section, this woulda been like Homecoming Week.
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[Heidi]

6. Couldn't genuine, desperate hunger look "just weird" to those who aren't so desperate? (nt)

[jobycom]

11. My mother used to do that. It wasn't desperate hunger, it was more like a manipulative pooch.

She would stick stuff in her purse and take it home for her dog, who got upset when they came home without something for him. She would also steal rolls--it became a family joke at restaurants when she wasn't there to exaggeratedly wrap a roll in a napkin and pretend to look around before hiding it in our pockets or bags or whatever.

[amyrose2712]

15. I knew that was coming but if you are desperate and hungry you dont go to a bar

load up on beers and steal wings. But your heart is in the right place. :hi: :hi:

[cyberswede]

7. From my days at a drug store

I was working behind the camera counter at the drug store where we sold cameras, alarm clocks, small personal electronics, etc.

A customer asked to take a look at the beard trimmer we had in our sale flier. I took it out for him, stepped to the other end of the counter to help another customer, and when I came back, all I found on the counter was the plugged-in beard trimmer, the box, and a pile of whiskers. gross!

[Chan790]

8. Things I've seen customers do:

*Pop a squat in the middle of an empty aisle in the supermarket. (She forgot about the security cameras overhead.)

*Pee in the potted plant while waiting for the can to be vacated.

*Attempt to steal our store mascot, a goldfish.

*Intentionally pour hot coffee in their lap then scream they were going to sue us.

*Try to steal a treadmill during a busy afternoon...because the 8 guys who work in that department weren't going to notice that. :eyes:

*We have a homeless client at the bank who likes to hang out in our reception area when it's raining or really cold and we don't generally mind. One day, he started, through his sweatpants, to masturbate. So we sent Kevin over on his last day to tell said client to knock it off. The client tells Kevin "but this is like my home." (Kevin apparently responded "okay.") so I had to go back out to tell said client if he touched his crotch again I was going to call the cops.

[KT2000]

21. Gotta love Kevin

Okay????
I think that guy took a job at my local Office Depot!!

[CBHagman]

25. I'm still laughing over that one.

Sending Kevin "over on his last day..." :rofl:

[Common Sense Party]

29. You COULD have told him, "If you touch your junk, I'm gonna have you arrested."

[Chan790]

30. This is the hip urban neighborhood in DC.

and the local substation doesn't have holding cells. They're not going to arrest him any more than they arrest the people openly smoking pot on the streets or publicly urinating in the gutters, they'd just run him off.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

32. thanks for the laughs :)

[MorningGlow]

9. Barter

Okay, this was just a cultural difference, but still, it was odd to deal with. It was when I worked at a bookstore. I was at the customer service desk, and a man walked up with a huge pile of books and placed them on the counter in front of me. I asked how I could help him, and he said, "These cost too much. What can you do for me?" I tried to explain that the barter system didn't apply in our store, and the book prices were set by the publisher (excluding our discounts, none of which applied to the books he had chosen). He said, "That's not good enough." I said I was sorry, but that's the way it was. So he left them there. Didn't leave the store, though. I took the pile of books and put them on the floor behind me. He came back and asked me again what the store could do for him on the price. (I know standard bartering procedure--walk away and then come back and see if the seller caves.) I explained again that the prices of the books were nonnegotiable. He eventually left without buying anything.

[HEyHEY]

26. I used to get that all the time....I wanted to scream "This is Canada, there's a SET FUCKING PRICE!"

[jobycom]

10. Have sex on a stairway, and (different customer) ask me call her husband and cover for her affair.

The first was a teenage couple in a retail store with a balcony. Apparently the need overcame them, and they tried to turn the stairway to the briefcases into the stairway to their own personal heaven. I guess the guy figured he would be finished too quickly to get caught, even though it was a busy stairway.

The second was working nights in a hotel. Lots of wild stories. The great thing about working nights in a hotel is you really see up close how hypocritical most of the morals our nation claims to hold really are. The busiest night for prostitutes, for instance, was a Baptist convention. (Yes, the people working in the hotel can usually tell when you have a prostitute in your room, in case you ever wondered).

So one night this woman comes down the elevator and asks to speak to me alone. She tells me she was driving up from San Antonio after having been with relatives, but that her husband is very suspicious of her, so she wants me to call him and tell her we were a hotel in San Antonio (we weren't) and that she was staying there alone. I told her it was against policy to get involved in personal matters like that (it was my policy more than the hotels, but didn't get into that), so she waited until a female co-worker emerged, and approached her, starting off by saying "You're a woman, you'll understand this." She refused, too, so the woman hung out in the lobby and approached the first female guest who came through. Our security guard, an off-duty cop in full uniform, told her she had to leave the lobby. We had all seen her go up the elevator earlier all sucky-face with some gent, so there was no mystery what she was up to.

Lots of weird stories. It was an upscale hotel, too. Clinton even stayed there once. I mean, he stayed there as president with his whole entourage, not that he was... well... you know.

[tabbycat31]

12. fondle manequins

And these were manequins in the kid's department.

[MrScorpio]

13. Some rich guy check into the hotel with a Russian woman

After a few minutes, she storm out of the hotel through the lobby alone.

Right after that, we got a call from the guy who said that he wanted to check out right away AND DID NOT WANT TO PAY A CENT. This is after he took a shower in prep for the sex that he didn't have.

After bitching and complaining to the manager, THEY COMPED HIM HIS ROOM.

We all had a nice laugh about it afterward... Besides, it wasn't my money.

[Haole Girl]

17. You wouldn't believe me if I told you. nt

[Skittles]

22. GIVE IT UP, HAOLE GAL!

:D

[Haole Girl]

23. Ok but I warned you (graphic)

A woman didn't want to pay the pet fee to take her pet bird on the plane. She started yelling and acting absolutely hysterical (this was before 9/11, or she would've been arrested even before the next part).

Ok... and this is the truth. She became so angry that instead of just paying the fee or taking a later flight after she could dig up the money, without any warning she took the bird out of its cage and - right there in front of the entire line and everybody at the ticket counter - she wrung the poor bird's neck and killed it! :-(

Even though she already had her boarding pass, the gate agent refused to let her board the flight (thankfully).

I told you it was unbelievable.

[Skittles]

24. OMG

she should have been arrested - that is psycho

[applegrove]

19. Two months ago I was buying something from a pharmacy when the cashier did a double take on me. He

looked like he was going to cry as he said "you look like my mother who died a few months ago". "Oh you have such a gentle face". I said "if I knew you I'd give you a hug". He opened his arms...still looking like he was struggling and holding back tears.. and we had a big long hug right there in the store.

[jmowreader]

20. This guy belonged on America's Dumbest Criminals

Soldiers move from post to post. If you are a Married Soldier and you are PCSing, you have the option of doing a DITY move. It means "do it yourself" and it involves renting a truck, putting all your shit in it and driving to your new post. The advantage here is the government pays YOU exactly the same thing they'd pay a moving company, so if you DITY the thing you can make a lot of money.

There's a well-known scam out there surrounding DITY moves. They pay, in part, on weight. So...if you can somehow make your worldly goods weigh about two tons more than they otherwise would, you will make a lot of unearned money. How you're SUPPOSED to pull the scam is to weigh the truck, load your shit, buy a skid of concrete, weigh the truck again (full weight minus empty weight equals weight you're paid to move), return the concrete, then go down the road.

This fucking guy bought the concrete, weighed the truck, returned the concrete, loaded his stuff, reweighed and went down the road. This asshole was going somewhere they pay $2 per pound for, so I figured what his wife was going to do to him when she found out he cost them $6800 (a full skid of concrete weighs 3400 pounds) would be punishment enough.

[Crazy Dave]

27. deleted

read the question wrong

[Lil Missy]

28. mark for later

[Nikia]

31. A 10 year old girl started mopping the floor

After I had to stop and attend to a customer. When I tried to get her to stop after attending to the customer, her parents insisted that it was fun for her because she had never seen a mop before. They were recent immigrants and evidently did not have mops where they had lived.

[siligut]

33. In college, I worked briefly at a women's retail shop

We sold clothing and under garments. A relatively attractive woman came in, looking for a wrap dress. We only had some in black, but they were nice enough. OK, so she is trying on the dress. Her bra shows, so she comes out to look for a new bra, only she didn't tie the dress shut, so she is out in the open, out in the open! There were others in the shop, including men. I hustled her into the changing room. Turns out she was an exotic dancer and not at all self-conscious about showing off her body. Guess I kind of ruined some fun for a few guys that day.

[Rambis]

34. Stories like this make me want to stay in my house

people are :freak: :scared: