Film Processing Lab | Bay Area, California
Woman: “Your f***ing machine won’t accept my memory card from my camera!”
Me: “That’s very strange ma’am, as our machines accept all of the memory cards that I’ve ever heard of.”
Woman: “Well, your machines are obviously old! My husband bought me an EXPENSIVE camera, because I only like the best! You people need to get better machines! My memory card won’t even FIT in any of the slots!”
Me: “May I see your memory card? Maybe I can figure out what’s wrong.”
(Woman hands me her memory card huffily.)
Me: “Um… ma’am, I don’t know how to tell you this, but this is your camera battery.”
Woman: “…”
(She snatches her battery out of my hands and storms out of the store.)
Camera Shop | San Diego, CA, USA
(I’m selling a camcorder to a man and his girlfriend. The guy is clueless about cameras and the girl knows a little bit more.)
Guy: “I don’t really know too much about cameras, she knows more than I do. I just want something good.”
Me: “Well this one is good because…” *explaining*
Guy to girl: “Honey, do you understand any of this?”
Girl: “Yeah, don’t worry. I think I know what we want.”
Guy to me: “Look, if you had to choose a camera to take naked pictures of her *points to girlfriend*, which would you choose?”
Me: “Well…this one has a built in hard drive so you can tape for longer without changing tapes.”
(The guy’s phone rings and he leaves me alone with girlfriend.)
Girl: “Do you get that a lot?”
Me: “More than you would think.”