Unfiltered Story #198672

For reference: you choose knitting needles depending on your yarn – rule of thumb is, the thicker the yarn, the thicker the needles. They can be anything between 2 mm and 20 mm thick, so there’s quite a range.
Customer: “I need some knitting needles”
Me: “Sure, they’re right over here.”
Customer: “Which ones do I get?”
Me: “That depends on your wool. There will be information on the label as to what size needles you need.”
Customer: “Well, I don’t have it with me.”
Me: “Do you know what kind of wool it is?”
Customer: “Oh, just regular wool…”
Me (looking around the 50 or so wildly different varieties of wool I have in my department): “Riiiiight…”