Desperate For Dessert
Customer: “Excuse me, do you sell pie here?”
Me: “Um, no this is [Department Store]. We sell clothes.”
Customer: “I don’t want clothes. I want pie.”
Me: “You can go across the street to the supermarket.”
Customer: “But I hear that your pie is the best in town.”
Me: “You’ve obviously heard wrong; we don’t sell pie here.”
Customer: “Don’t you lie to me! I know there’s pie! Where is it?!”
Me: “Sir, there is no pie…”
Customer: “F*** you, are you profiling me? Just because I’m African-American you won’t sell me pie? You’ll be hearing from my lawyer!”
Me: *giving up* “Okay sir, fine; you’re right. Go downstairs, go out the door, and walk across the street. That’s where we sell the pie.”
Customer: “It’s about time…”
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