Doesn’t Understand The Meat And Potatoes Of Hosting
(The phone rings.)
Customer: “Hi. I would like to order some potato salad.”
Me: “Okay, how much?”
Customer: “I don’t know. How much do I need?”
Me: “Well, we suggest about a third of a pound per person. How many people are you feeding?”
Customer: “I don’t know.”
Me: “Okay, well, do you have an estimate?”
Customer: “We invited sixty people, but we don’t expect them all to show up.”
Me: “So, for sixty people, you’ll need around twenty pounds.”
Customer: “But we don’t expect to have that many guests.”
Me: “How many do you expect to have?”
Customer: “I don’t know! Just tell me how much potato salad to buy!”
Me: “…”
(The conversation went on in this vein until I eventually just told her to get fifteen pounds. When she balked at the price, I told her to get ten, instead, which appeared to satisfy her.)
Question of the Week
Have you ever served a bad customer who got what they deserved?
