Must Have Been A Part-Time Thief
(A lady comes in and I hurriedly wipe the table. She eats, finishes, and is about to leave.)
Customer: “Have you seen my car keys? You must have swept it off the table when you were cleaning it when I just got here. Go check the garbage.”
(I go check the bus pans.)
Me: “No, they aren’t in the bus pans. Would they be in your purse?”
Customer: “No, you must have them. Let me go check your garbage.”
Me: “No, we can’t allow you to go through our garbage. The back of house is out of bounds.”
Customer: “Well, someone must have taken my keys. Go check the garbage again.”
(At this point, a coworker goes out to the parking lot and notices her keys still in the lock of her car door.)
Coworker: “Are these your keys?”
Customer: “Where did you find them?”
Coworker: “They were on your door…”
Customer: “Obviously, someone stole them from me and put them out there. My car could have been stolen!”
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Have you ever served a bad customer who got what they deserved?