Piercing Observation, Part 8
I work in a small shop. The owner is pretty casual about the dress code for employees and lets us wear whatever we want to. I don’t take my piercings out for work and in the year I’ve worked here, no customer has ever said anything about it. Until now.
Customer: “You know that those piercings you have in your lips make you very unattractive, do you?”
Me: “Um, what?”
Customer: “Yes, they draw the attention to your mouth and not to your beautiful eyes.”
I assume he’s joking, so I take my glasses off.
Me: “That’s why I have another one in my eyebrow to remedy that problem.”
Customer: *Horrified* “And you have another one in your nose!”
I finish ringing him up. He puts his books in a bag with a date written on the inside.
Customer: “You see that? I write the date of purchase on everything I buy, so I always know how long the item lasts. I’ve done it since I was a boy.”
He’s over seventy years old.
Customer: “I write it on my furniture, on bags, on my clothes…”
He pulls up his shirt to show me the date written on the inside.
Customer: “…even on my underwear!”
He reaches for his trousers.
Me: “Sir! I believe you even without seeing the proof!”
Two months later, the same customer comes back.
Customer: “Hey, you still have those piercings in your face!”
Me: *Thinking* “Great, here we go again!”
Customer: “Would it be indecent for me to ask you if you have piercings in more intimate places?”
Me: “Yes, that would be very indecent.”
Customer: “Well, you could always refuse to answer.”
Me: “Well, you could just not ask that question!”
Seriously, some people!
Related:
Piercing Observation, Part 7
Piercing Observation, Part 6
Piercing Observation, Part 5
Piercing Observation, Part 4
Piercing Observation, Part 3
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