Sadly That Is The Uniform Response
(I work for a company that supplies company clothes. I need something from a hardware store so I go there after work wearing my company’s clothes. The employees there are naturally wearing work clothes of this particular DIY store, of a different style and color to the work clothes I was wearing. Some customer there walks up to me.)
Customer: “Do you still have [item] in store? It doesn’t seem to be on the shelves.”
Me: “I really couldn’t tell.”
Customer: *immediately interrupting me* “Always the same. You people are really unhelpful. Never know anything and I guess you’re not even going to check, right?”
Me: *pointing at the logo on my shirt of a totally different company* “I don’t work here. I just happen to need something here.”
Customer: *slowly realising my clothes in no way resemble the clothes of the store employees* “Well! How am I supposed to know that you don’t work here?!”
Me: “Perhaps by seeing that my clothes are completely different from the employees here?”
Customer: “It’s your fault! I can’t be bothered with such things.”
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