(I’m standing behind my counter when a man comes up to me with a prepaid phone and airtime card in his hand.)
Me: “Can I help you, sir?”
Customer: “I wanna buy this.”
(I usually make people tell me what they want before I just “hop to.”)
Me: “That’ll be $63.55.”
Customer: *sets check down in front of me* “Just fill that out for me.”
Me: *thinking about writing a check for $20 over for a tip*
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(I work in a restaurant, and one day, I answer the phone.)
Customer: “I’d like a delivery, please.”
Me: “Sorry, we don’t deliver.”
Customer: “I thought you delivered.”
Me: “Sorry, we don’t.”
Customer: “Well, do I get some kind of compensation?”
Me: “Uhhh, no…”
Customer: “You mean I was inconvenienced for all this time and I don’t even get a f****** discount?”
Me: “No…”
Customer: *click*
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(We are a prepay station. A little old lady walks in.)
Lady: “So what, I can’t get gas now because so many idiots drive off? What kind of world do we live in that a Christian doesn’t get treated right?”
Me: “… I’m sorry, Ma’am, we lost over 75,000 gallons of gas last year due to drive-offs.”
Lady: “This is just stupid. Why don’t you just turn the d*** pump on? I’m filling up, I don’t know how much it’s going to take.”
Me: “Ma’am, you can either leave your keys, a credit card, or an ID, and I’ll be more than happy to turn the pump on.”
(The lady hands me a $20 bill.)
Me: “Alright, I’ll just prepay this 20, and it’ll shut off for you when it hits 20.”
Lady: “No no no. That’s my down-payment. Turn the pump on and I’ll come pay the rest.”
(I sigh and turn the pump on, I’m really not supposed to, but at least I’ll have some money to put towards it if she drives away. The lady goes out and pumps her gas, comes back in to pay.)
Lady: “One day, the Lord is going to come down and smite everybody who doesn’t respect the Christians who live by the rules.”
Man Behind Her: “I’m going to be a good Atheist and prepay my gas. $15 on pump 3, please and thank you.”
(I was doing rebates for cellphones at the time…)
Me: “Thank you for calling [Company]. How may I help you?”
Customer: “Okay, so, I want my rebate.”
Me: “All right, all I need from you is the cellphone number.”
Customer: “I don’t have one.”
Me: “…you don’t have a cellphone number?”
Customer: “No, but I want my rebate.”
Me: “You do know that in order to receive a rebate, you actually need to purchase a cellphone?”
Customer: “For f*** sakes. You’re telling me that in order to get MY rebate, I need to go out, waste MY gas, and with MY money, buy a cellphone?”
Me: “Well, that would be the general idea of getting a reimbursement on something you had purchased.”
Customer: “But I just want the money back.”
Me: “Well, it’s not like this is free money.”
Customer: “Uh… it’s not?”
Me: “No.”
(After about twenty seconds of silence, the customer hung up.)
Me: “…so if you cancel your other company’s long-distance plan which costs you $10/month, and take ours that’s $8/month, you’ll save $2/month.”
Customer: “Look I called up to save money, and you’re gonna increase my bill?”
Me: “Well, yes, but overall you’ll save…”
Customer: “Look I’ve studied marketing, and you’re not doing this right.”
Me: “Look… I study math.”
