Me: “That will be $43.78, ma’am.”
Customer: “Oh, no, it won’t.”
Me: “I’m sorry, did you have insurance? You weren’t in the system. Do you have your card on you?”
Customer: “No, I don’t have insurance. Obama said health care is free.”
Me: “I don’t think that’s how it works, ma’am.”
(An elderly customer is checking out.)
Customer: “How do I use this card?”
Me: “All you have to do is slide it through, then push the ‘debit’ button on the left.”
Customer: “Thanks. What does ‘PIN’ mean?”
Me: “Your PIN is the number that goes with your card. You just need to enter it in and hit the green button in the corner.”
Customer: “Okay, but turn around. I don’t need you stealing my money away.”
(I think she is joking, but she stares at me until I turn around. She then states each number in her pin out loud as she pushes the buttons.)
Customer: “You didn’t peek, did you?”
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Me: “Hello, what can I do for you today?”
Customer: “I’d like to buy this table saw, but I only want to pay $300.”
Me: “I’m sorry, but the price is $400.”
Customer: “But I only want to pay $300!”
(This goes back and forth three or four times.)
Customer: “Tell you what. Take $100 off the table saw and I might come in next week and buy that!” *points to a $20 tool*
Me: “Sorry, sir but I’m not taking $100 off an item just because you buy a $20 item in a week.”
Customer: “You clearly don’t know how to run a business!”
Customer: “Yes, I’d like a room for the night.”
Me: “Okay, the rate for tonight is [price].”
Customer: *confused* “You mean it’s not free?”
Me: “No, it’s [price].”
Customer: “Are you sure?”
Me: “Yes.”
Customer: “Not free?”
Me: “No.”
Customer: “Do the people upstairs know about this?”
Me: “Yes. They all paid the same thing.”
Customer: *walking away* “Crazy people.”
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(I work at a house museum that specializes in Revolutionary War-era history — the 1770s. In the gift shop, I am ringing out a woman and her son.)
Me: “Okay, so you’re buying a quill pen for $2 and some ink for $3. We don’t have tax, so your total will be $5 even.”
Customer: “No taxes? Is that because taxes hadn’t been invented back then?”
Me: “Actually, taxes are what we fought the whole Revolutionary War about.”
Customer: “What war?”
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