Customer: This is my first time here. What is a *names the drink.*

Me: Begins to explain the drink but apparently is not clear enough for the customer. (Even though I literally described the entire recipe).

Customer: *sarcastically and rudely* Thank you for telling me all about it.

Me: Begins to give a further explanation but interrupted while the customer turns to another employee to ask the question.

(I work at an upscale smoke shop, while we do carry some cheap pieces, we have an entire display cabinet full or art pieces where the average price is around $600.
It’s 9:01pm on a Monday, I’ve just turned off the open sign and half of the lights in the store when a pair of obviously high customers walks in)

Me: “Hey guys, we actually just closed, but if there’s something I can help you with real quick I’ll be glad to help before I shut down the register.”

Customer 1: “No, you’re open till midnight.”

Me: “We close at 9 Monday through Thursday, and even on Fridays and Saturdays, we’re only open till 10.”

Customer 2: “Oh well we just want to look around.”

Customer 1: “Yeah, I was thinking about buying the Seed of Life.”

Me: “I think you may have the wrong store, we don’t have any piece with that name. You may be thinking of [competing smoke shop] up the road. They have the Tree of Life and are open till midnight some days.

Customer 1: “Well, we’re just going to look around for the Seed of Life.”

Me: “Gentlemen, we don’t have a piece by that name in the store, I can promise you that, and if you’re just looking around, I’m going to ask you to leave so I can close down the shop since at this point since I stopped getting paid about 5 minutes ago.”

(Both customers walk past me and start looking around the store)

Customer 1: “Yeah I don’t see the piece I was looking for, but can I check that one out?”

(He points at a mildly expensive piece that will cost about $300 after the 20% discount we already have on it, I pull it down so as to not lose a potential sale for the owners.)

Customer 1: “I was in here the other week and was thinking about buying this, would you take $230 for it?”

Me: “I can’t man, that’s a high quality american company that uses borosilicate glass, I really can’t take that much of a loss on it since it’s already discounted.”

Customer 2: “Dude I thought you were looking for the Seed of Life.”

Customer 1: “I was, but they must have sold it.”

Me: “I’ve worked here for about a year, and we haven’t had a piece by that name, I really do think you’re thinking of The Tree of Life that [competitor] has. You should try their store since we’re closed and don’t have what you’re looking for.”

(The customers finally get the hint and walk out without buying anything.)

(I am a kennel assistant at a veterinary hospital. I don’t have medical training, I just handle the animals and care for those that are boarded. While a coworker and I were trimming the nails of an elderly dog, we noticed some ugly sores on the dog’s legs, hiding underneath its fluffy coat, so when I bring the dog up front to its owners I ask them about it.)

Me: Here you go! And, uh, we noticed some sores on her legs, are those-

Owner: Oh, yes, they’ve been looked at and there’s not much we can do.

Me: Okay, sorry, I just had to ask. We don’t get their files when it’s just a trim.

Owner: So, do you think [ointment] would be good to use, or is there something else we could get?

Me: I’m not a doctor, sorry.

Owner: Okay.

(It was just a strange interaction.)

(I just got off work from my convenience store job and went down the street to a book store to shop. I still had my uniform on while I was shopping, but seeing as it’s different than the uniforms of the book store employees I thought I wouldn’t be bothered. I was sitting on the floor looking at book titles when this customer turns down the isle I was in.)
Customer: excuse me where are the greeting cards?
(I looked around thinking she was talking to someone else, but I was the only one there)
Me: um.. I don’t know. Maybe towards the front?
Customer: what? Well why don’t you know! Who would know then!?
(I looked down at my blue uniform then back at her a little confused. Then I stood up looked towards the front at an actual employee in bright green and replied.)
Me: the person working the front desk.
(I sat back down and continued to look at book titles as she huffed and stormed off towards the front. I belive I heard her mutter something like ‘useless B’)

(I used to work in the records room at a hospital and generally didn’t see many people. However one time a woman started pounding on the door to the records room).

Me: “Can I help you with something?”

Woman: “Where’s the exit? How am I supposed to leave?”

(It should be noted that the area she’s in is the size of a large bathroom with only four doors; one for each wall: the one they came out of, the records room, a stairwell, and the elevator)

Me: “Have you considered using the elevator?”

Woman: “The elevator?”

(I point to her right)

Me: “Yeah, the elevator.”

Woman: “Oh god. I can’t believe I missed that.”