That was pure gold. I've never had a customer like that, thank goodness, but I have had:
-A man who wore red bikini briefs under white biker shorts...you could see them through the fabric.
-A man who violently insisted that a gift-with-purchase marked for a penny, should be sold for a penny (At the time, the only way to register GWPs was to ring them up as a sale, then mark them down to zero.) Thankfully, my manager didn't back down. He later added to me after the guy left, "I had to deal with Macauley Culkin when I worked as a store manager for the Toys'R'Us in downtown Chicago. This guy was nothing compared to that kid."
-A woman who wanted a tax exemption for the books she was buying, because she home-schooled her kids. Half of the bookstack was romance novels. Rather than saying, "So, you're teaching them about sex?", I informed her that she needed a tax exempt form issued by the state in order to receive it. She reacted like I said she'd have to sacrifice one of her children to some pagan god.
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Hilarious!
Date: 2004-04-16 08:15 am (UTC)That was pure gold. I've never had a customer like that, thank goodness, but I have had:
-A man who wore red bikini briefs under white biker shorts...you could see them through the fabric.
-A man who violently insisted that a gift-with-purchase marked for a penny, should be sold for a penny (At the time, the only way to register GWPs was to ring them up as a sale, then mark them down to zero.) Thankfully, my manager didn't back down. He later added to me after the guy left, "I had to deal with Macauley Culkin when I worked as a store manager for the Toys'R'Us in downtown Chicago. This guy was nothing compared to that kid."
-A woman who wanted a tax exemption for the books she was buying, because she home-schooled her kids. Half of the bookstack was romance novels. Rather than saying, "So, you're teaching them about sex?", I informed her that she needed a tax exempt form issued by the state in order to receive it. She reacted like I said she'd have to sacrifice one of her children to some pagan god.
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Date: 2004-04-16 10:49 pm (UTC)And that was funny. I love the split personality on the man calling in.