Retail Stories: This was strange, even for me..

I've had my fair of strange customers in retail, here's a few stories.

Sipping too much of the cuckoo juice!

A customer once asked me, "Do you have any luggage that is not made with chemicals that can cause cancer, and birth defects in California?"

First off, I really don't know. I put stuff out, and clean up messes made by the other customers.  I don't have any time to specifically read labels on the products, as I have a million other things to do than find the answer to a question I've only been asked once in almost 5 years. (That's not even an exaggeration)  Second of all, it's just a warning, it specifically says "CAN CAUSE", not that it will. It just wants you to be careful, it doesn't necessarily mean it will cause anything. The only thing it was causing me is a headache!

You're cuckoo, and you don't know it? Unfortunately...

One lady asked if I worked at the store, I said yes. I thought she wanted to actually ask me a question, but all she wanted to do was talk about how excited she was... She was so happy that we had twin sheets in white. She was complaining about the next door competitor who didn't have twin sheets, or didn't have just white sheets.
She talked about how its so hard to find Twin sheets that are in white, because people like her (Who had to be 40-50.) Sleep in a twin bed.. (What, I'm half her age and I sleep in a full!) She was complaining about how all of the twin sheets are college oriented (Wonder why..),  and how there aren't white sheets because "people don't want to wash their sheets, because the colored ones won't stain" (What). She was so happy to find a white twin sheet.. ( I really thought she was like, lowkey racist too.)
10 minutes after I got away from this nut, she finds me again, and asks me if we had white sheets in either Polyester or Cotton ( I don't remember). The sheet we had was one of the two, but she wanted the other one. I said that's all we had, we don't really get twin sheets.
SO AFTER ALL OF THAT OBNOXIOUS WHINING ABOUT WHITE TWIN SHEETS, there was still a problem, which really isn't a big deal! (Unless she had some kind of allergy, which wasn't the case.)

This lady seriously needed to get over herself. First off, she should have a Queen sized bed, because they're comfy, and you'll have room for all of your pillows. Especially since she had a twin sized bed, she was definitely a crazy cat lady. If she had a queen bed, she can fit like 10 of her cats.
Also, maybe people like color sheets, not because they're lazy... but because, I don't know, maybe they like colors better?! I'd go for red sheets, over white, any day! I mean, it is the most amazing, devastatingly beautiful color in the world, but of course! :P

So, I've made of list of things she needs to do.

• Queen Sized bed for Pillow Fort, and all the cats she probably has!
• Any kind of sheets, because who cares, and colors are pretty to look at!

Drama Queen from California

I was not here to witness this event, but a lady found a notebook, that had a religious phrase on it. The phrase was incorrect, and said it was "Philippians verse 29", when apparently Philippians only goes to 24 verses. She cut in line, and annoyed other customers. She had an associate call up a manager, because the book had the wrong verse in it. She kept complaining about how the verse is wrong, and was very over-dramatic about it. The lady wanted to complain about how it was wrong, and wanted to talk to corporate about it, as well as the company that made the book. When she looked in the book, for details from who made it, she saw that it was from Los Angeles, which is apparently where she's from. She knows the company who made it, and she was shocked to find out that they had something wrong on their product. The quote was something like "I Can Do All Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me", and it said Philippians 29.

I don't understand why this lady would think that the manager, or corporate could do anything about a book being incorrect. The store just orders stuff to sell, It's not like they make the books themselves! The manager was so over it, and just shooed her away. lol

The funny thing is, my store is a discount store, and we get stuff all the time that is wrong. If furniture is damaged, we get it, if a candle is melted lop sided, we get it. The store gets plenty of rejects, and it's very possible, that's why we got it. It's amazing how this lady caused a ruckus over a simple mistake.

The company that made it, is called Bridge Port Products.

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