Guest say the darndest (dumbest) things

[masterofalltrades]

Power was out in my store today. Guest comes to drop off prescription. Explain that our system was down due to the outage.
Guest: so when will it be back on?
Me: I have no idea. They haven't told us anything.
Guest: what, 20 minutes or so?
Me: I really have no clue. It could be an hour or more. We don't have an estimated time. I can call you when it's ready or if you need it immediately, you might want to go somewhere else that has power....
Guest: no, I'll just wait
Me: are you sure? It could be a while
Guest: I'm sure.
(20 minutes later....)
Guest: is it going to be much longer? It's already been, like, half an hour and I have other things to do today
Me: I'm sorry, but we really don't know how long it's going to be. We can call you or you might want to go somewhere else....
Guest: well, if I knew it was going to take so long, I would have just gone home in the first place! Just call me when it's done!

Sounds like she could use some happy pills.

 

[Greenie]

To be fair, when the Sbux register is down, we send them to the Service Desk to pay.

They go to Food Ave if that happens here

 

[Yetive]

No Food Ave here.

 

[3LetterDevil]

Sounds like she could use some happy pills.

And some intelligence pills. She never left the store, so she knew the power hadn't come back on. I don't know how she expected us to "magically" run our systems with no power

 

[Marcellow]

Guest: Can I bring my dog in here?
Me: Not unless its a service animal.
Guest: So can I bring it?
Me: ...is it a service animal?
Guest: No. Can I still bring it?
Me:

 

[Panda13]

Guest walking around store while on mobile phone "yeah I liked him but not enough to have sex with him again"

 

[Militantagnostic]

Guest walking around store while on mobile phone "yeah I liked him but not enough to have sex with him again"

Fool me once...

 

[Leo47]

*sees total* "Good thing my husband is already dead because paying this much would have killed him again!"
I didn't even know what to do so I awkwardly laughed and then suddenly hoped I wouldn't get in trouble for laughing

 

[Tessa120]

I had a guy, 50ish, come up to me and ask me what the difference was between boxers and boxer briefs.

 

[redeye58]

Boxer briefs are what you get when you mate boxers & whitey tighties.

 

[Tessa120]

Yeah, I know that. I'm just really weirded out that a grown man doesn't know that.

 

[redeye58]

Maybe someone should mansplaine it to him.

 

[shortstuffishere]

Had an older guy (who walks in the store nearly every morning) come up to me and asks if we still accept cash.

 

[Leo47]

Had an older guy (who walks in the store nearly every morning) come up to me and asks if we still accept cash.

Someone seriously asked me this too I think it's bizzare unless that's the first time they left the house in like 10 years or something

 

[shortstuffishere]

Someone seriously asked me this too I think it's bizzare unless that's the first time they left the house in like 10 years or something

Right? He kept saying something about some places not accepting cash.. Which is not alot.

 

[Yetive]

Lol, it's just an old Grandpa joke. I always answer, "if you have ID." That seems to crack them up.

 

[Redzee]

Boxer briefs are what you get when you mate boxers & whitey tighties.

I always wondered.

 

[Redzee]

OK. It's been done to death but- wearing red and khaki, name badge, zebra and sorting a repack. "Do you work here?"

Some people think so.

 

[redeye58]

"How many people work here?"
"Honestly? About half."

 

[Amanda Cantwell]

Someone seriously asked me this too I think it's bizzare unless that's the first time they left the house in like 10 years or something

i had an older guest ask if we take credit cards.

my all time favorite was "do you all take the redcard"

 

[BeelzeBecky]

Heard last night:

"it must be free" (when the bar code wouldn't scan)
"I said I don't want any red card, why can't you just give me a discount anyway?" (because free money doesn't exist)
"Do I get a discount for cash?"
"I used to have the red card and it put me into overdraft!" (no, YOU put yourself into overdraft)

Also, lately people have been handing me their CC instead of swiping. It's some kind of epidemic. The first few times I was like "what are you doing?" and they look at me like I grew a 2nd head. I'm like, uh, swipe your card and point at the card reader. They look all confused and I honestly want to smack them.

Then there's the ones who leave their cart in front of the counter at check out so that the people behind them can't unload anything.

Then there's the ones who scan each item with cartwheel before putting it on the counter. If there's someone behind them with only a few items I tell them that while they're scanning, I can check out the person behind them because their special snowflake ass is holding up business.

Ugh, I need a vacation.

 

[REDcardHell]

"I said I don't want any red card, why can't you just give me a discount anyway?

If someone honestly said that to me I'd have a hard time not getting a corrective action for laughing in their face.

 

[shortstuffishere]

Someone seriously asked me this too I think it's bizzare unless that's the first time they left the house in like 10 years or something

Had another guest come up as I was handing them their change and she said "oh good you still accept cash." This happened last night. At my new job. Who has an older system than target. Makes me wonder sometimes.

 

[Tessa120]

There are businesses that don't accept cash. Rent/mortgage, utilities, doctors, etc. Other businesses don't accept certain denominations. So I could see an older person have a concern over the acceptance of cash.

 

[Redzee]

"I don't like this store. I don't like shopping here. Other stores are better. "
Lady feel free to patronize those stores.