People shared the ridiculous demands made by customers – 21 mind-blowing examples
Customers and clients are the people who put the bread on everybody’s tables, so we’re thankful for them and all that, but they can be – what’s the polite word? – trying.
Over on Twitter, Pigeon Fancier, @isabelzawtun, wondered what tales of nightmare customers people might have, and she set the ball rolling with one of her own.
What’s the most ridiculous demand a customer has made of you? I’ll go first: when I was working retail, a woman once demanded I pick her up from her Botox appointment with my car & bring her to the mall to shop
— Pigeon Fancier (@isabelzawtun) January 31, 2020
These were certainly ridiculous:
1.
A woman cursed me out at my part-time job because I didn't wrap her crab legs in white paper.
"I don't want people seeing what I got you uneducated fool."
The next week I got to meet her & her son during parent-teacher night.
Having my butt kissed felt good😁— T A Malone (@theauthormalone) January 31, 2020
2.
I had someone return a fully consumed Rotisserie Turkey. They said it was dry. So they wanted their money back.
— Baby Stove (@mccanncreates) January 31, 2020
3.
I was working the main building desk at my college when an old woman called saying she'd left a potter kiln somewhere on the campus in 1967 and she'd like it back now please https://t.co/T1cX0OjaU7
— Andrew Shvarts (@Shvartacus) January 31, 2020
4.
At the very first serving job I ever had, a woman ordered a Diet Coke with "one ice cube in it, an inch on each side" and when I laughed, thinking she was joking, she just stared at me, waiting. https://t.co/5YHBbu0Kak
— Scott Wampler™ (@ScottWamplerBMD) January 31, 2020
5.
the woman who showed up to Hollywood Video in the summer of 2002 and demanded I rent her a copy of Spider-Man, which was in theaters at the time https://t.co/1di2bO6cpM
— bill bria (@billbria) January 31, 2020
6.
When I was in my early 20s a woman found a manager and demanded I be fired for not helping her get sizes from the back. I did not work there. I was buying socks. https://t.co/VKemdv9bkD
— Novel deVice (@noveldevice) February 2, 2020
7.
I worked at a restaurant and bar when a lady ordered a sparkling wine. I brought it to her in a generic wine glass. She refused to drink it because it wasn’t in a champagne flute. Lord help me if I told her that not all sparkling wine is champagne.
— Boey Goey (@sbicyboi) January 31, 2020
8.
I was a restaurant manager and a guy came in and said he deserved a free pie because he had bought a pie from another restaurant (not mine, not even same chain) and it had "a piece of plastic" in it. I said 'what' and he gave me a list of the only flavors that he would accept
— Mayor P and 11 others retweeted 3 of your tweets. (@punmagnate) January 31, 2020
9.
I worked at Wal*Mart jewelry.
Someone plops their HUMAN BABY onto the table and goes "I need to make a return"
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"The earrings are defective"
They spin the baby and THE BABY'S EARS HAVE GROWN AROUND THE EARRINGS.
I just screamed "OH MY GOD GO TO A DOCTOR WHY ARE YOU HERE?!" https://t.co/I2jLYmiShL
— Kikidoodle & Purrmaids (@KikiDoodleTweet) February 2, 2020
10.
worked at a pizza place. customer asked if we had sun-dried tomatoes. I said we didn't. she asked if I would leave some tomatoes (from the salad bar) in a paper cup outside for a few hours to dry in the sun, then put that on a pizza. I told her that I would not. https://t.co/yAiknI7QAo
— Cohen is a ghost (@skullmandible) February 2, 2020
11.
At a used bookstore where I worked for a few years, managing (among other things) the literature aisles – I had a woman demand that I give her the Cliff’s Notes to The Old Man and the Sea for her son, then screamed at me because it was several pages longer than the actual book. https://t.co/8SC9jIbVY0
— Cherie Priest (@cmpriest) February 2, 2020
