What Is the Dumbest Customer You Have Ever Dealt With?

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[dannyjack]

I think that if any shop worker was allowed to slap stupid customers upside the head then the world would be a better place.

[notimportant]

I feel for the poor waiter with the condensation problem. When I was a child, the waiter kept filling my water glass, and for some reason I thought I had to drink it all. Poor guy was over constantly, and I drank so much water that I couldn't eat more than a couple of bites. 🤦 I wasn't terribly bright, but I most definitely was a polite child. 😂

[michaelbujaki]

3:08 "I thought that was one of those fancy digital picture frames" Well he's not wrong. Also, it is scary to think that these people are voting, and some of them are voting for the man that will hold the nuclear launch codes.

[arthurmartin]

"I don't smoke so I just ate french fries." Man I wish more smoke brakes could be taken like this.

[PotterBrony]

Before flat screen TVs were common, I worked at Walmart. Did carry outs of heavy items among other things.
Once loaded a big tv into a guys trunk and helped tie down the door because it wouldn’t fit in his car otherwise.
After all the struggle of getting it in there, he turns to me and asked me
“Why y’all sell TVs too big to fit in peoples cars?”
I like to think he was messing with me, but I honestly couldn’t tell is he was serious or not.
I just kinda walked away.

[drea]

Customer: "These are supposed to be 5 for $20."
Me: "Yes, they're scanning at $4 each"
Customer: "I want the advertised price, 5 for 20!"
Me: "That would be 4 dollars each"
Customer: "Unacceptable, this is false advertising. I want to speak to a manager".

[garywhitfield]

Back in the late '80's, my parents were self employed newsagents. When I was older, they were initially disappointed when I told them I had no interest in taking over the business. Getting up by 3AM to bring in the papers, mark them up for delivery, work in the shop all day, close the shop at 6PM, spend another hour or so making sure the shelves were re-stocked and doing the billing and caching up. Not for me. Especially when you got customers like the following.

Layout of the shop was that the papers were displayed flat on a unit directly to the right as you walked through the door, with the main counter and till directly ahead of you.

When I was old enough to help out, especially during school holidays, I was often told to serve behind the counter and give my parents a break. I got fed up of customers walking directly to the counter and asking "Do you have any "Sun"s left?" [The Sun, a UK daily tabloid paper well known for it's topless picture on page 3.]. Initially, I would crane to look past the customer and scan for the logo amongst the papers and give the appropriate reply.

Once I got fed up of that, however, I started telling the customers that "If we don't have any down there", whilst pointing to the area with all the papers, "Then we've sold out. Sorry.". Having started doing that, I got a couple of customers who exhibited really dumb behaviour. The first customer, on hearing this, went down and started leafing through all the broadsheets [The larger papers such as the Times or Telegraph, usually bought by people who thought they were upper class.] just in case we had hidden a Sun in the middle of the stack - or possibly actually inside one of the broadsheets.

I mean, newsagents do actually want to sell the items in the shop. There is no point in hiding items at random in the place, we do try and make things as easy for the customer to find as possible, but just when you think you've idiot-proofed something, along comes a more talented idiot!

This was also proved by the second case. After having been told we don't have one if there are none down there with the rest of the papers, this bright spark notices one folded behind the counter. There was a thin(ish) space on top of the cupboards where my parents kept the cartons of cigarettes, just in front of the cigarette display. This is where they kept the 'shop saves'. Shop saves are papers reserved for regular customers who have ordered a paper every day, but don't want it delivered (Maybe because the delivery wouldn't get to them before they go to work due to working shifts, maybe because it gave them an excuse to buy some chocolate or cigarettes.). This customer didn't get that idea. We had a Sun in the shop, and he was demanding I sell it to him despite the fact that he was not a regular [he was 'passing trade'], didn't have a paper saved, and wasn't going to buy anything else. Why should I annoy a regular customer just to please someone I hadn't seen before and, even if I'd sold him his paper, wasn't likely to see again?

Sorry for the wall of text.

[asurasyn]

"Well, then you shouldn't be working with people!"
"I'm not working with people. I'm working with you."

[jcbh]

I’m an electrician, We got a service call from a house with three old ladies living in it. We ask what the problem is and they say that half of the house is not working. So we checked the taps (the connection point where the cable from the street and the cable going down the side of your house meet), and everything is fine. We check the meter, everything is fine. We check the main panel, everything is fine. At this point we ask them what specifically isn’t working, so they lead us to a closet where there is a light not working and a well pump. The light bulb was just bad so we replaced it and it worked. We ask what’s wrong with the well, “the lights not on on it” we look it over and the lights not on because there is no light. We go to the sink and turn the water on, sure enough they have water. So “half the house doesn’t have power” turned into replacing a light bulb

[ProCarsGaming]

I’ve seen the propane tank one done. I had no words. It was two feet from me when this guy did it.

[mirimello]

"That's not a Starbucks. That's a Quiznos."

[brysonkuervers]

Worked in grocery. Once had a customer come up to me saying that the seal on chicken broth was broken. Puzzled I gave her a friendly smile and walked over to where I see 3 broths open on the shelf and she immediately picked up another and twisted open the cap saying, “See? You shouldn’t be selling these the seal is gone” to which I tried as politely as possible to explain that’s what happens when you open them.
A few minutes of her confused stares after her not believing my explanation, and just before opening another, “Ma’am may I see that?” Grab the broth and show her the drawing/instructions on the side of the container showing ‘how to open’ and the letters across the stop stating that”TWISTING THE CAP BREAKS THE SEAL”. “Oh, well they should make that easier to see” was her reply, before leaving to the checkout. Needless to say I was left speechless and no longer surprised why they put stuff like CAUTION: HOT on coffee, yet were still useless lol

[nuclearsimian]

17:50 Guy should have been banned from the store and had police called on him for causing a disturbance.

[bowmaj]

I used to work at an aquarium. I had a person come up to me and tell me that he was concerned about the fish's wellbeing. This was a regular occurrence; you'd have people who thought that they knew better than you complaining about water clarity, telling you that you were feeding them the wrong kind of food, or the worst one "fish shouldn't be kept in tanks in the first place!" (I don't know why you would pay money to visit a place that keeps fish just to say that, but I digress.) So this guy tells me that he's worried about the fish, so I ask him what he's worried about. He tells me "Well they look bored!" I ask him "What do you mean?" He says "Well, they're just swimming around! They're not doing anything!" I honestly don't remember how I ended that conversation. I think that I just walked away, I was so dumbfounded! Like, what was he expecting them to be doing?

[DemonLordGamingAC]

"Winning an arguement against a smart person is very difficult, but winning an arguement against an idiot is impossible"

[mtperute]

I had someone try to pay for gas with a McDonald's gift card? At 15 I was literally stunned by the stupidity and froze. Thankfully my manager took care of it and we had a good laugh.

[renaysari]

The gas tank one reminds me of something my dumbass uncle did once. He thought we might have a gas leak in the line to the stove. So this fool lights a lighter right next to it. Thank goodness there wasn't a leak. I at 9 knew this was a very bad idea. He was one of those people that knew everything, and was much smarter than the world. So, one time I needed to replace my Alternator in my car. This was in the 80's. Anyway I go to the parts store and pick one up, get my nail polish out to mark the wires, etc. Of course he decided to let me know how I simply could not understand how to change an alternator because I am a woman. I said, OK, then you do it. I went inside and watched a movie, figuring an hour and a half was more than enough time to do it. Nope, I peaked outside and he was just standing there looking at the engine. Then halfway through the second movie I went out and did it myself saying nothing to him. Also, had asked a guy to help me clean my carpet with a machine I owned. The one where you kind of squeeze the handle to get the water to come out. I felt so bad because I couldn't get him to understand how to do it. I just did it myself, he was another one of those guys that knows everything, and is better because well I am just a girl.

[jonathanstevey]

People like these are why customer service should be aloud to be honest and either be able to cuss out customers or yell them how stupid they are.

[JerryDLTN]

2:10 Reminds me...I'm from a very humid part of the country (middle TN). A glass of ice water would very easily have condensation. I was in the Las Vegas airport one summer (where there is less humidity) and noticed that a glass of ice water that I was drinking from did not have condensation. It was unusual.

[cheraude]

I work at a gas station. About a yr ago, a customer wanted cash back from the credit card. I informed them they had to call their cc company for a pin in order to use it to get cash. Then they asked me what their pin is. I told them I didn't know and repeated that they had to call their cc company. Then they got mad at me for NOT KNOWING THEIR PIN. 😑🙄🤦