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Thankfully, most of us can now admit that the customer isn’t always right. But that doesn’t necessarily make working with them any easier. You don’t need to have worked a single shift in retail or customer service to know that customers can be, at best, interesting—and at worst, a nightmare to keep happy. And every so often, one comes along who leaves you wondering what the heck just happened.

Those are the stories we’ve gathered here for you today: interactions that might’ve started off pretty normal and then, somewhere along the way, went entirely off the rails. They come from Not Always Right, a platform with a mission to “entertain, provide stress relief, and give a voice to everyday stories from workplaces, customer service, and beyond.” These stories range from hilarious to baffling to downright wholesome, and after reading them, you might just find yourself thinking: Yep, we hear you loud and clear.

#1

Prom dress shopping story with mom scolding daughters to clean dressing room

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Inservio Smurf
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1 week ago

Champion mother!

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    Humorous grocery store line story about speaking English and language clash

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    NonBinaryBard
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    I hate it when I encounter those people. Language is part of culture, if you are forcing someone to stop speaking a language you are stripping them of their identity

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    #3

    Bakery closing time cake decoration dispute with a dentist customer

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    Bewitched One
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    1 week ago

    Perfect response

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    #4

    Father ignores kids misbehaving in restaurant causing disturbance

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    Inservio Smurf
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    I LOVE THIS. Absolute legends!

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    #5

    Customer insists they are warm in beer cooler despite cold temperature

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    Sanguina
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    As a Canadian I approve of this.

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    #6

    Man confronts store clerk about return policy with confidence and demands a refund

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    Inservio Smurf
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    Having a boss have your back like this, is honestly wonderful. Only happened a few times in my career, but I remember each one like it was yesterday. I would take a bullet for that man, now. He's practically an adopted uncle to me.

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    #7

    Customer mistakenly calls adult site instead of driving school call center

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    Bewitched One
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    1 week ago

    Oh…. OH lol yea big oops

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    #8

    Customer insists on buying popular guitar game with homemade cookies offer

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    Crystalwitch60
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    Now this one is lovely even with the swearing lmao

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    #9

    Customer confused over price difference for TVs with different inch sizes

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    Bewitched One
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    1 week ago

    Oof lol

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    #10

    Six-year-old comforts retail worker during a bad day with a hug

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    Kevin Humble
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    He's not wrong.

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    #11

    Customer shows bigotry at ice cream shop with rude demands

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    NJP
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    To these people, call "Rascist" loudly and then order them out. They won't stop if you let them continue this.

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    #12

    No smoking argument between customer and staff in forest camp area

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    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    Quick thinking, nice way of sticking to his point & not letting her hijack the convo

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    #13

    Child in Batman costume orders chocolate milk at coffee shop

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    Sea Bunny
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    Justice... FOR GOTHAM!!!!

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    #14

    Pregnant woman sends husband to buy candy causing store interaction

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    Inservio Smurf
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    Men gotta stick together when the wife is preggers. It takes a village ;)

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    #15

    Customer locks keys in luxury car and tries to force store to open it

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    TKK1975
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    You literally cannot lock your keys in a new Mercedes

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    #16

    Funny hardware store cashier encounter with a customer hiding parrots

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    Bewitched One
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    1 week ago

    That would be funny

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    #17

    Parent threatening to boycott Disney World over kids' vegetable eating

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    Bewitched One
    Community Member
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    1 week ago

    Nice lol

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    #19

    Older woman jokes about losing cherry on ice cream at ice cream shop

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    Bewitched One
    Community Member
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    1 week ago (edited)

    No surprised in the least lol every older person I’ve worked with or taken care of has had zero issues saying exactly what they’re thinking

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    #20

    Customer denies adult website charge in call center conversation

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    Bewitched One
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    1 week ago

    lol atleast my kids don’t have access to my cards. I have three boys 🤦🏼‍♀️

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    #21

    Customer questions ethnicity in yogurt shop leading to offensive remarks

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    Bewitched One
    Community Member
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    1 week ago

    Wow

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    #22

    Customer pranks retail worker quoting lyrics in a business setting conversation

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    Glix Drap
    Community Member
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    1 week ago

    Easy come, easy go.

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    #23

    Grocery store story involving fiber and a woman in express line

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    Khavrinen
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    Helping out with that problem of being full of sh*t.

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    #24

    Funny fast food worker story about minimum wage workers and math questions

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    Glix Drap
    Community Member
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    1 week ago

    What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

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    #25

    Customer caught with wild bird mistakenly taken from pet store display

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    Shark queen 🦈🦈🦈
    Community Member
    1 week ago (edited)

    The customer might just be a Disney princess. I am aware that it is a male customer. I still think they can be classified as a Disney Princess.

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    #26

    Young girl with two dads answers phone selling make-up products

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    Phil Green
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    That is awesome, if true. I hope it is. What a lovely young woman she will be!

    #27

    Customer complains about missing shoe in retail store customer service call

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    NonBinaryBard
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    🐈+😄

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    #28

    Customer demands pineapple on sub leading to manager confrontation

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    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    I'm not hearing any "this would never happen" here - wonder why? ;-)

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    #29

    Tech call center handles racial prejudice calmly during customer service call

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    ADHD
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    should have ended the call and banned him the moment he said the N word. vile vile f*****g creature

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    #30

    Comical fast food order confusion involving Mountain Dew and a customer

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    Inservio Smurf
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    Classic gag, I love dadjokes <3

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    #31

    Toddler reaching for knife causes parenting confrontation in restaurant

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    CarEnthusiast
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    Bad parent. Good employee!

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    #32

    Bookstore customer refuses donation, husband responds with lesson on charity

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    ADHD
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    who TF hates on libraries, JFC ppl. be better.

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    #33

    Hotel customer confused about Fourth of July booking and independence day

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    ADHD
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    they are this stupid too, where do you think Muricans came from lol...

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    #34

    Checkout line customer confuses worker with family in a clothing store

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    Bewitched One
    Community Member
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    1 week ago (edited)

    Lol atleast they had a decent boss

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    #35

    Customer claims photo cut off head in a retail technology store

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    LakotaWolf (she/her)
    Community Member
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    1 week ago

    Nine months from dating site to marriage, huh?

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    #36

    Customer shopping with gay friend experiences store changing room interaction

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    Deta Rossiter
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

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    #37

    Customer and boyfriend face judgment at business about love and LGBTQ acceptance

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    bazjack
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    Out of the mouths of babes...

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    #38

    Customer avoids paying by accusing clerk of religious bias in bookstore

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    Bewitched One
    Community Member
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    1 week ago

    The devil huh. Lmao

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    #39

    Humorous grocery store cashier story involving tampons and customer interaction

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    ADHD
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    shoulda said something to the stupid little feckers

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    #40

    Children confront rude customer in coffee shop causing a scene

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    CarEnthusiast
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    Good for the kids!

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    #41

    Customer imitates Jedi using force joke at retail store automatic door

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    T'Mar of Vulcan
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    When I go through automatic doors I pretend I'm on the Enterprise.

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    #42

    Customer folds clothes while child asks about folding shirts in clothing store

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    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    Head office thinks that assistants are there to take the money from customers. Assistants (and wise managers) know that they're there to tidy up after prats.

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    #43

    Restaurant customers argue about wait time and politeness

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    ADHD
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    nope, server should have just given a discount, or free dessert or a couple of drinks etc, way too much to comp, from a chefs perspective, from a customers view, hell yea lol.

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    #44

    Customer confused about fortune cookies at restaurant encounter

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    Rali Meyer
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    "this is an outrage" - lol

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    #45

    Customer requests cigarettes without certain health warnings at grocery store

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    Bewitched One
    Community Member
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    1 week ago

    lol must be for someone they want to quit

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    #46

    Thankful autistic boy shares Thanksgiving gratitude with library caretaker

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    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    Sweet story, but some may feel that the caretaker was skating on the edge of a volcano with that last comment. If the caretaker was male, that is.

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    Customer locks keys inside car and confuses open door at grocery store

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    Inservio Smurf
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    I work in IT, take it from me if from nobody else : idiot-proof does not exist.

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    #49

    Barista upset as rude customer demands smile at coffee shop

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    Steve
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    How about that coffee shop not giving her bereavement time off?

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    #50

    Woman demands ride for daughter on quad at public park

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    Khavrinen
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    "I'm not on d r u g s. My stupidity is all natural."

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    #51

    Funny customer story about Star Wars line mix-up and business interaction

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    Andrew Keir
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    I do hear distant but general applause ... regrettably ...

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    #52

    Tech support story about spyware mistaken for Spartans on laptop

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    Brian Droste
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    300 Spartans. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

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    #53

    Call center story about a customer trying to get a free mobile broadband modem

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    JL
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    Caller needs to learn the difference between 'trick' and 'expose'.

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    #54

    Customer mistakes business hours for phone number at retail store

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    Inservio Smurf
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    OOOOOF

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    #55

    Customer complains about incorrect order at restaurant with bad behavior

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    sweet emotion
    Community Member
    5 days ago

    Husband : "Go ahead, I'll meet you at the car." (proceeds to eat his meal, part of hers, ask for to-go box and massively over-tip the waiter)

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    Kindergarten worker explains Maori word kutikuti for scissors to a parent

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    Bewitched One
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    1 week ago

    Right so believable lol

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    #57

    Pizza delivery prank call about break-in misunderstanding

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    Bewitched One
    Community Member
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    1 week ago

    I’d have just left it in front of the door and left 🤷🏼‍♀️

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    #58

    Call center story involving a caller named Victor Krumm and Harry Potter reference

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    ADHD
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    such a d**n shame Rowling became such a vile hateful bigoted cvnt.

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    #59

    Customer seeks help adding music to iTunes library in tech support scenario

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    Kristiina Männiste
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    Apparently there is a whole subgenre of extremely explict Estonian songs about eh.. adult stuff. I know, because someone sent me a spotify link to a song and that threw me into a playlist, on the lcd screen of my car, with accompaning pictures of the labels of the songs. While my sister was in the passenger seat. I still get this pang of panic when the spotify screen comes up on the monitor and Im not alone in the car.

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    #60

    Customer confused about no ham served at kosher deli

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    TMTMTMTM
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    AND cheese, if put in a sandwich with meat.

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    #61

    Customer confused about currency at grocery store in Germany

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    CarEnthusiast
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    Fake. Europeans are smarter than that

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    #62

    Elderly woman tries to buy wine with fake ID at grocery store

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    Inservio Smurf
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    As a 46 year old man, I can promise you there comes an age where someone actually carding you, feels like the biggest compliment you've had all year

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    #63

    Customer angrily demands service at hardware store while employee checks stock

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    LakotaWolf (she/her)
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    Of all the things that didn't happen, this one didn't happen the most. The customer who grabbed the other customer in a choke hold would have had the police called on him (probably by management, who wouldn't want the liability of allowing ássault to happen in the store) and then Angry Customer would probably press charges. It sounds like a nice little mental fantasy that a cashier would have while an angry customer was yelling at them, but that's it.

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    #64

    Checkout story about customer presenting fake ID with beer purchase

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    Bartlet for world domination
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    I don't get it. Is OP underage? And allowed to sell alcohol, but not buy it?

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    #65

    Ice cream shop story of a customer ordering non-fat shake with extra ingredients

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    Elladine DesIsles
    Community Member
    1 week ago

    As tempting as it would have been, messing with someone's food is not okay. Imagine if she was not just rude, but both rude and diabetic.

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    #66

    Customer with expired coupon humorously told about product no longer sold

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    BrownEyedGrrl
    Community Member
    1 week ago (edited)

    B******t

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    #67

    Funny customer confronts hardware store manager demanding a hammer in a retail business story

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    Bewitched One
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    1 week ago

    Suuuuure buddy

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