First Blog Ever

I have worked in retail for several years. With that experience I have learned one thing, and that is that people are crazy. Everyday me and my boyfriend, who also works in retail, swap our daily stories of crazy things customers have said or done. So, I thought it would be fun to make a little blog about my "favorite" customers. To begin I'll make a list of a few of the most interesting people I've encountered and later I'll add more. As the holidays approach, and Black Friday draws near I'm sure I'll run into many many more fun customers to write about.

1. Jesus Lady
I was working in my garden center at my home improvement store. It had been a very peaceful day without many customers. While I was enjoying the flowers, in walks this scraggly looking lady.
This is our conversation as I rang her out:

Her: Do you know Jesus? (with a tone of a mother accusing her kid of doing something very bad)
Me: Um...yeah.
Her: Do you go to church?
Me: Not much now, but I used to.
Her: Well if you go to church you don't know Jesus.
Me: Oh...
(She said the new bible is all lies and the end is coming soon. Then, she went to say how the government plans to kill us to decrease the human race and there is nothing we can do to stop it.)
Her: Many are going to suffer and die.
Me: That's really sad.
Her: Why if you die, you live forever.

I'm Not Black

This was an older gentleman. So, I'm hoping he just reacted like he did from bad hearing.

Me: I can ring you up over here if you like sir?
Him: Why I'm not black! (with rage in his eyes he stormed off)

Her Two Cents

After finishing up an order, I handed the customer her receipt. She looked at it then freaked out and started screaming that she was charged 2 extra cents. I happily gave back her two cents she desperately needed and she went on her merry way.