Favorite LFS "CUSTOMER" STORIES ...
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As I always say, saying "Cichlid" or "Catfish" is for all needs and purposes the same as saying "Mammal", in terms of species diversification and differentiation in morphology.
Ive heard of janitor fish, suckerfish, tank cleaner fish... Never heard of platypus suckers tho. Platypi are awesome lol...
guy walks in with a 3" dominoe damselfish and says..." my girlfriend "suprised" me with this little guy. i found him in my 25g reef tank. he had been in there for a week while i was at my parents. he killed my clownfish my cleaner shrimp and my tridac clams". the manager says " oh i remember her... was she the burnett with highlights that bought our last dominoe last week?" the guy says " yeah sounds like her" the manager says "she sayed it was a suprise for her boyfriend while he was away." the guy then says" we had been arguing and she thought getting me a suprise fish would make me feel better."
The more I sit here the mor stories I remember, so here goes.
Yesterday I had a very brief conversation with a guy about his new 100 Gallon pond. I told him Koi would be a bad idea as they would outgrow it in a very short period of time. He responded with "Well my kids want something they can see, and it's not about what I want, it's about what they want"
The other day a guy was browsing the Freshwater section when he came to some Polypterus Endlicheri. He practically yelled "Oh my god, BIKERS"! He than looked at the tag and said "Oh....pol-yp-terus...not bikers"
Probablly one of the stupidest things I've heard was this guy trying to say that after he ought 20lbs of live rock from us his tank broke out in Ick, so the ick MUST have come from the live rock. I tried to explain to him that Ick doesn't live on rock or coral but he stopped me mid-sentence and said "Oh it doesn't matter, I threw it all out". All our live rock is 6.99 a pound...
And one last conversation I had recently:
Customer: Hey y'all got any trees for freshwater tanks?!
Me: We've got a few live plants
Customer: Yeah show me them
-I show him the live plants-
Customer: Nahhh I need some real big trees, my tank is cloudy!
He then turns around and runs out of the store.
Yesterday I had a very brief conversation with a guy about his new 100 Gallon pond. I told him Koi would be a bad idea as they would outgrow it in a very short period of time. He responded with "Well my kids want something they can see, and it's not about what I want, it's about what they want"
The other day a guy was browsing the Freshwater section when he came to some Polypterus Endlicheri. He practically yelled "Oh my god, BIKERS"! He than looked at the tag and said "Oh....pol-yp-terus...not bikers"
Probablly one of the stupidest things I've heard was this guy trying to say that after he ought 20lbs of live rock from us his tank broke out in Ick, so the ick MUST have come from the live rock. I tried to explain to him that Ick doesn't live on rock or coral but he stopped me mid-sentence and said "Oh it doesn't matter, I threw it all out". All our live rock is 6.99 a pound...
And one last conversation I had recently:
Customer: Hey y'all got any trees for freshwater tanks?!
Me: We've got a few live plants
Customer: Yeah show me them
-I show him the live plants-
Customer: Nahhh I need some real big trees, my tank is cloudy!
He then turns around and runs out of the store.
Last story soundslike a good case of ADHD. Lol
lol at the second story... The first one just shows how many paremts are owned by their kids... Still a bit funny tho.
lol at the second story... The first one just shows how many paremts are owned by their kids... Still a bit funny tho.
Honestly, I have these sorts of things happen to me everyday. Not all are worth telling though. The only thing that keeps me going are the good customers, that want to learn, and want to do the right thing, and actually appreciate my help.
Sounds like a tough job.
Just hangin out enjoyin workin st the fish store and then an annoying asshat comes in and ruins the day...
Just hangin out enjoyin workin st the fish store and then an annoying asshat comes in and ruins the day...
this one didnt happen at a fish store but its funny... i was taking care of my moms friends 8" oscar ( its name is frankie ) while she was away. she has an amazing pool so i thought i would invite my friend over to do some swimming. when we got done we walked in to the living room (still dripping wet and niether of us had our shirts on) to feed Frankie. i saw that the HOB filter intake had been knocked out of place and the filter was deprimed. i told my friend to reach over the top of the tank and adjust the intake while i find the plug to restart it. i opened the cabinet to unplug th filter when my friend says " hey i think i got...YEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!! OMG! OMG! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!.about a gallon of water falls on my back and my friend is freaking out. he looks at me and says" that M***********R Bit me!" i laugh at first because any oscar owner knows that anything tha goes over an oscar tank will be bitten. but then i notice his right nipple was bleeding profusly. a good stream of blood wass running down his chest. Frankie had honed in on his nipple jumped three inches out of the water grabbed it shook it and plopped back in the water with speed only a true predetor can acomplish. when he wiped away the blood, to our relief it was still thier although it had three large hole which where streaming blood! he now has a faint scar!!! gotta love those O's
