Favorite LFS "CUSTOMER" STORIES ...

[Druu]

I diont work there but when i went to get my Silver Awo' and the 3 other fish i ened up walking out with too ( £99.40 for 4 fish is probily the most i have spent on 4 fish ) ,



Anyway back to the subject , i walked in had a look about before i said i want the Silver' , a family of 3 with a girl about 14 and boy about 15 and without looking at the fish went up too the sales person and told him they want a sucking fish and 1 Guppy , the boy went off to look at the tanks and must of noticed i got a Tire Track Eel and was looking in the same tank where my fish came from and shouted and i mean shouted his mum over and said I WANT THAT FISH THERE ! which was a Snakehead ?( Only about 4inch but they do get big and aggressive dont they ? ) So she went over and told him i will have a look and a think . The Girl came over and looked at the tank with the 2.5foot Clown Knife and was saying then started to get loader and was basicly shouting WE ARE GETTING THAT , I WANT THAT ONE THERE .

I couldn't stop laughing , i was really wanting to ask want size tank they had but i could not be bothered to get into an argument about the fish they WANT and the size of tank the have , luckly i walked out with my 4 fish before any fish came out the tanks for that family .

So thats a Sucking fish , 1 guppy , a Snakehead and a ClownKnife .

I'd love to see how that pans out.

 

[djarmstrong]

I am now starting to wish had stayed i little longer to hear what was said !

 

[LittleBigAl3]

I once had to talk a female customer out of suicide right there in the store. No joke.
All of her crabs died and she was hysterical threatening suicide right there on the floor.

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Also had a customer get bittin on the hand by a hermit crab after I told her not to put it in her hand like that. She screamed and cried for help. All of the customers from all over the store came over to see what was happening. And I was just standing there with my arms crossed. She had it coming. I eventually got it off. I got written statements from witnesses stating how she was an idiot drama queen crying for attention.

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I also had customer get into a fight with me because he thought I was racist. He was 5th in line for help. He thought he should have gotten helped first. I told him that he was fifth in line so he was going to helped 5th. He told me he was standing there before everyone (wich he wasnt). When I told him I didnt see him he said," What!? You dont see this COLOR?" I told him I wasnt the one who was racist...He came back later that day and dumped oil in our pond killing all of our fish.

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I also had a customer come in one time grab a trash can, stick it in the middle of the floor, drop trow and crap in it. It was a big one too.
I grabbed one of my managers handed him a glove and said, " This is why you get paid the big bucks. It's all yours."

I have plenty of stories. These were just SOME of the ones before I became Manager.

holy crap!! where do you work?!?! lol, hilarious

 

[Jeox]

A customer once asked me if he could put Bala Sharks in his water bed . . .

some people

I've always thought a waterbed with fish would be awesome. If only there was a way of filtering/ airating it.

 

[big54bob]

Nic, remenber the dude @ Worldwide that wanted to have a fight club with his "muaheffin paranahs" against whatever pussy fish you had........Hahahahahaha!!!!! winner take all....

Ok my snakehead vs your p's.

I found a guy buying a TSN for his son. Thankfully i talked him into a spotted and striped raphael and a pictis cat for his 60gal.

 

[solchitlins]

This is too funny.

I was at a pretty good LFS, just checking out their cichlids with my girlfriend.

So we nottice this Lady and her son walk in with a gallon sized ziplock bag of brownish water to get some tests done.

The employee takes some of the water for the tests and hands the kid back the bag.

Whats funny is that the kid, about 10 years old, wondering around the shop looking at fish, starts drinking the water sample!

He was lifting the gross water bag up to his mouth and sipping it, each time he would say "ooh ahh" like it was so good and refreshing.

lol !!!!!

We were stunned and kept waiting for his mom or the employee guy to nottice.

He finished the whole bag, squeezing out every last delicious drop.

We finally bust out laughing and had to run out of the store laughing hysterically.

lol

 

[Druu]

This is too funny.

I was at a pretty good LFS, just checking out their cichlids with my girlfriend.

So we nottice this Lady and her son walk in with a gallon sized ziplock bag of brownish water to get some tests done.

The employee takes some of the water for the tests and hands the kid back the bag.

Whats funny is that the kid, about 10 years old, wondering around the shop looking at fish, starts drinking the water sample!

He was lifting the gross water bag up to his mouth and sipping it, each time he would say "ooh ahh" like it was so good and refreshing.

lol !!!!!

We were stunned and kept waiting for his mom or the employee guy to nottice.

He finished the whole bag, squeezing out every last delicious drop.

We finally bust out laughing and had to run out of the store laughing hysterically.

lol

Hopefully they brought in iced tea to be tested. Funny yes, but you really should have said something. The kid could have died.

 

[Druu]

My LFS story? First one is more of a rant, and there's no place for that crap here, so you guys miss out on this one. Second one is a little more appropriate.

We (myself and my parents) go into a store and see a traded in 20" silver aro. Asking price? $500. Busted bottom jaw that didn't heal right, probably from jumping out of the tank and landing hard. Severe drop eye and half barbels. Hell of a price right?

My parents, in Chinese, jokingly ask if it could be eaten. [Of course, silver aros are a food fish in Colombia.] Now, the LFS owner hears the Chinese and immediately thinks we're FOBs that know nothing about fish. He starts telling us about it. Regarding tank size, he suggests 90 gallons.

I correct him and say 240 minimum. I tell him that they surpass 40" in captivity and that the Shedd has one at about that size. He decides to correct me and tell me that they reach 6 feet in captivity. My reactions: 1) you are a f--king idiot- you think a 6 foot fish can fit in a 90g?? 2) you are a f--king idiot, they clearly do not reach 6 feet in captivity. I say nothing, because he obviously is a misinformed idiot unwilling to listen when people correct him.

He decides to talk about the Shedd. Fine, I can do that- I was there just a few months ago. Apparently when he was a kid, they had the six foot silvers. I correct him and tell him that they have 40" silvers now. He tells me that the 40" arows (which are CLEARLY silvers) are jardinis. Three and a half foot jardini? Nice. Now what about those huge pacus? Apparently they're eighteen inches... THICK. No, they may be over three feet long, but they are not eighteen inches thick.

If anyone is in the Lexington, KY area and wants to take a look at this store, PM me and I'll let you know which one. I'm kind of curious as to whether he was patronizing us because he thought we were ignorant foreigners or whether he was just an idiot. Meh, I guess this did kind of turn into a rant...

 

[synodontisjack]

This is too funny.

I was at a pretty good LFS, just checking out their cichlids with my girlfriend.

So we nottice this Lady and her son walk in with a gallon sized ziplock bag of brownish water to get some tests done.

The employee takes some of the water for the tests and hands the kid back the bag.

Whats funny is that the kid, about 10 years old, wondering around the shop looking at fish, starts drinking the water sample!

He was lifting the gross water bag up to his mouth and sipping it, each time he would say "ooh ahh" like it was so good and refreshing.

lol !!!!!

We were stunned and kept waiting for his mom or the employee guy to nottice.

He finished the whole bag, squeezing out every last delicious drop.

We finally bust out laughing and had to run out of the store laughing hysterically.

lol

hard to beleive but if it did............... lmao

 

[AttackFish]

Not really customer related, but I didnt want to start a whole new thread for this...

Don't you hate it when people look at your tanks and ask "How do they taste" or some other idiotic question about eating the fish? What do they expect me to do, pull one out of the tank and take a bite? Thats like if I came up to you and asked, "Hey, how does your dog taste" or "Hmm, nice looking baby, a little too small to eat just yet"