Favorite LFS "CUSTOMER" STORIES ...

[gt1009]

Oh man, this thread makes me so excited, and a little worried. I've been talking to the owner of our LFS and I think I might have a job there starting in a few weeks. Regardless, I want to have some of these stories of my own to tell.

 

[chefjamesscott]

Oh man, this thread makes me so excited, and a little worried. I've been talking to the owner of our LFS and I think I might have a job there starting in a few weeks. Regardless, I want to have some of these stories of my own to tell.

May I suggest that you get a years supply of rogaine first, cause you are gonna need it after your first month of work

 

[Darkangelsfury]

I work at Petsmart. I've kept fish for 20 years. People never cease to amaze me. Tonight a women and her son came into the fish department. I ask if I can help them. She says yes, can you tell me if these mollies are to aggressive for my tank? What size tank do you have and whats in it, I say. She proceeds to tell me that she has 4 goldfish, an oscar, 2 convicts, 2 balas, and what I can only assume from her pathetic description a 6 in. pacu. I broke down all the problem areas of her tank. She said thank you, smurked, and left without fish.

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

I work at Petsmart. I've kept fish for 20 years. People never cease to amaze me. Tonight a women and her son came into the fish department. I ask if I can help them. She says yes, can you tell me if these mollies are to aggressive for my tank? What size tank do you have and whats in it, I say. She proceeds to tell me that she has 4 goldfish, an oscar, 2 convicts, 2 balas, and what I can only assume from her pathetic description a 6 in. pacu. I broke down all the problem areas of her tank. She said thank you, smurked, and left without fish.

Some people just cannot be helped.

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

I work at Petsmart. I've kept fish for 20 years. People never cease to amaze me. Tonight a women and her son came into the fish department. I ask if I can help them. She says yes, can you tell me if these mollies are to aggressive for my tank? What size tank do you have and whats in it, I say. She proceeds to tell me that she has 4 goldfish, an oscar, 2 convicts, 2 balas, and what I can only assume from her pathetic description a 6 in. pacu. I broke down all the problem areas of her tank. She said thank you, smurked, and left without fish.

What size tank did she say she had? Did she say "oh i have a BIG tank, about this big" and proceed to point at a 29 gallon tank in the shop?

 

[Pyramid_Party]

Some people have no idea how to keep fish. They put what "looks good" to them, regardless of how big they may get or even if they are compatible.

There was some lady that had something like this. I read it on some random forum. She had a 55 gallon and it was way overstocked with uncompatible fish. And she want to know if she could put MORE fish. Her stock was something like, 2 African cichlids, a few plecos, a few gouramis, a few loaches, some tetras, goldish, barbs, a Red devil, and a few other random fish. And when people laid it on her about hwo overstocked she was and that the fish arent compatible, she said she picked the fish out because they were "pretty". And after everyone telling her how she must adjust her stock, she didnt care, she just kept asking what MORE she could add.

 

[dragonfish]

I have a new story that is not a bad one. Walking through the fish department couple nights ago shortly before starting closing procedures. I see a couple talking to the girl in petcare about pacu. As I walk up I hear mention something about them getting kind of big. I comment that they need a pond and expect to keep on walking. The guy starts talking to me and asks a couple a questions. After a few minutes I discover that he is a fellow MFK'er from out of state visiting. Name on here is aquaticranch. Talked for a few minutes and then they left. Really nice guy. So nothing bad, more of it's a small world sometimes.

 

[Bottomfeeder]

i was in Petland today after doing my duty as an MFK'er telling a customer NOT to buy the Gibbiceps for her 5g, rather an Ottocinclus, so i went up to the register to chat with an employee who i know...she had a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo on her shoulder when another employee snuck by to answer the phone...
the cockatoo jumped onto the other employee's shoulder and bit her ear...she yelled "OW!!" and "STOP!!" a few other things INTO THE PHONE...
poor customer probably had a heart attack
everyone in the store was laughing their butts off when it happened

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

I would have to say the thing that annoys me the most is when you ask the customer how big their tank is and they either point to a tank in the shop or make a size with their hands..... i get it all the time!

I mean how hard is it to remember a tank size? I know all the specks of my tanks filteration, size, capactity everything! all i went em to know is dimensins or water capacity

 

[solchitlins]

sorry if this is too off topic but I think it's kind of funny and in the same spirit of discussion.

So I know this guy from the local bar I frequent. One night we get to talking about his pond that he has in his back yard and what he wants to stock it with. I tell him about my 150 gal. tank and he's not impressed at all.

So we eventually become friends and my girlfriend and I go over to his house one summer night after the bar. He shows us the backyard, hottub, patio ect.... Then I see the "pond" he has been bragging about forever. It's literally the size of a small bath tub at most, but more likely a 50 gal rubbermaid tank stuck in the ground.

I jokingly tell him how I thought it was going to be much much bigger and he can't put Koi's and stuff in there. He explains that he has done research and can certainly put Koi in this 1500 gal pond.

At that point beer came spraying out my nose.
We argued back and forth about the size. He even got in it to show me how it went up to his knees, thats how deep it was.

LOL

He still belives it's much closer to 1500 gal than my 50 gal estimate.