Will it never end? More lame customer moves.
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one of the most frustrating things to deal with working at a lfs is when you have to explain to people why they cannot buy 10 different fish to go in their 60 gallon that they just purchased that same day. That and when people get their water tested by us, then yell at us when we tell them hey we are sorry your water is not good were not gonna sell you any fish today, cause they will die.
As a general rule people are both *******s and retarted. At the lfs i work at, we have a 1200 gallon black tip reef shark display, the amount of times people have asked me if the shark was a remote controlled shark, and the amount of times people have believed me when i said that yes its one of those remote controlled sharks, is astonishing. If you ask a dumb question, expect to get a dumb/ sarcastic answer.
Another fun thing at the store is we have this floating alligator head, made of foam, with a small baby alligator on top of its head. (fake of course)Well its made to put in ponds, to scare away birds, raccoons, that sorta thing, but we have had it for so long we decided what the hell lets put it in with our catfish. People come up to me when im in the middle of helping customers, to interupt and ask if the baby alligator is real, and can they pet it. Its no wonder every one of the employees at the store smokes, cept me cause i dont have the money to waste lol.
As a general rule people are both *******s and retarted. At the lfs i work at, we have a 1200 gallon black tip reef shark display, the amount of times people have asked me if the shark was a remote controlled shark, and the amount of times people have believed me when i said that yes its one of those remote controlled sharks, is astonishing. If you ask a dumb question, expect to get a dumb/ sarcastic answer.
Another fun thing at the store is we have this floating alligator head, made of foam, with a small baby alligator on top of its head. (fake of course)Well its made to put in ponds, to scare away birds, raccoons, that sorta thing, but we have had it for so long we decided what the hell lets put it in with our catfish. People come up to me when im in the middle of helping customers, to interupt and ask if the baby alligator is real, and can they pet it. Its no wonder every one of the employees at the store smokes, cept me cause i dont have the money to waste lol.
lol, nice stories!!!! i worked at a petstore also. i was in the reptile dept and we had people ask, say so many stupid things that we started keeping a list. i havent been there in 5 yrs, but the list is still growing. some of these are mine, others are new ones on the list. here are a few that i can remember off the top of my head:
1) i was showing some people a baby iguana and was mentioning the care and size for them. well it kinda made a quick move and the kid that had been petted it jerked his hand back. it didnt try to bite, just got squirmy. well anyways this dumb@ss walking by says hey you dont have to be afraid, they eat veggies so they dont have teeth. i was laughing inside. i said to the man, oh they have teeth ( ive seen pics of adult bites, and it aint pretty). well they guy says oh really? well they are soft then since they eat veggies and walked away!
2) i was feeding baby corn snakes and a guy comes to the door of the back room and says to me hey you guys better be careful. i was confused and asked why? he says well you all have pine and bull snakes. i said ummmmmmmm ok. and he goes on to explain that pines and bulls from august through september become venomous!!! again i am dying inside but i looked at him and said wow, i never knew that. thanks for warning i'll be careful. he left. i laughed all night and even had to call the other reptile people at their homes and tell them.
3) ok, last one here isnt mine but its on the list...... a person called my friend who still works at the store and says my box turtle just laid an egg is there anything i should do? my friend asked if they had a male boxie in with her and the customer said no. so my friend went on to explain that the egg was most likely infertile and could be thrown away. the customer then asked if there was anyway to tell if their box turtle was male or female!?!?!?!? haha (duh, your turtle just laid an egg!!!!
ok, maybe that wasnt the last one..... i had a guy that came in and told me he had an 18 foot red tail boa...i said you mean a burmese python and he said no, its a red tail boa. i was like wow, bring that snake in. of course he never did. cause there aint no way he had an 18foot red tail boa!!!!
1) i was showing some people a baby iguana and was mentioning the care and size for them. well it kinda made a quick move and the kid that had been petted it jerked his hand back. it didnt try to bite, just got squirmy. well anyways this dumb@ss walking by says hey you dont have to be afraid, they eat veggies so they dont have teeth. i was laughing inside. i said to the man, oh they have teeth ( ive seen pics of adult bites, and it aint pretty). well they guy says oh really? well they are soft then since they eat veggies and walked away!
2) i was feeding baby corn snakes and a guy comes to the door of the back room and says to me hey you guys better be careful. i was confused and asked why? he says well you all have pine and bull snakes. i said ummmmmmmm ok. and he goes on to explain that pines and bulls from august through september become venomous!!! again i am dying inside but i looked at him and said wow, i never knew that. thanks for warning i'll be careful. he left. i laughed all night and even had to call the other reptile people at their homes and tell them.
3) ok, last one here isnt mine but its on the list...... a person called my friend who still works at the store and says my box turtle just laid an egg is there anything i should do? my friend asked if they had a male boxie in with her and the customer said no. so my friend went on to explain that the egg was most likely infertile and could be thrown away. the customer then asked if there was anyway to tell if their box turtle was male or female!?!?!?!? haha (duh, your turtle just laid an egg!!!!
ok, maybe that wasnt the last one..... i had a guy that came in and told me he had an 18 foot red tail boa...i said you mean a burmese python and he said no, its a red tail boa. i was like wow, bring that snake in. of course he never did. cause there aint no way he had an 18foot red tail boa!!!!
ewurm;849953; said:
Sad thing is I had a couple people buy some dvd boxsets thinking they were VHS even though the box said 24 HOUR 4 DISK boxset
Eventually I made a sign out of neon posterboard saying THESE ARE DVDs WE DO NOT SELL VHS ANYMORE!!Great stories Phantom. The pine/bull snakes one is hilarious
A few days ago I had a customer ask me if he could put a turtle in his cichlid tank. I had to talk him out of it. I think he said his tank was 100 to 125 gallon tank. Anyway, he says his friend has two turtles in his tank. I say well the turtles you want are red eared sliders and they get about 10 to 12 inches. Then I tell him that they will eat his cichlids when they get bigger. He still wants one 
. I finally talk him out of it by saying that they are messy and that he would have to clean his tank more than he's cleaning it now and that the turltes can't be in a tank full of water. They need a place to get out of the water and need a basking light.
Then there are people who want to put an algae eater or a few fish in with their turtles. I say no, you can't the turtle will eat any fish you put in there.
I had someone want to put a red tailed shark in a one gallon tank as a gift for their nephew. I tell them no they get to big. At least they understood and decided to get their nephew a gift card or something.
Then there are the people who want a salt water fish. They mainly want a clown fish you know from finding nemo. Anyway, I had someone ask me if a clown fish would do ok in a fishbowl or if they will do ok with platies.
. I say no they are saltwater fish. So now I ask people who are buying salt water fish if they have a saltwater tank.
What is it with people?
. I finally talk him out of it by saying that they are messy and that he would have to clean his tank more than he's cleaning it now and that the turltes can't be in a tank full of water. They need a place to get out of the water and need a basking light. Then there are people who want to put an algae eater or a few fish in with their turtles. I say no, you can't the turtle will eat any fish you put in there.
I had someone want to put a red tailed shark in a one gallon tank as a gift for their nephew. I tell them no they get to big. At least they understood and decided to get their nephew a gift card or something.
Then there are the people who want a salt water fish. They mainly want a clown fish you know from finding nemo. Anyway, I had someone ask me if a clown fish would do ok in a fishbowl or if they will do ok with platies.
. I say no they are saltwater fish. So now I ask people who are buying salt water fish if they have a saltwater tank. What is it with people?
Flower1982 just reminded me of a story that made me laugh so hard i cried, after the customer left.
So this lady gets a few platys her first week, she has a 30g. Next week she gets some more and a few cories, then next time a few tetras and an algae eater, then finally some dwarf gouramis. All of this over a 2 month period. Then we redid our fish tags and they now say " Aquarium Salt Recommended!" So this lady gets the salt and is using for about 2 weeks when she starts to bring dead fish in. The way she was bringing these fish i thought she was just forgetting to take them in the house when she got home
. So she brings in a sample of water, i test it, and here ammonia is really high, i was like you need to do a 25-50% water change immediately and start doing a 25% every 3-4 days to get your ammonia down. She says okay, she does that for 2 weeks, i test it again, still ammonia off the chart. She gets upset because she has been doing the water changes like shes supposed to. Then she comes in one day and says, i found the problem the STARFISH had died and they final found it under an ornament when they decided to just do a 100% water change!!! i was like a STARFISH that is a marine, aka SALTWATER fish. she goes they all are, they all require aquarium salt!!! . I was at a loss for words, apparently she was at Petco and bought a chocolate starfish, because her algae eater wasnt eating algae, a STARFISH!!!
They told her it would clean her SALTWATER tank up real quick, they love algae.
That is i think my all time favorite.
So this lady gets a few platys her first week, she has a 30g. Next week she gets some more and a few cories, then next time a few tetras and an algae eater, then finally some dwarf gouramis. All of this over a 2 month period. Then we redid our fish tags and they now say " Aquarium Salt Recommended!" So this lady gets the salt and is using for about 2 weeks when she starts to bring dead fish in. The way she was bringing these fish i thought she was just forgetting to take them in the house when she got home
. So she brings in a sample of water, i test it, and here ammonia is really high, i was like you need to do a 25-50% water change immediately and start doing a 25% every 3-4 days to get your ammonia down. She says okay, she does that for 2 weeks, i test it again, still ammonia off the chart. She gets upset because she has been doing the water changes like shes supposed to. Then she comes in one day and says, i found the problem the STARFISH had died and they final found it under an ornament when they decided to just do a 100% water change!!! i was like a STARFISH that is a marine, aka SALTWATER fish. she goes they all are, they all require aquarium salt!!! . I was at a loss for words, apparently she was at Petco and bought a chocolate starfish, because her algae eater wasnt eating algae, a STARFISH!!! They told her it would clean her SALTWATER tank up real quick, they love algae. That is i think my all time favorite.
