Some Convenience store "Customers".

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ohioboy

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I worked in such stores many years ago. Here are some True stories of ignorance.

1. Customer walks in points to his car and said to me "What kind of Oil should I put in my car"?

I replied "I do not know". He walked out with disbelief in his tone and with a smart smerk on his face, he said, "You work here don't you".

2. Asked a customer for ID for cigarette purchase. He lifts up his shirt, puts it down. He said, well "how much". I said I need to see an ID. He said, "I just showed it to you". I asked how, he said "Did you see my tattoo, you have to be 18 to get a tattoo". Of course, no sale to the clown.

3. I asked a man for an ID to buy his beer. He handed me his driver's license, which just happened to have a paper punch through the year. Gee, I wonder why. I said there is no birth year. He intelligently said "Oh, I'm I the marines and I keep my Military ID on a chain through it". I said it was not an acceptable ID then. Which he ignorantly said "Oh, I can go over to Iraq to defend your ass. But I can't buy a beer".

4. Asked a person for an ID to buy beer. His ID said he was only 20. I said you have to be 21 to purchase beer. He said such as, "You only have to be 19 in my Country". Which he named. Guess, did he get the beer?

You would not believe the crap service people have to put up with, especially selling restricted sale products. Ignorance galore.
 

I worked in a convenience store in Georgia for a few months. I had thought it might be fun, like playing store when I was little. Hah! It was all beer, cigarettes, gasoline, and Lotto tickets. The tickets were the worst, if I didn't say the right words, pull them out of the machine just the right way and say, "Good luck," when I handed it to them I was in big trouble and had Ruined Everything.

It's a crazy world, fortunately Ohioboy has some guy in Iraq defending him.
 

As a customer I was in the supermarket buying alcohol along with the groceries ...you have to be over 18 to buy alcohol , and the checkout assistant will call a supervisor... so when the young checkout girl called the supervisor for the bottle of alcohol I was buying.. I said.. ''surely I can't look THAT young''... no the supervisor said it's for the checkout girl.. she's only 17... :ROFLMAO:
 
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I'm from the time where you could send your 12 or 14 year old to the store with money to buy cigarettes with a note. Which was fine in most cases this was of course back in the '70s and '80s.

The funniest thing was I was in Colorado and we had these two boys come in about 8 years old with a note from their dad he wanted a 12 pack of beer. We of course had to turn them down.
 
Disgustedman said:
I'm from the time where you could send your 12 or 14 year old to the store with money to buy cigarettes with a note. Which was fine in most cases this was of course back in the '70s and '80s.

The funniest thing was I was in Colorado and we had these two boys come in about 8 years old with a note from their dad he wanted a 12 pack of beer. We of course had to turn them down.
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In the 60's my mother routinely sent us to the shops with a note wrapped around the money... I was about 7 years old when that first started with me going on my own..., and buying razor blades and cigarettes for my parents no-one ever questioned it....
 
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I worked in the retail industry. I was manager of a small men's clothing store. One of our customers used to come in as all the other stores in the mall were locking up and turning out their lights. It irritated the heck out of me, but he always spent a fortune on clothing so I stayed late.

He came in the last night when the store was closing. I told him we were going out of business and he offered me a job at his tour company which eventually landed me a job in the cruise industry, and the rest is history. Sometimes putting up with difficult customers pays off! Just not rude or stupid ones.
 
hollydolly said:
As a customer I was in the supermarket buying alcohol along with the groceries ...you have to be over 18 to buy alcohol , and the checkout assistant will call a supervisor... so when the young checkout girl called the supervisor for the bottle of alcohol I was buying.. I said.. ''surely I can't look THAT young''... no the supervisor said it's for the checkout girl.. she's only 17... :ROFLMAO:
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I've seen that happen here too about the cashier example. Now some stores will card you if you buy any type of inhalant. I bought a can of Gunk spray to clean up my car engine once and got carded.
 
ohioboy said:
I've seen that happen here too about the cashier example. Now some stores will card you if you buy any type of inhalant. I bought a can of Gunk spray to clean up my car engine once and got carded.
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same with anyone buying knives here.. and even when I buy a knife or scissors online.. the delivery driver has to get proof of age before he can hand it over...
 
Back on track, one of my friends' mothers worked at a convenience store. We played hooky from school one day and mostly spent the day in the back room and drank Icees. She never ratted us out! :ROFLMAO:
 

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