If you've ever worked in the service industry you know how stupid and outright ridiculous shoppers can be. What is the stupidest question you have ever had to answer at work?

For me a couple years back I was working in a Tim Horton's and a guy came up and asked me if we sold coffee.

Just today I had someone ask me if we have a Walmart around here. I pointed towards the massive windows she was standing in front of, to the big ass Walmart sitting right next to us, in full view. The entire parking lot is Walmart's parking lot. We're just in a side strip of buildings off to the side.

ahaha oh my god thats bad.

I worked at a movie theater last year and had this couple come in, buying popcorn. They told me how excited they were to see this /documentary/ called As Above So Below. Which is a horror movie about finding the gate the hell underneath Paris. How could anyone think that was possibly a documentary?

I work at Goodwill. I constantly have to tell people that yes we have a dressing room, yes we have a bathroom, there's just five foot signs hanging over everything. Also have to point out the placards showing the prices that are at eye level on every. single. rack. in. the. store.

Actual conversation I had with a customer, back when I worked at a pet store:

Her: Do you sell any "Nemo" fish? Me: No, I'm sorry. We don't carry clown fish because we're a freshwater only store. Her: So? Me: ...Finding Nemo takes place in the ocean. Her: blank stare Me: The ocean is saltwater? Her: ...What's the difference?

It should be mentioned this woman couldn't be younger than late 30's. D=

Ha that's hilarious

"So where is your showroom?" While standing directly in the middle of it.

"I don't want an accessible bathtub or shower." Why are you here?

Frequently I also get asked if we sell any number of kitchen things (symptom of a lot of kitchen and bath stores being tied together, although our business name is very clearly a niche market), and the oddest request to date is replacing a vehicle's back window, because 'we do glass doors for showers right? Well it's the same glass, right?'. Nooo.

This isn't so much a customer as a girl I used to work with. We worked at a dog daycare together, and usually after the first few weeks most of the new people get the hang of things -- not this girl. She once asked me if one of our dogs named Fernando was a boy or a girl. She also would constantly seek me out to ask me the dumbest questions, and I just had to be like, 'you tell me...' because this girl was seriously so dumb. She was nice, but so, so dumb.

I also had a woman come in asking me if we sold a particular brand of treats and literally what we have on the shelves is all we have, and I told her that and she was like, 'well, this isn't what I'm looking for...' and was staring at me like she wanted me to make the treats appear out of thin air. I was like, 'uh... there's a pet store like, five minutes from here...'

I've learned not all people read signs, and these other stories confirm this. Another thing: people are so LAZY.

I used to work at a university during events. The most aggravating people were the lazy asses that wanted to park in disabled parking lot despite not having the tags to do so. We had the first floor of the parking garage reserved for the disabled, and there were clear signs indicating this.

Not disabled person: "Can I park here?" Is pointing at disabled parking spots Me: "No, this is reserved for the disabled only." Person: Makes pissy face "But, it's empty." Me: "We have to keep the spots available just in case more disabled people arrive. Please park over there." Points to up the ramp Person: Pouts and has a hissy fit, and then goes up the ramp

This wasn't at work, but I was buying swan food next to a river to amuse a child I was looking after, and the box which contained it was decorated with about thirty iterations of "Open Box Here! --->" with all the arrows pointing towards a small hatch in the middle of this very large, clear plastic box. So I open the hatch, take out the food, go to pay and say to the cashier: "So, do you get a lot of people trying to open the whole box then instead of using the hatch?" And before she can do more than smile and take a breath to reply there's a huge CRASH behind me and we turn to see this touristy lady holding one end of the box, lid on the floor, swan food everywhere. Cashier hands me my change, grimaces, and says, "Third time today." before going to clean it up. It was 11am.

I used to work at a Walmart and spent many years in the Garden section. I was on register and phone duty when I got this call:

Red Grill Me: Hello how can I help you? Customer: I want a red grill for $128. Me:What brand is the grill miss? Customer: I don't know.

If your going shopping for something at least know the brand of what the hell your looking for.

Time to take down the tree A conversion over the phone that happened one April day:

Me: Hello this is Lawn and Garden. Customer:I need a x-mas tree storage box. Me:Miss I'm sorry we don't carry those this time of year. Customer:Well can't you take one from the back for me? Me: No we don't have any right now. I'm sorry. Customer: Can't you order one for me?! Me: No I can't we don't carry them right now. Customer: Can I speak to a manger Me: Sure hands phone off to dept manger

Rubber mulch made of mulch

I was ringing out rubber mulch when the customer complained about the price. He stated that it was $2 something. Only mulch priced that is our regular mulch. So we went outside to check the price. He then said he wanted that two dollar rubber mulch. I told the man that it wasn't rubber mulch but he blew me off.(I'm a woman so I must know nothing about such things sarcasm) He then started talking to one of my male coworkers. He told him the same thing. My coworker tried to tell him again and we made I eye contact and he left it alone. I hope he enjoyed his "rubber" mulch.

When I was in school, I had a part time job at a department store. They put me in the men's wear section. Almost every other week some guy would come over and ask what size brief / boxer shorts they should get. I told them the boy's department was on the other side of the store. (Obviously they weren't ready for their big boy pants).

Ok, you all need to go to Not Always Right and Not Always Working. They have some epic stories there. There are other versions of the site too, for relationships, families, school, etc.

oh my they really thought it was the same glass? haha wow

don't even get me started on idiot parking. I was coming out of the grocery store, cart full of groceries and some complete idiot parked right in front of the ramp where you can go from sidewalk to parking lot without getting that big bump from the ridge so despite the large yellow square with lines through it that says no parking that is where they parked. I left a not on their windshield that said "Nice parking asshat, you should have been a blowjob"

- I have Not Always Right bookmarked if I feel annoyed at people and want a good laugh. XD

- Oh gosh, idiot parking is a way of life in Orlando. X-x The worst drivers as well as tourists... Every day is a battle to not get hit by an idiot.

My fiance and I should leave a notebook in our car just to leave notes like the one you left. XD

- Nice burn. XD

- Yep, again people don't read. X-x

- Oh yay, the "special snowflake". The ones that want you to go way out of your way just for them and will whine when you tell them you can't. Heh, but the mulch story ending was great. Hope the asshole enjoyed his "rubber mulch". XD

I read it at work all the time (front desk at a senior community). It makes me feel so much better about my life some days, lol.

I'm a tattoo artist, been in the industry since '89 and man alive some of the questions people ask just make you shake your head. The mantra for those of us working here goes 'Ours not to wonder why, ours but to do and sigh.'

But the all time most annoying/dumbest question to ask your artist, especially halfway through the tattoo has got to be 'So are you any good?' rolls eyes so hard it hurts Okay, I understand basic reasoning skills aren't exactly taught in school these days but seriously, a moment's thought before you ask. Do you really want to insult your artist while they have the needle in your skin? If they aren't any good, will they actually tell you that? And why would you wait until halfway through the tat when it's already too late?

I work at a huge liquor store and customers ask me all the time for a wine that's made out of grapes. Uhhh...

I worked at a gas station for several years, I'm sure I have plenty of stories but one of them that comes to mind is: We have a hotdog grill and a customer was like "How do you make hotdogs?" The assistant manager and I were a little confused and asked him what he meant he was like "I'm not sure how to make them." So we carefully explained how to put the hotdog in between the bun and then how to put condiments onto it. After he left we just looked at eachother like "Did that really happen?"

We also had so many grown adults that had no earthly idea how to pump gas.

I used to work at a Dunkin Donuts where people would constantly ask, "Do you have certain donut flavor we didn't carry?" while looking directly at the donut display.