Speak For Yourself
EDITORS' CHOICE, JERK, PHARMACY, USA | RIGHT | AUGUST 28, 2008
Customer: “Excuse me!”
Me: “How can I help you, sir?”
Customer: “My wife sent me in here to pick up some chestnut brown and I can’t find it.”
Me: “Okay, is that makeup or hair color?”
Customer: “I don’t know; she just said chestnut brown.”
Me: “Do you happen to remember the brand name?”
Customer: “No! She just said chestnut brown. Weren’t you listening?”
Me: “Well, it sounds like hair dye to me. Let’s have a look.”
(We both go to the hair coloring aisle and I start to look through every shade in every brand. The man does not help at all; it takes me ten minutes.)
Me: “Here you go, sir. This is Garnier hair color, chestnut brown.”
Customer: “Are you sure that’s it? I don’t want to go home and have to come back.”
Me: “You could call your wife and ask her.”
Customer: “She’s not at home. Oh, wait, hold on.”
(He pulls a piece of paper from his pocket and begins to read it.)
Customer: “Yep, Garnier chestnut brown. That’s it!”
Me: “Sir, no offense, but you could have saved us a lot of time by reading that note in the first place.”
Customer: “That’s the problem with this country. Nobody wants to work anymore!”
Me: “Yeah, that’s our problem.”
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