Stupid things said by customers etc...

[Twiglet]

i got asked a few months ago by a customer if i could go and catch her "that sushi koi in one of the big vats"
SUSHI KOI!?!?!?!?!


Kat

[strictly_scales]

I always love it when you have the customer who intently looks into the Viv at the snake for about 5 minutes, and then jumps when it moves its head.

Regarding the whole frozen rodent thing, I remember one day this family came in, and the mother asked if we had Guinea Pigs. I said that we didn't normally stock them, but we can order them in. I then asked her what kind of snake she had. The womans daughter started to well up, at which point I said, "Oh, live Guinea Pigs? No, sorry, we only have dead Rodents here, try down the road." I love seeing children cry.

Ok, so I know that Guineas aren't rodents...

I've also lost track of the amount of times I have been asked whether an animal on display is dead, because it isn't moving... what the hell do you damned people want? Do you want the flipping Snake to jig for you?

[TCReptile]

Customer: 'Wow their really lively!'
Me: 'Thats because their alive'

[Jesse]

I just did my work experience at a reptile shop for a week and the ammount of idiotic questions I got was hilarious.

This one guy came in, asking how much the Cuvier Caiman was, and all the animals that were display only. Pretty much all of these had 'Not for sale' or the like on them.
He must of asked me about fifteen times, repeating some of the things he had asked before. I was ready to rip his head off

One person walked in, saw a common boa and went 'Woaaahh. That's a MASSIVE snake' The boa wasn't even fully grown. She then looked to her left and saw an 18ft burmese python, looked rather scared and asked me if it was real. I was just like 'Well, it's moving isn't it?'

Silly silly people, amusing though x3

[Twiglet]

Regarding the whole frozen rodent thing, I remember one day this family came in, and the mother asked if we had Guinea Pigs. I said that we didn't normally stock them, but we can order them in. I then asked her what kind of snake she had. The womans daughter started to well up, at which point I said, "Oh, live Guinea Pigs? No, sorry, we only have dead Rodents here, try down the road." I love seeing children cry.

I'm going to give you a medal...

another excellent one... we write little notes regarding a species temperament/diet/etc on their labels to aid customers in making a decision... they still get quized because no matter how big the words "NIPS FINS" are written on a label people still ask if they can keep them with their guppies...
Amusingly, one of our newest members of staff recently had a customer ask her (on her first day) if she could buy "some of those May Nips"
Poor girl came up to me sheepishly requesting where we kept the May Nips because a customer was looking for them. Twenty minutes of trying to wrangle out of the woman what she was on about i discovered that she'd ignored the printed type on a label detailing the price of the Diamond tetras and had decided that the hand written words "may nip fins" was the fishes name. what a nonce!!
the other one that bugs me is seeing a mum spend twenties minutes looking at a marine fish with her kids.. there can be a couple of clowns, a fire shrimp, a hermit crab and a yellow tang for example and she'll point at the fire shrimp and say "can you see the lovely 'yellow tang' kids?"
jesus...

Kat

[maddragon29]

I get this one alot...

(talking about a beadie) "Ooooh no that looks like it would bite... cant we just get our iguana instead?"

Some people are out with a death wish... talking that way about iguanas in front of me.

The other good one is when people come in and tell you the story of the woman who's snake stopped eating... and she found it lying straight out beside her bed... you all know the one

[Rum_Kitty]

Nothing said, but we have a huge green sign with big black letters in front of our chinchilla cages saying do not disturb because they are getting funny tempers on them. Naturally the first thing people do is walk up to it and poke their fingers through.

"Can we touch the animals" even though there are signs everywhere saying you cant.

"Oh look its a chihuahua/squirrel/rabbit/guinea pig/ [and the most hilarious] monkey thing". We have chinchillas.

"They look like rats". CHINCHILLAS??? Are you BLIND?

"Can I pay a tenner a week until I've paid for a chinchilla?" No. We dont do hire purchase.

A guy comes in asking for dog food. We ask which brand. He says "You know, a bag of dog food". Any idea what colour the bag is, what the picture on it is. "Well if you're not intelligent enough to sell dog food to me, I'll go elsewhere". WTF????

Another guy comes in ranting about gerbil treats, saying they are the only thing his kid's rabbit will eat. Goes on and on about these gerbil treats for about ten minutes, whilst we keep telling him we cant think of any specific gerbil treats off hand, most of them are hamster ones also suitable for gerbs. He describes the packet, and I say "Oh, do you mean guinea pig crunchies?" And he says extremely rudely, "Guinea pig, gerbil, whats the difference". At this point I was dumb enough to advise him that guinea pig treats alone are not a good diet for a rabbit. "Oh the rabbits 19 years old already, the vet has told us this we're beyond caring we must do something right". So we own the worlds oldest rabbit, do we? Found out later the rabbit was 8. Clown.


There are loads of much better ones, people say dumb stuff to me every day...but I cant remember any of it god damnit. TBH I love people saying dumb stuff, I usually laugh with them about it, its rude people I hate.

[Corn-Znake-Neil]

I hear stupid things by the shop keeper instead.
He tried to tell me that my year old jungle carpet python could break 3 of my ribs if it struck at me, and that they're constricting power is so huge that they're bringing in licenses to England.

[Darklas]

I get stupid questions every single day.
Todays favourite was:

Customer: "Oh, can I have some of these fish?" (Points to guppys)
Me: "Well they are tropical fish so you'd need to buy a heater for your tank."
Customer: "Can't I just pour in some hot water?"




Every day!!

[jodie181]

Originally Posted by strictly_scales

No, sorry, we only have dead Rodents here, try down the road." I love seeing children cry.

Ok, so I know that Guineas aren't rodents...

no you were right the first time they are rodents so you weren't telling lies

my fave i've heard so far is

"are blackmoors (type of goldfish) coldwater or the other kind you know aquatic?"
pmsl when she left.