Dumbest Customer of the Day Award

I work at a calendar kiosk in the mall. Surprisingly enough, I've had the majority of my "bad customers" after Christmas instead of before. My assumption is that it's because everything is 50% off now.



Regardless, the following exchange happens to me almost once every few hours:

Customer: *shakes a calendar at me* Is this on sale?
Me: *points to the sign that says exactly what I'm about to say* All calendars are 50% off.
Customer: *shakes the calendar again* So is THIS on sale??
Me: That's a calendar, so yes.

Today I had the most irritating guy I've had to date... at first he's irritated with me because I won't give him a special discount for buying four calendars (Woohoo, big spender.) He comes back a bit later with some calendars but shows me a horse calendar, asking me how many months is in the calendar. He's being snippy, at best. Then this happens.

Me: I would assume 12 months, since that's what is usually in a calendar.
Him: Well there's only 10 pictures on the back.
Me: ... *holds calendar, reading for anything indicating a 10-month* No sir, it seems it's 12. The only other length we have is 16 months, and those are marked.
Him: But I only see 10 pictures on the back!
Me: I assure you there are 12 months in here.
Him: Well I'm not buying it unless you open it up and show me.
Me: I'm not opening it unless you buy it.
Him: I'm not buying it if it's a 10 month calendar.
Me: *pause... then shreds the plastic off*
Him: *chuckle*
Me: *shows each page, painfully slow to make it obvious to him* January, February, March, [...] December. 12 months.
Him: Oh, okay... I guess I'll buy it then.

Then he was pissed off because the total wasn't what he thought it'd be. What'd he forget? Tax. Did he get them anyway? Yes. It's a good thing he did too, or I would've loosed a herd of the angriest badgers I could find on him.

Her sir, enjoy your reward.