Wow... intense conversation guys....
pretty sure you might have traumatised a few and scared the rest off
Keep the topic light for the innocents
Hmmm what else peeves me at the moment?
STUPIDITY!!
I know I keep saying this over and over again but I get it day in and day out!! I just dont understand!! How can people be so stupid without actually winning any Darwin awards by accidentally killing themselves with stupidity.
(If you are bored... search Darwin Awards... keeps me amused for days at a time!)
But like yesterday... had customers reading the back of bottle for dosing their pond with a treatment... the treatment specifically says how much the bottle treats, how much to treat per 500 liters... and forhow many days to treat it...
The idiot got really angry with me because he didnt know how many liters his pond was, ok so not so unusual but.... i offered to work it out at least roughly if he could just give me idea of measurements...
He got really angry with me! "I just want to treat my fish! I dont want you giving me the third degree like i dont know what im talking about... all i want to do is treat my pond for parasites (he'd already clearly described the ulcers his fish had...) and i shouldnt have to do all this maths!"
Apparently asking him if he had kids and when he said yes... asking him if he gave them an entire bottle of medication when they were sick or followed the instructions and measured it out was "out of order".
i honestly didnt know hoow else to explain it.
Three phone calls and an hour in the shop and we were no closer. In the end i sent him away with the weakest treatment i could find and i think his pond was about 2-3 thousand liters and gave him a bottle that treats half that because i just *know* he had every intention of ignoring the dose over 5 days (and other bottles would do his pond 2-3 courses of 5 days) and was going to pour the whole lot in. Can only pray it doesnt kill all his fish
I dont understand peoples stupidity in asking for "seaweed for their goldfish" it now winds me up so much that i go pick up a packof dried seaweed and stand there staring blankly until they tell me what they really want. I know perfectly well they just want some Elodea but for gods sake im getting to a point where i want to attack people with the bunch of elodea and hammer the name home! #138## seaweedmy backside.
Or sea snails... why the heck is every snail a sea snail? We dont even have marines... when we did.. people didnt even understand what the word marine meant,... couldnt understand that marine = salt.... people keep telling me they have seaweed andsea snails in with their goldfish and then they wonder why i just mentally shut down or pass them onto another member of staff before i get really wound up!
Jeez people are stupid!