Stupid Customer.

Okay if any one of you have ever been in the retail/people service industry you know how stupid customers can be, especially when they feel entitled... Well, I don't handle stupidity well. Here's how yesterday's event played out.

9:15am (15 minutes after store opening)

I had a box of dozen strawberries sitting waiting to be sold. A lady walked in.

"ugh.. sorry let me catch my breath.. I lived in Arizona for five years......" (trail off) "sorry I need to call someone... How much are those strawberries?"

"14.95 a dozen" I replied already annoyed.

"Oh wow. That's really expensive."

"Yep."

"Oh! it's ringing!" (mumbling words and lovey dovey crap, whatever I get paid by the hour...) "Can I buy like only 6 or something?"

"No." I said. Why on earth would I go through the trouble of re packaging the strawberries when I'll get three more people coming in today willing to pay for an entire dozen? She wanted those strawberries very badly and I knew that if I just held out, she'd buy the entire thing.

"But. ugh... Can I get a discount?"

"Are you serious? No!" Honestly, my attitude in how I said no really surprised me. It sounded a lot more annoyed than I expected. But this woman was a freakin' piece of work. There is no way I'm selling six strawberries (re-packaging the rest) at a discount when, as I stated earlier more people will come in wanting strawberries who are willing to pay full price for the full dozen.

"Ugh.. Okay, I'll take the whole thing, then"

"Okay. Great."

9:45 am rolls around and she finally pays for her strawberries after I separate out the transaction into two different types of payment because she didn't want her boyfriend to be mad...

Ridiculous people.