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This is actually a mixed bag. I have an awesome customer and a sucky customer in the same encounter. Very interesting, actually. It's only in this subforum because I spent more time with the awesome customer, who was interesting in and of herself.
Work Place: Hardware Store, in front of the Electric Bulb aisles.
Time: 3:30 PM.
Awesome / Interesting customer lady.
Me.
Sucky customer who was only there for a moment.
I was in front of the paint area, helping the staff to unpack some stock, when I think I hear someone yelling from across the room. I'm partially deaf, so I'm not that slow to dismiss the audio cue. I turn around anyway, and there is some lady in a blue shirt waving at me. Well, more like brandishing a flaming sword of deadly poking at me, if she had one. She looked mad.
So I hurry over to her with my best smile on, and ask her how I can help her. The words are barely out of my mouth before she intones "Goodness! I finally get ahold of someone! I swear, I've been wandering around for half an hour looking for someone to help me!" I knew that we were slightly understaffed (And it was a truck day; 50,000+ worth of stuff in a store smaller than a popular grocery store chain store.) and I explained that to her a bit. "Yes, well, now that I have you, I would appreciate it if where are the sprinklers?" ... Yes, you saw the color change in the text there. A hambeast had waddled up to us down the aisle with her shopping cart and had completely interrupted the Awesome / Interesting customer lady without any "excuse me" whatsoever.
This is when things got interesting.
The Awesome / Interesting customer lady EXPLODES on the sucky waddler customer. "HOW DARE YOU interrupt us when we're in the middle of a discussion Who do you think you are? What is your problem?! Oh my goodness, you go away and you wait your turn! Right now! Go! You should be ashamed of yours!" I could practically feel the air around her heating up, and I tried in vain to keep the nearby boxes from melting or catching fire from her heated words. (I seriously was impressed; I had never seen anything like that before.)
The sucky customer didn't say or do anything, really; she just turned and walked down the aisle as if nothing had happened and her clothes weren't on fire.
"That was so rude! Who does she think she is! I hate it when people do that! Everywhere I go, people think it's okay to just interrupt people! Well I tell you right now, I will not stand for it!" I seriously wanted to hug her right then and there.
I was seriously thinking " 
" "I can completely empathize. I really do miss the day when good manners were impossible to dismiss. Where have the times gone? :-/ " "You're right! We shouldn't tolerate these people any longer. It's just not right. They're part of the reason our society is going down the toilet!" "I completely agree with you; you're absolutely right. It's very wise, really. Where would we be without our manners? ... so anyway, I'm sorry for the interruptions. How may I have the pleasure of helping you? ^_^ " (I do the "^_^" impression quite well off of the internet. 
) And the rest of our conversations were just spent in the light bulbs aisle. She was actually a fairly difficult customer to please, but she at least accepted the state of the bulbs existence when I told her what was and wasn't on the market anymore.
(120 Watt bulbs don't exist anymore, from what I've seen. They simply stopped making them.)
Work Place: Hardware Store, in front of the Electric Bulb aisles.
Time: 3:30 PM.
Awesome / Interesting customer lady.
Me.
Sucky customer who was only there for a moment.
I was in front of the paint area, helping the staff to unpack some stock, when I think I hear someone yelling from across the room. I'm partially deaf, so I'm not that slow to dismiss the audio cue. I turn around anyway, and there is some lady in a blue shirt waving at me. Well, more like brandishing a flaming sword of deadly poking at me, if she had one. She looked mad.
So I hurry over to her with my best smile on, and ask her how I can help her. The words are barely out of my mouth before she intones "Goodness! I finally get ahold of someone! I swear, I've been wandering around for half an hour looking for someone to help me!" I knew that we were slightly understaffed (And it was a truck day; 50,000+ worth of stuff in a store smaller than a popular grocery store chain store.) and I explained that to her a bit. "Yes, well, now that I have you, I would appreciate it if where are the sprinklers?" ... Yes, you saw the color change in the text there. A hambeast had waddled up to us down the aisle with her shopping cart and had completely interrupted the Awesome / Interesting customer lady without any "excuse me" whatsoever.
This is when things got interesting.
The Awesome / Interesting customer lady EXPLODES on the sucky waddler customer. "HOW DARE YOU interrupt us when we're in the middle of a discussion Who do you think you are? What is your problem?! Oh my goodness, you go away and you wait your turn! Right now! Go! You should be ashamed of yours!" I could practically feel the air around her heating up, and I tried in vain to keep the nearby boxes from melting or catching fire from her heated words. (I seriously was impressed; I had never seen anything like that before.)
The sucky customer didn't say or do anything, really; she just turned and walked down the aisle as if nothing had happened and her clothes weren't on fire.
"That was so rude! Who does she think she is! I hate it when people do that! Everywhere I go, people think it's okay to just interrupt people! Well I tell you right now, I will not stand for it!" I seriously wanted to hug her right then and there.
I was seriously thinking " " "I can completely empathize. I really do miss the day when good manners were impossible to dismiss. Where have the times gone? :-/ " "You're right! We shouldn't tolerate these people any longer. It's just not right. They're part of the reason our society is going down the toilet!" "I completely agree with you; you're absolutely right. It's very wise, really. Where would we be without our manners? ... so anyway, I'm sorry for the interruptions. How may I have the pleasure of helping you? ^_^ " (I do the "^_^" impression quite well off of the internet. ) And the rest of our conversations were just spent in the light bulbs aisle. She was actually a fairly difficult customer to please, but she at least accepted the state of the bulbs existence when I told her what was and wasn't on the market anymore. (120 Watt bulbs don't exist anymore, from what I've seen. They simply stopped making them.)