Customers that leave you wondering

[MsFabulous]

Today I served an elderly man, probably in his 70s or 80s.
He was wearing a full-blown tuxedo, with bow-tie.
And he simply asked me where <discount liquor store> was.
And went on his merry, well-dressed way.

I was very confusedly amused for the next hour

So I got to thinking, more people must have neat little stories like this, probably way better than mine! So I ask you:
When has a customer left you wondering, most likely with a bemused smile on your face as you watch them walk away?

[Becks]

I have a few stories.

Too bad I don't remember them at the moment.

Grrrrrrrrrr to me.

[tinamarble88]

Customers who come in and look around the whole store and then they leave. It happened today.

[joe hx]

Customers who come in and look around the whole store and then they leave. It happened today.

um i do that a lot.

[edible_hat]

Last night I had a customer dressed in a "naughty nurse" costume. I thought she was on her way to a costume party but there were no other costumed customers. Plenty of people buying ice and big bottles of soft drinks though!

Then when I saw she was with a big guy whose jacket had "SECURITY" on the back, I realised she was probably a stripper.

[SG15Z]

Customers who come in and look around the whole store and then they leave. It happened today.

I've done that many times.

[tinamarble88]

um i do that a lot.

It does leave me wondering though. And where I work, it's uncommon for people to look around the whole store and leave. I do it a lot too, but not in food places.

[Antisocial_Worker]

I was working in an office supply when we had what I assume to be an elderly married couple come in one day. She had hair like Gary Oldman's in Dracula -- puffy and white in two big mounds. Hairy by Jiffy Pop, in other words. She was haughty and dressed to the nines. Her husband was dirtier and slightly creased, and seemed to be... subservient. Very meek and slumped. We got the feeling that if she could get away with it, she might walk him around with a leash.

When we had rung them up, she grandly handed her bag to her husband and turned to go.

...And we all looked to see if, rather than walking, she might be floating along instead the way incarnations of darkness always seem to be able to do.

[Jetfire]

It does leave me wondering though. And where I work, it's uncommon for people to look around the whole store and leave. I do it a lot too, but not in food places.

Actually, food places (grocery stores) are probably where I do that the most. I go in and wander around trying to decide what I want to get for dinner, to see if anything 'jumps out at me'. Usually I find something (or have the ghost of something on my mind), but just as often I'll find nothing and head out. (Usually to realize after I get home that I needed X, Y and Z and meant to get them when I was in there in the first place. :P )

[Lace Neil Singer]

At the supermarket, I once served a man who bought a large cucumber, three containers of fresh cream, a punnet of strawberries and some chocolate sauce. Maybe my mind's just in the gutter, cuz I was immediately thinking O_o "What's he up to, tonight?"

[SG15Z]

At the supermarket, I once served a man who bought a large cucumber, three containers of fresh cream, a punnet of strawberries and some chocolate sauce. Maybe my mind's just in the gutter, cuz I was immediately thinking O_o "What's he up to, tonight?"

Hopefully he wasn't alone...............wow bad mental image. >_<

[DerangedHermit]

At the supermarket, I once served a man who bought a large cucumber, three containers of fresh cream, a punnet of strawberries and some chocolate sauce. Maybe my mind's just in the gutter, cuz I was immediately thinking O_o "What's he up to, tonight?"

At least you didn't get the customers my brother did a few years ago. They bought:

- Peach Schnapps
- Vaseline
- a plunger
- cucumbers

And the most disturbing of it all? A pineapple.

[NightWatch]

I'm not a fan of buying "feminine hygiene" products every month, so I'm known to stock up randomly, whether or not it's that time of the month. I also have a sad, sad addiction to M&M's. So I've gone through the checkout before with 4 boxes of tampons and a 1lb bag of M&M's. I think I was in sweats once too... I'm sure I terrified that poor cashier. Sorry if that was TMI for anyone.

[jjllbb]

We once had this elderly gentleman that was so very decrepit that he literally couldn't speak. Every breath was labored, and he couldn't stand! He hobbled over on a cane and shook as he attempted to ask me something.

After a minute or two of struggling i got some spare receipt paper and a pen and let him lean on me while he wildly scrawled a few words.

And what were those words?

"I parked in the garage. Which way?"

I pointed to the door (where the garage was clearly visible) and he hobbled off.

I seriously considered calling mall security. That man couldn't control his own body let alone a car!!

But alas i was young and timid.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I'm not a fan of buying "feminine hygiene" products every month, so I'm known to stock up randomly, whether or not it's that time of the month. I also have a sad, sad addiction to M&M's. So I've gone through the checkout before with 4 boxes of tampons and a 1lb bag of M&M's. I think I was in sweats once too... I'm sure I terrified that poor cashier. Sorry if that was TMI for anyone.

Ha, I did that once; bought some womanly products and a giant bar of chocolate; the chocolate was not for me, it was a present... but the male cashier looked quite terrified.