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These all happened over the last few months. I noted them but didn't get around to posting them until now.
Some of these fall more under the category of weird and/or funny rather than sucky, but that won't stop me from sharing.
Comb Guy
This particular fellow has taken a shine to Mr. Dips co-worker Jane [all names are changed]. He likes to send presents for her along with his order and payments. Usually it's a dirty, beat-up plastic comb which looks like he found it lying in the streets.
Organized Religion
This fellow is named John Doe. He is a mail-order customer who buy precious metals. John always signed his orders "John Doe" until he was, apparently, ordained. Then he started signing them "Rev. John Doe." A few weeks after that he started signing them "Bishop John Doe." Last month, though he got elected to "Pope John Doe." Nobody knows what church he is pope of yet, but he expects to be addressed as such in all correspondence, so that is how he is addressed.
They're Precious!
A woman came in with a bunch of circulated state quarters (25 cent pieces) she gathered from her change over the years. She wanted to sell them. They are worth slightly more than 25 cents each since they aren't rare and are in circulated condition. The store was willing to pay 25 cents each for them since they couldn't mark them up much more.
She not only had a fit that the store was "trying to rip [her] off." She also gave Laura, the clerk, a had time because she didn't wear gloves when handling these circulated quarters. She threatened to sue if Laura had done any damage to the quarters before storming out.
90=100
This was another seller. He had some 90% silver pieces which were very worn and worth only bullion value. He was offered the going rate for 90% silver. He insisted that he get the rate for pure (100%) silver because he insisted that 90% silver was pure silver. Nothing could convince him that is wasn't. He also left unhappy, but convinced he was right.
Back to the Future
This was another mail-order customer. He sent in an order form and his payment two weeks ago. Sadly the order form was from 1989 and had 1989 prices on it. Thank the Gord the boss had a "prices are subject to change" disclaimer on that form. You never know when or why those disclaimers are going to come in handy.
The Money Sniffer
A woman walked into the coin store. She asked to see some of the large-denomination currency which was on display. It's kept in plastic sleeves. She opened the top of the sleeve and took a deep sniff, closed her eyes and...started moaning. Yes. Like that.
Here you go...
Then she stuck her finger into the sleeve and started...stroking the money and...panting.
Laura bravely tried to make the sale, but the woman just stopped, thanked her and left without buying anything.
She's come back and asked to see money since and has been politely refused unless she plans to buy. She just says "OK" and leaves.
Well. That's it for this episode of Coin-Shop Roundup.
Some of these fall more under the category of weird and/or funny rather than sucky, but that won't stop me from sharing.
Comb Guy
This particular fellow has taken a shine to Mr. Dips co-worker Jane [all names are changed]. He likes to send presents for her along with his order and payments. Usually it's a dirty, beat-up plastic comb which looks like he found it lying in the streets.
Organized Religion
This fellow is named John Doe. He is a mail-order customer who buy precious metals. John always signed his orders "John Doe" until he was, apparently, ordained. Then he started signing them "Rev. John Doe." A few weeks after that he started signing them "Bishop John Doe." Last month, though he got elected to "Pope John Doe." Nobody knows what church he is pope of yet, but he expects to be addressed as such in all correspondence, so that is how he is addressed.
They're Precious!
A woman came in with a bunch of circulated state quarters (25 cent pieces) she gathered from her change over the years. She wanted to sell them. They are worth slightly more than 25 cents each since they aren't rare and are in circulated condition. The store was willing to pay 25 cents each for them since they couldn't mark them up much more.
She not only had a fit that the store was "trying to rip [her] off." She also gave Laura, the clerk, a had time because she didn't wear gloves when handling these circulated quarters. She threatened to sue if Laura had done any damage to the quarters before storming out.
90=100
This was another seller. He had some 90% silver pieces which were very worn and worth only bullion value. He was offered the going rate for 90% silver. He insisted that he get the rate for pure (100%) silver because he insisted that 90% silver was pure silver. Nothing could convince him that is wasn't. He also left unhappy, but convinced he was right.
Back to the Future
This was another mail-order customer. He sent in an order form and his payment two weeks ago. Sadly the order form was from 1989 and had 1989 prices on it. Thank the Gord the boss had a "prices are subject to change" disclaimer on that form. You never know when or why those disclaimers are going to come in handy.
The Money Sniffer
A woman walked into the coin store. She asked to see some of the large-denomination currency which was on display. It's kept in plastic sleeves. She opened the top of the sleeve and took a deep sniff, closed her eyes and...started moaning. Yes. Like that.
Here you go...
Then she stuck her finger into the sleeve and started...stroking the money and...panting.
Laura bravely tried to make the sale, but the woman just stopped, thanked her and left without buying anything.
She's come back and asked to see money since and has been politely refused unless she plans to buy. She just says "OK" and leaves.
Well. That's it for this episode of Coin-Shop Roundup.
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