Most idiotic complaint EVER

[cinema guy]

That the cinema screen was to big. There has already been a cartoon about that.

[otakuneko]

Wait, wait, don't tell me -- it came from someone who'd been in one of your smaller screens, right?

[Beisbolica]

Customer called to complain, "I was cashed out with the wrong shoes."

Turns out she wanted a different size than the one she purchased. So... she brings the shoes to the register, pays for them, and somehow it's our fault?

Should the cashier have asked, "Are you SURE this is the size you want?"

[AirHostess]

That the plane was too small and they only trusted 'big proper planes.'



Yeah lady, like we are going to fly a B747 on domestic and on shorthaul. And if our smaller planes are any more dangerous!

[Teysa]

I think the dumbest complaint I ever got was when I worked for Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. We had a blackboard near the entrance advertising the chocolate covered strawberries. One of the more artistic members of the team had drawn a picture of said berries. A customer walked in once and complained about the actual strawberries not looking like the ones in the picture.

[MadMike]

That the furniture boxes are too heavy.
As if we could somehow magically make furniture lighter.

Couldn't you fill them with helium?

[Chromatix]

Helium's expensive, actually. It's a lot harder to get hold of than hydrogen, simply because as a noble gas, it doesn't tend to get chemically bound up with heavier elements.

But hydrogen is an explosion risk unless you prevent a fuel-air mixture forming inside the envelope - easy enough if you keep it pure, say under light pressure, but harder when you have a suctomer handling it.

[AdminAssistant]

But hydrogen is an explosion risk

One word: Hidenberg

[GingerBiscuit]

'it smells like a doctors in here'
*accusing glare*
'Thats... because... well, technically speaking... opticians are doctors...'

[cloudiko]

The most idiotic complaint I've ever recieved:

A chocolate peanut butter pie was (and I quote) "too fluffy".


This memory is still painful to recall.

[Lace Neil Singer]

The most idiotic complaint I've ever recieved:

A chocolate peanut butter pie was (and I quote) "too fluffy".


This memory is still painful to recall.

Fantasy response: (picks up pie and shoves it in customer's face) "How about now, huh? Is it too fluffy now?"

[Chromatix]

One word: Hindenberg

The Hindenburg's envelope was indeed inflated with hydrogen.

But that isn't actually what made it burn. The envelope was water- and gas-proofed (hydrogen leaks very easily) with a chemical compound that we now use as rocket fuel. Modern airships are proofed a different way.

Hydrogen needs oxygen to burn, and there wasn't any of that inside the envelope. The hydrogen leaked away and went safely up to high altitude as soon as a hole appeared in the fabric, so it hardly contributed anything to the fire. If there *had* been a fuel-air mixture inside, it would have exploded, not burned.

Then there's the folly of attempting to moor an airship to a tall metal pole in the middle of a thunderstorm. One of the big points of airships is that they can stay aloft without burning fuel, so they could easily have waited out the storm.

The airship settled to the ground fairly gently, so there were plenty of survivors. A few people did die, but it was the dramatic photographs taken by the large crowd of press present that turned it into a "disaster".

[Andrew B.]

If I remember correctly, the Mythbusters made a mockup of the Hindenburg and determined that it was a combination of the Hydrogen and the coating that caused how the fire reacted.

[MystyGlyttyr]

Probably the woman who called to complain I didn't spell her family's name right in the obituary when they sent it to me with the wrong spelling in the first place...

[AdminAssistant]

If I remember correctly, the Mythbusters made a mockup of the Hindenburg and determined that it was a combination of the Hydrogen and the coating that caused how the fire reacted.

Yep. I love that episode. They made three models to test it, and the one with hydrogen burned much much faster. The last one they coated with true thermite goop. It BURNED in a really spectacular manner.