Raaaggghhh, make it stop

[Trixie]

My store carries this fish. I like to push the button. As far as singing things go it's not the worst I've seen. The worst would probably be this stupid Halloween skeleton that sang "Living La Vida Loca". And that was probably the most irresisitble thing that year. Luckily it didn't last more than a year or two.

My worst experience with button-pushers was also Halloween related. We had a row of "realistic" tombstones that would scream. This older couple went up and down the row and pushed them all about 20 times. It got to the point that other customers were complaining. These two spawns of evil thought it was funny. Yeah, real funny. When they finally came up to check out they said they were just testing them before they bought. I don't remember if I said anything. If I said what I was thinking I woulda been out of a job.

[Peppergirl]

Who even buys those freaking things? If I went over to somebody's house and they had one of those as decor, you can bet that I'd be reconsidering our friendship...

My ex father-in-law has one. And trust me, it fits.

[mattm04]

Couldn't resist....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKDKK...eature=related

[Mr Hero]

I'm afraid I was guilty of something like that, and worse yet it was as an employee and not a costumer.

Back at the home improvements store, every so often I'd sneak into the Housewares aisle, to the shelf where they had a bunch of timers, and set them all to go off at once. My department was halfway across the store, and I could hear them go off.

Then again, it seemed to annoy the customers a lot more than the employees, so maybe it wasn't all bad.

My experiment worked! They [the clocks] are all exactly 25 minutes slow!

[Tama]

OMG. I loved that commercial. The guy who walked in was like:

And the first guy was like: OMNOMNOM

[hobbitt97]

I liked the ones that sang "Be Happy"

When I used to do technical support and we had a Luser on the phone that couldn't follow simple instructions I would throw the slammer (that shouted "NO NO NO") against the wall.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I feel your pain. When I worked at the garden centre, we carried these dancing Santas. They'd light up and sing Jingle Bells for a good five minutes. X_x After two days of suffering thru the world and his wife coming in and setting the fucking things off every second, we all sat down and took the batteries out of every single Santa. Said batteries were put in old money bags, two to a bag, and kept under the front tills. Just one Santa was spared the purge, and kept on one of the front tills to demonstrate to customers what it did. Only the cashiers were allowed to press the button.

Then again, my pet unit was bang next to the Christmas section, with its musical Christmas lights, singing Christmas trees and stupid evil story telling mechanical Santa who told the same five stories on a continuous loop.

[Jester]

....A singing, stuffed duck walks into a bar....

And?

That's very disturbing behavior!

I try!

I'm one of the annoying idiots.

I catch myself setting off ten of them, then walking away.

I get the feeling there are people here who want to beat you silly with a giant rubber salmon.

Don't say I didn't warn you!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Oh yeah, I've mentioned our singing, dancing Santa that we carried during the Christmas of the Singing Dancing Toys.

(I call it that because one year for Christmas, we had a whole variety of singing dancing crap. We had the deer's head mounted on a plaque, the redneck truck with the deer strapped to the head that sang, and a bunch of other shit like that. Please don't try to imagine the racket when all these things were set off at once. It turned out we hardly sold any of those things during Christmas and we sat on them well into the next year.)

But back to Santa--one of the things he'd say as you passed was "Ho ho ho, how about a song to get you into the holiday spirit?"

How about a kick to the groin to shut you up?

We kept unplugging Santa, but he always got plugged back in. We got our asses ripped one time by the DM because Santa wasn't plugged in, and he needed to be in order to "drive sales."

[Lace Neil Singer]

Drive sales out the door and to a shop without that kind of crap, more like. -.-

[Food Lady]

Every year my best friend gets me one of those things for Valentine's Day. There's one I really like, some sort of pink monster. I just have to push the button sometimes. And yes, I'm that annoying lady who tests all the windchimes. Employees give me dirty looks.

[Erin]

I'm sorry, I'm one of those that will go into the toy aisles and find the toy cars and the toy ambulances and fire engines that have the "realistic" sounds and will press the buttons on every one that I can find. More than once.

It's mostly the fire engines that I like to press the buttons on. I never got over the fascination that children have with fire engines. I love fire engines. (collect models of them too)

I also like to play with the noisy Halloween toys. Just because I like to hear the screams (coming from the toys) for some reason.

*hanging head in shame*

[MelodiousBubbles]

During Easter, we get these weird, twirly light-flashy thingies that play "Easter Parade"

Well... A bastardized version of it that is so high pitched and fast, it gives me a migraine in the first two seconds. It was basically the chorus of "Easter Parade" hummed by the Chipmunks in under fifteen seconds.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

Somebody up at the clearance swamp corporate office thought this would be a great item for us to carry (Uggghh, did you learn nothing from the Christmas of the many singing dancing toys? ) and ordered a shitload to send out to all the stores.

I think I worked at Wally World that Christmas. I remember we had a whole endcap full of singing toys including - you guessed it - big mouth billy bass!. I think all of them were motion triggered, which sucked to NO END because I had to walk by that end cap ALL THE DAMNED TIME so those toys were constantly chirping at me.

[Racket_Man]

How about a kick to the groin to shut you up?

anything like Boot To the Head??????

I too had one of those musical "Drop Me in the Water" fish back in the mid 90's. had a light sensor instead of a button. we put it on the floor and it used drive our cat NUTZ cause it swung its head out and sang