Stupidly injuring yourself in six easy steps

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

1. Come into the swamp wearing sandals and with your child in tow. Head for the furniture department.

2. Notice a display of bookcases on the floor in the middle of the aisle, that are put there because they're clearance and they were moved there to make room for new product.

3. Tip one of the bookcases rather far forward, much more forward than these bookcases are designed to be tipped, because you want to inspect....something.

4. The shelves in the bookcase, which are just set on top of pegs plugged into the sides, come sliding out right onto your bare toes.

5. Yelp and curse and jump around doing the Dance of the Bozo Customer.

6. Complain that the bookcases are shoddily made and complain to management about having them out in the middle of the aisle like that.

[kokopuff3]

Fail #1: Bare toes to buy furniture..Really? When is that ever a good idea??
Fail #2: Moving furniture when you have no knowledge of how furniture should be moved
Fail #3: Instead of admitting that your own stupidity caused your injury, shift blame to how furniture is made...
All the same..if many customers used their heads it wouldn't be Customers Suck, now would it?

[AyreBiskits]

you can just about hear Keyboard Cat walking him off.

[Andara Bledin]

I saw the title, and I knew immediately that it would be an Irv post.

It's a wonder some of your customers get past the whole dressing themselves part of their day.

^-.-^

[DGoddessChardonnay]

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5. Yelp and curse and jump around doing the Dance of the Bozo Customer.

I can't seem to find that video on YouTube . . . could you film it next time and post it for posterity, erm our amusement?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Sorry, forgot my cell. And I was too busy high-tailing it to the backroom so I wouldn't explode into hysterics right in front of this dolt anyway.

[blas]

I'd have a hard time not laughing as well.

[underemployeed]

I'm just waiting to hear that the SC won the lawsuit and owns the store. Seems people these days are not responsible for their own stupid choices.

[MoonCat]

I'm just waiting to hear that the SC won the lawsuit and owns the store. Seems people these days are not responsible for their own stupid choices.

Well, of course not! You're supposed to anticipate all the ways people might harm themselves by doing something stupid and take appropriate steps to protect them from themselves!

Seriously, who tips a bookcase forward to look at it? What was she looking at, the back? Why??

[Grape The Cat]

Wow. You really get some odd sorts. Irv.

[Andara Bledin]

To be honest, I'm kind of surprised that the shelves weren't fixed in place somehow to avoid this sort of thing, since we all know how imbecilic and sue-happy customers can be.

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