"Silly" customer questions

I wonder what kind of funny questions I'll get thrown at me when I start working at a LFS in march. Although I did have this conversation with the guy who runs a pool place where I was buying some pool filter sand:

Me: Excuse me, where is the pool filter sand?
Guy: What size is the filter?
Me: Actually, I'm using it for an aquarium.
Guy: Is it a Fresh or Salt water aquarium?
Me: Fresh.
Guy: Nope, it won't work.
Me: Why not? I'm already using sand in my other tank.
Guy: Take it out then, your fish will choke on it if they try to grab food from the bottom.
Me: But the poo stays on top making it easier to clean.
Guy: It doesn't matter, it's bad for them.
Me: Look, do you want my money or not? I don't care what you say about my tank, just let me have the **** sand and let me leave.
 
Rallysman said:
No such thing as a stupid question. Just stupid people.
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:iagree: :werd:

On second thought, there are a few exceptions for stupid questions based on my perception.:D
 
DAVIDFBT said:
Guy: Nope, it won't work.
Me: Why not? I'm already using sand in my other tank.
Guy: Take it out then, your fish will choke on it if they try to grab food from the bottom.
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lol..seems that a fish would be much more likely to choke on a piece of gravel than a few tiny grains of sand.
 
My favorite when I had my shop was about the 180 marine angel tank in our front counter. I got this on more than one occasion, "what kind of fish is that?" Its a French Angel. "Is it fresh or salt?" Its salt. "What kind is that?"(pointing to same tank) Its a Green Bird Wrasse. "Is it fresh or salt?" After the third time this happened I stopped telling people that there is no such thing as a stupid question.
 
Tifftastic said:


2. I have some red fish and some yellow fish, what kind of fish go good with them?
1. Wow, do fish really grow?

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#2 Fried fish or plastic ones will do well

#1 Like you, their bodies grow while their brains stay small



:grinyes::grinyes::grinyes:
 
lol! this thread is so funny. I used to work at my local rip off mart....never doing that again lol
 
I was at my LFS that I may work at, and I could tell the employee was getting annoyed.

Customer: Mommy! I want that snail!
Mom: Okay honey, lets ask the nice lady for it then.

*proceeds to employee*

Employee: How many I help you?
Customer: I wanna snail!
Employee: Okay, what tank are you going to put it.....*cut off*
Customer: It doesn't matter! They mold to my tank, and I want him to play with my sucker fish!

Mother: We'll take two.

Employee: Are you sure? What size tank do you.... *cut off again*
Customer: They are in a huuuge tank *Spreads arms roughly the size of a 10 gallon*
Employee: *sighs, picks up snail*

"Have a nice day..."

As Customer and Mother walk out, customer is babbling about giving his gold fish, pleco (Suckerfish?!) crayfish, and guppies a new friend.
 
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