Things customers told you that you knew weren't true

Slappy*McFish said:
she pointed to a particular fish that she liked and asked if I could get those in yellow. She couldn't understand it when I said no, those fish aren't yellow...ever. It's like she thought we had a fish factory in the back of the store that could custom-make fish or something.
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LMFAO thati s ASTOUNDING. i want a fish factory!!
 
Lady: "I need a dozen rosey reds for my bala shark, he killed the other one i had in the tank"
Me: thinking to myself that that was kinda weird, "well how big is your tank?"
Lady: "29 gallon"
Me: "What else do you have in there?"
Lady: "Just the bala shark about 3in long like the other one he killed, and a 9in channel catfish"

....so you can guess what REALLY happened to the other bala
 
I think my fav is when a customer comes in with a dead fish wanting a replacement and doesnt bring a water sample, then says, well that water in the bag (with the dead fish) is from my tank, just test that. After explaning why that wont help they proceed to let us know that they indeed ran tests this morning, and everything was fine so we should replace the fish.
 
This is not exactly on topic but I think you'll get a good laugh out of it.

I'm a professional pet groomer (hence the username).

I answered the phone to hear what sounded like an older lady. She had an Old English Sheepdog and wanted to know how much it would costo give it a "poodle perm". I chuckled and thought to myself 'great, a prank call' and said "we don't do poodle perms". She insisted that we had to, otherwise how did poodles get so curly and she wanted her OES to look like that.

I had an elderly woman bring her poodle in for grooming with a huge chunk of hair missing out of the middle of his head. So I casually ask if she'd been trimming on him at home and she said "OH NO, of course not" and wanted to know why I asked. I said "well, he's got a short spot in the middle of his head". She said "oh, he must have chewed it." If he did, I wanna see that! LOL

I was at the Petco recently and a woman there me and the employee that guppies changed sex. She had a few females and a male and the male died. She said one changed sex to a male and bred with the female and they had babies. She just refused to believe that the female could store sperm and have babies after the death of the male.....oh alrighty lady
 
My favorite was when someone got one of the plastic goldfish bowls. (i'm guessing 1 gallon) and bought 6 bettas! SIX! I asked the women what they were doing and she said that her daughter wanted some fish. I told her that bettas would kill each other, and are too small for the bowl anyway.

She replied with "No, ya little puke, they're the same coloration, so they'll think its them, dont you know anything?"

I replied with "Maam, bettas will flare at their own shadow"

And she said, fine, their all the same coloration. THey must be brothers! They wouldn't kill a brother.
 
luckydud13 said:
My favorite was when someone got one of the plastic goldfish bowls. (i'm guessing 1 gallon) and bought 6 bettas! SIX! I asked the women what they were doing and she said that her daughter wanted some fish. I told her that bettas would kill each other, and are too small for the bowl anyway.

She replied with "No, ya little puke, they're the same coloration, so they'll think its them, dont you know anything?"

I replied with "Maam, bettas will flare at their own shadow"

And she said, fine, their all the same coloration. THey must be brothers! They wouldn't kill a brother.
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:headshake2::rofl:
 
luckydud13 said:
My favorite was when someone got one of the plastic goldfish bowls. (i'm guessing 1 gallon) and bought 6 bettas! SIX! I asked the women what they were doing and she said that her daughter wanted some fish. I told her that bettas would kill each other, and are too small for the bowl anyway.

She replied with "No, ya little puke, they're the same coloration, so they'll think its them, dont you know anything?"

I replied with "Maam, bettas will flare at their own shadow"

And she said, fine, their all the same coloration. THey must be brothers! They wouldn't kill a brother.
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I think I died a little inside when I read this...
 
kjr928 said:
I don't work in a fish store, but I know 2 different people who would do a complete water change and replace all filter media everytime their tank started to look cloudy. They did this for years and never understood why nothing lived more than a couple of months.

On a side note: I guess since the employees of a lfs are supposed to be "professionals" in the industry, they should at least know the basics of fish keeping, which many don't.
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professionals doesnt mean expert. does anyone stop and ask how long they been working there? where did they learn? often its a cycle the new people learn from the people who been there. where did they learn? what about personal responsibility of learning to take care of a animal before buying it?
 
luckydud13 said:
My favorite was when someone got one of the plastic goldfish bowls. (i'm guessing 1 gallon) and bought 6 bettas! SIX! I asked the women what they were doing and she said that her daughter wanted some fish. I told her that bettas would kill each other, and are too small for the bowl anyway.

She replied with "No, ya little puke, they're the same coloration, so they'll think its them, dont you know anything?"

I replied with "Maam, bettas will flare at their own shadow"

And she said, fine, their all the same coloration. THey must be brothers! They wouldn't kill a brother.
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Even people kill brothers! It must have been an interesting showoff though!
 
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