# Customer from Hell **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 6, 2015, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358 "2015-05-06T04:04:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![b3ard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@b3ard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/b3ard)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/1 "2015-05-06T04:04:43Z")
Anybody got a good customer from hell story? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/2 "2015-05-06T04:11:02Z")
Yeah, it’s about this asshole who signs up for a free message board and then starts content-free threads expecting everyone else to entertain him. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/3 "2015-05-06T04:29:46Z")
Ouch! Touché, but ouch! ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/4 "2015-05-06T04:54:29Z")
> [@b3ard](#): > > Anybody got a good customer from hell story? Is reddit down? ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/5 "2015-05-06T07:43:11Z")
There was this one dude who showed up and wanted to buy my immortal soul. I had to turn him down, though, since I did go to law school and pass the bar once upon a time, and thus was out of inventory. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/6 "2015-05-06T08:02:48Z")
> [@b3ard](#): > > Anybody got a good customer from hell story? Actually, in my experience most of the customers from hell are pretty bad. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/7 "2015-05-06T10:59:35Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Actually, in my experience most of the customers from hell are pretty bad. They’re better than those from that other place on the opposite side of town. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/8 "2015-05-06T11:37:41Z")
What, is the search function still unavailable to board members with guest status? ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/9 "2015-05-06T12:40:21Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > They’re better than those from that other place on the opposite side of town. All have that holier than tho attitude? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/10 "2015-05-06T13:00:40Z")
Those bastards are always looking for things with abnormal heat tolerance. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/11 "2015-05-06T13:54:58Z")
I suppose[this idiot](http://woodtv.com/2015/03/25/mcdonalds-shooting-suspect-tells-police-it-was-accident/) might fit the bill. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/12 "2015-05-06T14:53:58Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > Is reddit down? If so, try Not Always Right. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/13 "2015-05-06T14:56:20Z")
nm . ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/14 "2015-05-06T14:59:07Z")
[Roy L. Pearson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_v._Chung) > [@](#): > > Pearson filed suit against Soo Chung, Jin Nam Chung and Ki Y. Chung, the owners of Custom Cleaners in Washington, D.C., initially demanding $67 million for inconvenience, mental anguish and attorney’s fees for representing himself, as a result of their failure, in Pearson’s opinion, to live up to a “satisfaction guaranteed” sign that was displayed in the store. I was living inside The Beltway when this happened. It made international news, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/15 "2015-05-06T15:20:15Z")
Go down to the crossroads. There might be some there. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/16 "2015-05-06T15:39:10Z")
Apparently an employee at our local Home Despot hardware store starting throwing potted plants at a customer. To the point the cops had to be called in. Sure wish I had been there to see it. Bet the story was good too but alas will never know… ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/17 "2015-05-06T15:52:02Z")
I just asked her where the pot was and to plant one on me. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/18 "2015-05-06T16:20:23Z")
Well, instead of being rude I’ll give you a few. Fortunately for me I haven’t had to work in the service sector, much, so I don’t have _too_ many of these stories. But I have a few. Both from Costco® (from the '80s). One involved a couple of people in a hissy fit over a parking space. All I remember is that the warehouse manager ordered the main entrance door (which, for any of you who don’t know what Costco® is like, is like a huge garage door) be closed because word was that at least one of the two parties pulled a gun on the other, right in the parking lot! (I’m not sure what happened after that. I _think_ warehouse management must’ve called the police and eventually the front door was re-opened, but I don’t remember how long it took for the incident to play out [although memory says it was less than an hour] or what, if anything, happened to the parties directly involved, later) Another time - and I distinctly remember this - I was near the “Front End” and I heard a customer tell the _assistant_ warehouse manager, “I’ll have your job!” You’ve heard of that old saying, right? “The customer is ALWAYS right!” Well, not in this case! Mr. Assistant Warehouse Manager pulled that guy’s Costco® membership right on the spot. Obviously he wasn’t keen on what the guy had told him! One more (also from that same Costco®): And I wouldn’t necessarily call this a “Customer from Hell” story but I remember one time there was this older woman (we presumed from _somewhere_ in Asia) who was, apparently, going around the store, opening containers of food items up, and taking “samples” of the contents with her fingers and then closing the containers back up (we were notified of this by another customer). Again, not really a TRUE “Customer from Hell” story but memory tells me that someone in authority at the store found the woman and let her know that in THIS country that sort of thing wasn’t tolerated. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/19 "2015-05-06T16:25:48Z")
People are ‘being rude’ as you say because the OP is a one and run type of poster. Has he/she come back? Instead of a one sentence content-less OP, he/she should have started with a story of their own instead of, as **mhendo** says, expecting us to entertain them. Not to mention, if they had looked in the BBQ Pit they would have found some of what they were looking for in the Workplace Griping thread and others. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358/20 "2015-05-06T16:56:29Z")
[Moderating] Moved to MPSIMS from the Pit. [/Moderating] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/customer-from-hell/719358.md?page=2)