Ugh, I hate people. When I first heard about SARS and how it had the potential to be a new plague I was so excited! Why can’t we have people dying off in droves?!?!?! My own death would be acceptable “collateral damage”.
I work in a retail marine aquarium shop. I daily deal with people completely ignorant when it comes to this hobby. That’s OK though, that’s what I’m here for. I do my best not only to keep customers happy, but to keep these animals alive and going to good homes. Of course this is a horrid society teeming with drooling morons full of willful ignorance and righteous indignation. Fucking pricks. I’ll use my latest caller as an example.
I had a man call in to get some information about our stock since he lived across town and didn’t want to make the trip unless we had what he was looking for. (Wow sir! Points for you! You just demonstrated common sense!) Unfortunately we are pretty low on stock right now as the owner is in the midst of closing on a new house and moving and thus fish orders had to take a week off. Of course, this didn’t seem to deter his persistence. He wanted to know what we had. I told him what we had. Then he wanted to know if we had something else. I told him what we had. This went on and on. And on. And on. I told him no less that a dozen goddamn times that we had few fish and even took the fucking time to list every single fish in the store and he was still like, " But do you have this?!? And do you have that?!?" What the fuck don’t you understand about “These are the only fish we have” you cock-sucking whore?!? Shit!
Of course during this same discussion he keeps asking about fish that have little to no business even being collected due to the fact they grow too large for the average home aquarium. He comments that he doesn’t mind that they won’t last, as long as he can enjoy them for a while. WTF?!?! These are not a bouquet of flowers, you ass-eating rectal wart! We are talking about living creatures that we are taking from their natural environment for our own pleasure. That’s bad enough, but the least you could fucking do would be provide them a suitable home and do your damnedest to insure that they live out their natural lifespans in comfort. OMFG I hate these people! And to make matters even worse he then proceeds to tell me about some anemones that he had that did really well and asked if we had any more. When I asked him to describe them to me he couldn’t because they died and couldn’t remember what they looked like!!! When I asked what kind of lighting system he had he told me he had “the special anemone bulbs”. (Anemones, for the uninitiated, have a symbiotic relationship with photosynthetic algae and need high-output lighting in addition to food in order to survive in captivity.) I’ve been in this hobby for 3 goddamn years and I’ve done more research and reading about it than 99% of the people I’ve spoken to at this store and there is no such fucking thing as a “special anemone bulb”. And if that’s what he was told they were, he was robbed. All he had were some normal output fluorescent tubes with a slightly higher color temperature (most likely 10,000 K). What pisses me off the most is that he couldn’t even begin to consider that perhaps I might be right. Willful ignorance enrages me to levels previously unimagined.
Fuck you, ass-hat! No fish for you! (I am so glad it’s the weekend)
It’s situations like this that make me eager to go back to school and get out of a life of retail hell.
And goddamn it! I wanted to post this 30 minutes ago but the server seems to be on a fucking coffee break!!! Ahhhhhh! crawls into a corner and whimpers softly
