# What do your customers do that annoy you?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-customers-do-that-annoy-you/253703>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 5, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-customers-do-that-annoy-you/253703 "2004-07-05T22:02:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-customers-do-that-annoy-you/253703/81 "2004-07-08T04:06:34Z")

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> [@saramamalana](#):
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> There’s no way to not rudely say “excuse me I’m busy with someone else, I don’t want to make them wait because you don’t know what to pick from your niece’s registry.”

How about “Yes, I’ll be with you in just a moment”? Not rude at all, and if they get pissy about it, then they’re the rude ones. (Not that that helps you, but at least YOU weren’t rude.)

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