Having worked in the public, have you ever had questions that drive you mad??How about comebacks?

Question

For example: you are at work on a Sat. night, someone calls the desk, you answer: "Joe's Sundries!", they ask, "Are you open?"
or someone walks up to the counter where one is in the stupid shirt of the place and asks, "Are you working?"

Answer 1

if you've ever worked at a help desk, you've had your fair share... a favourite was an idiot from chicago who sprayed WD40 on his modem to speed up his hi-speed internet connection, then called tech support to ask what to do as he had smoke coming out of it and apparently from the wires going into his wall... you tell them this is outside your area of expertise, they have to call microsoft and quote the following emergency code "1-D-1-0-T", and they will be helped immediately... microsoft support is very familiar with this alarm lol.

Answer 2

I've had people ask 'Do you work here?' while I was the only person in the store and I was behind the counter. At the last place I worked at, we had a daily problem with people pointing at the price sticker and asking "Are these the real prices?" They'd always try to 'bargain' with me and offer me 50% of what the price tag said. It was an independent record store so I guess people thought they could do that. Oftentimes, people would refuse to pay the tax on the item and sometimes storm out rather than pay the extra 85 cents (or whatever)

We had so many of the same stupid questions day after day that we made a list of them.