Strange retail Requests

Tippex · 14-12-2012 04:08PM #1

My bph (Better Prettier Half) works for a large toy retailer and always has stories about customers asking if they sell other items (last year it was Xmas trees and fairy lights) but the one she got asked on Wednesday takes the biscuit I think.

A customer walked up to her and asked her if they sell bales of hay (no she didn't mishear she repeated it to the customer and he said yeah bales of hay).

What is the strangest thing you have been asked for when working in retail?

MagicMarker · 14-12-2012 04:09PM

bph?

FatherLen · 14-12-2012 04:10PM

is a bar retail?

anyway i was once asked for a bulmers with a guinness head.

weirdo

Where To · 14-12-2012 04:10PM

Tippex wrote: »

My bph works for a large toy retailer and always has stories about customers asking if they sell other items (last year it was Xmas trees and fairy lights) but the one she got asked on Wednesday takes the biscuit I think.

A customer walked up to her and asked her if they sell bales of hay (no she didn't mishear she repeated it to the customer and he said yeah bales of hay).

What is the strangest thing you have been asked for when working in retail?

Your enlarged prostate?:eek:

Pighead · 14-12-2012 04:10PM

Tippex wrote: »

My bph works for a large toy retailer and always has stories about customers asking if they sell other items (last year it was Xmas trees and fairy lights) but the one she got asked on Wednesday takes the biscuit I think.

A customer walked up to her and asked her if they sell bales of hay (no she didn't mishear she repeated it to the customer and he said yeah bales of hay).

What is the strangest thing you have been asked for when working in retail?

Pighead refuses to answer this question until you tell him what a bph is. Google says it means 'Enlarge prostate'. Explain yourself. Please.

Kylo Ren · 14-12-2012 04:11PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

bph?

Their boyphriend obviously...

admiralofthefleet · 14-12-2012 04:11PM

a few years ago a fella was acting strange in the pub one night, generally being a nuisance and was very annoying. he asked me for a pint of smithwicks and a packet of salted peanuts - which he opened and poured into the pint.

each to their own

Pighead · 14-12-2012 04:12PM

Threads in tatters Tippex because of this 'bph' fiasco. Had the potential to become a glorious piece of work but Pighead fears for it's long term future at this stage.

SEPT 23 1989 · 14-12-2012 04:13PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

a few years ago a fella was acting strange in the pub one night, generally being a nuisance and was very annoying. he asked me for a pint of smithwicks and a packet of salted peanuts - which he opened and poured into the pint.

each to their own

I am going to have to try that now thanks

Wacker The Attacker · 14-12-2012 04:14PM

Keno 92 wrote: »

Their boyphriend obviously...

no it wasnt

Where To · 14-12-2012 04:14PM

I was in a coffee shop in Schiphol one time and asked for a large Americano. They gave me an iced coffee with mustard in it, dunno what they thought I'd asked for.

Fizman · 14-12-2012 04:14PM

Keno 92 wrote: »

Their boyphriend obviously...

Please don't let it be this.

DeVore · 14-12-2012 04:15PM

I worked for Mister Minit as a cobbler for years as a lad and we used to keep a list of dumb things people would ask for but the top 3 I recall were

3. Postcards.
2. Plectrums.
1. Icecream!

If the heel-bar was located inside say a Superquinn, people would see the register and come over and try to pay for all sorts of stuff... they'd miss the huge collection of shoes and keys but spot the register and start unloading their groceries....

The thing I really learned from that job was: The general public are f*cking bonkers.

SEPT 23 1989 · 14-12-2012 04:15PM

bph

Wacker The Attacker · 14-12-2012 04:15PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

a few years ago a fella was acting strange in the pub one night, generally being a nuisance and was very annoying. he asked me for a pint of smithwicks and a packet of salted peanuts - which he opened and poured into the pint.

each to their own

Peanuts can only improve smithwicks

franktheplank · 14-12-2012 04:16PM

A single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man's hat.

Kylo Ren · 14-12-2012 04:16PM

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

no it wasnt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk

Wacker The Attacker · 14-12-2012 04:17PM

DeVore wrote: »

I worked for Mister Minit as a cobbler for years as a lad and we used to keep a list of dumb things people would ask for but the top 3 I recall were

3. Postcards.
2. Plectrums.
1. Icecream!

If the heel-bar was located inside say a Superquinn, people would see the register and come over and try to pay for all sorts of stuff... they'd miss the huge collection of shoes and keys but spot the register and start unloading their groceries....

The thing I really learned from that job was: The general public are f*cking bonkers retarded.

fyp

Tippex · 14-12-2012 04:17PM

bph - Better Prettier Half no back on thread.. pighead

Frank Black · 14-12-2012 04:17PM

Is it boyfriend/partner/husband?

aaronjumper · 14-12-2012 04:18PM

You have an enlarged talking prostate?

Im no doctor op but I think you should be worried.

Kylo Ren · 14-12-2012 04:18PM

Tippex wrote: »

bph - Better Prettier Half no back on thread.. pighead

gtfo

FatherLen · 14-12-2012 04:18PM

Tippex wrote: »

bph - Better Prettier Half no back on thread.. pighead

how did you expect us to know what that was?

even google didn't know that!

SEPT 23 1989 · 14-12-2012 04:19PM

DeVore wrote: »

I worked for Mister Minit as a cobbler for years as a lad and we used to keep a list of dumb things people would ask for but the top 3 I recall were

3. Postcards.
2. Plectrums.
1. Icecream!

If the heel-bar was located inside say a Superquinn, people would see the register and come over and try to pay for all sorts of stuff... they'd miss the huge collection of shoes and keys but spot the register and start unloading their groceries....

The thing I really learned from that job was: The general public are f*cking bonkers.

You seem like an intelligent type of bloke

whats a bph?

Where To · 14-12-2012 04:19PM

Tippex wrote: »

bph - Better Prettier Half no back on thread.. pighead

Ahh, you mean pbh.

davet82 · 14-12-2012 04:19PM

black francis wrote: »

Is it boyfriend/partner/husband?

good guess, i would have bet on than that

Anyone · 14-12-2012 04:21PM

So, did the hay help with the enlarged prostate?

Tippex · 14-12-2012 04:21PM

FatherLen wrote: »

how did you expect us to know what that was?

even google didn't know that!

I've fixed the original post....

davet82 · 14-12-2012 04:23PM

Tippex wrote: »

I've fixed the original post....

too late, thread is ruined

gtfo :P

ibarelycare · 14-12-2012 04:23PM

Tippex wrote: »

bph - Better Prettier Half no back on thread.. pighead

Why would you use this term? Now I'm sad.

hattoncracker · 14-12-2012 04:24PM

I worked in a mobile phone shop and the 2 weirdest things I was asked for:

1. A quarter pounder with cheese meal.
2. An underwater thermometer to measure the water temperature in fish farms.

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