Words that make you cringe

[EricKei]

This x 1000! They want to glue/tape/staple the item together, then are absolutely gobsmacked when it falls apart the first time they wear or use it.

I can sew a pillow together from the base fabric and have it come out (roughly) in the proper shape, I can sew a patch onto a jacket using the right color thread, and I can probably repair a tear on a teddy bear ...but that's about the extent of my mad $3\/\/!nG skills...But, even I know that glue/tape/staples on fabric are only there to hold the damn edges together/straight until you finish doing the actual sewing x.x

[workerbee222]

"Is there anyone here that could sew this for me?" talk about putting the cart before the horse. Do you buy a bunch of random computer parts then ask if anyone is around to turn it into a desktop tower for you? A pile of lumber then seek out a contractor?

Our local fabric store used to keep a notebook full of business cards for people to flip through. On another forum, brides are routinely advised to "Just have a seamstress whip it up, it will be so much cheaper." Mmm-hmm.

I've made dresses for myself that, when I tried them on, were awful and needed serious reworking. What these folks don't realize is that if you try on a dress at Macy's and it makes you look stout, you don't have to buy it. If I make you a dress, I'll make it fit you, but whether you like the finished result or not, you will pay for it.

[Nunavut Pants]

"Which way is the train going?"

Straight into the ocean.

Sounds like a game of Transamerica!

[Dreamstalker]

"The bottle machine is jammed". I neither have anything to do with it nor care (especially if it's the same person who jammed it two minutes previous).

"This isn't ringing up right..."

[Sparklyturtle]

About "I know this is the wrong department..." Sometimes a customer has no idea who they should talk to. In 2012 my aunt passed away, and as her executor I had to notify her credit accounts, etc. about her death and settle any outstanding bills. I would call the Customer Service number, and listen to the computerized listing, and if there was a "For all other matters, please press [whatever]" command I'd do that. For the ones that didn't have anything like that, and most of them did not, I'd try to reach a live person, then explain what I needed. In the case of two of her catalogs I had to call the phone order line, as that was the only number I could find, and ask whoever answered for help. I was always polite, though.

[Mr Hero]

On sold out nights I get this string of questions frequently:

"Do you have any rooms?
"What's going on in City?"
"Do you know who still has rooms?"

I don't mind the first question so much, but I get tired of answering the other questions because I have incoming calls ready to ask me the same thing.