"Speak when you are spoken to!!"

[customersruinmylife]

Ooooooh this guy made my blood boil.

I was working the floor when I noticed that a line was building up at the bar. I walked on to help out. I am immediately flagged down by a customer.

SC: I was next.
Me: OK, what can I get you?
SC: I've been waiting ages. Can I have two pints of lager?
Me: Sure thing.

I start making his drinks. As I am preparing them, I hear him mumbling to himself, grunting something along the lines of "useless...been waiting ages here..." I couldn't quite make it out.

Me: I'm sorry?
SC: I wasn't speaking to you! Do NOT speak to me unless I speak to you first!
Me: I'm sorry, I thought you were speaking to me.
SC: I will only speak to you when I want something!

A co-worker who was on the bar shouted "Uh oh!" She knows what I am like.

Me: So I am only good enough to speak to whenever YOU want something. Is that right?
SC: Uhhh..uhhh...no...that's not what I meant...
Me: Oh I think it was.

I handed him his drinks.

Me: Good luck getting served next time. Because I don't want to speak to you!
SC: *very weakly* Sorry.

He sent his friend up to the bar to buy the drinks for the rest of the night.

[seigus]

He actually apologized? That's got to be a first for you.
Nice job.

[stargirl195]

Wow ... you have balls ... but the guy definitely deserved what he got.

I get that with customers too - usually when I'm doing something for them and they're waiting. I sometimes don't think that they realise that I can hear them muttering; for me, all it usually takes to shut them up is a 'I'm really sorry, did you say something? I didn't hear you ...' in a sweet little girl tone.

If I could tell my customers that I didn't want to talk to them, I'd be SO happy

[Aethian]

I would have told him his limit was reached before handing him his pints. Because if your not good enough to speak to him, you must not be good enough to hand him his drinks. But then I can be bitchy like that.

[D_Marx]

Wow. Just wow. And great job with the handling. I have someone to look up to now. :3

[JLG]

Ooooooh this guy made my blood boil.

A co-worker who was on the bar shouted "Uh oh!" She knows what I am like.

I love it when co-workers know something great is about to happen.

[HeatherWolf]

Wow!!!! I'm glad he apologized. But wow..

[protege]

I still don't know why people think it's a good idea....to piss off the person controlling their "fun juice" supply

[tropicsgoddess]

Nice work, CRML!!!

[Soulstealer]

I still don't know why people think it's a good idea....to piss off the person controlling their "fun juice" supply

Perhaps they're trying to quit. It's the only thing that makes sense to me.

[Nyx]

LMAO And he should only speak if he actually wants to be heard.

[Jester]

"Speak to me like that again and you're going to die of thirst."