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Ahhhhh, Brings back memories, and not all good ones. 
Have you had an OCD customer yet? We had to ban a lady after she brought back the same gallon of paint over a dozen times in one week because "it's not riiiiiiight".
The "Hit & Run" customers who drop a color and say "Make this" and then disappear before I could ask "Gallon? Inside? Outside? Flat? Satin? Semi-gloss?"
And I refused to make paint for phone customers after several notes with wrong information. Our computer could adjust for light sources; Incandescent, Fluorescent or Natural. And guess what? We had a color called Natural also.
The people who wanted me to fix other companies colors because they did not want to drive all the way back to OKC. I of course said No! Our computer is only programed for our paint line.
The people who would bring in that gallon of paint that has been in their garage since D-Day. I had one that burst the seam and covered the inside of the paint shaker. I took me all day to clean up that mess.
There was the guy who used Paint Stripper to remove his old paint, but got in such a hurry that he painted over the stripper. The new paint came off in large sheets.
The guy who bought like 6 gallons of Purple paint, I went to get him a basket, but no I can carry this! He got to the counter, tried to swing them up and lost all of them. I had a Purple blob 5 feet wide in the busiest part of the store. And even with me cleaning it up with trash cans, bags of kitty litter, mop buckets and such, I still had several people walk right through the paint and leave purple footprints all the way to the back of the store.
Have you had an OCD customer yet? We had to ban a lady after she brought back the same gallon of paint over a dozen times in one week because "it's not riiiiiiight".
The "Hit & Run" customers who drop a color and say "Make this" and then disappear before I could ask "Gallon? Inside? Outside? Flat? Satin? Semi-gloss?"
And I refused to make paint for phone customers after several notes with wrong information. Our computer could adjust for light sources; Incandescent, Fluorescent or Natural. And guess what? We had a color called Natural also.
The people who wanted me to fix other companies colors because they did not want to drive all the way back to OKC. I of course said No! Our computer is only programed for our paint line.
The people who would bring in that gallon of paint that has been in their garage since D-Day. I had one that burst the seam and covered the inside of the paint shaker. I took me all day to clean up that mess.
There was the guy who used Paint Stripper to remove his old paint, but got in such a hurry that he painted over the stripper. The new paint came off in large sheets.
The guy who bought like 6 gallons of Purple paint, I went to get him a basket, but no I can carry this! He got to the counter, tried to swing them up and lost all of them. I had a Purple blob 5 feet wide in the busiest part of the store. And even with me cleaning it up with trash cans, bags of kitty litter, mop buckets and such, I still had several people walk right through the paint and leave purple footprints all the way to the back of the store.
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