A canonical list of SCs

[k66]

Mr. You're Not Male, You Don't Know Anything The guy that thinks because you're female, you don't know anything about electronic devices and proceeds to walk past you and bug a male associate who is busy with others of this category.

Ms. You're Not Male..... Usually accompanies the Mr. above but thinks you aren't capable of assiting them because they wouldn't be capable of assiting customers if they were you.

Mr./Ms. You're So Tiny, Are You Sure You Can Carry All That? Sometimes they evolve with the skill to add more dishes to your tray while commenting how heavy your tray must be.

The Doppleganger A customer who insists they visited the store a few hours earlier and were promised a good deal by an associate who they can't describe physically but insist is employed at the store.

The Gravitational Pull Guests who sit at a table and think that condiments and settings from nearby tables are for their taking. Usually exerts dirty dishes and trash to nearby tables [which are clean!!] as a trade off for borrowed settings.

The Bilingual There are 3 variations to this.

1. Orders in perfect English, talks smack about you to their friends in their native language. Usually poor tippers.

2. Gives you blank looks as if they don't understand English [sometimes goes as far as ordering in a foreign language] then converses with their friends in English.

3. Throws out random phrases in the language revelant to the work in an attempt to look culturally experienced or humorous[example: Chinese in a Chinese restaurant]. Bonus points: Pronunciation so poor, it sounds like an entirely different language.

The Student Raises their hand as soon as they realize they need something. Bonus Points: They raise their hand after you've taken only 2 steps away from the table. Game Winner: They raise their hand for someone else while you are speaking to them.

Mr./Ms. I Eat Here, Its My House Tries to walk into the restaurant kitchen for whatever reason. Tries to serve themselves drinks [example: reaching over the bar counter to get the well gun].


Hopefully no one else threw these out...since I have to have my posts approved an all. I apologize for any duplicates.

[scarred4lifebykinkos]

Re: My List

Enjoying this very much. I can see all of them playing in the film library in my poor broken little head...!

Here's mine:

The "ImSoGladYoureHere" SC - This is the guy who comes in at 4am for a FAX from another country and wants to talk to you because no one else is awake. Just because I happen to be awake, doesn't mean I would just LOVE to talk to you instead of doing all the work I have going on...

The "ScaryHoboGuyLateAtNight" SC - This is the guy who comes in at 4am to use the restroom, and urinates on the floor. No one else will let him use the john. I wonder why? Anyway, I saw him coming once, and put a sign on both restrooms, saying "Out Of Order". Guess the smelly poor-aimed, upstanding member of the community can't read. Yep, you guessed it, I had pee patrol that night. I confronted him, and he says, "It wasn't me. I sit down when I pee". I told him to make sure he finished before he stands up then...ugh.

The "INeverApprovedThat" SC - This is usually a female. Typically around X-Mas time. She will order custom greeting cards with the oh so special and VERY important greeting from the Johnsons, Huffers, (insert well-to-do name here) etc. She will order 200 double-sided color cards. She will return to approve the quality, checking the spelling of her greeting, and she will SIGN off on a completed "proof". She will agree to have production started ASAP...aaaaand the next day when she picks up her order---She finds an error she missed!! I just love those ladies. They are the greatest. The cream of the crop. And hey, you know that it's always the guy at the counters' fault who finds her order as well. ALWAYS.

[ArenaBoy]

The Talk over you SC: This SC is annoying and talks over you when you are trying to give info to the customer.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

The Lap Runner: (not really sucky, just amusing). This one older guy who smells like pee and clearly has some form of cognitive delay , who visits the store just about every day, and has a habit of going through the automatic entrance doors, then back out the automatic exit doors, then back through the entrance doors, then back out the exit doors. Does this about 3 or 4 times before finally entering the store for good.

The Barstool Customer: People (I'll be charitable and call them "morons") who buy a bunch of barstools, get them loaded up, get them home, put them together--and then find out the stools are the wrong size (usually they error on the side of the stools being too short for the counter, table or bar). So then the moron tosses the barstools back in the vehicle and brings them back and returns them, and then somebody, usually Yours Truly, has to figure out what to do with a bunch of assembled barstools because we already have them on display.

There's a wonderful invention out there. It's called a tape measure. Use it!

Monosyllabic Guy:

MG: (to me) Hey!
I.P: Yes, can I help you find something?
MG: Light bulbs!
I.P: (thinking "Yes, light bulbs. What about them?") Right this way, I'll take you over to them
MG: (upon arriving at light bulbs) Hmmmph!
I.P: Anything else I can help you find today?
MG: No!
I.P: Okay, thank you.
MG: Thanks!

[Bigevilogre]

It reminds me of the one who walks by looking at what you have and leaves. They return a few minutes later looking at the same things and leaves. When you ask if they need any help "No, just looking. Thanks." and then return once again to just look. I call them the Lookie Losers.

[no handle for this one]. - A lonely person who insist on hanging in the store and engaging you in conversation about his weird obsession.


I'm sure the rest of you will have additions to this list.