Adventures in Retail

While overall I enjoy my job at Unidentified Retail Store there are a few things customers do that really piss me off, or just generally irk me.  I thought I'd share a few every now and again to make light of my frustration and educate the masses on what not to do.  The following two examples are fairly meaningless incidents that bug the crap out of me, I think mostly because of how often they happen.

Scenario 1:

A customer approaches the register with their hands full of items and sets them down right at the edge of the counter in front of them.  This is normally no big deal except when your counters are really long this happens:

Seriously, it will take no effort on your part to push the stuff you're buying slightly forward and save me the effort of diving across the counter awkwardly.  It's not even as bad for me as it is for the shorter associates in the store.  True the company didn't need to make awkward yet stylist registers, but they did so please... push your stuff in my direction.

Scenario 2:

This one is probably one of the things that irks me the most during the day and I know it's SUPER petty of me to get so pissed, but it seems sooooooooo stupid to me.  Like many many stores we have fitting rooms.  These fitting rooms have door hangers that say vacant on one side and occupied on the other.  Pretty straight forward right?  Every so often the door hanger falls off the door the customer picks it up and WITHOUT FAIL says this:

Customer: Hey, here's the stuff I don't want... and this fell off of my door... I wasn't sure what to do with it...

They hand me the door hanger and I say this: No problem, have a nice day =D

What I want to say: It's a fucking Door Hanger, what the hell do you think I'M going to do with it?  Put it on the door, dumb ass.

And this is just two of the moderately stupid things people do.  The possibilities are endless, I'm literally astounded everyday at how dumb people are.  I had a customer try to use the temporary credit card out of the store credit card application without applying for it yet.  It was literally a blank piece of card-stock paper she handed me to pay for her stuff.  I still ask myself if she's aware that credit cards always have numbers on them, or at least writing other than just "sign here" especially if they have no magnetic strip.

Come on people!  I know lots of people are stupid, but I see people who I have no doubt in my mind are functional, reasonably intelligent people in their day to day lives act like complete idiots.  More in my adventures with dumb-ass customers to come...