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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/totally-estupido-part-6/136757/ “WELL, HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO MAKE ANY MONEY IF YOU DON’T SPEAK ENGLISH?! TERRIBLE SERVICE! I AM COMPLAINING!”]] Note that this story takes place in ''Costa Rica''.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-signature-sign-of-why-stupid-people-shouldnt-be-allowed-money/148733/ This woman]] signs her signature on the PIN pad with a permanent marker instead of the stylus, and then gets paranoid over identity theft and ''rips the pad off the register'' and tries to run off with it.
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* CruellaToAnimals: In [[https://notalwaysright.com/what-was-in-that-happy-meal/102289/ this story]], the submitter tries to canvas donations to an animal shelter, and on the first mention of dogs to one lady…
-->'''Lady:''' “Dogs! Filthy, disgusting, horrible animals! How dare you ask me to support f****** dogs?! They should all be thrown into a fire, cooked, and eaten! Or better, eaten alive!” ''*proceeds to spit at [the submitter's] feet then slams the door in [their] face*''
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** Similarly, [[https://notalwaysright.com/fishy-practices-all-around/248681/ this repeat customer]] routinely doesn't cycle his water and keeps too many fish in too small a space, and [[NeverMyFault blames the store for selling him sick fish. Unfortunately, [[PointyHairedBoss management enables his behaviour because they want his money more than they want better care for their fish]].

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** Similarly, [[https://notalwaysright.com/fishy-practices-all-around/248681/ this repeat customer]] routinely doesn't cycle his water and keeps too many fish in too small a space, and [[NeverMyFault blames the store for selling him sick fish. ]] Unfortunately, [[PointyHairedBoss management enables his behaviour because they want his money more than they want better care for their fish]].



* DuctTapeForEverything: [[https://notalwaysright.com/goodbye-fighting-hello-kitty/110371/ This bartender]] uses Hello Kitty duct tape to stop bar fights. (ItMakesSenseInContext- the bar had a 'no sports logo hats' policy because people kept starting fights over rival sports teams. Customers would be allowed to keep their hats, if they let the bartender slap a strip of duct tape over the logo and declare them supporters of the Pretty Kitties.[[CrazyEnoughToWork It actually worked]].)

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* DuctTapeForEverything: [[https://notalwaysright.com/goodbye-fighting-hello-kitty/110371/ This bartender]] uses Hello Kitty duct tape to stop bar fights. (ItMakesSenseInContext- the bar had a 'no sports logo hats' policy because people kept starting fights over rival sports teams. Customers would be allowed to keep their hats, if they let the bartender slap a strip of duct tape over the logo and declare them supporters of the Pretty Kitties. [[CrazyEnoughToWork It actually worked]].)
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/mewtwo/92926/ This woman]] is (assuming it was't a particularly weird prank) convinced that veterinarians and the cat shelter are cloning her and/or her friends' cats.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/elvis-left-kennel/103139/ This customer]] asks the submitter to paint a portrait of her dog… who's been dead six years.
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* [[http://notalwaysright.com/disabled-but-not-disarmed/ This customer]] believes that another customer, quietly reading a book and drinking her coffee, is "offending" and "abusing" him simply by virtue of requiring a walking stick.
* [[https://notalwaysright.com/moaning-about-immigrants-while-eating-a-kebab-doesnt-give-you-a-leg-to-stand-on/135360/ These ableist and racist busybodies]] take issue with an amputee eating near them for "flaunt[ing] their abnormalities around where everybody can see them.”

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* ** [[http://notalwaysright.com/disabled-but-not-disarmed/ This customer]] believes that another customer, quietly reading a book and drinking her coffee, is "offending" and "abusing" him simply by virtue of requiring a walking stick.
* ** [[https://notalwaysright.com/moaning-about-immigrants-while-eating-a-kebab-doesnt-give-you-a-leg-to-stand-on/135360/ These ableist and racist busybodies]] take issue with an amputee eating near them for "flaunt[ing] their abnormalities around where everybody can see them.”

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* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: [[http://notalwaysright.com/disabled-but-not-disarmed/ This customer]] believes that another customer, quietly reading a book and drinking her coffee, is "offending" and "abusing" him simply by virtue of requiring a walking stick.

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* [[https://notalwaysright.com/moaning-about-immigrants-while-eating-a-kebab-doesnt-give-you-a-leg-to-stand-on/135360/ These ableist and racist busybodies]] take issue with an amputee eating near them for "flaunt[ing] their abnormalities around where everybody can see them.”
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** After [[https://notalwaysright.com/hes-just-looking-to-blow-smoke/152162/ this guy]] is told not to smoke in the restaurant and his attempt to bribe the submitter to look the other way falls flat, he tosses his cigarette lighter into a restaurant's fryer, causing a fire that necessitates the restaurant's evacuation.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-your-regular-kind-of-meltdown/158390/ This customer]] angrily leaves her hairstylist when she's angry that her hair looks off (which would have been remedied when her hair was dried), even though she's had this style many times before. She leaves with it still wet, though not before drawing a penis in condensation on the stylist's window. When she comes back, the stylist asks her why she didn't notice the process earlier, she launches into a rather detailed story about being locked up by her CrazyCatLady grandmother who destroyed her phone.
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* BewareTheQuietOnes: [[https://notalwaysright.com/biker-guy-starts-a-vicious-cycle/178939/ This coworker]] is small, timid, and babyfaced. But when a customer twice his size violently threatens him, the customer winds up leaving the store with a shattered hip and two cracked ribs.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/crazy-or-lazy/179653/ Here]] we see a bizarre example of this trope crossed with TheyJustDontGetIt. Everyone else can plainly see ''three'' cashiers at the checkout, but the customer ''insists'' that there is no one there to the point of getting violent.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/bringing-you-some-ketchup-assault-and-pepper/182054/ This woman]] ''punches'' a waitress for asking if she wanted another glass of wine, as she figured [[InsaneTrollLogic the waitress was insinuating that she was an alcoholic]].
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-day-the-music-died-5/186687/ This genius]] somehow broke multiple displays of rare and extensive antiques just by trying to put a guitar back on a stand.

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* {{Angrish}}: Made worse in [[https://notalwaysright.com/welsh-accent-alcohol-anger-disaster/256568/ this story]] since the customer is not only very upset but also moderately drunk and ''extremely'' Welsh.

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Made worse in [[https://notalwaysright.com/welsh-accent-alcohol-anger-disaster/256568/ this story]] since the customer is not only very upset but also moderately drunk and ''extremely'' Welsh.Welsh.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/needs-that-shampoo-with-those-calming-herbs/187454/ This customer]] is reduced to "incomprehensible screaming, mixed with overdramatic sobs and heaving breaths" when she doesn't get what she wants.
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** In a bizarre example, [[https://notalwaysright.com/gremlins-in-the-library/118994/ this guy]] leaves his dog in a university library, where it defecates everywhere and leads staff on a wild chase. He seems to have no idea why it's a problem.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: [[https://notalwaysright.com/not-so-pretty-in-pink-part-6/204035/ This fast food joint]] gets three loud, angry female customers within one hour, all wearing pink.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-oregon-trail-the-conan-edition/211707/ This cable company]] receives a ''very'' irate phone call from a man who didn't like how his show was pre-empted.
--->'''Caller:''' “I f****** hate Creator/ConanOBrien!" […] “I hope you and every single employee of your company get diarrhea for an entire month!”
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/okay-but-were-they-any-good/227205/ This genius rock band]] decides to hold a nighttime performance… in a hotel room.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/shes-playing-hardball/227736/ This mother]] thinks it's a good idea to have a photographer take a picture of her son throwing a baseball – a hard, actual baseball – at the camera. Despite the submitter explaining to her multiple times that this is a recipe for property damage if not ''injury'', she doesn't get the picture, and tells her son to throw it at the camera anyway, breaking it. She had to be dragged out by security.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/thats-one-whopper-of-an-overreaction/250936/ This maniac]] calls the submitter and tells them that they and their family should die, for pointing out she's at wrong restaurant (because all fast food restaurants are owned by the same people ''[[SarcasmMode obviously]]'').
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/that-seems-like-a-proportionate-response/250950/ This guy]] harasses the submitter and promises to "make sure of it that you’re scared when you walk the streets," just for asking to see his ID when he tried to buy alcohol.
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* FaceYourFears: [[https://notalwaysright.com/dog-gone-crazy-3/156074/ This "dog-sitter"]] turns out to have a ''massive'' dog phobia. They thought being a dog-sitter would be a good way of getting over it. From what little we see of her, it doesn't seem to be working.
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* FaceYourFear: [[https://notalwaysright.com/dog-gone-crazy-3/156074/ This "dog-sitter"]] turns out to have a ''massive'' dog phobia. They thought being a dog-sitter would be a good way of getting over it. From what little we see of her, it doesn't seem to be working.

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* FaceYourFear: FaceYourFears: [[https://notalwaysright.com/dog-gone-crazy-3/156074/ This "dog-sitter"]] turns out to have a ''massive'' dog phobia. They thought being a dog-sitter would be a good way of getting over it. From what little we see of her, it doesn't seem to be working.
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* FaceYourFear: [[https://notalwaysright.com/dog-gone-crazy-3/156074/ This "dog-sitter"]] turns out to have a ''massive'' dog phobia. They thought being a dog-sitter would be a good way of getting over it. From what little we see of her, it doesn't seem to be working.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/it-was-no-problem-until-they-became-the-problem/271068/ This woman]] seems perfectly happy with the service she receives… until the submitter tells them "no problem" instead of "you're welcome," and things only devolve from there.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/diablo-is-going-to-blow-her-poor-brainwashed-mind/294676/ This woman]] seems to think ''every video game ever'' is blasphemous since "only God can work his will through another, and when a person does it, they’re pretending to be God!”

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* BeastInTheBuilding: A substantial amount of stories involve customers sneaking in their pets – despite rules to the contrary.

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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/disclaimer-this-may-or-may-not-be-legal-where-you-live/255355/ This drunk]] tries to circumvent drunk driving charges while buying extra beer by riding a horse into a convenience store.
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* BeastInTheBuilding: A substantial amount of stories involve customers sneaking in their pets – despite rules to the contrary.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/explaining-the-science-will-do-a-fat-lot-of-good/309952/ A customer at an ice cream shop]] tells the cashier that she is trying to reduce her fat in-take. The minute the customer says the word "fat", the customer in line directly behind her explodes into a tirade about discrimination toward fat people even though the only mention of "fat" was referring to nutritional fat.

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