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** [[notalwaysright.com/tampax-kayaks-same-thing/68108/ This customer]] tries to get deodorant and a tampon at ''a university athletic goods store'' and has an interesting way of trying to justify this.
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'''Customer:''' "Well I'm a student, I'm outside, and I need deodorant and a tampon!"
--->'''Submitter:''' "This is the Outdoor Center. We provide outdoor recreational equipment for students."\\
'''Customer:''' "Well I'm a student, I'm outside, and I need deodorant and a tampon!"
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** Similarly, [[https://notalwaysright.com/dim-witted-and-off-the-deep-end-part-2/70295/ this grandmother]] is mad that the submitter – a lifeguard – stopped her grandson from jumping off the high-dive as he's not a strong enough swimmer. When the lifeguard points out that if her grandson jumped, he would drown, she retorts that that's what the lifeguard's there for and calls the submitter lazy.
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** "Honey, you live in ''[[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Bronco]]'' country, [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-really-dropped-the-football-on-that-one/155391/ and if you don't like that you have to leave!"]]
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/selfish-smokers/69876/ This customer]] apparently thinks the warnings on cigarette packets are ''exclusionary'', since he insists on getting the ones that say "Smoking may harm others" rather than the ones that warn of health issues happening to the ''smoker''.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-cant-stop-the-music/ This one]] doubles as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for the submitter.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-cant-stop-the-music/ This one]] doubles as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for the submitter.submitter, who takes the broken neck of their violin and sends it right into the crotch of the man who broke it, incapacitating him long enough for the cops to arrive and arrest him.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/gun-control-out-of-control-part-4/322569/ This customer]] managed to shoot himself in the crotch with a loaded gun.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/gun-control-out-of-control-part-4/322569/ This customer]] managed to shoot himself in the crotch with a loaded gun.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-customer-is-always-right/220337/ These restaurant customers]] regularly book a table for 6:00pm, arrive at 7:30 and kick up a fuss when they're told they've missed their reservation, so the restaurant started booking them at 7:30 in the first place. This works until a new hostess makes the mistake of ''telling'' them their booking is for 7:30 (the time they arrived at), and they insist that it was 6:00. So she calmly says she's moved it to six, they've missed it, and their next available table is at nine.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/control-yourself-and-your-kids/253835/ This mother]] lets her kids trespass onto a neighbour's yard, and even gets her oldest kid to try and steal a solar panel for her (lying that she had the neighbour's permission to do so), and threatens to sue when the submitter pins the kid down after the kid attacks them while trying to get the panel back.
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** When [[https://notalwaysright.com/no-mr-customer-i-expect-you-to-buy/169527/ this energy company]] sends customers free energy-efficient light bulbs as part of a promotion, one customer calls them to say they're "onto them." Apparently he thinks that by sending them bulbs that generate less heat, the company's trying to make customers use their heaters more, and thus generate ''more'' energy.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-tired-daughter-of-jane-complain/301435/ This story]] about a woman who takes pleasure in finding something to complain about every time she enters the store, and her daughter, who is mortified by this, and takes steps to ensure she ''doesn't'' have anything to complain about by secretly pre-ordering ''every variety of oatmeal'' before her mother comes in, finds out which variety isn't on the shelf, and insists she can only have that one. After the mother has had the wind taken out of her sales, the daughter donates the other boxes to charity.
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-tired-daughter-of-jane-complain/301435/ This story]] about a woman who takes pleasure in finding something to complain about every time she enters the store, and her daughter, who is mortified by this, and takes steps to ensure she ''doesn't'' have anything to complain about by secretly pre-ordering ''every variety of oatmeal'' before her mother comes in, finds out which variety isn't on the shelf, and insists she can only have that one. After the mother has had the wind taken out of her sales, sails, the daughter donates the other boxes to charity.
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* EyeScream: A customer assumes a clerk's eye patch is a fashion statement. [[http://notalwaysright.com/an-eye-for-an-eyepatch/ She is quite wrong.]]
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** The stories filed under [[https://notalwaysright.com/tag/extra-stupid/ "extra stupid"]] tend to fall under this.
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** [[http://notalwaysright.com/how-about-some-dessert-instead/ "How About Some Dessert Instead".]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dreams-really-do-fall-through/ You don't even have to know them.]]
** [[http://notalwaysright.com/dreams-really-do-fall-through/ You don't even have to know them.]]
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-broad-view-of-fraud-part-2/243875/ This woman]] is ''insistent'' she knows her rights better than anyone else and ([[NoIndoorVoice loudly]]) complains when people tell her otherwise. She insists that sales on cardigans should apply to sweaters (they're the same thing!) and that she should be allowed to cut in line (the rules of lines aren't laws!). This comes back to bite her ''big time'' when she tries to use her son's card to pay for her groceries as she says she ought to be able to. Never mind that her name isn't on the card! [[StupidCrooks Never mind that the store's calling the police!]] [[OverlyLongList Never mind that the police are agreeing with them!]] Never mind that her son changed his name and left her! She has a biological mother's right to use take out a card in her son's name, and if the the store, the police, ''and'' the judge say otherwise, they're all wrong!
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-broad-view-of-fraud-part-2/243875/ This woman]] is ''insistent'' she knows her rights better than anyone else and ([[NoIndoorVoice loudly]]) complains when people tell her otherwise. She insists that sales on cardigans should apply to sweaters (they're the same thing!) and that she should be allowed to cut in line (the rules of lines aren't laws!). This comes back to bite her ''big time'' when she tries to use her son's card to pay for her groceries as she says she ought to be able to. Never mind that her name isn't on the card! [[StupidCrooks Never mind that the store's calling the police!]] [[OverlyLongList police! Never mind that the police are agreeing with them!]] Never mind that her son changed his name and left her! She has a biological mother's right to use take out a card in her son's name, and if the the store, the police, ''and'' the judge say otherwise, then they're all ''all'' wrong!
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-broad-view-of-fraud-part-2/243875/ This woman]] is ''insistent'' she knows her rights better than anyone else and ([[NoIndoorVoice loudly]]) complains when people tell her otherwise. She insists that sales on cardigans should apply to sweaters (they're the same thing!) and that she should be allowed to cut in line (the rules of lines aren't laws!). This comes back to bite her ''big time'' when she tries to use her son's card to pay for her groceries as she says she ought to be able to. Never mind that her name isn't on the card! [[StupidCrooks Never mind that the store's calling the police!]] [[OverlyLongList Never mind that the police are agreeing with them!]] Never mind that her son changed his name and left her! She has a biological mother's right to use take out a card in her son's name, and if the the store, the police, ''and'' the judge say otherwise, they're all wrong!
--->''The cops repeatedly reminded her that she had the right to remain silent and she repeatedly ignored them. She had no subtlety, saw nothing wrong with it, and [[DiggingYourselfDeeper just kept admitting her crimes]] [[NoIndoorVoice at full volume]]. Because they weren’t crimes. Because she knew the law and knew her rights better than the cops themselves did. And she would personally tell the judge what the REAL laws were.''
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** In [[https://notalwaysright.com/if-only-it-was-that-easy-to-unblock-customers/311855/ this]] story, the customer actually complains when the OP, an employee of a store he visits, declines his Facebook request and blocks him when he keeps trying to send her a new one. Upon returning to the store, he wants the manager to either force her to unblock him or outright fire her for "disrespecting customers". He gets banned instead.
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* IncompetenceInc: More a staple of ''Website/NotAlwaysWorking'' but [[https://notalwaysright.com/i-scream-for-half-price-ice-cream/325292/ this small supermarket chain]] is a notable ''NAR'' example. They wind up having a mismatch between the circulars and what the computer system says, which leads to an aggravating encounter . It turns out this is because the circulars were written for a new computer system… that was announced six months ago and hasn't been installed at that location.
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* {{Fanservice}}: When [[https://notalwaysright.com/triple-d-levels-of-yikes/322697/ this woman]] contracts the submitter to do some touch-ups on a photo for an ad, the submitter receives an email asking them to make her breasts look bigger. Then, when they comply, they receive another email complaining of the bust increase. Then the submitter receives a third email…
-->'''Client:''' “Sorry for the confusion. The first draft is fine. My husband decided to answer my emails for me.”
FantasticRacism: [[http://notalwaysright.com/ired-by-shire-attire/ Allowing hobbits to buy clothes? Outrageous.]]
-->'''Client:''' “Sorry for the confusion. The first draft is fine. My husband decided to answer my emails for me.”
FantasticRacism: [[http://notalwaysright.com/ired-by-shire-attire/ Allowing hobbits to buy clothes? Outrageous.]]
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: A hotel worker evicts a guest for using slurs against both him and other guests, then calls the cops on her when she slaps him in response. The cop who shows up [[PoliceAreUseless refuses to do anything]] unless a third party who witnessed the slap comes forward, at which point one of the guests [[TheDogBitesBack she'd used a homophobic slur against]] lies and says that [[https://notalwaysright.com/no-vocation-for-location-part-29/324441/ he saw the whole thing]].
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: A hotel worker evicts a guest for using slurs against both him and other guests, then calls the cops on her when she slaps him in response. The cop who shows up [[PoliceAreUseless refuses to do anything]] unless a third party who witnessed the slap comes forward, at which point one of the guests [[TheDogBitesBack she'd used a homophobic slur against]] lies and says that [[https://notalwaysright.com/no-vocation-for-location-part-29/324441/ com/the-truly-awful-stand-out/324400/ he saw the whole thing]].
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** [[https://notalwaysright.com/this-story-is-about-nothing-at-all/321306/ This]] child's mother had just been teaching him, "If you don’t have anything nice to say, then you say nothing at all." Apparently, rather than understanding that this meant "don't say anything", he interpreted this to mean he was supposed to literally say "Nothing at all!" to anyone he couldn't say anything nice about.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfOld: [[https://notalwaysright.com/sometimes-kindness-comes-in-the-roughest-packaging/321340/ This rather strange old woman]] seems to balance [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior constant grouchiness]] with kindness. She donates to a children's charity… in hopes that the money will make the next generation turn out better with "all the [=TikTok=] and whatnot." She complains that the submitter looks too glum and is too weak… and buys her a meal. She complains about a cat coming up to her and of the cost of vet bills and cat supplies… and adopts it and buys it the best cat food.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfOld: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[https://notalwaysright.com/sometimes-kindness-comes-in-the-roughest-packaging/321340/ This rather strange old woman]] seems to balance [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior constant grouchiness]] with kindness. She donates to a children's charity… in hopes that the money will make the next generation turn out better with "all the [=TikTok=] and whatnot." She complains that the submitter looks too glum and is too weak… and buys her a meal. She complains about a cat coming up to her and of the cost of vet bills and cat supplies… and adopts it and buys it the best cat food.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfOld: [[https://notalwaysright.com/sometimes-kindness-comes-in-the-roughest-packaging/321340/ This rather strange old woman]] seems to balance [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior constant grouchiness]] with kindness. She donates to a children's charity… in hopes that the money will make the next generation turn out better with "all the [=TikTok=] and whatnot." She complains that the submitter looks too glum and is too weak… and buys her a meal. She complains about a cat coming up to her and of the cost of vet bills and cat supplies… and adopts it and buys it the best cat food.
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* IronicEcho: [[https://notalwaysright.com/when-they-are-in-receipt-of-practising-what-they-have-preached/320300/ This religious customer]] gives a trans waiter an anti-trans pamphlet instead of a tip, saying "Considering your life choices, I think it’s something that will save you more than any money ever could." The waiter later sees the customer working at a Christian charity which discriminates against the [=LGBTQ=] community and says the same line while giving them a pamphlet for a trans charity instead of a donation.
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: A hotel worker evicts a guest for using slurs against both him and other guests, then calls the cops on her when she slaps him in response. The cop who shows up [[PoliceAreUseless refuses to do anything]] unless a third party who witnessed the slap comes forward, at which point one of the guests [[TheDogBitesBack she'd used a homophobic slur against]] lies and says that [[https://notalwaysright.com/no-vocation-for-location-part-29/324441/ he saw the whole thing]].
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'''Customer:''' “I’m pretty sure my idiot son playing with a compound bow indoors isn’t considered a defect — at least not for the TV.”
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'''Customer:''' “I’m pretty sure my idiot son playing with a compound bow indoors isn’t considered a defect — [[DeadpanSnarker at least not for the TV.TV]].”
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** A LethallyStupid example with [[http://notalwaysright.com/misery-in-a-can/ this story]]. A woman is told that a hamster could live in an aquarium (as in, a dry aquarium), she takes that to mean that hamsters could live in an aquarium filled with water.
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** A LethallyStupid example with [[http://notalwaysright.com/misery-in-a-can/ [[https://notalwaysright.com/mouse-to-mouse-resuscitation/71627/ this story]]. A woman is told that a hamster could live in an aquarium (as in, a dry aquarium), she takes that to mean that hamsters could live in an aquarium filled with water.
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* TheIlluminati: [[https://notalwaysright.com/its-one-big-greasy-conspiracy/69529/ Apparently they make canola oil now…]]
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* FirstPersonSmartass: Every now and then, a submitter doesn't just tell the story, but tell what they thought about it but couldn't say.
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** The submitter's boyfriend in [[https://notalwaysright.com/youve-heard-of-rage-quitting-now-we-have-despair-quitting/253759/ this Not Always Working crosspost]] [[RageQuit "Despair-Quits"]] and hangs up on a customer when they spell out "D-O-T-C-O-M" in a web address instead of "dot-C-O-M".
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** The ''[[https://notalwaysright.com/a-titanic-gap-in-their-knowledge-of-history/290105/ Titanic]]''
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** The ''[[https://notalwaysright.com/a-titanic-gap-in-their-knowledge-of-history/290105/ Titanic]]''Titanic]]''.
