My boyfriend runs his own antique shop and I thought I’d share with you some of the things customers say whilst in the shop…….
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Man pops his head through the door: “Hi, I don’t suppose you have any carpet tiles?”.
John looks around the shop, wondering when his antique shop began to resemble a carpet shop. “Only the ones glued to the floor. Sorry!” he replies.
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Customer: “Is that (bright red, obviously brand new and installed by law) fire extinguisher for sale?”
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Customer: “I’m after a mobile phone.”
John: “An old one?”
Customer: “No, a brand new one.”
John: “Sorry, we only sell antique mobile phones!”
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Customer: “It’s good to see a second-hand junk shop back in the town again.”
“It’s a bloody antique shop” John mutters under his breath.
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Customer: “So you don’t buy new stuff then?”
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Customer: “Would you like to take a look at my dresser? I’d like to sell it.”
The customer proceeds to show John a photo of an Ikea dresser.
John: “It looks a bit new…”
Customer: “Of course it is. I only bought it last year.”
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Customer: “What guarrantee could you give me on this clock?”
John: “I can guarrantee you it’s a clock…”
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Customer: “Do you buy stuff?
John: “Only if it’s suitable for the shop.”
Customer: “Why does it have to be suitable for the shop?”
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I’m sure there’s more to come!
Hi Nikki,
I love the look of John’s antique shop, whereabouts is it, so that I can look out for it when we are next up your way!
I think that most service providers and retailers could come up with a list of choice comments and requests made by their customers, we even get our fair share of them in the charity shop where I volunteer.
I have had this site bookmarked for some time, so it came straight to mind when I was reading your list of John’s anecdotes and it features a bookshop which is good!
http://jen-campbell.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/weird-things-customers-say-in-bookshops.html
Thanks for sharing and hope that all is well with you 🙂
Yvonne
PS I wonder if you take a look at the link you are using when you comment on my blog. When I click on your name to check out your latest post, it takes me to your old site. It was just sheer luck that I was on Twitter when your post was tweeted!
Hi Yvonne, the shop is in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire (so not quite “my way”!). I could come up with quite a list of “daft things customers/staff say” with my job, but some readers might not “get” them unless they’re in the industry.
Loving it, especially the clock guarantee.
We regularly get people in looking for indoor TV aerials.
1 We’re a computer shop
2 They don’t tend to work here
Glad the crazy (never buy anything) customer brigade is active elsewhere too.