35 of the Dumbest Things People Had to Explain to Customers

While people often lament being the bearer of bad news, it seems that it’s not good to be the bearer of any news at all. Any sliver of information may give someone a shock — like the vitamin store worker who had to gently inform a customer that chickens are animals, and therefore, you’re not a vegetarian if you consume them. The entire conversation started because he was explaining the ingredients in a supplement, when out-of-nowhere, the customer insisted that a chicken was “not an animal,” but a fowl. 

This is the kind of moment where, as a service worker, you’re immediately aware that many pieces of information have escaped this person over the course of their lifetime. When the assistant manager stepped in to try to reason with the customer, she left in a huff, and later lodged a complaint against the store, which is exactly the kind of reaction you’d expect from someone that stupid. 

Other Redditors have remembered the times they had to explain common sense to a customer, and you have to hope that these people eventually transition to solely making purchases online.