Oh crap.... I can't stop...People to dumb...
Guy asks me what skimmer he should get for a HOB skimmer. I point to the Coralife superskimmer because its the only good HOB we sell. He says what about this one (points to prizm). I say no, thats garbage, they don't work well and are very sensitive when it comes to adjusting them. He has no more questions so I walk away.
Comes in about a week later, prizm in hand. Slaps it on the information desk and says this thing is a piece of s#!t.
One day we took a tally of how many times people called our mis bar clowns nemo. Started it at 9am, ended it at 12pm because there were over 100. GOD I hate that movie.
Another nemo story: phone rings
Hello
"hey I want to get a salt water tank"
Ok...
"I want all the fish from finding nemo"
ok.. well you're gonna need a pretty big tank
"yeah, yeah I got like a 30 gallon tank"
Well that won't be nearly big enough sir
"Well how big do it got to be?"
Well I would suggest something like a 125 gallon
"What?!"(yells to wife? in background something indistinct) "Alright man, I'm just gonna tell my kids you can't keep them in a tank"
Guy calls up on the phone
"My skimmer won't work. There's no bubbles coming out of it. It's broken and I want you to replace it."
Ok sir, bring it in and we'll see if we can figure out whats wrong. If we can't we'll replace it.
He brings it in, we set it up on a ten gallon tank, no bubbles. I adjust the air nozzle to see if that was it. Skimmer worked perfectly
Where I used to work we would have some people come in and volunteer to help socialize the larger birds in our bird room (ie get the parrots and such used to being handled, and hand feed the babies). They guy that would come in all the time had a bunch of birds and we knew that he knew what he was doing. One day I hear this hellishly intense screaming from the salt section. I see this dude running around. I asked him what happened and he said the lionfish stung him. I told him to run his hand under really hot water to help stop the pain from spreading, and the owner of the store called his wife to take him to the hospital. Later on when the guy comes back in I asked him how he got stung. He said he saw the lionfish sitting face down with its belly to the back glass, between the filter intake and the side panel of glass. He thought it was stuck...so he unstuck it...and it stuck him. Yes, it was labeled as venomous.
Gosh, I could post one of these horror stories after every weekend of work I go through.
