Welcome any and all who have ever worked retail, or any job that deals with the general public. Have you ever just had one of those days where you need to scream, but are resigned to a fist-clenched ride home? It may be such a cliche thing to say, but as with all who have done anything from a day to multiple years with The General Public know, there's certain things we need to get off our collective chests. With the likes of Halloween generating evermore frenetically apocalyptic scenes of public consumption, the lead-up to Christmas is surely to be just as mental, and so as something of a cleanse I've compiled a list of Customer Types that, if you've ever encountered, crop up with increasing annoyance this time of year. What follows is a steaming pile of passionate vitriolic rambling, but it's all in good fun. Unless of course you are one of the entrants on the list, in which case you should seek immediate help.
8. The In-Opportune Arriver
Been thinking about taking your break for a good 20 minutes now? Looking forward to shutting out the world for those 30 solid gold minutes of solitude? Well
that is when the IOA arrives, wanting an item that is either a) Hard to reach/obtain without going through unnecessary stress, or b) Just plain out of stock, yet they insist they "saw it in here last week" in some parallel dimension where they think insisting on its existence will magically produce said item from the palpable hatred we are now excreting.