The customer is always right?

[tackdrivr]

I've spent around 50 hours a week in a shooting range for the past 23 years. Needless to say I have experienced some interesting characters. While most of the clientele are a pleasure, we do occasionally come upon some that leave a lasting impression. The focus of this thread is about them. get a My hope is that you may find it as amusing as we did.

So.....................I look up from the counter and here comes a 40ish woman with a revolver and ammo in tow. She sets her gear on the counter and starts signing in. I look at the end flaps of the ammo boxes and it says: Winchester Western 38 special blanks.

I advised her that this might not be the hot set up for target shooting. I explained what blanks are all about, but she'd hear none of it. She insisted that she knew what she was doing. I'm thinking to myself. Lady, you can stand there and yell bang if you want. It's cool with me.

So, she's off to the range area. About 20 minutes later she comes back into the lobby complaining that she can't hit the target. Of course I was shocked. I suggested that she use a larger target, pointing to a BT5 type silhouette. She went a little ballistic citing that she wouldn't shoot someone in the back. I asked her what she meant. She insisted that the silhouette was the figures back because it didn't have any facial features. I suggested that she turn it around.

So now, she's shooting blanks at a blank piece of paper. Again, she come back in complaining that she can't hit anything. I asked if she'd like to try some different ammo. She got indignant and informed me that she had several cases of the same ammo at home. She also told me off for trying to sell her ammo that she didn't need.

I told her about of our competitors ranges and explained that the atmospheric conditions may be better suited to her style of shooting. She seemed satisfied with that, and we bid each other a good day.

More to follow.........................................

[Aluisious]

You're making this up, right?

[rkt88edmo]

The truth is stranger than fiction.

[stevie]

Working in a liquor store has some exciting moments.

Like the time a under age girl tried to buy some beer. When i carded her, got the usual story how she left it at home. Told her she could not buy the beer without proper identification. So she said, if i would not sell to her she would pee on the floor. I still insisted she needed identification. So when she left i had a puddle on the floor to clean up.

[permanent_45]

I want more! I want more! I love this story. It sounds like her having blanks was a good thing. I would not want to be with in a mile of that women if she had real target ammo

[COILSPRING]

I Think She Actually Had The Right Ammo For HER...

Blanks for a person with an empty head. A perfect match...

[jemaddux]

please tell me this is a joke, I DO NOT want to be driving around knowing someone like this is also behind the wheel!!!!!

[Aluisious]

please tell me this is a joke, I DO NOT want to be driving around knowing someone like this is also behind the wheel!!!!!

Don't worry, she's filling her gas tank with a garden hose.

[CSACANNONEER]

Don't worry, she's filling her gas tank with a garden hose.

She told me that she was getting a hy-bred. I guess she did.

BTW, I saw something similar in a movie a couple of years ago.

[tackdrivr]

Next up is the tale of Captain Rimfire.

The good captain and his son arrive at the range and are eager to rent a Glock. No problem, I hook em up. I asked if they needed ears, eyes, ammo and the usual stuff. They informed me that they were good to go. After a short time the good captain entered the lobby with a confused look on his face.

He stated that whenever he chambered a round it would slide down the barrel and fall out of the muzzle. I thinking, Say what?
So I walk out to his shooting position and took a look see.

The magazine was stuffed with 22LR. They were hanging out of the fed lips in every direction possible. I unloaded the mag. and 40 something rounds of 22LR came out of that thing.

I'm like, dude this thing is a 40 cal. What are you doing? He got rather irritated and said. Look buddy, you don't know squat. Look at the slide. He pointed to the inscription. See, it says right here, Glock 22.

[Can'thavenuthingood]

How can you keep a straight face

I ggot all I can do to type.

Bigger target, hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha
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Vick

[GTKrockeTT]

hilarious, now we know why tony gets so much crap.

[Aluisious]

Next up is the tale of Captain Rimfire.

The good captain and his son arrive at the range and are eager to rent a Glock. No problem, I hook em up. I asked if they needed ears, eyes, ammo and the usual stuff. They informed me that they were good to go. After a short time the good captain entered the lobby with a confused look on his face.

He stated that whenever he chambered a round it would slide down the barrel and fall out of the muzzle. I thinking, Say what?
So I walk out to his shooting position and took a look see.

The magazine was stuffed with 22LR. They were hanging out of the fed lips in every direction possible. I unloaded the mag. and 40 something rounds of 22LR came out of that thing.

I'm like, dude this thing is a 40 cal. What are you doing? He got rather irritated and said. Look buddy, you don't know squat. Look at the slide. He pointed to the inscription. See, it says right here, Glock 22.

Hahahahahahahahaha...

[Rob454]

Jesus unfortunately people like that do exist.
I had a guy one time at a shooting range ask me to stop shooting my 44 mag. he accused me of aiming my gun so the brass pelted him. I told him ( and im usually polite ) I said Sir there is no possible way the shell casings are coming from this pistol. he said if I doont stop he will complain to the range master. I jsut shrugged and went back to shooting. i stopped to reload and I felt a tap on my shoulder. Lo and behold the range master. He lisened very carefully to the guy and then kind of gave me a look like I know what youre doing you punk. He started to say something liek yorue outta here pack up etc. I said hold on a second. i pointed to the 44 mag and I told him now if there is a way for a revolver to extract the shell casings and fling them over to the guy in the next shooting station id love to see that happening. the range master turned around and walked away. it ended up the guy to my left being the culprit. The shell casings came out and made a arc over my head and landed on the guy to my right. I dont blame the guy for being mad ( a hot shell casing going dowm the back of your shirt is not a fun thing) btu I do blame him for assuming it was me and not knowing a damn thing about handguns
Rob

[tackdrivr]

There's a plumbing company here in town call Sharpshooter Plumbing. We get calls fairly often with the caller thinking that's us. I can understand the mix up. On this day a woman called who was clearly at here wits end. Very irrate and starting cussing me out because the plumber was a no show.

I told her I'd get someone over there right away and asked if she'd please calm down. She agreed. I asked what the problem was and she informed me that her plumbing was backed up. I asked if there was any oders in the house and she said there was. I asked her to describe it and she went off into a tangent.

I told her I had only heard about this one other time in my 40 years of plumbing. I told her to open all the windows and the garage door. Turn off the gas and electricty. She semed puzzeled. I told her that all the household systems are interconnected and that dangerous gasses are building in the house and the pilot lights may ignite them.

I asked if she had any pets. She informed me that she did. I told her that they'd have to be put down. The gasses have a faster effect on small animals than on people and she and her family should be checked out. She started to lose it. I asked If the plumber was there yet? She said no. I asked if she could leave the house until someone arrived. She said she would go to a neighbors.

I often wondered how long it took for the plumber to get there.