Haha, I feel your pain, I worked at a restaurant before the job I have now (Petco) and I have seen people make the waitresses cry before.

It's even worse working at a petstore, though, because not only are there the usual a**holes, but you get questions like this - "I just found out my son hasn't been feeding our gecko, so I think it's been about four months since it last ate, what should I feed it?"
"My turtle's head is falling off, what should I do?"
"Do you carry baby savannah monitors?" -- "No ma'am, we don't." -- "Then what are those?" *woman points to baby leopard geckos with very obviously marked sign saying "leopard geckos" in front of them*
"If I keep this snake in a small cage, it'll stay small, right? I just want it to stay a baby forever!"
"I just got this lizard at a swap meet, can you tell me what it is?" (nine times out of ten it's a baby iguana that looks like it's about to have a heart attack)

My personal favorite -
"Can't you just give the bearded dragons salads and they'll become vegetarian?"

I can't even imagine what Walmart or Sam's club must be like!

~jenny
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1.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)
0.0.1 california kingsnake (Tetris)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
2.0 horses (Buddy and Sam)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
1.25 chickens (Ugly the rooster and his harem)

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire

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