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After reading (and cringing at) some of the horror stories shared in the model molesters thread it brought to mind an incident that happened in my local GW (sadly no longer there ) that almost made me cry with laughter.

I was with a group of regulars siting at the painting table when in marches a rather angry looking lady with her petrified looking young son in tow (he must of been about 8 or 9). SHe drags him up to the counter and demands to see the manager. The chap at the till asks what the problem is and she tells him in no uncertain terms she has no time to speak to lackeys and wants to se the manager. The staffer goes and fetches him.

At this point I should mention that the manager was a typical ex army type, great sense of humour but took no messing about.

He asks her what the problem is and she proceeds to wave a copy of a video game in his face and shouting that he should be looked up for selling her sweet innocent little son such a violent and aweful game. At this point the son tries to tug his mums arm and tell her something, she snaps round and tells him to keep quiet. A little grin appears on the managers face as he senses some sport to be had.

The angry woman proceeds to demand a refund and an appology for selling such an innapropriate product, the manager calmly tells her that he is unable to do so. The woman asks why not and he responds "because we dont sell video games, he must have bought it elsewhere" the woman yells "don't lie to me, you must have seen me coming and hidden them out the back of the shop" the manager tells her to look around the shop as it clearly does not sell video games.

The woman has by now almost turned purple, she screams at him that the name of the shop is on the reciept, manager asks to look and see's the name GAME on the reciept. The woman is yelling "see, see how dare you lie to me". At this point the manager asks the kid if he bought the game in this shop and the kid just shakes his head, tears in his eyes. The manager takes the woman by the arm and marches her out of the shop points at the recipt which says GAME and then to the shops sign which says GAMES WORKSHOP. I believe his last words to her were "now get away from my shop you stupid, stupid woman".

The best part of it was the game in question was something fairly harmless like Sonic the hedgehog!

Please feel free to share any similar examples of stupid or funny behaviour witnessed in a GW store

Good god, this is so damn creepy!

LOL

That poor kid is going to be messed for life.

He will never be a tabletop gamer ever. I bet he will be telling his teacher that he fell off his bike on Monday.

Wow. What a dumb bint.

I've seen my air share of shocking parenting in GW stores. Like the Parent who pandered to her 12ish year old kid when, without word of a lie, he threw a full on, thrashing on the floor, screaming blue murder tantrum. The sort that would embarass a 4 year old..... How crap a Parent must she be, not just for giving in to it, but for clearly having done so so often in the past, that he has continued this behaviour many years after he should have grown out of it.

I've heard that same story in many different ways over many different years...


funny thing is it happens at least once a year at the store i go to

Why do these idiots always ask to see the manager?

'I demand to talk to the person who make £1 an hour more than you do!!'

And who bought the kid the game? If he was 8 years old he shouldn't be wandering around town buying stuff by himself anyway.

Daft witch.

It seems having kids makes some people REALLY STUPID.

Mattlov wrote:It seems having kids makes some people REALLY STUPID.

Um, they were probably stupid to begin with.

Wow... people are tards.....

wish there was a video on this... lol that would be funny!

Harsh.

Mattlov wrote:It seems stupid people can have children too.

Fixed.

Albatross wrote:Why do these idiots always ask to see the manager?

generally because -1$(regular grunt) don't have the power to do anything useful.

I happy to say I never saw anything like that when I used to work as a mall guard.. Cept for dumbass theives screaming when they get caught. (If you get caught by a mall guard you really suck at shoplifting btw)

The best trantrum I ever saw was a house husband who I made walk an extra 100 m by locking a door, dude was almost crying.

Wow, that really sucks for the kid.

Albatross wrote:Why do these idiots always ask to see the manager?

'I demand to talk to the person who make £1 an hour more than you do!!'

And who bought the kid the game? If he was 8 years old he shouldn't be wandering around town buying stuff by himself anyway.

Daft witch.

Because it short-circuits the standard defence of, "I don't have the authority to ..."

Heh, maybe she thought it was "Game's Workshop".

Where all the games get made, of course.

There's some crazy ass muddiefunksters out there.

The first time i saw game's workshop i thought it was video game store as well.

Baka + 1

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Wow. What a dumb bint.

I've seen my air share of shocking parenting in GW stores. Like the Parent who pandered to her 12ish year old kid when, without word of a lie, he threw a full on, thrashing on the floor, screaming blue murder tantrum. The sort that would embarass a 4 year old..... How crap a Parent must she be, not just for giving in to it, but for clearly having done so so often in the past, that he has continued this behaviour many years after he should have grown out of it.

All I can think of is "Little Britain" and "Bitty"

Khornholio wrote:

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Wow. What a dumb bint.

I've seen my air share of shocking parenting in GW stores. Like the Parent who pandered to her 12ish year old kid when, without word of a lie, he threw a full on, thrashing on the floor, screaming blue murder tantrum. The sort that would embarass a 4 year old..... How crap a Parent must she be, not just for giving in to it, but for clearly having done so so often in the past, that he has continued this behaviour many years after he should have grown out of it.

All I can think of is "Little Britain" and "Bitty"

Thanks for that totaly unwanted image which is now in my head! I now feel quite sick

Albatross wrote:Why do these idiots always ask to see the manager?

'I demand to talk to the person who make £1 an hour more than you do!!'

And who bought the kid the game? If he was 8 years old he shouldn't be wandering around town buying stuff by himself anyway.

Daft witch.

You talk to the manager because the manager can generally do a little bit more than the hourly gum chewing flunky.

Whats really fun is when you demand the full name of the manager and address of the store so you can recite it in the lawsuit. That usually focuses their attention.

Wow, I sure hope that woman never lets her kid play on a PC, those things have mine-sweeper as standard and thats some scary stuff I can tell you ... and don't get me started on Spider Solitare, I still get the flash backs

/sarcam off

Reminds me of my cinema management days, but then it was parents screaming at me because I'd refused to allow their children to see violent films.

You cannot win with parents. For every one reasonable individual, there will be ten more who will howl and scream (like the 12 year old mentioned above) when you don't do what they want.

Frazzled wrote:

Albatross wrote:Why do these idiots always ask to see the manager?

'I demand to talk to the person who make £1 an hour more than you do!!'

And who bought the kid the game? If he was 8 years old he shouldn't be wandering around town buying stuff by himself anyway.

Daft witch.

You talk to the manager because the manager can generally do a little bit more than the hourly gum chewing flunky.

Whats really fun is when you demand the full name of the manager and address of the store so you can recite it in the lawsuit. That usually focuses their attention.

And thats why america sucks ass.

Tauzor wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Albatross wrote:Why do these idiots always ask to see the manager?

'I demand to talk to the person who make £1 an hour more than you do!!'

And who bought the kid the game? If he was 8 years old he shouldn't be wandering around town buying stuff by himself anyway.

Daft witch.

You talk to the manager because the manager can generally do a little bit more than the hourly gum chewing flunky.

Whats really fun is when you demand the full name of the manager and address of the store so you can recite it in the lawsuit. That usually focuses their attention.

And thats why america sucks ass.

What makes you think UK parents are any different? (cos they aren't).

Tauzor wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Albatross wrote:Why do these idiots always ask to see the manager?

'I demand to talk to the person who make £1 an hour more than you do!!'

And who bought the kid the game? If he was 8 years old he shouldn't be wandering around town buying stuff by himself anyway.

Daft witch.

You talk to the manager because the manager can generally do a little bit more than the hourly gum chewing flunky.

Whats really fun is when you demand the full name of the manager and address of the store so you can recite it in the lawsuit. That usually focuses their attention.

And thats why america sucks ass.

Fire!!

*throws a bucket of water over Tauzor*

Tauzor wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Albatross wrote:Why do these idiots always ask to see the manager?

'I demand to talk to the person who make £1 an hour more than you do!!'

And who bought the kid the game? If he was 8 years old he shouldn't be wandering around town buying stuff by himself anyway.

Daft witch.

You talk to the manager because the manager can generally do a little bit more than the hourly gum chewing flunky.

Whats really fun is when you demand the full name of the manager and address of the store so you can recite it in the lawsuit. That usually focuses their attention.

And thats why america sucks ass.

If anyone wants me, I'll be hiding in the bomb shelter until this blows over

Well, it is Monday and that kid is explaining the bruses now to his teacher. Wow that kid falls off his bike alot.

This problem started with the birth of the minivan and soccer moms. These were given the illusion of power since they sit higher up off the road. This gave these ing delusions of grandure and America has gone down hill from there. Soccer moms caused the recession, global warming and give kids cancer. you soccer moms everywhere.

Tauzor wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Albatross wrote:Why do these idiots always ask to see the manager?

'I demand to talk to the person who make £1 an hour more than you do!!'

And who bought the kid the game? If he was 8 years old he shouldn't be wandering around town buying stuff by himself anyway.

Daft witch.

You talk to the manager because the manager can generally do a little bit more than the hourly gum chewing flunky.

Whats really fun is when you demand the full name of the manager and address of the store so you can recite it in the lawsuit. That usually focuses their attention.

And thats why america sucks ass.

You're just jealous because all the voices talk to ME.

Which is funny because the story comes from the UK.