My customers are spreading all kinds of holiday cheer.
1 told me I should kill myself after I told him he couldn't come behind the counter. He then grabbed a bunch of papers and tried to walk out with them. When I stopped him, he shoved me. He walked out the door repeating, "Just die. Die. Go kill yourself and die." I wished him a Merry Christmas (which, if you know me, is like saying 'bless your heart').
Another called me a liar for telling her I wouldn't be able to design her Xmas card until Thursday because I had several other jobs ahead of hers. She's more important than everyone else and forgot to let me know.
One just told me I was an idiot because when he asked 'is this FedEx' I said no. He asked...I shit you not...'What's the name of FedEx'...and I told him. His response, 'Thanks, idiot, I couldn't have figured that out myself'. Um...no, you couldn't.
Arizona is full of sumthin' and it ain't fuckin' cheer.
I did have a couple of very sweet customers today. One made me laugh so hard I snorted. I'm hanging onto their memories until New Year's Day. 
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Thank heavens it won't be like that all year.
Holiday stress, maybe. I don't know. I do know the first customer freaked me out quite a bit. You never know who is armed in this state and what meds they might not have taken. He was seriously unhinged. The other two were just cranky, rude and clueless. That's fairly normal around here.
But, since I first posted this I met a new customer with a sort of goofy project that's a bit of a puzzler. Super friendly, admits that he doesn't know what he's doing, doesn't care how much it will cost, needs it in a hurry but acknowledges that he waited until the last minute. Thanked me several times for being helpful. He has no idea how he made me feel. More like him, please.
