Complaint Box | Abusive Customers By JAMIE SMARR

Complaint Box | Abusive Customers – City Room Blog – NYTimes.com

t’s face it, folks. The customer is not always right. In fact, some are just plain old abusive, cheap and crass. I say this not as a salesman but as a dyed-in-the-wool middle-class consumer.

I’m waiting in line at a fast-food restaurant while a coupon fight goes on in front of me, delaying me from my sweet, sweet weekly communion with a Southern Style Chicken Biscuit. No, the coupon does not say that you are entitled to a free iced latte. You show it to me as if I’m your lawyer, and it states plainly, “A free cup of coffee.” And, no, they are not the same thing.

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I can’t believe he would eat one of those biscuits. I’ve had the sandwich and it tastes like crap.