“Someone returned a toilet brush and after the lady left the store, I noticed little specks of poop on the brush.”
-emilys409897678
“I work customer service at Lowes. One time a customer brought back two dead leaves in a Ziploc bag that supposedly came from a tree he bought from us. He had no receipt or anything.”
—jazmines4ed7bbf33
I once overheard a woman trying to return a blu-ray movie because the disc itself was not blue.
—sholehp
“A lady returned an empty bottle of wine to Costco because ‘it gave her a headache.'”
—kelseyh41f391c5f
“I once had a guy come in and try to return frozen, 5-year-old chicken breasts. The customer partially thawed the chicken so we could tell it was bad. The manager gave him two dollars to throw it away, but not in the store.”
—prettyinpink86
“A lady slammed an opened tube of flavored ‘sensation’ lube on the counter and told me the ‘tingling sensation’ promised on the box turned out to be more of a ‘burning sensation.’ She then described her night in the shower with her partner, telling me that she ended up having to jump out because the tingling was so strong.”
—krb489
“I worked at a GNC when I saw a man return a large bottle with one vitamin pill left in it. He’d taken the rest. He returned one pill because it had a dark spot on it.”
—aram47706bc29
“Someone returned a baby mobile that was a ‘baby shower’ gift. No one opened it during the return process, so later we opened it to find an old Betty Crocker cookbook and chicken wing bones in a Papa John’s box.”
—a45a2215da
“One time my grandparents bought a roast. When they cooked it they thought the meat was too tough so they returned a cooked roast to the grocery store!”
—anciq7
“Someone once returned an empty keg of beer to Walmart. They said it ran out too fast, and they took it back.”
—cslo1986
“A woman came in to return a house dress. We noticed that it was burnt in a few places and had been cut up the front. Turns out it belonged to the customer’s mother who had been smoking when she had a heart attack. The burns were from the cigarette and the holes were from when the paramedics cut the dress open to use a defibrillator. The woman had DIED in that dress.”
-girlglasses
“Someone returned a dead Christmas tree to Costco. In February.”
—erinw4e0535a9c
“A couple returned a comforter they bought the day before. They had a receipt and everything, so it seemed legit. We went to repackage it and when we spread it out, we noticed that it was covered in obvious semen stains. There were so many that it looked like it had been used in an orgy.”
—sdh17
“I spent an hour in a pet store deciding on which Betta fish to buy, but when I got home I decided it was a stress-inducing choice, so I return him four hours later.”
—chelseaj4441aac10
“One time in Home Depot, my husband and I saw a woman trying to get her money back without the receipt and without the item. She told them, ‘Just give me the money back, and I’ll bring it with me the next time I come in.'”
—lisapink
