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Oh boy. Too many to list. A favorite would from when I worked at a home center. A woman asked for fiberglass insulation that came in a color other than pink. Seems pink doesn't match the brown carpet in her living room where she was stapleing the insulation (glass side out) to the walls!
Another would be the guy who came up to me and asked if the hose he was holding in one hand would fit on the pipe nipple he had in the other hand. Now first of all, he's got eyes, why can't he tell? or just fit the two together? But it gets better. He's having a new home built and the foundation was just poured. It's going to be cold that night, so he wants to hang a gas fired space heater to keep it warm. Well, he needs a gas source, so his neighbor agreed to let him tap off his natural gas line outside the house (huh?) and he's going to run 100' of GARDEN HOSE to the space heater!!! After all NG pressure is only 3lb per square inch, so the house can handle it! He'll just press fit the hose over a pipe nipple and clamp it on.
I could not persuade the guy that this was suicidal, so I finally said "well that pipe nipple won't fit, and we don't have one that will" So off he went to another store that maybe had better luck than me.
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