Are you a sales associate? What irks you the most?

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I started a discussion about customers on their cell phones at check-out. I received some interesting responses. I'm curious about other irritating behavior. I have a few favorites. 1. Do you work here? I am wearing a name badge with the stores logo and my name on it. I am moving clothing racks around. No, I do not work here. I just like to go to different department stores to move their merchandise around. 2. We are in a huge sale which is like every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The same customers are there to take advantage of the sale. The same customers come to the register with the same coupons that DO NOT WORK on the red-dot, clearance merchandise. 3. The same customers come to the register with their buggy full of clearance. What do they do at the register while the line grows longer and longer behind them? It's at the register that they want to pick up each piece and hem haw around about whether or not they have anything at home to wear with it. 4. A buggy full of clothing and they want each piece scanned because they do not know what 50% off means. 5. Will you put these on hangers? Where are the hangers they were on? Oh, I left them on the dressing room floor. 6. Oh, have you been standing here at the register waiting long? I’m sorry, I was in the dressing room picking up, turning right-side out and putting back on the hangers all the clothes you left stomped on the floor. 7. Then there are the stragglers, they wait for you to walk away from the register before they approach and stand there looking like they’re lost. I swear they’re waiting behind racks and displays. I will actually stand there and wait, not one person will approach after the last customer walks away. I won’t get ten feet away and here comes a straggler. When this happens it’s a continuous thing. That’s not the customers fault, it’s just a fluke but it’s still annoying. 8. Let’s not forget the 'Queens of Returns'. It's the same bunch that comes in and shops every sale and on Monday they're circling the parking lot waiting for the store to open so they can return everything they bought over the three day sale with the excepting of that $1.99 plus tax top that they got an extra 10% off of because it had a small snag inside the armpit. 10. Oh, oh, oh! I love this one. Your neck deep in putting out freight. You look toward the register and realize you have a customer. You are at fault because they have been standing there a minute. 'What can I help you with?' 'I want to pay on my account.' Now you get to stand there for five minutes while they look for their checkbook, can't find their statement and left their card at home. They could have come to this realization while waiting on me to come to the register. Some will say I should not be a sales associate. I hide my irritation very well. I have made employee of the month. I am also employee of the year at my store. I lead my store in presales and I get a lot of positive feedback on our surveys. I love my job and it has made me a better customer. I treat the people who wait on me with respect and I have my decisions made when I get to check-out. I try to make their job easier. I always put clothes back where I get them from. And I know how to operate a coat hanger. I don’t cram it back in the rack any old way with clothes hanging out every which way and I don’t put them in backwards. In my opinion is if you cannot operate a coat hanger, you sure as heck don’t need to be operating a motorized vehicle