History NotAlwaysRight / TropesMToT

* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-bill-so-high-its-cartoonish/138302/ This customer]] calls to complain about their bill being incredibly high, which turns out to be because their seven-year-old daughter had ordered about thirty pay-per-view cartoons (mostly ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'', and Disney Princess movies) without her parents' knowledge or consent.
** There are several similar stories where the culprit is an adolescent/teenager discovering pay-per-view pornography and getting busted when their parents call the credit card company about a sudden spree of charges from "Girls Gone Wild" or similar services.

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-food-poisoning/302801/ This woman]] finds two cans of tomatoes in her cupboard dated from ''2013'' and '''''2006'''''[[note]](assuming the story was posted in August of 2023, as the story takes place in August, that would put the latter can at nearly if not potentially more than ''20 years old'')[[/note]] and calls the food manufacturer to see if they're okay to eat. The employee at the company's call center who answers tries to discourage the woman from using the canned tomatoes, but the woman for some reason refuses to accept that answer and announces that she is going to put the tomatoes in pasta for her husband's dinner, hanging up before the employee can get another word in (leaving them unable to do nothing but hope the husband is okay afterward).[[note]]As the comments point out, they're probably safe to consume so long as the can is undamaged (canned food doesn't spoil easily even over a long period of time, and as such the dates on cans are more like best-by dates than "safe to consume before" dates), but the woman doesn't seem to be aware of this; rather, she seems to believe there ''is'' a hazard, but is choosing to use the cans anyway.[[/note]]

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-food-poisoning/302801/ This woman]] finds two cans of tomatoes in her cupboard dated from ''2013'' and '''''2006'''''[[note]](assuming the story was posted in August of 2023, as the story takes place in August, that would put the latter can at nearly if not potentially more than ''20 years old'')[[/note]] and calls the food manufacturer to see if they're okay to eat. The employee at the company's call center who answers tries to discourage the woman from using the canned tomatoes, but the woman for some reason refuses to accept that answer and announces that she is going to put the tomatoes in pasta for her husband's dinner, hanging up before the employee can get another word in (leaving them unable to do nothing but hope the husband is okay afterward).[[note]]As the comments point out, they're probably safe to consume so long as the can is undamaged (canned food doesn't spoil easily even over a long period of time; the dates are more like best-by dates), but the fact that the woman thinks it might be hazardous and ''still'' doesn't care is rather alarming nonetheless.[[/note]]

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-say-tomato-i-say-food-poisoning/302801/ This woman]] finds two cans of tomatoes in her cupboard dated from ''2013'' and '''''2006'''''[[note]](assuming the story was posted in August of 2023, as the story takes place in August, that would put the latter can at nearly if not potentially more than ''20 years old'')[[/note]] and calls the food manufacturer to see if they're okay to eat. The employee at the company's call center who answers tries to discourage the woman from using the canned tomatoes, but the woman for some reason refuses to accept that answer and announces that she is going to put the tomatoes in pasta for her husband's dinner, hanging up before the employee can get another word in (leaving them unable to do nothing but hope the husband is okay afterward).

** [[http://notalwaysright.com/these-donuts-are-a-little-on-the-insecty-side/ This "customer" takes the doughnut.]] He comes up to the employee and complains about fruit flies swarming the sample doughnut display. Fair enough. When the employee starts removing the infested doughnuts, ''per store policy'' (and probably a few health codes), the customer angrily demands that the employee "just spray some poison" on it because he really wanted one. Right, he doesn't just want the doughnut, he wants it seasoned with fruit flies and a dash of poison.[[note]]Possibly he meant DDT, which was at one time considered safe to consume.[[/note]]

** {{Subverted}}, and in fact {{inverted}} with [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-golden-age-of-tech-support/84004/ this 96-year-old]], who was mistaken for this trope by other workers, but it turns out he teaches computer science to other senior citizens.

-->'''Submitter:''' When I will be 96 years old, I just hope I am as technologically savvy as she is!

** A call center worker suggests to a Sikh client that [[https://notalwaysright.com/sikh-ing-to-help/243711/ maybe he shouldn't use his mother's maiden name as his identifying question]]: since it's part of Sikhism that women must use the surname "Kaur", it would be very easy for anybody familiar with the tradition to guess and hack his account.[[note]]As pointed out in the comments, some Sikhs do modify this tradition a bit, using the religious names as middle names and their clan names as their legal surnames; however, since the man's answer to the question was in fact "Kaur" (as well as the fact that he himself uses the surname Singh, which is the male equivalent), his family is clearly not one of them.[[/note]]

** A call center worker suggests to a Sikh client that [[https://notalwaysright.com/sikh-ing-to-help/243711/ maybe he shouldn't use his mother's maiden name as his identifying question]]: since it's part of Sikhism that women must use the surname "Kaur", it would be very easy for anybody familiar with the tradition to guess and hack his account.

* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: [[http://notalwaysright.com/she-probably-needs-someone-to-put-her-clothes-on-too/ "What is this, some sort of self-service store?"]]

* RetailRiot: [[https://notalwaysright.com/coming-soon-to-not-always-right-zombies-vs-customers/ One comic strip]] showed "Why dealing with customers is worse than a Zombie Apocalypse". It states that "[[NoZombieCannibals Zombies will never attack each other]], even when supplies are scarce" while "Customers will attack each other, especially when supplies are scarce".

* RedScare: ''Way'' too many people seem to think this way. [[http://notalwaysright.com/in-soviet-america-product-buys-you/ e.g. this silly man.]]

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/planting-a-seed-of-crazy/85006/ A lady harasses a furniture store for not watering their decorative fake plants]]. While security escorts her out, another employee comments that at least it's not what she did on Arbor Day, and you do NOT want to know what she did on Earth Day.

--->'''Old Lady:''' "Huh. I thought the Internet was all just naked people and Facebook."