Hi everyone. I just had a customer who showed up to get his fish with his obviously chemically enhanced brother-in-law. His response to everything was "whoa dude,awesome!". This guy was genuinely enjoying himself. Just wondered if anyone else has had customers who gave you a laugh.
Return to Fish Taxidermy Category Menu
If you would have know that ahead of time there would not have been any need to finish the fish. LOL
I just had a customer bring in a big smallmouth bass. The fish was frozen in a bath towel and he had no color photos so I asked him if it was light or especially dark. He wasn't much help so I told him I'd paint it lighter and if he didn't like it I'd darken it up...eh? Then he looked over on the showroom wall and said "I really like that one. Paint mine just like that one." Well...the one he was looking at was a LARGEMOUTH bass!(grin) Either he doesn't have a clue what a smallmouth looks like OR the bass he caught is a largemouth...OR I can't paint worth a darn. I laughed for sure...just not outloud.
cool buzz and I'm set dude.
yesterday a guy comes in to check my work out and points to the anal vent and says...what happened there? I had to tell him infront of his hot girlfriend...THAT'S WHERE THEY GO POOPY! Another time I had this guy come back with a walleye that I had done. It was one of the better looking fish in the whole batch. I mean one of those fish with no flaws that comes out looking great..Anyway, he comes in and points to the lateral line and says...what the heck did you do to my fish right there? I explained crap to him I really shouldn't have to explain. Then he says, well my friends mount doesn't show this line. That's when I had to tell him it was cause his friend went to an inferior taxidermist who probably mucked it up so bad with paint that you could not tell it had a lateral line. When he still didn't believe me, I had to take a fresh fish out of the freezer and show him. He left feeling like the idiot he was. Man,I could go on and on, one time a guy brought in a fish that was scaled,gutted and the head was cut off like it was ready for the grill or something. I told him I was a taxidermist not a magician. Normally I kiss my customers behind but one time this guy just pissed me off too much and I tossed his ass outa my studio and told him..he just met the fish nazi...NNNNNO fish for you!LOL! OK,week is over for me now time to go fishing!
We were talking about stupid phones calls and stupid customers in general. (Obviously not implying all customers are stupid) Said he got a really stupid call from a kid that went something like this, "Hey Dude do you mount people? Heh Heh Heh Heh" (Sounded like Beevis of Beevis and Butthead). "Yeah, the taxidermist replied. "I stuffed your mother didn't I?" He said the silence was deafening on the other end of the phone. LOL
Had that same call. They watched the TV show "Jackass." I played along. I asked whether they wanted a head mount, or full body. From there, I went into the pros and cons of freeze drying, suggesting that if they wanted a life-like expression for eternity, that was the way to go. Kept it up with "notes" on expression, open or closed mouth, ears flared,bug-proofing, etc. Hands for a gun mount would be only a slight extra charge,and I would trim and color the nails.