Why Do People Become BRAIN DEAD When They Become Customers?

Am I the Genius?

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Education, Self-improvement

4.6 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0	Who proved to you that people become brain dead when they become customers?
0:05.0	I fly private jets.
0:07.0	Once we were flying east early in the morning, so the sun was directly in our eyes.
0:12.0	A passenger was sitting directly behind us on the jump seat.
0:15.0	He leaned forward and asked us, is there any way we can just climb and get above the sun?
0:19.0	No. No, there isn't.
0:21.3	I mean, we could fly west to our destination, but that would probably take a little bit longer.
0:28.1	Can you photoshop some pictures for me?
0:30.6	Sir, this is a bookstore.
0:32.6	Yes, but I see you have a computer right there.
0:35.9	Once while working at an eye doctor's office, a woman was upset because we were charging her
0:40.2	to make new lenses with an updated prescription, and asked, why do you have to make new lenses,
0:45.4	just inject some more medicine into the ones I already got?
0:48.5	What a wondrous world that woman lives in.
0:51.9	I worked at REI a few years back, large outdoor sporting goods co-op,
0:56.9	just in case you haven't heard of it. And we sold bear spray, which is like pepper spray for bears.
1:01.7	A woman came in with her two kids one day and bought a canister because they were going camping.
1:06.0	She gets to the front door and then comes back to the register as an afterthought and asks if she's just
1:10.8	supposed to spray the kids from head to toe with it an afterthought and asks if she's just supposed to
1:11.2	spray the kids from head to toe with it. I mean, thank God she came back. Having been exposed to
1:16.6	pepper spray once for training, I have to agree. Those kids would have never forgiven her.
1:22.1	I was working at a car battery store when a customer came in with a receipt for a battery
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