On a recent trip to Petsmart, I overheard a lady telling an employee that her ball of fluff was chewing electrical cords and she needed something to deter her from that behavior. A very nice employee walks her over to where the no chew sprays were and points out that the only one she has any experience with is Bitter Apple and it worked well.
You would think that would be the end of it, but no, crazy be nice crap is constantly happening to me. The employee walked away and it was just me and another customer and this loon on the aisle.
Out of the corner of my eye I see her remove the clear cap and I thought....oh yes, that is right take a whiff, idiot. I was ready for a chuckle, but it was sooooo much better. Thankfully I am well aware of the caliber of idiot you can run into, so I moved well out of the splash zone, just in case. I watched as this woman spritzed Bitter Apple onto her wrist like perfume. Not sure what her thought process was at that point but apparently whatever she was trying to do only required 3 sprays of this noxious blend. Then I watch in utter horror as she casually licked her freshly sprayed arm. Yeah you read that right. This person who somehow survived into adulthood just sprayed herself with a product called BITTER Apple and then licked it....in the middle of the store.
Now....if you have never used Bitter Apple you may not appreciate the utter desperation for relief this woman was about to experience. There are warnings on the package about making sure you are not downwind when you spray this stuff. Unless you enjoy a light macing that is. This stuff is no joke.
This woman starts gagging, drooling, and her eyes are watering. She starts fumbling through her purse and pulls out a half consumed bottle of "Smart Water", the irony was not lost on me, don't worry. So there she is alternating between swishing her Smart Water and desperately scrubbing her arm with tiny, individually wrapped wet wipes. Then like it was happening in slow motion, I watch as she takes the wet wipe she had been wiping her arm with, yes, the wet wipe covered in Bitter Apple, she takes that wet wipe and WIPED HER TONGUE. Our eyes met in that moment when she realized she had made another awful mistake. The gagging and desperate water swishing began anew. I grabbed a handful of paper towels from the doggy clean up station nearby and handed them to her. By this time the other customer is pulling her phone out and offering to call 911 bc she thinks this is some sort of medical emergency. We stop her and I send her to get more water.
Once this moron can talk again she is ranting and raving about how horrid that tasted and how no product for dogs should be that terrible. I tried so hard to let it go. I did so good until she wailed that it tasted nothing like apples. This is the conversation that followed:
Me: You do realize that it is supposed to taste vile so the dog will not chew whatever you spray it on right?
Idiot: Yeah, but there is no need for it to burn the dogs eyes and lungs. That stuff is dangerous.
Me: Well, I doubt they expected anyone would spray themselves and lick it in the middle of the store.
Idiot: I do not subject my dog to anything I do not try first.
Me: You better go home then and chew on the electrical cords until you get zapped and see which you prefer being subjected to, a bad taste in your mouth and watery eyes or electrocution.
Customer 2 is giggling at this point. I get a death stare from the moron and she shouted as she stormed out that she felt sorry for my dogs bc I didn't test things on myself first. I kind of hope this crazy plans to get her dog spayed and that she goes in for a hysterectomy herself first to see how it feels first, bc she has no business reproducing.