That time a customer argued with me for 10 minutes about a plant being real

I worked the garden center at my hardware store for a summer, and this one lady came in holding a pot of what she swore was plastic. She poked the leaves, shook the pot, and said there's no way this thing can stay that green without direct sun. I told her it's a ZZ plant, they grow in low light, but she wasn't having it. She actually wet her finger and rubbed the leaf to see if the color would come off. I ended up cutting a small piece off the stem to prove it was alive, and she still looked skeptical. Has anyone else had a customer refuse to believe a plant is real just because it looks too perfect?

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ross.sean10d ago

Used to think ZZ plants were fake too till I bought one and forgot to water it for months.

nora_chen10d ago

Honestly I read somewhere that ZZ plants are practically indestructible because they store water in their roots. Sounds like you proved that right.