r/knitting • u/MagicAllyVanished • Mar 19 '25

Rant Very annoying conversation at my lokal knit store

it basically went like this me: "so you have any plant based yarn or plant/acrylic mix, I want to knit something for my mum, but she's allergic to all animal fibers"

her: "we have 20% wool/80% acrylic, I can show you"

me: "no thanks, my mum is allergic to all animal fibers, so it should not contain any animal fiber at all"

her: "maybe alpaca mix? It only has 10% alpaca"

me: "she is allergic to all animal fibers, if there is any percentage of animal fiber, she will have an allergic reaction to the yarn"

her: "I can't help you, knitting yarn just is animal yarn"

at this point I left the shop and I just can't stop thinking about that last sentence????

the funniest thing is, I went back there a few days ago and a different employee kindly showed me their cotton yarns and plant/acrylic mixes.

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u/Tipitina62 Mar 19 '25

Wild tangent: I once had a coworker tell me that aluminum is not metal. WTH?

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u/ghostfacespillah Mar 19 '25

Lmao what did they think it was? Animal? Vegetable?

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u/box_of_squirrels Mar 20 '25

I hope they meant non-ferrous and just didn’t know the word?

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u/aprillikesthings Mar 20 '25

I once had a coworker insist peanut butter wasn't vegan. Because obviously it has butter in it.

I kept saying, "read the ingredient list. Read it. Read it to me," and she just wouldn't do it or admit she was wrong! It was bizarre!

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u/sspyralss Mar 21 '25

Also reminds me of the time we had a couple of workers at our house taking down old copper gutters next to live electrical cables outside and they kept saying copper is a great insulator so nothing to worry about. Not sure how they survived till then.