Me: "Okay, sir, how do you know it's a meteorite?"
Caller: "I was trying to sleep last night and something in the sky was making a d*** racket."
Me: "You heard it hit the ground?"
Caller: "No, but I couldn't sleep, so I went outside and shot it."
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Receptionist: "Dentist Office, Can I have your name and date of birth?"
Me: "Hi, yeah, I’m not a patient. I was just wondering if someone in your office is trying to fax something?"
Receptionist: "…"
Me: "Because I’ve gotten like fifteen calls from this number in the past hour."
I’m hauling a power pallet jack stacked high with a thousand pounds of cat litter. I’m in full uniform: red shirt, khaki pants, name tag, the whole deal.
As I’m turning down an aisle toward the pet department, a woman suddenly jumps right in front of the jack, waving her arms.
Customer: "Do you work here?!"
Customer: "I would have all this scanned and done already, but you’re taking your time because you’re too busy talking!"
Me: "Shush. These kids don’t get paid to be yelled at. The register’s slow; it’s not her fault. Feel free to put in an application if you think you can do better."
Ever since COVID, there have been self-serve wipes available for all customers to disinfect their carts if they want. Well, apparently, some people didn’t get the memo. Multiple times now, someone has mistaken me for an employee while I’m wiping my cart.
Customer: "Can you do this one next?"
That's right, to you and every other chocolate-loving chocoholic out there who can't quit craving the sweet stuff and have long since polished off the last 3 Musketeers bar in your kids' Halloween candy stash.
You know who you are.
So come along. Let's take a ride on the gentle waves of chocolate's sweet caress:
That morning, the girls decided they were going to have a foot race. My daughter ended up winning the race, and her friend, who was very clearly annoyed, says:
Daughter's Friend: "Oh well, first is the worst and second is the best anyway."
Sommelier: "Did you have any questions about the wine list?"
Old Guy: "I trust you, just bring out something that's reasonably priced."
Sommelier: "I'm sorry, sir, but would you kindly let me know what reasonably priced would be?"
MY FIRST KAREN EXPERIENCE: FULL STORY I work at Walmart as an Online Personal Shopper for those who don’t know. I fully understand that as part of the nature of the job, customers will tend to get in your way. But, on April 13, 2024, at around 2:15 p.m., things got a little unnecessarily extreme… […]
I’m standing in the lobby of a museum, dressed very nicely but notably not wearing the usual staff uniform. A man stops me to try to ask for directions, but upon noticing my blank expression he says, “You don’t work here, do you?” Me, cheerfully: “No, but I’m here for a job interview!”
https://notalwaysright.com/parental-misguidance-part-2-3/78959/ this story reminds me of a story that my dad told me When Saturday Night Fever first came out, my grandpa took my dad, 7, and his sister, 10, to go see it in theaters. When they were about to pay for the tickets, my grandpa asked the person manning the register “Just to […]
I am checking books out to a patron. At the end of the transaction we will ask if the patron would like a receipt which has the books they checked out and their due date. The patron I am assisting looks to be in their 40’s. Me: Would you like a receipt? Patron: I don’t […]
[When I was in college, my roommate and I got an answering machine. It was a cheap one, that had the recording tape inside the unit, instead of being a removable cartridge. It also had a limit of 20 message that erased after you listened to them. But we were home every evening, so it […]
I don’t care if it is in character, pick another word! (And while it ought to be in character, she hasn’t exactly been dropping the big words every other dialog line. Or if she has, I didn’t notice?)