Sometimes its hard not to laugh.

[Samuari]

This evening I was filling a display of soda that was signed as being "2 for $5.00", when I was stopped by a lady who said, "That's not right."

"Oh," I saId. "What seems to be the problem?"

"I just scanned that pop, and it's two fifty." she said with an absublutly serious face.

I kept waiting for her to crack a smile, or do something, anything to show me that she was pulling my leg, but nope she just stood there.

So to break the building tension, I told her, " You can have one for two fifty, or I can sell you two for five dollars."

She looked a little puzzled and asked, " Can I have two and just pay two fifty for each one?"

I said, "Of course", and turned away before I compleatly lost it.

 

[koalabear]

 

[morninggirl5]

This evening I was filling a display of soda that was signed as being "2 for $5.00", when I was stopped by a lady who said, "That's not right."

"Oh," I saId. "What seems to be the problem?"

"I just scanned that pop, and it's two fifty." she said with an absublutly serious face.

I kept waiting for her to crack a smile, or do something, anything to show me that she was pulling my leg, but nope she just stood there.

So to break the building tension, I told her, " You can have one for two fifty, or I can sell you two for five dollars."

She looked a little puzzled and asked, " Can I have two and just pay two fifty for each one?"

I said, "Of course", and turned away before I compleatly lost it.

That's scary.

 

[Samuari]

Re: Re: Sometimes its hard not to laugh.

That's scary.

Yup and she prolly votes.

 

[p_p_man]

This evening I was filling a feature of soda that was signed as being "2 for $5.00", when I was stopped by a lady who said, "That's not right."

I know. It's frightening sometimes isn't it.

A while back I was in the supermarket and I kept seeing this man marking off the goods he bought from a shopping list.

When I got to the checkout he was just ahead of me and was carefully counting out his money to reach the total he had on his list.

The girl scanned his items and he gave her his money, which happened to be the right amount. After he left I was next and I reached the till just in time to hear the girl say to her colleague "How did he know how much to pay before I'd scanned it"!.

As I said frightening...

 

[LRC]

YIKES!!!!!!!

The porch light is on but nobody is home!

 

[koalabear]

Just watch the kids at any check-out now-a-days, not a one can count out change till the register tells them how much.

 

[SweetBrat73]

Oh my I think I would have just busted a gut right then and there. LoL Ppl like that do give us something to talk about though don't they

Brat

LoL

 

[Cheyenne]

Hmmmmmm

Does that mean you'd sell me 3 at $2.50 each or do I have to buy the 2 for $5 and then another for $2.50?

 

[pabloback]

Re: Hmmmmmm

Does that mean you'd sell me 3 at $2.50 each or do I have to buy the 2 for $5 and then another for $2.50?

you get one extra when you pay $10 which makes it up to 4

 

[Mensa]

True story

I was helping a friend install a garden pond when his wife comes to the door and says that she is going shopping with her friend who'd just arrived. Her husband asks if she wants some money. She says no that they aren't going to buy anything. He asks why, then, are they going shopping. She tells him just to see what they have.

Fine. Strange, but fine.

We're just finishing up when they get back. His wife is all excited and wants to show him her new shoes. He says that he thought she wasn't going to buy anything. She tells him that she had to because they were on sale for fifty percent off, but it's okay because she didn't use any money, just her credit card.

He shakes his head in disbelief and asks her how she figures it didn't cost any money? She says because both she and her friend got a pair, and at fifty percent off that meant with two it was one hundred percent off. That meant they didn't cost a thing!

He stands there open-mouthed by her explanation. He decides to be sarcastic and asks why then didn't she buy two more pairs and get all of her money back because four pairs at fifty percent equals two hundred percent and they would have to give her back the price of the first two pairs.

She looks at him quizzically for a moment, smiles, and says that he's so smart and wonders why she didn't think of that.

The fact she was deadly serious must have given him some sleepless nights.

 

[morninggirl5]

Re: True story

She looks at him quizzically for a moment, smiles, and says that he's so smart

At least she got something right.

 

[Calamity Jane]

A former roommate of mine refused to buy dented cans at the grocer store... her reasoning? They hold less, so you're paying the same price for a not quite full can as you would for a full (undented) one.

 

[Nobody Special's wife]

And I thought I had blonde moments or was that a brain fart

 

[Unclebill]

Re: Re: Sometimes its hard not to laugh.

Originally posted by morninggirl5


That's scary.

Even scarier, it has become so commonplace that I never even considered it might be a fictional account contrived for the humor.

And even Mensa's example is entirely too believable to give me any measure of comfort with our present education system.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Women shoppers ALWAYS after a reall bargain

 

[Cheyenne]

I once had someone at a very high level in operations in a company tell me that one location's profit margin of 20% plus another near location's margin of 25% meant that together they were a 45%margin market, and what was anyone complaining about? It is rare that I am speechless when it comes to accounting issues, but I didn't even try to explain his error to him.

 

[Beebeeblue]

Oh god no! Do you work for Walmart??? They have those kind of shoppers.....I should know.

 

[teresafannin]

I deal with people like that every day at my job. Very few of the people of any age in our store can count change. I think the older ones have gotten so used to the computer doing everything & the younger ones have never been taught. I am in charge of the ad set/scan & signing in my store & I could write a book on some of the things people have asked me.

 

[Samuari]

Counting Change

Yup Beebee, I've been ther for over ten years, and have seen all kinds of people, as has nearly anyone has you works in the public.
I don't check very much any more, but I have allways counted back change (and it is company policy). The look of puzzeliment that get from teenagers is when I put the last bill in their hand is allways interesting. It looks like they are thinking " You had to cheat me there some how, because no one hands change back like that."

Reciently I was being checked out by a new associate, when he handed my my change in a hand ful anousing "four seventy-six is your change." I handed it back to him and told him to count it back to me properly. He took the money and counted the four bills and then three quarters and a penny. I handed that back and said no do it like this:


"Fifteen twenty four out of twenty. A penny makes twentyfive, fifty, seventy five, and sixteen dollars, and four more is twenty."

The grandmother in line behind me cheered.

 

[Ask For More]

I had a friend who used to cut meat with the smallest knife ever because she was scared of big knives.
So it would take her like half an hour to cut a chicken breast into little pieces.....I used to offer to do it for her but she would always insist to do it herself....

 

[Styphon]

I was helping a friend install a garden pond when his wife comes to the door... The fact she was deadly serious must have given him some sleepless nights.

Unbelievable!! Are they still going to allow her to breed? I seriously think she should be removed from the gene pool


Styphon