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Draggletail 31-03-2005, 14:29 Do people ever ask you really STUPID questions about your job?
Every so often I get this whilst loading up my truck - person comes out of house and asks 'Do you charge to do that'
Instead of replying 'yes Sir/Madam, as you can see by the lettering on my van door I am a private contractor, but I am actually taking away this woodworm infested pile of floorboards at my own expense and out of the goodness of my heart for the customer'
I actually say 'yes I charge by the single Item or a full load' and stand watching as they look at me blankly, then walk off:rant:
There. I feel better for that. Thanks for listening:hihi:
My old man's a financial adviser...people think he's joking when he tells them he charges £50 an hour for advice...then they pay whatever a bloke who paints their front room charges without question.
When i worked as an IT Technician people used to call me and ask "What do you know about computers?" .....i was tempted to say "nothing love im just the cleaner"....
When I was working at Waterstone's you had the usual silly questions, but perhaps the most memorable was the guy who had made some ridculous demand and been told in the nicest possible way that he was taking the p*ss.
"All you lot want to do in here is sell books!"
He observed before storming out of the shop...looking back that was an insightful comment as the shop wasn't a lending library or a citizen's advice bureau, but an outlet of a major chain of booksellers...pitty the chap didn't listen to his own outburst!
I get things like "your a computer programmer, can you fix my TV ?" or "how do I set my video to record a program".
People assume I know everything about every piece of software ever written and can operate enything that runs on electricity.
foo_fighter 31-03-2005, 14:57 Originally posted by Draggletail
Do people ever ask you really STUPID questions about your job?
Ooh yes...
...but I'm not going to tell you what I do...
...you'll only ask a stupid question.
;)
Kristian 31-03-2005, 15:04 Originally posted by Avalon
When i worked as an IT Technician people used to call me and ask "What do you know about computers?" .....i was tempted to say "nothing love im just the cleaner"....
Not quite on the same thread, (am I ever?), but this reminded me of when I used to work in telesales. The marketing team were always sending out creative mailings that most people binned, but some called us about.
One particularly slow morning, I saw a colleague get taken into a side room, then escorted out of the building. It turned out that he had received a call from a lady (who apparrently sounded old, thick and northern) who had called and said 'Oh hello love, I've had a letter from you today' and then paused for a couple of seconds too long. My colleague had replied 'Well what does it say, I can't bluddie see it can I? Silly old cow', then hung up.
I heard the call played in a Team Meeting some months after for a giggle!
K x
Me: "thank you for calling Wanadoo support...calls cost 50p/min etc etc...can i have your email address please"
Customer: "Um...i want to ask a question about your store.."
Me: "...ummm...ok...go ahead"
Customer: "..do you repair fibre optic christmas trees?"..
Me: "...um.....surprisingly not..."
...............And...................
Me: "thank you for calling Wanadoo support...can i have your email address please?"
Cmr: "......"
Me: "hello?"
Cmr: "oh sorry i thought you were a machiene"
..................And...................
Me: "Thank you for calling Wanadoo support etc etc..."
Customer: "Whats the number for AOL?"
Not really stupid questions but stupid customers who just dial random numbers...
JonJParr 31-03-2005, 15:15 I just get, "Does that involve computers?". I find that's what people ask if they don't know what something is. Course it bloody does - I type reports, produce spreadsheets, do Powerpoint presentations, send emails....
Originally posted by Kristian
Not quite on the same thread, (am I ever?), but this reminded me of when I used to work in telesales. The marketing team were always sending out creative mailings that most people binned, but some called us about.
One particularly slow morning, I saw a colleague get taken into a side room, then escorted out of the building. It turned out that he had received a call from a lady (who apparrently sounded old, thick and northern) who had called and said 'Oh hello love, I've had a letter from you today' and then paused for a couple of seconds too long. My colleague had replied 'Well what does it say, I can't bluddie see it can I? Silly old cow', then hung up.
I heard the call played in a Team Meeting some months after for a giggle!
K x I had a wonderful call when I worked on the mortgage line of a major building society.
One morning a guy phoned up doing his nut and claiming that we had broken the Data Protection Act by passing details of his financial commitments on to a third party without his permission. As I tried to placate him whilst digging up his details, the facts of the matter floated to the surface and the conversation went a little like this:
Carmine: Could I ask just who we sent what to?
Irate Man: You sent the paperwork for my mortgage to my girlfriend, I never said you could do that!
Carmine: Looking at your file it seems that this is a joint application...would the second name on the file be that of your girlfriend?
Irate Man: Yes, what's that got to do with it?
Carmine: It means she's a party to the mortgage, she's signed the papers and as such she's legally entitled to be provided with all the documentation relating to the matter.
Irate Man: But I told you, I don't want her to see that stuff!
Carmine: Legally, we don't have the option of denying her access to the documentation.
Irate Man: This is stupid...I'm going to the Ombudsman.
JonJParr 31-03-2005, 15:20 Originally posted by Carmine
Irate Man: This is stupid...I'm going to the Ombudsman.
I think I know what the FSA would say to that complaint!
Hmm, I guess this one comes up a fair bit...
"How many 'hits' does your site get?"
For those of you who don't realise, 'hits' is the figure that marketing people and those trying to impress other non-technical people quote. For example, in February, SF served 3.3m pages (or 5.11m files) which generated 9.16m 'hits'.
"[A 'hit' is the] retrieval of any item, like a page or a graphic, from a Web server. For example, when a visitor calls up a Web page with four graphics, that's five hits, one for the page and four for the graphics. For this reason, hits often aren't a good indication of Web traffic."
Originally posted by JonJParr
I think I know what the FSA would say to that complaint! That you have to complain before you can have a complaint!
This was after the Ombudsman had been tearing through mortgages and everyone thought they could scare the s*it out of their bank by mentioning the mere word!
Another one was the guy who insisted he'd actually called the number of a competitor and ended up talking to us instead...I refuse to believe that the technical bods at the company had gotten that clever!
Kristian 31-03-2005, 15:25 Just remembered another, from when I managed debt collectors. I heard a call from one of my op's who was chasing three missing direct debit payments from a customers account. The customer started with the 'How dare you call me at home :rant: :rant: :rant: ' attitude, but my op stayed really calm. Then the conversation went like this:
Op: It's in both our interests for us to sort this out Mr X
Cust: Don't patronise me, how dare you. Remember I pay your wages!
Op: With all due respect Mr X, you haven't for the last three months have you? :D :clap:
That was the point that the call was passed over to me to sort out.... :|
K x
Swan_Vesta 31-03-2005, 15:27 My God, yes they do ....... I supply radio equipment to a variety of organisations and some of the dumb assed things they come out with are beyond belief.
Customer: "Why the **** should I pay you to repair this radio when I have a maintenance contract with you? Your company are rubbish - Give me one good reason why you think that this is unfair wear and tear!?"
Me: "Because the attached note says it's been dropped down the toilet"
Customer: "ah"
Customers, I love 'em.
I always laugh when I remember the guy who pleaded to be lent far more money than he could afford:
"You have to lend me that much...if I don't make the payments you can always take the house off me!"
I'd have given it five minutes from him hearing his home was about to be repossesed and him squealing down the phone to Watchdog about the big bad meanies who were holding him to a binding contract that he signed in good faith.
Well I get stupid questions at College
"Have you done your homework" :P
At McDonalds, too many stupid questions to list
The classic one is when some woman complained, asking if she could have a "Quarter Pounder that is not greasy".
I had to stop myself from laughing at her and from saying "We don't charge extra for the grease you know!"
I still can't believe that Yankee managed to sue McDonalds after she burnt herself on the coffee she bought from a drive-in!
Another classic was the perrenial Waterstone's 3 for 2 offer.
Now anyone who has any sense knows that such an offer works on the principal that of the 3 titles you purchase, the lowest priced item is the one that you get free.
I nearly wept with laughter when one chap tried to dispute this and pay for two £5.99 paperbacks whilst getting a £30.00 atlas as his freebie!
Originally posted by Carmine
Another classic was the perrenial Waterstone's 3 for 2 offer.
My mum thought you had to buy 3 copies of the same book, she was phoning round to see what everyone else liked before she bought them, as she "didn't need 3 copies for herself".
Originally posted by nick2
My mum thought you had to buy 3 copies of the same book, she was phoning round to see what everyone else liked before she bought them, as she "didn't need 3 copies for herself". That's just cute!
Kind of like Peter Kay's grandparent's sitting in silence in the kitchen for fear of recording their voices while taping their favourite shows!
Draggletail 31-03-2005, 15:47 Originally posted by nick2
My mum thought you had to buy 3 copies of the same book, she was phoning round to see what everyone else liked before she bought them, as she "didn't need 3 copies for herself".
Mums, bless 'em. Classic :D
Originally posted by Carmine
That's just cute!
Kind of like Peter Kay's grandparent's sitting in silence in the kitchen for fear of recording their voices while taping their favourite shows!
I know, bless her, she's on a cruise at the moment.
Her boyfriend told me she had phoned the cruise line to ask if they had carpet on the ship and what type it was, because she didn't want to take a certain pair of sandals if they had a certain type of carpet as she gets static shocks from them.
I once told her that if you see soemone having a diabetic attack you should get them to eat a bar of chocolate, but if they are unconsious you should shove it up their bum, and for this reason you should go for a finger of fudge as opposed to a Lion Bar or a Yorkie.
I phoned her the next day to tell her I was joking, before someone got hurt.
I've got hundreds of stories about her. We have a good laugh when she's around.
Originally posted by nick2
I once told her that if you see soemone having a diabetic attack you should get them to eat a bar of chocolate, but if they are unconsious you should shove it up their bum, and for this reason you should go for a finger of fudge as opposed to a Lion Bar or a Yorkie. My partner's mum gets the same thing from me in a good-natured way.
Once I had her 90% convinced that Noel Edmonds was an orphan that the BBC bought as a child and that was why you never saw him on ITV.
Kristian 31-03-2005, 15:59 Originally posted by Carmine
My partner's mum gets the same thing from me in a good-natured way.
Once I had her 90% convinced that Noel Edmonds was an orphan that the BBC bought as a child and that was why you never saw him on ITV.
That's really funny! Sorry, just had to say so! :clap: :clap: :clap:
K x
Originally posted by Kristian
That's really funny! Sorry, just had to say so! :clap: :clap: :clap:
K x Thanks!:D
Luckily she has a good sense of humour and sees the funny side!
Unfortunatly that wasn't the case when we were in the Lake District on holiday. I hid near the village graveyard on the way home from the pub one pitch black night and did my best zombie impression as she walked by...she didn't speak to me until the afternoon of the next day!
redrobbo 31-03-2005, 16:06 Originally posted by nick2
I get things like "your a computer programmer, can you fix my TV ?" or "how do I set my video to record a program".
People assume I know everything about every piece of software ever written and can operate enything that runs on electricity.
Sorry to ask a stupid question nick2, but on the assumption that you can operate anything that runs on electricity - can you tell me if my fridge light goes off when I close the door? This has always puzzled me.
beansfeast 31-03-2005, 16:12 Originally posted by redrobbo
Sorry to ask a stupid question nick2, but on the assumption that you can operate anything that runs on electricity - can you tell me if my fridge light goes off when I close the door? This has always puzzled me.
I can answer that as a 'Fridge Door Light Operator', though it's a stupid question considering my job title!! :heyhey:
I sit in the fridge and when the door closes, I turn the light off - simple! (Unless you've left some really delicious grub in there, in which case I need the light on to see what I'm eating hehehehe)... :D
Several centuries ago when I drove trucks for a pittence, I was once pulled over by the D.O.T. for a vehicle check.
As I wound down the (driver's side) window to acknowledge the approaching inspector, he asked, "Are you the driver of this vehicle sir?":rolleyes:
Draggletail 31-03-2005, 16:43 Originally posted by saxon51
Several centuries ago when I drove trucks for a pittence, I was once pulled over by the D.O.T. for a vehicle check.
As I wound down the (driver's side) window to acknowledge the approaching inspector, he asked, "Are you the driver of this vehicle sir?":rolleyes:
And no doubt if you came out with a sarcastic reply your vehicle would have got the full supersize type check :rolleyes: :hihi:
In the bank I often get asked "Have you got any free samples?" or "Are you doing 2 for the price of 1?"
It might be funny if I didn't hear it 7 times each day. :rolleyes:
The other stupid question is "Are you open on Bank Holiday Monday? :loopy:
spiffymonkey 31-03-2005, 17:21 Originally posted by nick2
I get things like "your a computer programmer, can you fix my TV ?" or "how do I set my video to record a program".
People assume I know everything about every piece of software ever written and can operate enything that runs on electricity.
You mean you can't? I can, it's a handy skill.
OK I'm lying, but I am sometimes tempted to say that I can do anything just to prove that I can't! For some reason it was once assumed that, because I can write software and install Windows, I can also mend a mechanical watch. After all, computers and watches are made of very small bits, aren't they?
I work in immigration and people ask "do you deal with lots of immigrants?" :suspect:
If I had a quid for the number of times I have been asked "do you work here" I would be a very rich woman. I work in a supermarket, the logo of the store is written across the back of my shirt in 3 inch lettering, and the name of the store is also written on the front of my shirt. I now find that i have to walk in to the back of the store and bang my head against the first avaliable brick wall...
I used to work for a Cash Register Company, it was amazing how many people used to try and pay at the checkout, you had in BITS :loopy:
I used to look at them with my screwdriver raised,and politly reply - that i was just here fixing the till :confused:
My mate works on operator services for BT and get loadsa calls (especially from the men) for how long to cook a chicken??? and how long to boil and egg etc!!
One guy even admitted to calling them just for a chat - said the women always sounded sexy and were cheaper than the £1 per minute female chat lines....YUK!!!!
:confused:
I am a photographer and I use quite a lot of digital camera's the questions I get asked like so you are a photographer how do you put 35mm film in a digital camera ? do you have to walk around with a big battery booster pack as they drain the batteries. I bet you have to spend quite a bit of time in the darkroom to develop the film and do you have to do it in complete darkness like 35 mm SLR cameras. I once had a lady come up to me and she asked so what do you do all day when you are out and about I had got two cameras in my hand a gadget bag on my shoulder a bloody big tripod on my gadget bag and still she asked what do you do all day.
Kristian 01-04-2005, 02:42 Originally posted by bigkev
I am a photographer and I use quite a lot of digital camera's the questions I get asked like so you are a photographer how do you put 35mm film in a digital camera ? do you have to walk around with a big battery booster pack as they drain the batteries. I bet you have to spend quite a bit of time in the darkroom to develop the film and do you have to do it in complete darkness like 35 mm SLR cameras. I once had a lady come up to me and she asked so what do you do all day when you are out and about I had got two cameras in my hand a gadget bag on my shoulder a bloody big tripod on my gadget bag and still she asked what do you do all day.
There's no accounting for folk Kev! I remember once working in retail, and being quiet one Saturday morning, a woman strolled in at about 09:30. She looked as all stood about and gasped 'Are you open?'
No of course we weren't! We always stood about at that time on a Saturday looking gormy!
Some folk! :roll:
K x
redrobbo 01-04-2005, 02:51 Having been a mental health worker for many years, I've forgotten how many times an emergency duty psychiatrist has arrived at a house and started interviewing me in mistake for the patient! But you know, I would always answer their stupid questions!
Kristian 01-04-2005, 03:05 Originally posted by redrobbo
Having been a mental health worker for many years, I've forgotten how many times an emergency duty psychiatrist has arrived at a house and started interviewing me in mistake for the patient! But you know, I would always answer their stupid questions!
How many times were you taken away in a straight jacket unable to convince them of the truth RedRobbo? :hihi: :heyhey: :hihi: :clap: :clap: :thumbsup:
K x
I used to have a saturday job in a department store. I was working on the tills once and was serving a lady of about 45, i'd just finished putting her items in a bag and I told her how much it was, she gave me her credit card. I looked at the card and it wasn't signed on the back. I told her it wasn't signed so I couldn't accept the card. She said " I didn't want to sign the back because if I lose my card, someone could find it and copy my signature"!!!!!!!! She asked me if it was just her being stupid, I was so tempted to say "yes, you are"
All day I kept giggiling to myself when I though of it. Cheered me right up!
Zipz.
Another Waterstone's tale...
During the mad period around Xmas when all retail outlets resemble a riot in an asylum, I happened to be cornered by an elderly couple at the busiest time of the day.
The woman told me that she had six grandchildren ranging from about 4 to 15 years old, she wanted to buy them a book each but didn't know where to start.
I walked them over to the kids section and pointed out the age catagories then showed them the big display tables that dominated the floor space.
"If you buy them something from here then you really can't go wrong," I explained, "and even if they don't like the book we can exchange it for something else if you keep the reciept."
"But I don't know what they would want," the woman replied as if I had not spoken a word, "what would you reccomend?"
It was at that moment I realised that what the woman actually wanted amounted to a personal shopper who would take her by the hand and hand-pick a book for each of her darling grandchildren whilst the rest of the desperate book-buying public faded into the background.
After I had gotten rid of her, the older staff members recognised her description and told me that she had been pulling the same trick for years!
Not really a stupid question...more a stupid and unreasonable request, but the memory of that experience still makes me want to scream at the woman!:rant:
i used to work for a cable company installing and we had to wear grey trousers, purple polo shirts, hi vis vests all with telewest emblazend all over, i called into a petrol station in a transit with telewest all over that and the girl behind the counter asks " do you work for telewest" i replied ( very straight faced ) "no love i like walking round dressed like this and i found the van down the road"
or how about the plumber putting central heating in a house the customers sister after being there for two hours watching asked are you a plumber.
im a joiner so everybody expects me to know how to do everything anyway
redrobbo 01-04-2005, 18:50 Originally posted by Kristian
How many times were you taken away in a straight jacket unable to convince them of the truth RedRobbo?
K x
You weren't supposed to guess the outcome Kristian! But ok., I'll let on = :mad: :loopy: :confused:
(I make that carted off three times for being diagnosed mad, loopy or just plain confused!).
Originally posted by Kristian
There's no accounting for folk Kev! I remember once working in retail, and being quiet one Saturday morning, a woman strolled in at about 09:30. She looked as all stood about and gasped 'Are you open?'
No of course we weren't! We always stood about at that time on a Saturday looking gormy!
We often get that in the bank on Saturday afternoons. I remember one conversation:
Customer: Is the bank open? (he was in the bank at this point)
Me: Yes
Customer: How long are you open for?
Me: Til 5
Customer: Oh good, I'll go and fetch my wife
Me: Does she need to do some banking?
Customer: No, she doesn't have an account here, but she'll never believe that the bank's open on Saturday afternoon unless she sees it with her own eyes.
And off he went to fetch his wife :loopy:
One of my favorites is knocking at the door, telling them who I am and they reply...."OOh is it today you are coming".......
Well, duurr why else would I be knocking on your door STUPID!!
....................................
I wouldn't mind if it was addressed as a question, but the best answer to 'Type that for me, will you' is: 'This CAD station doesn't have word on it, and I can't type'
:D
(I can, but they don't need to know that ;) )
If I'm feeling really sarcastic, I ask if they want it in A1 or A0 and meet their puzzled look with one that suggests they're stupid for not understanding paper sizes.
Any persistence can be met with 'Well I'll have to type it in AutoCAD. Can you open AutoCAD files on your machine?' (Sweet and helpful look - just for good measure) :hihi:
Only one I can remember recently was a woman who didn't like touching her central heating timer because she thought that the static from her body would change the set times and start the boiler going when she didn't want it on/off. Maybe she thought her electric blanket was charging her up by night or something. A little paranoid that one. :roll: :loopy:
It's also surprising how many people think that their boiler will explode while they're asleep. Another one is when you enter a house and ask the tenant where their boiler is. Alot of them tend to take you to the airing cupboard and show you the hot water cylinder. :)
People can ask me about my job but get annoyed when I can't answer..
Sensitivity and all that ;)
many a time over the past 15 years i have been wakling down some street with mi ladder and mi bucket and have been asked "scuse me mate are you a window cleaner":rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
on the odd ocassion ive replied no mate landscape gardener;)
evildrneil 02-04-2005, 13:48 Nope - they ask what I do, I tell them and then they tend to kinda glaze over!!!
Originally posted by evildrneil
Nope - they ask what I do, I tell them and then they tend to kinda glaze over!!!
do you work at ant marketing?
evildrneil 02-04-2005, 14:17 Nope - I'm a bioinformatics researcher *waits for people to glaze over*!!!
Originally posted by evildrneil
Nope - I'm a bioinformatics researcher *waits for people to glaze over*!!!
Does pasting 'bioinformatics' into google count as glazing over? :)
Edit: Is this (http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/pages/bioinfo.html) relevant?
Originally posted by kirky
i did that before i became a window cleaner,i couldn't cope with all the explaining to thicko's so i gave it up...
I notice that you didn't attempt to spell Neil's job title :D :D :D
Originally posted by Strix
Does pasting 'bioinformatics' into google count as glazing over? :)
Edit: Is this (http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/pages/bioinfo.html) relevant?
av just done that Strix, and am well and truly glazed over
:confused:
KIRKY, DONT LOOK! :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:
evildrneil 02-04-2005, 14:52 Originally posted by Strix
Does pasting 'bioinformatics' into google count as glazing over? :)
Edit: Is this (http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/pages/bioinfo.html) relevant?
Thats one of the areas but it now covers lots of areas - I did my PhD in structural molecular biology (building 3d models of protions to analyse the relationship between structure and function) and am now working in the natural language processing department of the university working on ways to extract information from the scientific literature - bioinformatics is now quite wide ranging!
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/cb/
http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/research/areas/bio.html
http://www.shef.ac.uk/mbb/academic/sb0210.html
(p.s. my contract runs out at the end of the year so anyone know of any upcoming research in this area let me know ;) )
StarSparkle 02-04-2005, 15:22 Originally posted by evildrneil
Thats one of the areas but it now covers lots of areas - I did my PhD in structural molecular biology (building 3d models of protions to analyse the relationship between structure and function) and am now working in the natural language processing department of the university working on ways to extract information from the scientific literature - bioinformatics is now quite wide ranging!
Is this anything like discourse analysis, evildrneil?
StarSparkle
I'm a radiographer and people ask many stupid questions:
1. what is that? (I take x-rays)
2. do you glow in the dark? (no but it would be interesting if i did)
3. Does it make you infertile? (no see next question)
4. Why do you always run off behind that screen when taking an x ray? (in order to avoid 2 and 3)
I used to work in a photograph developing shop when two women came in and asked me if we could make a negative from a photograph. I told them that this was impossible but that we had a machine that could make copies of the print if that was what they wanted. The women were adamant that it was possible to make a negative. They became quite stroppy and left to take their custom to Boots as 'They'll definately do it'. I wished them luck.
Originally posted by Goon
I used to work in a photograph developing shop when two women came in and asked me if we could make a negative from a photograph. I told them that this was impossible but that we had a machine that could make copies of the print if that was what they wanted. The women were adamant that it was possible to make a negative. They became quite stroppy and left to take their custom to Boots as 'They'll definately do it'. I wished them luck.
Don't you just love shop assistants who know everything? :rolleyes:
I've had a negative made from a print before
A Customer at Argos recently...
Customer - "Is there any way of checking what's in stock before you queue up?"
Me - "Yes"
Customer - "How do you do it then?"
Me - "See the blue box things next to EVERY catalogue browser, you type the number in on them and it tells you"
Customer - "God that's clever isn't it!"
Another recent one, not a question, but one that should be shared. Customer wishing to purchase a mobile phone....
Me - "There's no exhange or refund on that item, so you can't bring it back if you dont like it, but you can if its faulty"
Customer - "**** i'm not risking that, I may as well give my money to a bloody tramp"
Me - "Ok, bye now"
:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:
Another general Argos customer thingy - people asking me deep questions about individual products like I know the catalogue inside out..
Examples..
"I've seen this phone in't book"
"I'm after this ring..."
R-I-G-H-T.... Now I know exactly what you're talking about :suspect:
How many pages are there in the book!?!?!
Also, bearing in mind i'm a male, people ask me all kinds of questions about hair straighteners. Like I bloody use em!!
mrchinnery 03-04-2005, 09:20 I work in a hospital lab. The people who take blood get the following comments:
Look out the vampires are comming.
Do you want an armfull.
Haven't you made enough black pudding yet.
But I got somebody on the phone asking about bringing her husbands semen sample in for testing. He had been asked to book an appointment for the following Thursday.
"My husband has been asked to bring his sample in next Thursday. He can't get time of work on Thursday. Is it alright is he brings it in on Wednesday because he can't COME on Thursdays".
muddycoffee 03-04-2005, 10:23 When I go into a shoe shop I always find the assistant and ask a stupid question.
"what have you got in size 11?"
They always look at me stupidly and reply that they have everything in my large size. After trying to find 2 pairs of shoes in my size that they don't have in stock, they then come around to my way of thinking and go into the stockroom to see what they have in size 11.
What annoys me is that this always happens, and they think I'm stupid, until 10 minutes later when they realise why I tried to get them to look for the size for me in the first place, before wasting so much of our time.
I'm a size 12 and I get exactly the same problem MC. I always ask what they've got in a 12 because it's pointless me picking shoes off the shelf only to be told time and again that they don't stock it in my size. :roll:
I used to work in a home furnishings store, advising customers on fabrics, curtains, bedding, etc. The most commonly asked question, as they held up one item or another:
'Do you think this will look good in my house?'
Um, have I SEEN the interior of every house in this area? What was worse was when you tried to be diplomatic and reply with a 'Well can you tell me a little about your colour scheme?'. They'd pause for a bit and finally come out with 'It's hard to describe' :)
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