Knock! Knock! Is anyone in there?

Gypsy In The Palace · Post by **Gypsy In The Palace** » June 28, 2004 5:01 pm

Do you ever feel the urge to walk up to someone, knock on their head, and ask if there is a person inside that body? I felt that way today. I go to a fast food restaurant. I walk up to the counter, and here was the conversation that took place between the casheir and me:

Casheir: May I help you?
Me: Yes, I would like a #8 for here, please.
Casheir: Will that be for here or to go?
Me: It's for here like I just told you! (No, I didn't really say
that, but I did want to!)

Anybody else got a similar story?

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » June 28, 2004 5:03 pm

OH HECK YES!!!!

I'm a receptionist. I answer the phone: "good morning (name of Company) how can I help you"

caller: Is this (name of my company)?

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » June 28, 2004 5:05 pm

We have this place called Au Bon Pain in NYC, there are almost as many of them as Starbucks. There used to be one in the shopping concourse under the building where I work and I used to stop every morning and get a cup of coffee. One day I walked in and said "large black coffee, please." The guy behind the counter said "You want milk in that?"

Sidew13 · Post by **Sidew13** » June 28, 2004 5:13 pm

creeky · Post by **creeky** » June 28, 2004 5:13 pm

I regularly get a milkshake on a saturday morning at a small juice bar at the mall.

The girls there are a few sandwiches short of a picnic.

I ask for a "chocolate malted milkshake"

They repeat back anything other than what I have asked for and I have received vanilla milkshakes, caramel thickshakes - you name it - yet I ask for the same thing each week!

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » June 28, 2004 5:19 pm

Yes. At Subway. All the time.

Me: I'd like a 6" steak and cheese
Subway: Would you like cheese on that?
Me: Yes. It's a steak and cheese. Why would I order steak and cheese if I didn't want cheese.
Subway: Sorry we have to ask
Me: Then why don't you change the name to "steak" instead of "steak and cheese"
Subway: <<Gives me deranged look>>

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » June 28, 2004 5:21 pm

creeky wrote:They repeat back anything other than what I have asked for and I have received vanilla milkshakes, caramel thickshakes - you name it - yet I ask for the same thing each week!

Maybe they can't understand the funny accent.

(Just kidding. I'm from NY, I shouldn't talk about funny accents.)

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » June 28, 2004 5:22 pm

LIPH wrote:
creeky wrote:They repeat back anything other than what I have asked for and I have received vanilla milkshakes, caramel thickshakes - you name it - yet I ask for the same thing each week!
Maybe they can't understand the funny accent. (Just kidding. I'm from NY, I shouldn't talk about funny accents.)

That's right Larry!!!!

creeky · Post by **creeky** » June 28, 2004 5:25 pm

LIPH wrote:
creeky wrote:They repeat back anything other than what I have asked for and I have received vanilla milkshakes, caramel thickshakes - you name it - yet I ask for the same thing each week!
Maybe they can't understand the funny accent. (Just kidding. I'm from NY, I shouldn't talk about funny accents.)

(even tho they are a few sandwiches short of a picnic, I really dont think they think I have an accent .... cause, they sound just like me ... they just dont pay attention)

anyway, I aint go no stinkin accent

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » June 28, 2004 5:30 pm

creeky wrote:
LIPH wrote:
creeky wrote:They repeat back anything other than what I have asked for and I have received vanilla milkshakes, caramel thickshakes - you name it - yet I ask for the same thing each week!
Maybe they can't understand the funny accent. (Just kidding. I'm from NY, I shouldn't talk about funny accents.)

(even tho they are a few sandwiches short of a picnic, I really dont think they think I have an accent .... cause, they sound just like me ... they just dont pay attention)

anyway, I aint go no stinkin accent

Neither do I, it's youse guys who tawk funny. Fuhgedaboutit.

Lil'Bump · Post by **Lil'Bump** » June 28, 2004 7:16 pm

i get that everyday. i work at walgreens in the pharmacy and we have a drive thu. person pulls up into the drive thu and i ask
me> hi, can i help you?
person> yeah i need to pick up a prescription... (blank stare)

me>ok the patients name?
person>well its for me, my name...

me>and that would be?????
person> blank stare

i mean if you cant do that how do you operate a car?who in their right mind let you get a license and drive around if you cant answer a simple question on your name????

phjrsaunt · Post by **phjrsaunt** » June 28, 2004 7:26 pm

Where I worked last was a call center...first thing we ask (in order to locate the customer's account) is their name. This was a 'trick" quesion for more people than you might think!

PHAW Webmistress · Post by **PHAW Webmistress** » June 28, 2004 8:50 pm

Oh lord - don't get me started on this one

MA_Buffett_Fan23 · Post by **MA_Buffett_Fan23** » June 28, 2004 8:56 pm

Gypsy In The Palace wrote:Do you ever feel the urge to walk up to someone, knock on their head, and ask if there is a person inside that body? I felt that way today. I go to a fast food restaurant. I walk up to the counter, and here was the conversation that took place between the casheir and me:

Casheir: May I help you?
Me: Yes, I would like a #8 for here, please.
Casheir: Will that be for here or to go?
Me: It's for here like I just told you! (No, I didn't really say
that, but I did want to!)

Anybody else got a similar story?

OMG yes..... Every day!!!!

AlbatrossFlyer · Post by **AlbatrossFlyer** » June 28, 2004 8:56 pm

a friend is taking french lessons..... last week they where learning to say "i'm from the south of france" of course he says it with a thick southern redneck accent.... nobody gets its....

Desdamona · Post by **Desdamona** » June 28, 2004 9:54 pm

Lil'Bump wrote:i get that everyday. i work at walgreens in the pharmacy and we have a drive thu. person pulls up into the drive thu and i ask
me> hi, can i help you?
person> yeah i need to pick up a prescription... (blank stare)

me>ok the patients name?
person>well its for me, my name...

me>and that would be?????
person> blank stare

i mean if you cant do that how do you operate a car?who in their right mind let you get a license and drive around if you cant answer a simple question on your name????

Thank god!!! I thought all the brain-dead pharmacy customers were
coming to my store! We used to get that a lot, especially from birth-
contrl customers. When they finally would give us a name, there would
be nothing ready for them. Then it was either:

Us: Well, when did you call it in?(after we've looked for it for 5 minutes)
Them: Call it in? I didn't. But I get it every month...

------------or--------------------

Us: I'm sorry, but we don't even have a person by that name in our records.
Them: Well, I got married, so...
(Like we keep track of all the weddings in our area.

)

We were just thankful they weren't trying to reproduce!!!!

parrotsgirl · Post by **parrotsgirl** » June 28, 2004 10:01 pm

ok...ya gotta love this one....

once a week I go to Dunkin Donuts for me and a friend of mine....

and when I order I always say

1 medium Iced Coffee regulah
and
1 medium hot black decaf....

can you tell me why would they ask if I want cream or sugar in the black

there's days I wanna pull them through the window

sailingagain · Post by **sailingagain** » June 28, 2004 10:02 pm

Never underestimate a persons ability to be stupid.

BuffettTeen16 · Post by **BuffettTeen16** » June 28, 2004 10:39 pm

Oh man could I tell some stories. I work at a vet clinic and we have currently switched back to just Spay Nueter and vacinations. Somedays we are just there to answer phones, sell products and make appointments. I cannot count how many times people have come and said I need help my dog is sick. So poiltly we tell them we do not have a docter. They continue to raise their voice and go on about how hurt there dog is and why can't we do anything for him.
One more? This person called and left a message that there are stray cats and she wanted us to take them. So when I talked to her I told her we could not take them becuase we are not a shelter and that all she had to do was catch them and take them to the pound or shelter. She procided to say that she is 76 years old how is she supposed to cath them there under her porch way in the back. I patiently asked her that if she could not catch them how did she plan on drowning them. all I heard after that was a dial tone.

Gypsy In The Palace · Post by **Gypsy In The Palace** » June 29, 2004 12:29 am

My aunt told me a crazy one that happened to her recently. She was ordering desert at a restaurant:

Her: I'd like the [insert desert name here] ala-mode.
Waitress: Would you like that with ice cream?
Her: No, I would just like it ala-mode!

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