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A lady came to the pharmacy counter this morning; she had a dozen items or so and wasn't picking up a prescription, but wanted to know if I could ring out the items, anyways. Not a biggie, the only thing is, we don't have scales at our registers, so we can't ring up anything that is sold by weight, so we always like to make sure the customer doesn't have any such item before we start and have a problem.
"Sure, I can ring that up for you, but you don't have anything that needs weighed, do you?"
SC:
" . . . W-weighed?"
It's as if she'd never heard the word before, and no, she wasn't ESL.
Me: "You know, like produce"?
SC:
Me: Oh, boy . . .. "Stuff like apples, grapes, bananas . . ."
SC: "Oh! No, I don't have anything like that."
She is still looking at me with great suspicion at this point, but puts her items on the counter anyways, and I start scanning. I'm about halfway through, and then I look up and see that she's slowly, ever so slowly, lifting a medium pack of toilet paper up, unsure as to whether she wants to put it on the counter or not.
SC: "Does toilet paper have to be weighed?"
Me: "Um, no."
Wow. I mean, just . . . wow. Where do these people come from? I contemplated running to produce just for the hell of it and asking my good friend Biscuit if he could please give me ten pounds of toilet paper and five pounds of paper towels and see what his reaction was. Most likely he'd tell me I shouldn't be drinking at work.
Where would anyone get the idea that TP is sold by weight?
"Sure, I can ring that up for you, but you don't have anything that needs weighed, do you?"
SC:
" . . . W-weighed?" It's as if she'd never heard the word before, and no, she wasn't ESL.
Me: "You know, like produce"?
SC:
Me: Oh, boy . . .. "Stuff like apples, grapes, bananas . . ."
SC: "Oh! No, I don't have anything like that."
She is still looking at me with great suspicion at this point, but puts her items on the counter anyways, and I start scanning. I'm about halfway through, and then I look up and see that she's slowly, ever so slowly, lifting a medium pack of toilet paper up, unsure as to whether she wants to put it on the counter or not.
SC: "Does toilet paper have to be weighed?"
Me: "Um, no."
Wow. I mean, just . . . wow. Where do these people come from? I contemplated running to produce just for the hell of it and asking my good friend Biscuit if he could please give me ten pounds of toilet paper and five pounds of paper towels and see what his reaction was. Most likely he'd tell me I shouldn't be drinking at work.
Where would anyone get the idea that TP is sold by weight?
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