The Tea Tastes Like Eggs

[Gaki]

SC: I wanna buy this stuff with my flex card.
Me: ...uh?
SC: *shoves a bunch of stuff at me and then hands me her school ID.*
Me: Uh...do we even...?
SC: *very snotty* Uh [Town] College???
Me: ........... *swipes card* Says "Unknown Card."
SC: Oh. Well then I don't want any of it. *leaves it on my counter and leaves*
Me:


SC: I want to pay for this stuff with foodstamps.
Me: Something in it isn't covered. It'll only cover X.XX
SC: *waves at all the crap she's buying* It's all cold.
Me: I don't run the system, I don't know why things aren't covered, all I know is that you can't buy something in here with the foodstamps, it won't tell me what.
SC: Well I don't know why that would be since it's all cold food. *a line forms behind her*
Me: *individually rings up each thing to check what's not covered.* It's the specialty drink you ordered.
SC: ......Well that's stupid.
Me: Right. Do you still want it?
SC: Fine. I'll just pay cash. *takes her good ol' time. By the time she leaves the line is over ten people deep, I'm by myself, and I've had a drive off.*


SC: I want a carton of [brand].
Me: We're out of those.
SC: What? How come every time I come in, you're out?
Me: Well you come in right before the delivery date and I only order what they tell me to order.
SC: Great. *huffily walks away*


Weird Lady: The tea tastes like eggs.
Me: ......... (When I asked my CW what it tasted like he just said it tasted stronger than normal. It was fine. I just stirred it.)


SC: How much were those cigarettes?
CW: 6.29.
SC: You shorted me a five. I gave you a twenty.
CW: Sir, I gave you thirteen and change back. A ten and three ones. The same ten and three ones you still have in your hand.
SC: ....Well I still don't know. *storms out*


SC: I bought this map a few days ago. (It looked as if it were a few MONTHS ago) OBVIOUSLY someone WROTE THIS IN IT. *jabs at the page with her finger*

Me, Awesome Manager, and CW crowd around it and it's some very poorly written dirty poem about a woman of a dubious sexual nature and a phone number for said "lady of the evening". I'm trying to hold in a snort because even if it is offensive, it was actually rather entertaining that someone should open a map book to a "notes" page and just write something so weird in it. I would bet you 1000 dollars that woman wrote that in herself just so she could get a new map since hers rather looked like it had been dragged from the back of her redneck truck. She ended up being rather crazy.

SC: THAT'S THE "N" WORD FOR WOMEN! I HATE THAT WORD.

[gremcint]

how did the limerick go?
there once was a woman who sold shunts?

[sms001]

SC: How much were those cigarettes?
CW: 6.29.
SC: You shorted me a five. I gave you a twenty.

So he's trying to convince you that you gave him change for a FIFTEEN dollar bill? Really SC? Go for "You shorted me a ten." next time. Still won't work, but at least your math will be right.

[BrenDAnn]

Oh, Gaki. Every time you post, I feel such empathy for you.

First of all, I've only vaguely heard of that sort of student card. Anyone trying to use one in my neck of the woods would get a very, very blank stare.

Second, oh, EBT, my fucking pain in the ass friend. I hate it when people don't know what's covered on their card. That said, for some odd reason, the system at work has been taking all but odd change (give or ten cents) off for some purchases. We figure it's deposit or something, though I THOUGHT that was supposed to be covered! Note this is the cash register itself, which tells me what to put in for the amount when I swipe the card on the EBT machine to my left, so it has nothing to do with the amount on the card. Also, let me just say that the fact that someone took advantage of your busy time to steal gas is just bullshit.

Next: Yes, places run out of things. You should perhaps get to the store sooner if you REALLY want those smokes. I really have a hard time getting this into people's thick skulls where the local weely coupon freebie paper is concerned.

The tea? I've had ours smell like eggs after sitting for a while, but I've never had anyone complain about the taste. We WERE recently told to be making it every 8 hours. Yeah...Because it sells SO well. Right.

I don't know where this person learned their math skills, but either they weren't present in ANY math classes, or their teacher never showed them 20 minus anything between 6 and 7 will get you 13. Wow.

The map...oh, lord, I don't know if I would've been able to keep a straight face, either. Yeah, I'm betting she did that herself. Nice try, lady!

[KiaKat]

I'm willing to bet that the change guy thought "oh, six is near five, so I should get five dollars back!"

In terms of the tea smelling like eggs... that's probably sulfur. Either your water is on the hard side and has a high sulfur content, or the tea has been sitting for far too long, and the sulfur elements have taken over. It's one of many reasons I won't drink tea that hasn't been made fresh.

But then, I'm an admitted tea snob, so I'm probably not going to drink C-store tea, anyway.

[Chromatix]

There once was a plumber from Leigh...

[Gaki]

how did the limerick go?
there once was a woman who sold shunts?

I don't remember how it actually went but it would have rhymed with "More"

[Golden Phoenix]

I have a peculiar problem where many kinds of tea, especially the standard teas you'd find in most brit's homes, taste like fish, specifically some kind of oily fish, sardines or pilchards or similar.

Never understood it. These days i have to have more expensive types to find one without the weird taste. Or i just drink coffee.

[Andara Bledin]

So he's trying to convince you that you gave him change for a FIFTEEN dollar bill? Really SC? Go for "You shorted me a ten." next time. Still won't work, but at least your math will be right.

That's actually an easy mistake; grabbing a $5 instead of a $10 for the change will do that. My guess is that the SC thought she got a $5 and 3 $1s.

^-.-^

[EricKei]

EBT -- You'd love it down here. All EBT cards are currently in "Emergency Mode" (for lack of a better term) -- if it's edible and not booze, EBT will work.

The thing is, even in normal times, the darn things work on sliced boxes of cake from grocery bakeries (maybe the UPC code has it classified as generic "bakery"?) and COOKED rotisserie chickens. Not that I'm complaining about either of those, mind you

Some stores do have ...clever...ways to get around the restrictions, tho. Here, at least, a cold sandwich is allowed on EBT (e.g.: a cold roast beef po-boy) but a hot one is not (e.g.: a hot roast beef po-boy/one with hot gravy on it). Their solution: They make the sammich & wrap it up, hand it over to the customer, tell people to go buy it on their card, then bring it back to the deli to have it run thru the oven and have hot gravy added to it.

[Syriilord]

That's actually an easy mistake; grabbing a $5 instead of a $10 for the change will do that. My guess is that the SC thought she got a $5 and 3 $1s.

^-.-^

Thank Gord. I was about to start wondering if I was crazy for apparently being the only one who thought this might have been the case.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Tea that tastes of eggs? O_o Then again, I don't drink tea (apparently, very unusual for an English person) so all tea might taste eggy for all I know.

[KatherineB]

Tea that tastes of eggs? O_o Then again, I don't drink tea (apparently, very unusual for an English person) so all tea might taste eggy for all I know.

The only way tea tastes of eggs is if you drink it like Lord Byron and add a fresh egg to your black beverage. *shudder*

[EricKei]

The only thing I could think of that would make tea taste of eggs would be bad water (aka egg water) -- but that would make ALL of the tea taste bad to everyone (like sulfur or spoiled eggs), not just one person >_>

[Lachrymose]

Tea. Earl Grey. Scrambled.

There once was a plumber from Leigh...

My favorite limerick.