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  • A Week of Suckage

    Thank God I go on vacation next week. After this last run, it's making me very happy that I'll soon be thousands of miles away (and getting a new job at a pool and recreation store instead!)

    Now it's listed for your convienience:


    The Coin Lady


    My store not only has rewards cards that are free to sign up with but you can also win special coins at checkout. There's four of them: gold, blue, red, and silver, with silver being the lowest. Customers can save these and use them to save on items in the store or -le gasp- get things free. And unlike coupons they don't expire.

    I have one lady pull up and dump 20 of these things onto my belt and ask me to try and see if any of them work. Her ed one gets her the mylar balloon she's bought for free, and a silver coin takes $2 off of her ham purchase. I try one more silver coin, but it doesn't work. I tell her she's done, but she insists I try all 17 of the silver coins.

    The Coinstar Guy

    We have one of those coin counting machines in the front of the store. Customers pour their change into it, it counts it, they print a voucher and come to us to get the cash. Plain and simple. Until I get called over for help by a man using the machine, claiming that it's not taking any of his coins.

    Reason why? His "coins" were numerous can pull tabs and Chuck E. Cheese tokens. His excuse for the tabs? He said a young girl had gone door to door collecting them for a school fundraiser, so he figured they were worth something.

    The Epically Failing Scammer

    We keep a cart in the front of the store to collect non-perishable food items and general merchandise that customers don't want. Later on someone (usually me) goes around with the cart and puts items back on the shelves. But I had one customer who kept parking her cart next to the backshop cart, then attempted to walk out of the store with the wrong cart. Not once expecting me to catch her because I bagged all of her stuff. And she tried this five times.

    How Do You Say That?

    We have a new stock of tropical fruit this season, including this one thing called a feijoa. Too bad no one, including me, knows how to say it. We've gone from "fay-hoe-ah" to "fay-huwah-ia" to "feh-joe-la".

    That Was Odd....

    I had a three-year old in the lane behind me grab my rump. Mom went ape-shit on him, saying that was rude and "don't even think of trying that again until you're 13".

    Those 10 years will be the longest in that kid's life.

    I Draw The Line There, Gramps

    We have Mobile Concierge service when it rains. Simply put, our seniors give us the keys to the car, we go find it in the lot, and pull it up to the curb and help them load their groceries when it rains. One such old fellow climbed in the passenger seat after loading and was very surprised when he learned I wasn't driving him first class to the Bingo hall.


    And, Finally....


    Just because I'm wearing an orange safety vest and attempting to collect carts from the parking lot does not give you the right to hurtle yours at me and walk away.

  • #2
    Quoth Nashida View Post
    Reason why? His "coins" were numerous can pull tabs and Chuck E. Cheese tokens. His excuse for the tabs? He said a young girl had gone door to door collecting them for a school fundraiser, so he figured they were worth something.
    Hehehehe, this has had me giggling furtively at my desk for the past few minutes. Did he have an excuse for the tokens?

    Quoth Nashida View Post
    How Do You Say That?
    We have a new stock of tropical fruit this season, including this one thing called a feijoa. Too bad no one, including me, knows how to say it.
    This will now bug me for a very, very long time. Someone, please, end my suffering!

    Quoth Nashida View Post
    "don't even think of trying that again until you're 13".
    My mother would've flat out killed me, even at 13!

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    • #3
      We have Mobile Concierge service when it rains. Simply put, our seniors give us the keys to the car, we go find it in the lot, and pull it up to the curb and help them load their groceries when it rains. One such old fellow climbed in the passenger seat after loading and was very surprised when he learned I wasn't driving him first class to the Bingo hall.
      Well, if it's a nice car and he let you use it after work...but that sounds like an excellent service. I can imagine the day when it's cloudy and they want the service, just in case it rains.
      Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

      Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

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      • #4
        feijoa = Fah-Joe-Ah although Fah-Hoe-Ah is also ok

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        • #5
          According to Merriam-Webster, it's Fay-Yo-Ah or Fay-Ho-Ah...
          "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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          • #6
            According to local custom around NZ, it's fee-JOE-ah. No 'a' sounds in that first syllable, long or short. Although, ei does tend to have an 'aye' sound to it, just not apparently in this instance. Of course, I haven't looked it up. They're not just not at all uncommon around here, and that's how we say it.

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            • #7
              ug, I am glad I am going on vacation too.
              When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. ---Colleen C. Barrett---

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              • #8
                Hmmm...If'n I'm not mistaken, it sounds like you're a slave at the Big Yank. I spent quite a few years there myself. My condolences.

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                • #9
                  Hmmm...If'n I'm not mistaken, it sounds like you're a slave at the Big Yank. I spent quite a few years there myself. My condolences.
                  Yes, I was. I've put in my two-weeks notice as of today, and have already gotten my new job at the pool place. For much better hours and a much better wage too.

                  According to Merriam-Webster, it's Fay-Yo-Ah or Fay-Ho-Ah...
                  Ah, so when I said Fay-hoe-ah I was close. Can't believe I never thought of looking in a dictionary when I got home. I'm getting as bad as the customers now and not reading things!

                  Hehehehe, this has had me giggling furtively at my desk for the past few minutes. Did he have an excuse for the tokens?
                  Nope, no excuse, and to be honest I've accidently slipped a few in when I've used the machine in the past, and it counted as a quarter.

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                  • #10
                    "fah-joe-ah", here's more info about it! http://www.floridata.com/ref/F/feijoa.cfm

                    Nashida, about your avatar, Pluto was, is, and always will be a planet! A sentiment that is held by many NMSU alumni. (Used to see Dr. Tombaugh from time-to-time on campus.)
                    It's floating wicker propelled by fire!

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Pagan View Post
                      Nashida, about your avatar, Pluto was, is, and always will be a planet! A sentiment that is held by many NMSU alumni. (Used to see Dr. Tombaugh from time-to-time on campus.)
                      You've mentioned that already in another topic, and well, whenever I tell anybody as out for interesting but hardly useful information as myself, I just get blank sates. "It's not ? What is it, then ?" And since I'm no astronomer, that's when I begin to stutter "Er, I don't know exactly, but they seem to have decided it didn't fit the bill to be called a planet anymore."
                      "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Samaliel View Post
                        "It's not ? What is it, then ?" And since I'm no astronomer, that's when I begin to stutter "Er, I don't know exactly, but they seem to have decided it didn't fit the bill to be called a planet anymore."
                        For some reason, the astronomy powers-that-be seem to be absolutely terrified of doing anything that makes the solar system have more than 9 planets. I don't get it. Honestly, so we have 10 or more planets? Other than having to jigger that memory sentence around (Mary's Violet Eyes Makes Johnny Sit Up Nice Period, or Period Nice, depending on where they are in their orbits.), what's the big, hairy deal?
                        It's floating wicker propelled by fire!

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                        • #13
                          Last I checked, there were 9 planets with recent discoveries of two more (Dave and Alvin ).

                          Otherwise; My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickes wouldn't make much since.

                          Mercury
                          Venus
                          Earth
                          Mars
                          Jupiter
                          Saturn
                          Uranus
                          Neptune
                          Pluto
                          Ridiculous 2009 Predictions: Evil Queen will beat Martha Stewart to death with a muffin pan. All hail Evil Queen! (Some things don't need elaboration.....) -- Jester

                          Ridiculous 2010 Predictions: Evil Queen, after escaping prison for last years prediction, goes out and waffle irons Rachel Ray to death. -- SG15Z

                          Ridiculous 2011 Prediction: Evil Queen will beat Gordon Ramsay over the head with a cast-iron skillet. -- FireHeart

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                          • #14
                            Quoth Nashida View Post

                            That Was Odd....

                            I had a three-year old in the lane behind me grab my rump. Mom went ape-shit on him, saying that was rude and "don't even think of trying that again until you're 13".

                            Those 10 years will be the longest in that kid's life.
                            The not till you're thirteen part was the kicker. Just the idea of defining a age where it's okay just amuses me.

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                            • #15
                              Regarding Feijoa, clicking on the link will provide a link that offers two pronunciations of it.
                              "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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