If you were any other species on Earth, you'd be dead.

[NateTheChops]

A woman, with an accent that suggests English might not be her first language, but well dressed and having the appearance of someone who shouldn't need this kind of help, asked me where the restroom was. I was at the front end, so it was a simple matter of pointing.

ME: Right down there m'am.
SC: Where?
ME: *Pointing* Right where that shopping cart is, down that hallway.
SC: You mean at the pharmacy?

The Pharmacy is miles and miles past where I am pointing.

Me: No ma'am, I'm pointing right at it.
SC: There's is no bathroom down there. It says employees only.

Okay. So she can read English, because there is a sign that says Employees only at the end of the hall. But if you actually walk down the hall you will see the men's room and the women's room is just an approximately ninety degree turn from the Employees only door.

I actually had to physically guide her down that hall and show her where the bathroom was, listening to her tirade about how there was no bathroom there the whole way. I seriously expected her to ask me for further instructions when I showed her the clearly labeled women's room.

[MoonCat]

People are sooo stupid *sigh*

[Dark Psion]

Be glad you didn't have to follow her in and help her in the bathroom.

[depechemodefan]

Could be worse. A 8 or 11 year old girl was heading to the bathroom. Of course the door that says "Emergency Exit Only; Alarm will go off," is clearly the women's bathroom. And of course the fire exit is right next to the pharmacy, where I worked at. And of course the assistant manager in charge that night didn't have a key to turn it off.

[NateTheChops]

Be glad you didn't have to follow her in and help her in the bathroom.

I fully expected to have to.

[Mr Hero]

Please tell me I wasn't the only one who read the topic title in Frank Grimes' voice?

[EricKei]

Sheee is so smart, S-M-R-T...

[Anglesmith]

We have a gigantic sign above our Fitting Rooms that says "Fitting Rooms". Its huge. You can see the top of the sign from the front of the store. You would not believe how many people stand in front of the Fitting Rooms, look at the sign and ask "Where are your fitting rooms?"

[NateTheChops]

Please tell me I wasn't the only one who read the topic title in Frank Grimes' voice?

Is that the guy from the Simpsons that gets electrocuted? I paraphrased it from the line that guy say sto Homer.

[Andara Bledin]

We have a gigantic sign above our Fitting Rooms that says "Fitting Rooms". Its huge. You can see the top of the sign from the front of the store. You would not believe how many people stand in front of the Fitting Rooms, look at the sign and ask "Where are your fitting rooms?"

I can.

If there's not also a smaller sign, then the big one is actually too big for them to parse, since they're looking for something smaller. Their subconscious has already dismissed the parts they can see as being outside of the parameters of what they're looking for, so it doesn't even register with them.

^-.-^

[EricKei]

Their subconscious has already yada yada yada headscratchy talk

So....in other words, their own dubiously functional braincells are telling them, "This isn't the room you're looking for" ...

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Please tell me I wasn't the only one who read the topic title in Frank Grimes' voice?

I'm peeing on the seat! Gimme a raise!

[Andara Bledin]

So....in other words, their own dubiously functional braincells are telling them, "This isn't the room you're looking for" ...

Well, close. Say you're looking for something in the shape of the letter B. A B that stood 7 feet tall would be pretty easy to spot. But if you were up close to a B that stood 20 feet tall, you could only easily see the bottom half, which, at that distance, would look like a D, instead, and so after a glance, you'd stop looking at it, because you're looking for a B, not a D.

^-.-^

[lineswine]

Oh, FFS it's a BATHROOM! What's up with going towards the general direction you've just pointed out & saying "Yeah, I'll give it a shot?"
Some people - they just want hand-holding throughout life, for the smallest things.

[XCashier]

We have a gigantic sign above our Fitting Rooms that says "Fitting Rooms". Its huge. You can see the top of the sign from the front of the store. You would not believe how many people stand in front of the Fitting Rooms, look at the sign and ask "Where are your fitting rooms?"

I absolutely believe it. People will not read signs anymore. Laziness, stupidity, illiteracy, aliteracy, I don't know, but they refuse to read signs and demand that we tell them the information.