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No, this is not a story about non-Native speakers.
This is a story about a batty old woman who was only speaking about half-loud enough for me to hear her over the extremely soft ambient music of the store. (*click, click, click*, *beep!*, *scan!*, that music, plus the *plish, plish* of the nature sounds CD piped in...)
I ring her stuff up. And she points at a candy bar, and says, "Ring me up for two of those *garble garble, I have no clue what the hell she just called me!"
Oh, yeah, even better story first.
We are currently running two coupons in our ad this week. One for everyday stuff, and one for the Maven of House Wives everywhere! Both are 50% off coupons. One only works for said Maven's products. Now, as far as I've been told, we can only accept one coupon per transaction (backed up by our system only allowing one coupon scanned per customer). This old biddy wants to use both coupons in one swoop.
Says I: "Alright, but I have to split it into two transactions, one for the Maven, and one for the rest."
OB: "And how do you expect me to pay with only one check?"
Thinks I: "Not really my problem."
Says coworker: "You can take both coupons in the same transaction!"
Says I: "Since when?"
Coworker: "Since this week, as they're not both store coupons. One's only good for Maven."
Me: "Yes, I can read. But our system doesn't allow that."
Says new FES N (the one who gets along with absolutely nobody): "They work this week."
I: "No one told me that! I've been splitting sales all day because no one f*cking tells me anything!"
I ring both coupons (Holy crap! It worked) and return to the point of my original story:
I: *give total, watch Old Biddy write out check*
OB: "Did you scan three of those candy bars?"
I: "Three? You said two!" ("You are down by One, BOY!")
OB: "I said I ate two when I came in. I could have just not told you about them, like all your other customers do, but I'm not like that." *in a tone that she thinks she's Mother Theresa for admitting to breaking the rules*
I: *blink, and go back to add another candy bar to her purchase, tell her new total, return check for her to change*
She: *starts pulling out cash*
I: *go back and remove candy bar from sale, and remind her that I need a driver's license*
She: "I can only do one thing at a time. I'm getting cash to pay for that other candy bar right now! How much is it?"
I: "I'm not sure. I'm going to ring it separate once this part goes through. so we don't get confused."
This is a story about a batty old woman who was only speaking about half-loud enough for me to hear her over the extremely soft ambient music of the store. (*click, click, click*, *beep!*, *scan!*, that music, plus the *plish, plish* of the nature sounds CD piped in...)
I ring her stuff up. And she points at a candy bar, and says, "Ring me up for two of those *garble garble, I have no clue what the hell she just called me!"
Oh, yeah, even better story first.
We are currently running two coupons in our ad this week. One for everyday stuff, and one for the Maven of House Wives everywhere! Both are 50% off coupons. One only works for said Maven's products. Now, as far as I've been told, we can only accept one coupon per transaction (backed up by our system only allowing one coupon scanned per customer). This old biddy wants to use both coupons in one swoop.
Says I: "Alright, but I have to split it into two transactions, one for the Maven, and one for the rest."
OB: "And how do you expect me to pay with only one check?"
Thinks I: "Not really my problem."
Says coworker: "You can take both coupons in the same transaction!"
Says I: "Since when?"
Coworker: "Since this week, as they're not both store coupons. One's only good for Maven."
Me: "Yes, I can read. But our system doesn't allow that."
Says new FES N (the one who gets along with absolutely nobody): "They work this week."
I: "No one told me that! I've been splitting sales all day because no one f*cking tells me anything!"
I ring both coupons (Holy crap! It worked) and return to the point of my original story:
I: *give total, watch Old Biddy write out check*
OB: "Did you scan three of those candy bars?"
I: "Three? You said two!" ("You are down by One, BOY!")
OB: "I said I ate two when I came in. I could have just not told you about them, like all your other customers do, but I'm not like that." *in a tone that she thinks she's Mother Theresa for admitting to breaking the rules*
I: *blink, and go back to add another candy bar to her purchase, tell her new total, return check for her to change*
She: *starts pulling out cash*
I: *go back and remove candy bar from sale, and remind her that I need a driver's license*
She: "I can only do one thing at a time. I'm getting cash to pay for that other candy bar right now! How much is it?"
I: "I'm not sure. I'm going to ring it separate once this part goes through. so we don't get confused."
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