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Hi everyone,
Long time reader, first time poster, so please, be gentle.
Background: I used to work for a large retailer, Stores of Dunce in south Dublin, at the time mainly handling frozen foods and dairy (yes, I was a freezer geezer).
Anyways, I was packing up our milk cooler with our own brand milk, as you sometimes do when a ditsy old lady (DOL) comes up to me.
Exchange went like this:
DOL: Where does the milk come from (gesturing to the own brand milk)
Me (thinking): Did she just ask where the MILK comes from? Better tell her something, but should I give her the smart answer or the one that will not get me in trouble?
Smart answer (very true, but unused): Cows... I hope!
Safe answer (I did use this one): I'm sorry, I don't know.
She seemed to be the kind of person who would not see the joke in the smart answer.
I relayed this to my manager afterwards and was told that the right answer is Limerick, apparently.
Oh how I would have loved to have gotten that customer after becoming cynical and wanting to leave the job, but I was young and too careful methinks.
C.
Long time reader, first time poster, so please, be gentle.
Background: I used to work for a large retailer, Stores of Dunce in south Dublin, at the time mainly handling frozen foods and dairy (yes, I was a freezer geezer).
Anyways, I was packing up our milk cooler with our own brand milk, as you sometimes do when a ditsy old lady (DOL) comes up to me.
Exchange went like this:
DOL: Where does the milk come from (gesturing to the own brand milk)
Me (thinking): Did she just ask where the MILK comes from? Better tell her something, but should I give her the smart answer or the one that will not get me in trouble?
Smart answer (very true, but unused): Cows... I hope!
Safe answer (I did use this one): I'm sorry, I don't know.
She seemed to be the kind of person who would not see the joke in the smart answer.
I relayed this to my manager afterwards and was told that the right answer is Limerick, apparently.
Oh how I would have loved to have gotten that customer after becoming cynical and wanting to leave the job, but I was young and too careful methinks.
C.
Well you have to wonder... In America it doesn't actually say what animal milk comes from, unless it's not cow milk (i.e. goat milk). I don't recall ever seeing a regular milk package reading "2% cow milk" or anything. Maybe the lady really wanted to know if it came from a cow or not? 
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