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  • #1

    What about red?

    Lately gas prices have been steadily going up. For days I have been putting off getting gas hoping the price would be lower the next day. After driving with my gas light on for 3 days, I decided to stop an the nearest gas station before I wind up stuck half-way to work without gas. I always get the cheapest regular grade gas because I'm broke So I swipe my card and grab the regular nozzel.

    Me: yours truely
    RV: random voice (from speaker system)

    RV: NUMBARR TREE!! NUMBARR TREE!!
    Me: *looks around like WTF?*
    RV: NUMBARR TREE!!
    Me: *number what now? Tree? Three? Oh....thats me* Yeah?
    RV: *no clue what he said but I hear the word "red" somewher in that deeply accented jumble of words*
    Me: *looks all over the gas pump for anything even remotely red* I'm sorry?
    RV: *repeats the same thing but is no more understandable than the first time he said it*
    Me: I have no idea what you're saying sir...

    At this point I decide to walk inside to speak with him face to face.

    Me: What now?
    RV: Numbarr tree, prease use seerver one. We just out of green. No worryy same price like redgurar.

    I turn to a customer in line hoping he can translate. He tells me the gas station is out of premium and regular gas. All they have is plus grade gas that they are selling at the same price as the regular gas.
    So the cashier was trying to say, "Number three, please use the silver one(nozzel). We are currently out of the green(nozzel). Don't worry though, it's the same price as the regular gas.
    I hope I wasn't a sucky customer. I was trying to be as nice as possible. I just couldn't understand him with his heavy accent and poor grammar
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  • #2
    So gas stations are now using the same intercom systems that fast food restaurants use?
    "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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    • #3
      Quoth Kisa View Post
      RV: NUMBARR TREE!! NUMBARR TREE!!
      I must be watching too much Dr. Who since I read this as a Dalek voice...
      Now, if you smell the roses but it doesn't lift your spirits, you're either allergic to rose pollen or you need medical intervention. ~ Seshat

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      • #4
        Quoth Ironclad Alibi View Post
        So gas stations are now using the same intercom systems that fast food restaurants use?
        Even worse, some people have apparently learned to talk like a fast food intercom system.

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        • #5
          Quoth Ironclad Alibi View Post
          So gas stations are now using the same intercom systems that fast food restaurants use?
          Not to mention specifically hiring people with the absolute worst diction, it seems. The cheaper stations around here seem to employ people who think that using slang left and right and horribly slurring their speech is the way to go.
          "Enough expository banter. It's time we fight like men. And ladies. And ladies who dress like men. For Gilgamesh...IT'S MORPHING TIME!"
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          • #6
            Quoth Kogarashi View Post
            Not to mention specifically hiring people with the absolute worst diction, it seems. The cheaper stations around here seem to employ people who think that using slang left and right and horribly slurring their speech is the way to go.
            Back in 96 when I was working for Wells Fargo, I was headed into the office during normal business hours to do some paperwork [I worked 3d shift at the time] a couple of hiphoppy ghetto morons was arguing with the manager at the time, D. They couldn't wrap their little minds around why he was refusing to hire them. I don't think they could speak anything except ghetto if they tried - when I was talking to them after the cops made them leave he said that he couldn't have hired either of them if he had wanted to. Neither of them completed high school, and they both had felonies on their records.

            Honestly, I adored WF/ADT. The absolutely best job you could get if you had a high school diploma and a clean record ... $2 more than minimum wage, sitting answering phones in air conditioning. No idea how it is working for them now though.
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            • #7
              Quoth Mikkel View Post
              Even worse, some people have apparently learned to talk like a fast food intercom system.

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDNy-bYndBQ

              edit: better animation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc8bBeGSS30
              Last edited by Shalom; 05-25-2011, 08:47 PM.

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              • #8
                Yeah we're supposed to say "Pump number 3 is on, please pay inside when you're finished fueling." or something of the like. We never do though. We used the intercom this morning when our gas pumps decided to stop working the minute I walked in the door, at 6 AM. Manager had fun telling everyone "I'm sorry, our gas pumps are down right now. You can't pump gas." It lasted oh...half an hour. Fun times!
                Last edited by BrenDAnn; 05-25-2011, 09:17 PM.
                "And though she be but little, she is FIERCE!"--Shakespeare

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                • #9
                  When I worked at the 'Q especially, when such a thing happened (not often because the fuel company had to eat the price difference), we stuck signs on the pumps. The scary thing is, the customers actually read them!
                  I'm bringing disdain back...with a vengeance.

                  Oh, and your tool box called...you got out again.

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                  • #10
                    Don't feel bad, I wouldn't have been able to understand a single word! My Cochlear Implant does not work when it comes to public address systems.
                    The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.

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