I thought reading comprehension was mandatory in higher education?

[XCashier]

Woman came up to my register buying some large papier-mâché letters. They rang up $1.99 each, originally $2.99 each.

Customer: That's not right, they're supposed to be $1.00 each!
Me: You mean $1.00 off?
Customer: No, $1.00 each, that's what the sign said!

So I went back to the aisle where the letters were, and just as I predicted, the sign said $1.00 off. I brought the sign back up to the front, showed the customer where it said "off" in 1/4" tall letters. Of course she decided she didn't want them after all.

The part that I found funny was she was wearing a sweatshirt from Harvard.

[Marmalady]

The part that I found funny was she was wearing a sweatshirt from Harvard.

Maybe she got it the same way that I got my 'Universite de Paris Sorbonne' T shirt that I had as a teenager (i.e. bought it)

[taxguykarl]

Indeed, picked it up at a garage sale or thrift store.

[morgana]

Hell, university shirts mean nothing. I have, I think, four? from universities I've never been to. And not one from the university I did go to.

Hell, I have a tee shirt from a university that doesn't exist . . .

[dalesys]

Hell, I have a tee shirt from a university that doesn't exist . . .

Miskatonic?

[Jay 2K Winger]

Miskatonic?

Ah, good ol' M.U. I still remember the alma mater song, Iä, Iä, Cthulhu ftaghn!

[notalwaysright]

I've had people argue that their printed burlap (regularly $12.99 per yd) should be $1.00 per yd because they refuse to read those signs.

I also had to help a new coworker with a super mean lady a while ago, when some satin was on sale but not all of it. The lady was very... sour. Made sure to tell me how our sales are RIDICULOUS and nothing is EVER where it should be, and we don't care at ALL. I became very robotic and repeated which fabric was and wasn't on sale and went away.

[CyberLurch]

Miskatonic?

Wossamatta U. On the hallowed banks of the Crimea River in Frostbite Falls, Mooselvania.

[XCashier]

and nothing is EVER where it should be, and we don't care at ALL.

Nothing is ever where it should be because customers pick up a bolt of fabric, decide they don't want it, and put it wherever they happen to be, whether it's in the right aisle or not. This isn't just one or two, this is dozens of customers every day. Many of us do care, but we're all overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of customers and not nearly enough hours to get stuff done.

And yes, I do realize she could've gotten that sweatshirt anywhere. I just thought it was funny that she's advertising a major university but is seriously reading-impaired.

Me, I want an Unseen University t-shirt. Like one of these. Pity they don't come in octarine...

[morgana]

Miskatonic?

That's right.

Had a truck stop clerk ask me where it was, once . . .

[Kanalah]

I had someone ask me where Dalaran University was once.

[Slave to the Phone]

Hell, I have a tee shirt from a university that doesn't exist . . .

Miskatonic?

Well heck, I haven't gotten that tee shirt yet. I wants one. (I do have a "patient" jersey from the Arkham Sanitarium...does that count?)

Ah, good ol' M.U. I still remember the alma mater song, Iä, Iä, Cthulhu ftaghn!

You are now singing my favorite song, and I thank you for that. Its getting the Christmas carols out of my head

[manybellsdown]

I had someone ask me where Dalaran University was once.

I had the same thing happen with my "Catatonic State" college sweater.

[paxillated]

Miskatonic... Ain't that in Massachusetts somewhere? Near Arkham? A pretty part of the country, I hear. But you con't get theyah from heyah!

[Kit-Ginevra]

I want a sweatshirt from the Unseen University.. I swear some of the Librarian's relatives are from the Deep South....