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[fireheart]

Oh man, the pranksters should've tried harder. I mean come on, looking for someone who can speak Chinese with a bad accent? That's just laaaaame......

I guess they've never heard of the Mudkip prank...

[Mikkel]

What the hell is wrong with people that they call, get an answer, and then are totally flummoxed that they got an answer? Why the hell did they bother calling at all? It's unlikely that a place would have an automated system in place to take those orders, after all.

Since I'm both owner and the only employee in my little shop I usually let the answering machine answer if I have a customer or am otherwise busy. If a customer want to speak to me they can always leave their number and I'll call them as soon as I have time.
Most of my customers know this and expect to get the answering machine, so if I'm answering the phone I often get someone who say "Oh, I was just calling to hear which time you close." in a flustered voice.

[Andara Bledin]

Normally so would I, this is Vancouver afterall. But that late at night I'm the only one present in the office. >.>

Wait, you let your Chinese go home?

I kid, I kid. Actually, the Chinese couple that works here is on vacation this week, so I couldn't.... No, wait, I could transfer that dork to the husband's voice mail. They'd both deserve it.

Most of my customers know this and expect to get the answering machine, so if I'm answering the phone I often get someone who say "Oh, I was just calling to hear which time you close." in a flustered voice.

Well, there you go, confusing your poor customers by actually picking up the phone.

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[MannersMakethMan]

Well, there you go, confusing your poor customers by actually picking up the phone.

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I think GK is proof that sometimes, that's all it takes. The dialling tone is so hypnotic, that by the time a person answers, the thought has long since departed. If indeed, it ever took up lodgings.

[Jester]

It’s the intellectual equivalent of having shower mold annunciate.

This is one of the funniest things you have ever said. I will endeavor to use it in conversation.

No, really. This could be FUN!

I assume you’re the kind of person that when someone tells you something is hot, you stick your hand on it than go “Ow! Damn that IS hot.”

You might be shocked to know how common such people are. I speak from experience. As a bartender and a server, I often bring people food and, with certain items, tell them to be careful, as the plate is really hot. And wouldn't you know it? So many of them have to reach out and touch said hot plate, after having been warned. Which is why I now state the warning a bit differently: "Be careful folks. That plate is stupid hot." I use the word stupid for a reason.

we don’t carry World of Warcraft merchandise either. Nor do I think anyone has thought to affix the brand name to a blazer.

Give them time. The marketing geniuses will be on it soon enough. Because after all, if some idiot will buy something stupid, somebody WILL find a way to make it so they can sell it to them. One of the more amusing sides of our capitalist system.

I am the son of a salesman. There are so many reasons I did not follow in my father's footsteps into his chosen occupation. This is merely one of them.

So you want a hat with a picture of a Chevy Blazer on it….being driven by sheep?

I currently own my second consecutive Chevy Blazer, and thus have been driving a Chevy Blazer of one type or another for 11+ years now.

And damn it, I WANT that hat! That would freakin' rock! (Yes, I'm serious. I'm also a bit strange, if y'all hadn't noticed.)

If I may interrupt your misguided tirade: I said “Let me put you through to our customer service desk” not “Let me sit here and endure the entire 20 minute story of your misfortune...

Anyone who has ever waited tables recognizes this.....person. You can be busier than all Hades, with a full section, everyone ordering everything, an hour wait at the door, running around at full tilt trying to feed everyone while not actually running anyone over who may be in your path.....and these nitwits want to chat you up. Not even ask meaningful questions, such as, "How are your burgers?", "Can we substitute sides?", or "When it says alligator, does that mean real alligator?" (All questions I get frequently, mind you.) No, they want to tell you about their little trip, what little Betsy got for her birthday, and how it just doesn't feel like Christmas with all these palm trees. (Side note: fuck you. It feels perfectly like Christmas to those of us that hate the fucking cold you are used to. In Australia it's a fucking summer holiday, and to be honest, to ME what feels like Christmas is palm trees AND cactuses with lights on them, thank you very much. Piss off and stop trying to force your version of what Christmas is or isn't weatherwise on the rest of the world.) And yakety yak yak as you are simply trying to find out what particular animal flesh these wastes of carbon would like to feed on this evening.

Yeah, we recognize this...creature. And curse its foul existence under our breath every time we encounter it.

I guess they've never heard of the Mudkip prank...

Actually, they aren't alone. What the hell is the Mudkip prank?

[Gravekeeper]

Give them time. The marketing geniuses will be on it soon enough. Because after all, if some idiot will buy something stupid, somebody WILL find a way to make it so they can sell it to them.

Yeah, I actually had to Google it first just to make sure they didn't have one. >.>

And damn it, I WANT that hat! That would freakin' rock! (Yes, I'm serious. I'm also a bit strange, if y'all hadn't noticed.)

I'm afraid we don't carry it. -.- I have pink camo trucker hats though if you'd like.

Anyone who has ever waited tables recognizes this.....person.

Honestly, the Chatter(tm) is really one of the most aggravating types of customers/callers you can get. I especially hate when they start up after you've already done every, completed the entire call and have just said something to the effect of "Thanks for calling, bye". I guess they figure, oh hey, business it out of the way. Time to chat up a complete stranger trying to do his job!

Actually, they aren't alone. What the hell is the Mudkip prank?

So I herd u like mudkips?

Trust me when I say you do not want to know the origin of the whole Mudkip thing. It is not even postable on CS. ;p

[Jester]

I'm afraid we don't carry it. -.- I have pink camo trucker hats though if you'd like.

Let me think about that...NO!

Honestly, the Chatter(tm) is really one of the most aggravating types of customers/callers you can get.

Yes and no. In food service, they're fine enough if you have time to chat with them. It's when you're running around dealing with 800 hungry and thirsty people and they try to chat with you like it's a slow Tuesday afternoon with no one else in the place. THAT is when they are super annoying!

Trust me when I say you do not want to know the origin of the whole Mudkip thing.

You don't know me very well, do you? My curiosity is far stronger than my gag reflex.

[crazylegs]

You don't know me very well, do you? My curiosity is far stronger than my gag reflex.

My curiosity is also twitching my eyebrows a fair amount too... perhaps a PM?

[EricKei]

So I herd u like mudkips

I just googled that phrase and wound up at a nifty little page called Know Your Memes.

[Gravekeeper]

The problem is the original 4chan origin story.

[Broomjockey]

I just googled that phrase and wound up at a nifty little page called Know Your Memes.

I prefer Encyclopaedia Dramatica.

And yes, the story is not suitable for posting directly on CS, though that link GK gave should probably carry several warning labels ranging from "NSFW" to "Don't drink anything."

[Andara Bledin]

Yeah, I actually had to Google it first just to make sure they didn't have one. >.>

There's a WOW logo hoodie... >.<

I have pink camo trucker hats though if you'd like.

I own a pink camo hat.

Of course, I bought it for a Halloween costume.

But now I wear it when I go to amusement parks.

So I herd u like mudkips?

Trust me when I say you do not want to know the origin of the whole Mudkip thing. It is not even postable on CS. ;p

The origin is just a lame burn against people who like Pokemon that turned into a meme. Your typical image copypasta junk. And, considering the source, the direction it went was completely predictable.

And that story at Urban Dictionary smacks of the kind of made-up junk you find in the "letters" columns in fine men's magazines...

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[Broomjockey]

And that story at Urban Dictionary smacks of the kind of made-up junk you find in the "letters" columns in fine men's magazines...

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That's the original copypasta, made up or not (probably is), but still.

[fireheart]

I own a pink camo hat.

I can top that. Not what I own of course. (only pink camo item I have at the moment is a bandanna)

The carpark for the shopping centre near my house gets used by the private high school students during the day so they have a spot to park their cars*. I have to walk through said carpark to get to my bus stop.

for about the past 2 or so weeks, I've been seeing a pink camo Jeep.
I'm talking about the type of Jeep that you'd typically see in Spring Break scenarios, where there are three hot girls hanging out the back or something similar...

But still, Pink. Camo. Jeep. Definitely a custom paint job.
But oh god, it BURNS!

[Andara Bledin]

But still, Pink. Camo. Jeep. Definitely a custom paint job.

I must ask: What color of pink? Is it some soft pastel pink, or is it an eye-searing fuchsia, the color of the T-Mobile version of the Razr?

.... I own metallic fuchsia electronic components...

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