psychic drinks psychic

[joe hx]

Psychic Coupon:

Me: <opening spiel for pizza place>
Customer: I have a buy-one get-one free coupon.
Me: <takes order>

Later, customer calls back.

Customer: This coupon was for buy two get one free.
Me: Ok, I didn't know that. You said buy-one get-one free.
Customer: Well, that's what I thought the coupon said at the time.
Me: Um, ok. Did you get your order?
Customer: Yeah.
Me: And did you pay this much?
Customer: Yeah.
Me: Well, there's no way I could've checked out the coupon without seeing it.
Customer: Well, my husband is flipping out about this.
Me: There's not much to do. You said it was buy-one get-one free, so that's what I thought it was.
Customer: Ok <hangs up>

Drinks:

Me: <opening spiel for pizza place>
Customer: What is your special?
Me: Blah blah plus two drinks.
Customer: What are "drinks?"
Me: Um, pop. Sodapop.
Customer: Oh, ok.

Psychic and room changing:

Customer calls and places order.
She then calls back and gives a different number for us to call since she's going across the hall. She says she wants us to call when we get there.

Well, she decides to return across the hall. We are supposed to know this automatically.

And that's all I got.

[HawaiianShirts]

Psychic Coupon:
Customer: I have a buy-one get-one free coupon.
...
Customer: This coupon was for buy two get one free.
...
Me: There's not much to do. You said it was buy-one get-one free, so that's what I thought it was.

Wait... Wasn't that a better deal? It's less food, granted, but she got two pizzas for the price of one instead of three for the price of two. If the math worked out exactly, it's a 50% discount instead of a 33% discount. Getting a better deal than I expected is not something I think is worth "flipping out" over. Moron.

And as for the "What are drinks?" customer: OW! My brain! How did you survive that one?! I only read it, and I'm experiencing a mental blue screen!

[Kristev]

I'd love to get a great pizza deal like that.

[Chromatix]

I think what happened with the coupon was:

Customer told Joe it was a two-for-one, Joe took it at face value (over the phone).

Customer then orders two pizzas. Joe quotes them at half-price, due to the coupon.

Delivery guy sees the coupon and realises it's actually a three-for-two, and therefore not valid since he's only got two pizzas to deliver. He calls back to get a revised quote.

Customer (well, customer's husband) is unhappy because they had to pay about twice what they had been quoted. They still have the coupon for next time though.

[joe hx]

The customer paid what I quoted them. The husband was mad because there wasn't a *third* pizza. I don't know if the driver took the coupon, but I think he did.

[South Texan]

The husband was mad because there wasn't a *third* pizza.

Darn. And here I was thinking the husband must have been too honest for words and was upset because they had misstated the coupon and therefore received more of a deal than they were entitled.

<Sigh>

[Broomjockey]

Darn. And here I was thinking the husband must have been too honest for words and was upset because they had misstated the coupon and therefore received more of a deal than they were entitled.

<Sigh>

Well, if the lady had ordered a third pizza, there'd have been no functional difference between "buy 2 get 1 free," and "buy 1, get 1 free, buy 1 more." You're still only getting one free. Moreover, you're getting the same pizza free. I doubt the husband thought more beyond "More pizza means more to me than less pizza. I currently have less pizza. Therefore, I am mad."