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  • #1

    It's only a food baby!

    This is my first thread so be gentle with me. Quick background for this story. I work for a watch/jewelry repair department for a major company that is in my user name. They thankfully are not technically my employers. (There is a God!) We do everything a jewelry store can do in regards to repairs and more. This particular SC was upset because she had gotten her 18k gold bracelet fixed and we didn't send back the broken clasp that we had replaced. What she was going to do with this very small amount of gold is beyond me but she was VERY insistent I do something to make sure it gets returned. While writing up another repair job for her she looks at me and asks the one question you really shouldn't ask a fat chick...

    SC: You have baby? (Her English is pretty broken)

    Me (Slightly annoyed but wasn't fazed): No...just big o' me.

    SC: You look like you have baby.

    Me:

    Ok, well if you need to justify your rudeness by all means please continue to take a few more shots at my weight. If you must know I HAD a baby but right now I'm not WITH a baby. Stupid...so and so...
    Last edited by Ree; 06-12-2010, 05:30 PM.
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  • #2
    Welcome to the boards.

    My girlfriend and I had a similar experience some time back. Because of our age difference, we get mistaken for mother and son a lot, despite the fact that we look nothing alike. It's even worse when it's a little Portugese girl selling keychains in the restaurant we're at. I was able to shrug it off, but my girlfriend was fighting back tears and it took a while to calm her down enough for us to finish eating. It's not that they're idiots or anything, but they're just so used to things being a certain way back home that they see something out of the norm for them and they go back to their default way of thinking.

    (It's not a burn against foreigners, by the way. If it was, what little Spanish I know would be making an appearance, and I fear getting modded.)
    My other car is a Mackinaw.

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    • #3
      I've had that happen to me. Old lady at the bus stop said, VERY loudly, "YOU HAVIN' A BABY HONEY?" As if I didn't feel bad about myself as it was. Thank you dad for giving me the "gain all your weight in you stomach" gene, seriously, couldn't I have taken after my mom?

      You never ever ask a woman if she's pregnant, even if she looks 9 months and ready to pop. Never never never. It usually ends badly.
      “Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.”

      -Charles Bukowski

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      • #4
        First of all, to SSS, welcome to the boards, you first thread is always that much more nervous than an added a comment to someone else's thread. And for the record, your post was just fine; well-written, to-the-point and-concise, (far more than most of my own) and yeah, bitch was way outta line.

        Question: was the bracelet repair under warranty/otherwise free?
        My personal opinion, which may not reflect corporate policy, is that if the repair is free by any means, the customer does not get the broken part, but if they are paying for it out of pocket they are well within their rights to ask for the damaged parts back with the repaired items, but only if they specifically mentioned it beforehand.

        @ ZedW: fear not being modded, but also accept it if you are. If a mod tells you something was outta line, it almost certainly was, especially if it was something you felt strongly about. That shit goes to fratching. [Disclaimer to avoid modding myself: fear it not, but don't go ASKING for it. If something is way outta line, you probably knew it was while you typed it, and that kinda crap gets you banned.]
        Also, I don't think either of us have directly responded to one another's posts, but I'm a big fan of your threads.

        @Muses: People are bastard coated bastards with bastard filling.
        I'm overweight myself, but as a guy, no one goes around asking me when I'm due. (Actually, it did happen once, but that's off the point Also, I once asked out a woman I saw regularly on the bus, she said I was sweet, but she was not only married but 7 months pregnant. I thought she was just overweight, but that's also not the point )

        @ superhotelworker: Damn you.
        I don't tweet, I don't twitter, I don't even use facebook, but because of reading your posts I find myself using this '@user' format. Also: Hiyas friend!
        Last edited by infinitemonkies; 06-12-2010, 10:09 PM. Reason: formatting
        Aliterate : A person who is capable of reading but unwilling to do so.

        "A man who does not read has no advantage over a man who cannot" - Mark Twain

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        • #5
          Thank you all for the support and comments.
          Infinitemonkies- She did pay for the repair and we normally will gladly send the excess parts back if the customer requests them. However she didn't and we normally assume that no one wants literally 1-2 dollars worth of junk gold that you couldn't sell to anyone. Even those "Cash for Gold" places wouldn't take it. So that's why I was a little confused as why it was so important to return something that is essentially worthless to her since we already melted it down at that point.

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          • #6
            Quoth infinitemonkies View Post
            Also, I once asked out a woman I saw regularly on the bus, she said I was sweet, but she was not only married but 7 months pregnant. I thought she was just overweight, but that's also not the point )
            I was asked out by a very shy guy who used to come into the bar I worked when he'd finished his shift... I was also rather pregnant & very married. He was sweet too, told him I was very flattered & if i were single I'd jump at the chance... I would have done too

            Come to think of it I got asked out a lot while I was married... where are they all now I'm a single gal again?
            Arp happens!

            Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.

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            • #7
              Quoth infinitemonkies View Post
              @ superhotelworker: Damn you.
              I don't tweet, I don't twitter, I don't even use facebook, but because of reading your posts I find myself using this '@user' format. Also: Hiyas friend!
              The '@user' format is actually quite a bit older than Twitter.
              Quoth Cazzi View Post
              Come to think of it I got asked out a lot while I was married... where are they all now I'm a single gal again?
              When you're married and happy, you have a lot of self-confidence and that's attractive.

              When you're single and on the hunt, you don't have the same degree of self-confidence that you do when you're with someone, so you don't have as many people noticing you.

              ^-.-^
              Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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              • #8
                Quoth searssoulslave View Post
                So that's why I was a little confused as why it was so important to return something that is essentially worthless to her since we already melted it down at that point.
                I wanted the broken catch on my grandmother's pearl necklace. I had the necklace restrung and the catch replaced, but I requested the broken catch as well.

                That was the one Nan had worn. It mattered.

                The difference between me and an SC is that I asked, in advance, and told them why. And yes, I got it, neatly stuck in a tiny bag in the new case.
                Seshat's self-help guide:
                1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
                2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
                3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
                4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

                "All I want is a pretty girl, a decent meal, and the right to shoot lightning at fools." - Anders, Dragon Age.

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                • #9
                  The next time someone asks if you are pregnant, ask them if they're planning on giving you a baby shower.
                  "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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                  • #10
                    Men and women want what they can't have. Married people are viewed as "safe" to date, because they know the married person probably won't leave their spouse.
                    My Guide to Oblivion

                    "I resent the implication that I've gone mad, Sprocket."

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Seshat View Post
                      I wanted the broken catch on my grandmother's pearl necklace. I had the necklace restrung and the catch replaced, but I requested the broken catch as well.
                      I understand wanting to keep it for sentimental reasons, but this woman was more concerned about the money. Kept on going on about the fact that it was 18k gold. To be honest I was about to pelt her with the left over broken clasps we sometimes keep at the store till she left. But, I mean no offense, what do you do with that old clasp?

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Muses_nightmare View Post
                        Old lady at the bus stop said, VERY loudly, "YOU HAVIN' A BABY HONEY?"
                        I know it's hard to come up with a spontaneus repsonse, when caught off guard by such a rude and thoughtless comment, but, a perfect come back would have been to reply in at least an equally loud voice; "No, I am NOT, you rude old busybody!


                        Mike
                        Meow.........

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                        • #13
                          Quoth searssoulslave View Post
                          18k gold
                          But, I mean no offense, what do you do with that old clasp?
                          Melt it down for slag? Gold buybacks are high right now for whatever reason. Wouldn't have put it past her to take the clasp to another jewelry store and gotten money for it...
                          "I call murder on that!"

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                          • #14
                            Quoth Juwl View Post
                            Melt it down for slag? Gold buybacks are high right now for whatever reason. Wouldn't have put it past her to take the clasp to another jewelry store and gotten money for it...
                            clasps are made from a very very small amount of metal, they are not worth more than a few pennies really. But either way, if you want the broken part back, you have to ask in advance. If you don't ask, don't expect them to
                            "You can only try so hard to look like you are working before actually doing your work seems easy in comparison" -My Boss

                            CW: So what exactly do you do in retentions?
                            Me: ummm, I ....retent stuff?

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                            • #15
                              Quoth ZedOmega View Post
                              Welcome to the boards.

                              My girlfriend and I had a similar experience some time back. Because of our age difference, we get mistaken for mother and son a lot, despite the fact that we look nothing alike. -snip- they're just so used to things being a certain way back home that they see something out of the norm for them and they go back to their default way of thinking.
                              I know exactly where you are coming from... people who have seen me and my boyfriend can attest that we do NOT look like brothers, but people see two guys who are obviously very close and they just automatically assume we are brothers... the idea that we might be *gasp* The Gay doesn't even occur to them.
                              It is actually quite fun to mind frack people with that btw
                              If you wish to find meaning, listen to the music not the song

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