*rage* (kinda long)

[Seraph]

SC: "In Texas, people under 21 can drink if they're with their parents."
ME: "Welcome to Florida."

SC: "Well, in Canada, we do things like this."
ME: "Ma'am, turn around. (indicates the huge front windows, outside of which is plainly visible the street with its palm trees and blue skies overhead) Does that look like Canada to you?"

SC: "At [Retail Clothing Store], they said you'd do [something ridiculous and outrageous that inevitably involves something free or severely discounted, and something we don't do]."
ME: "They lied."

I love you, Jester. Just fyi.

[Pezzle]

I work for my dad so this is always fun!

SC: Is that the best you can do on that glove?
Me: Yup! We've priced them as marked a great deal below what they should sell for .
SC: ...So, is Jim in later today? Jim would do it for me.
Me: Oh, You know Jim?
SC: Yeah! Jim... -butchers last name- !
Me: If you knew him, you'd know it's pronounced "x"
SC: No, it's -butchery- I know Jim, you should do this for me.
Me: Yeah, I know him too. He's a good guy. I've known him for 23 years. He's my father.
SC: I...uh...I....
Me: Anyway that'll be $53.49

[Jester]

SC: Yeah! Jim... -butchers last name- !
Me: If you knew him, you'd know it's pronounced "x"
SC: No, it's -butchery- I know Jim, you should do this for me.
Me: Yeah, I know him too. He's a good guy. I've known him for 23 years. He's my father.

At which point I would not be the least surprised if some SC one day tries to argue with you about the correct pronunciation of your own last name!

[Eisa]

While it wasn't an SC...yes, people have argued with me about the pronunciation of my last name. I know how the actor pronounces it. It's not how I pronounce it, and it never has been!

[Jester]

I used to be surprised at how many people could screw up my very simple, very straightforward last name...until I started noticing how many people screwed up my stepfathers' last name.

Smith.

'Nuff said.

[Brojekk]

My store chain (supermarkets) has the price accuracy policy that if it rings up higher than on the shelf, you get the first one free and the rest at the shelf price. We're a relatively major store chain from Virginia up through to New England. You may see the name of our sister stores spoofed on Family Guy.

Ahh you must work in "that great BIG store". I work in the one referenced in Family Guy. LOL

[Miss Maple Leaf]

I used to be surprised at how many people could screw up my very simple, very straightforward last name...until I started noticing how many people screwed up my stepfathers' last name.

Smith.

'Nuff said.

Sadly, I can top that. People have screwed up my stepmother's last name quite a few times.

Her last name is Hill.

A four-letter name that's also a geographical feature that preschoolers can spell. There's just no helping some people.

[Pezzle]

At which point I would not be the least surprised if some SC one day tries to argue with you about the correct pronunciation of your own last name!

It's happened! From a telemarketer!

[dragon_wings]

I used to be surprised at how many people could screw up my very simple, very straightforward last name...until I started noticing how many people screwed up my stepfathers' last name.

Smith.

'Nuff said.

My last name is French. Granted we (the family over the past several or more generations) have Americanized the pronunciation, you'd be surprised of the variations we get. I can't real say my own last name the way it was meant to be pronounced sadly (my French is deplorable, that's the language my brother took in high school. I took Spanish.).

[BeenThereDoneThat]

"Well <other overpriced home store> always gives me what I want!"
"That's why they've lost so much money during the recession and are barely staying afloat whereas High End Home Store only lost a little bit of money and that was because we were remodeling all of our stores...have a nice day"