Weird Questions

[Ghel]

"Is this <Bank Name> in <Town that's 20 miles away>?"
or "Is this <Bank Name> in <Town that's 230 miles away>?"
No, we're in <Our Town>.
"Well, do you have their number?"

I can understand the confusion with the 3 banks basically having the same name, even though we're not affiliated. But you found our number using Google or directory assistance or whatever. You can damned well do the same again.

[RealUnimportant]

Live n learn... This forum is educational as well as relaxational!

[vikingchyk]

Blaise - for a boy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal

[RealUnimportant]

Oh lordy...

"Can I buy, like, tickets here?"

[RealUnimportant]

In the class I have at the moment, I have the following slightly strange names:

Pierah, Tilly, Indigo, Fern, Trinity, Blaise and Phoenix.

None of them are related to each other. (all of them are girls apart from the last two)

Blaise - for a boy? Gotta say I misread the first one as Pariah...

Fern's not so bad, it's not common but there's a 50+ ex-local news anchor/breakfast TV host/actor's daughter "celeb" in the UK with that name & spelling so it's not uncommon either.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Sometimes I look at a person's name and wonder, what could they have done, apparently in the womb, to make their parents do THAT to them?! Have these folks never been to an elementary school? 3rd graders aren't that many rings up the social ladder from cannibals!

Mom was recently looking up obituaries from the town she grew up in, and found one that mentioned a surviving relative, whose name was Kingthing.

Kingthing is half-black, half-Hispanic, for what it's worth.

I want prospective parents to always think five, ten, and fifteen years ahead before naming their kids, and consider if there are any potential insulting nicknames that a given name could inspire.

[Pizzacommando]

Mytical, we need to reach back in time a little bit to the beginning of the here's your sign bit, the part where stupid people should be required to wear signs warning others of their stupidity

[fireheart]

Sometimes I look at a person's name and wonder, what could they have done, apparently in the womb, to make their parents do THAT to them?! Have these folks never been to an elementary school? 3rd graders aren't that many rings up the social ladder from cannibals!

I am currently at a Waldorf school for my placement.

In the class I have at the moment, I have the following slightly strange names:

Pierah, Tilly, Indigo, Fern, Trinity, Blaise and Phoenix.

None of them are related to each other. (all of them are girls apart from the last two)

In the class I was formerly teaching, I encountered the following names:

Mishaya and Aodaney.

At the swimming centre where I'm learning how to teach kids to swim, I have encountered the following (not all in the same class thank fuck):

Aida, Ida (those two were in the same class), Lois, Odin and one kid who called himself Amon .

My wife is a teacher, so we were kind of careful about naming the kids sonthatnthey didn't take too much grief on that score.

I'm going to be a teacher and already I am taking note of the more common names I've seen in the classroom and the pool so I know to be careful about strange names. Thankfully Freya and Odin seem to be decent-ish names


ETA: One of the weirdest requests I got at the supermarket back when plastic bags still existed, was "can I take about half a dozen of [the bags hanging on the racks] in this particular colour" (we were moving from brown to orange I think, she wanted the brown), because the bags matched her kitchen decor. My coworker and I were looking at each other like ?!

[Mytical]

Anybody remember the old "Here's your Sign" bit? I think we need to bring them back for some of these SC's.

If your light is on, and you are standing at your till ready to ring somebody up and are asked. "Are you open?" You should feel free to reply "No, I'm not even on the clock right now..I just like to stand here on my free time. Here's your sign."

If you are in full store uniform, while stocking something and somebody asks. "Do you work here?" You should feel free to reply. "No I've just come from the local mental hospital..and I'm looking for blunt objects. Here's your sign."

Ok..my mind is acting weird..ignore the looney in the corner.

[Mike Taylor]

Many, many years ago when I was just a baby DGoddess, my mom worked for a local drugstore called Ben Franklin Drugs. The store she worked at had a downstairs level, which had a cafeteria/sandwich shop and gift shop. Hugely popular, but around the early 70's, the owner sold the store to the Rite Aid chain.

Unfortunately, even though they had customers who shopped their for YEARS and not only shopped the main level but also were regulars at the cafeteria, the first thing the chain did was . . .

If you guessed took out the cafeteria and gift shop, you get a cookie.

And they couldn't quite figure out why that location lost a LOT of business, even after it was pointed out to them. . . .

In my hometown, it was a place called Izzo's that did the reverse. When the pharmacist retired, they did away with everything but the fast food counter and became an ice cream and soda shop. Sadly, the economy recently took a turn for the really bad in my hometown and they shut their doors forever. It was one of the few places in town you could still get a milkshake made the old fashioned way.

[RealUnimportant]

The dumbest question I get asked regularly is "How do I get out of here?" Now, my department's on the basement floor, but our escalators are huge and easy to spot, and the floors aren't that big anyway, so you could always just take a little walk around and you'd find them in a jiffy. Seriously, how do these people function?

Reading this reminded me of one of my favourite stories on NotAlwaysRight.com:

Customer: “Where are the escalators and lifts?”

Me: “Sorry, ma’am. The lift is reserved for people who are unable to use the stairs, and there are no escalators. There is a staircase just over there, if that’s what you’re looking for”.

Customer: “But those are ‘down’ stairs. I need to go back up.”

Me: “Ma’am, stairs go both up and down. That is why we have stairs instead of escalators.”

Customer: “But I need to go upstairs, and you do don’t have any ‘up’ stairs. Are you trying to trap people here?”

Me: “You know what? Let me show you the lift”.

[cashierbex]

"Are you ringing up?" while I ring a whole line up.

When I bring my pups in when I am off:
"Are those dogs?" No, they are birds that lack feathers and barks.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Can I get an M&M cookie with only red M&Ms?

The next time I make chocolate chip cookies with M&Ms I will be tempted to sort out all the colors and make single color M&M cookies.

[Freak]

The dumbest question I get asked regularly is "How do I get out of here?" Now, my department's on the basement floor, but our escalators are huge and easy to spot, and the floors aren't that big anyway, so you could always just take a little walk around and you'd find them in a jiffy. Seriously, how do these people function?

[wolfie]

Some of the dumb questions I have gotten: How long is a footlong? If I buy 5 $5 footlongs how much will it cost before taxes? What kind of sauce is recommended for a Chicken Bacon Ranch? What kind of meat comes on a Chicken Bacon Ranch? Are your vegetables all home grown? Are your vegetables all organic? Can I get an M&M cookie with only red M&Ms?

I can go on and on!

Answers in order:
1) Approximately half a cubit.
2) A double sawbuck and a fin.
3) Anything except ranch.
4) Roast beef and pepperoni, obviously.
5) No, they were grown by the visiting team.
6) From a chemist's viewpoint, yes (the plants they grew on were carbon-based lifeforms, after all).
7) Yes, but I don't know where you'd go to get one.

Ask a stupid question, get a sarcastic answer.