phones aren't cows, sir
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From my new favorite website, http://notalwaysright.com/ (Note: I did not actually experience this, it is simply my favorite story from the first page of the site at the moment.)
Beefed Up Technology
Retail | Kansas City, MO, USA
(I was a customer at a cell phone store, observing the following exchange.)
Employee: “I’m sorry sir, but your phone has water damage, which isn’t covered by the warranty. You will have to purchase a new phone.”
Customer: “That’s ridiculous! I haven’t gotten the phone wet!”
Employee: “Have you used the phone in the rain? Sometimes, that’s all it takes to get the internals wet enough to damage the device.”
Customer: “Well, yes, but that doesn’t make any sense! Cows are in the rain all the time and they don’t die!”
Employee: “…”
Me: *interjecting* “Sir, cows aren’t electronic devices.”
Customer: *storms out*
From my new favorite website, http://notalwaysright.com/ (Note: I did not actually experience this, it is simply my favorite story from the first page of the site at the moment.)
Beefed Up Technology
Retail | Kansas City, MO, USA
(I was a customer at a cell phone store, observing the following exchange.)
Employee: “I’m sorry sir, but your phone has water damage, which isn’t covered by the warranty. You will have to purchase a new phone.”
Customer: “That’s ridiculous! I haven’t gotten the phone wet!”
Employee: “Have you used the phone in the rain? Sometimes, that’s all it takes to get the internals wet enough to damage the device.”
Customer: “Well, yes, but that doesn’t make any sense! Cows are in the rain all the time and they don’t die!”
Employee: “…”
Me: *interjecting* “Sir, cows aren’t electronic devices.”
Customer: *storms out*
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Date: 2009-01-12 09:06 pm (UTC)Customer: What’s the difference between this-” *holds up a steak of lamb* “and this?” *holds up a steak of calf*
Me: “Well, this one is from a lamb, and this one from a calf. It says so right here on the label.”
Customer: “But what part of the animal is that?”
Me: *points at the lamb* “Baaaa.” *pointing at the calf* “Moooo.”
Customer: *happily* “Oh, thank you so much!”
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Date: 2009-01-12 09:47 pm (UTC)Ahahahaha.
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Date: 2009-01-12 11:11 pm (UTC)(granted, if one parses "calf" as "leg muscle" then I could see a temporary brainfreeze on where the lamb muscle would be. but still.)
the stories I could tell...from this week alone
Date: 2009-01-13 06:25 am (UTC)Yesterday: "I'm trying to find a book; it has 'chocolate' in the title."
Two days ago: "I'm trying to find that movie with the muppets where they go to grandma's house."
It keeps on.
Re: the stories I could tell...from this week alone
Date: 2009-01-13 05:29 pm (UTC)