Posted on 09/09/2014 10:07:13 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
They Walk Among Us and Many Work Retail! I was at the checkout of a K-Mart. The clerk rang up $46.64 charge. I Gave her a fifty dollar bill. She gave me back $46.64. I gave the money back to her and told her that she had made a mistake in MY favor. She became indignant and informed me she was Educated and knew what she was doing, and returned the money again. I gave her the Money back… same scenario! I departed the store with the $46.64.
They Walk Among Us and Many Work Retail! I walked into a Starbucks with a buy-one-get-one-free coupon for a Grande Latte. I handed it to the girl and she looked over at a little chalkboard that said “buy one-get one free.” “They’re already buy-one-get-one free,” she said, “so I guess they’re both free.” She handed me my free Lattes and I walked out the door.
They Walk Among Us! One day I was walking down the beach with some friends when one of them shouted, “Look at that dead bird!” Someone looked up at the sky and said, “Where”?
They Walk Among Us! While looking at a house, my brother asked the real estate agent which direction was north because, he explained, he didn’t want the sun waking him up every morning. She asked, “Does the sun rise in the north?” When my brother explained that the sun rises in the east, and has for sometime, she shook her head and said, “Oh I don’t keep up with all that stuff.”
They Walk Among Us! I used to work in technical support for a 24/7 call center. One day I got a call from an individual who asked what hours the call center was open. I told him, “The number you...
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Sometimes, people get convinced they’re right.
So, when I had a problem with a program, I often sat down and explained it to another person, line-by-line. Most often, I found my mistake pretty quickly.
I think you meant to send this to someone else. :)
I’m old enough to Remember George KINGFISH Stevens the inventor of Amos N’ Andy-Bonix...
Just saying sometimes when a person thinks they’re correct, it helps to go through it step-by-step.
Usually, it helps.
I paid for a sandwich with a $10.00 bill and was given $14.00.
It was not my place to go through the register with the girl and explain how to take money and give change.
I brought it to the attention of the manager and let him deal with it.
Your point applies to the manager and the clerk but not me and the clerk.
would try her first. And second.
After that, go the route you did.
Not saying you did anything in particular wrong.
My statement to you was not related to any specific event.
Just a general statement in that sometimes humans do make mistakes and honestly think they’ve arrived a valid decision.
On the opposite end of the scale, pilots will trust instruments to the point, sometimes, on rare occasion, that the instrument has failed and is leading them into grave error.
Such was the 737 that went down in a South American jungle many years ago. The electric horizon failed, but the mechanical old one was still working. They apparently never looked at the old mechanical one.
Please take no offense to my previous reply.
I understand. :)
You and I can see that we’re in a functionally illiterate world. And it’s getting worse. PC is increasing and logic and common sense are diminishing.
When my wife and I transferred to NM, my wife had her Alaskan license and they used to have SSNs on them. If you refused to allow them to print your social, the license had 000-00-0000.
The girl at the counter asked how my wife ended up with that number for her SSN.
I would have responded: “By a strange coincidence, it’s quite similar to the one Barak Obalmya uses.”
Really? “there” stores?
yep they closed 5 stores in Washington this past year!
there stores I meant Their stores.. Teach!
Lol. It was pre-tribulation.
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