When the point gets missed...

[Bob]

Over the weekend, I went into a shop to buy a tent (going to a festival in a couple of months... and I can't face the prospect of trying to clean my old tent which has been in the bag for two years this August - and it was wet and muddy when it was last in the open).

Anyway, I find the tent I want, go to the counter and hand over the money. Sales type asks me "Do you want a bag for that?"

So I say no - after all, it comes in it's own carry-case, so no point wasting a bag on it.

Sales type looks at me like I am mad - and then looks out the window, where it is admittedly a bit dark and is probably going to rain - before looking back at me quizzically.

This rather misses the point - after all, the tent IS waterproof!

Mind you, this isn't as bad as an article I read. Little girl goes into diabetic fit. So her mum runs into the nearest sweet shop and asks for some chocolate. Girl behind counter "Do you want it gift-wrapped?"

Anyone else had any really dumb responses like this?

[Antallica]

You actually had no rain? :p

[Bob]

The waterproof test happened on the way home!

You can tell it is Summer over here - the rain comes in shorter bursts...

[moko]

You can tell it is Summer over here - the rain comes in shorter bursts...

And at least it`s warm rain.typical Summer day here today,goes from clear blue sky and glorious sunshine to doom and gloom and black,black clouds in 15 minute cycles.

[Mongoose]

Over the weekend, I went into a shop to buy a tent (going to a festival in a couple of months... and I can't face the prospect of trying to clean my old tent which has been in the bag for two years this August - and it was wet and muddy when it was last in the open).

Anyway, I find the tent I want, go to the counter and hand over the money. Sales type asks me "Do you want a bag for that?"



Anyone else had any really dumb responses like this?

She could have asked "Ya waaant fryyyys with thaaaat?" :rolleyes:

[Dr Bob]

Yes, I have been served by somewhat inane types, but nothing beat when I was at Mitre 10 (hardware shop for the benefit of U.K.Kbers) and a customer wanted a step ladder gift wrapped (and they did), a bloody ribbon would have sufficed- it's not as if you would start to open it and say "my goodness, a step ladder I never would have guessed".

[Motoracer]

FF, remember the trip up from Welly?

"Would you like an egg (or was it chips?) with that?" :killingme

[Firefight]

FF, remember the trip up from Welly?

"Would you like an egg (or was it chips?) with that?" :killingme


Yeah mate what a laugh :killingme :killingme who would think that ordering a meal could provide so much :confused2 entertainment, never go there again(unless I get bored) , Hey that would have been a good place for a certain young man from Tauranga to go, I guess if he wanted somewhere more exciting than a week in Aks, a day in waiouru would fit the bill :Pokey:

F/F

[Ms Piggy]

Anyone else had any really dumb responses like this?
I work in a Govt Dept contact centre and we offer a translation service. The translation service is done by a different company and we have to call them and then go through the process of introducing ourselves. Anywaaaaaaay...over the last few days I've been calling and get the same woman answering and I always say "My name is Cathy from the CITIZENSHIP office requiring a translator..." and she always asks me "Do you require a translator for Citizenship, Passports or Births, Deaths & Marriages?"

Now my point is...wouldn't you realise if someone was calling from the CITIZENSHIP office that they could be calling about that???!!! :rolleyes:

[Cajun]

Blah to you FF

I am orginally from auckland i moved out of the place like 7 years ago, now i just get sick of the place, after a couple of days, and who you calling young man, who ever siad i was a man, dc:< I been to waiouru twice, once fulling up heading to wellywood, and other time coming back from wellywood, for a protest ride against acc on regos

[Firefight]

Blah to you FF

I am orginally from auckland i moved out of the place like 7 years ago, now i just get sick of the place, after a couple of days, and who you calling young man, who ever siad i was a man, dc:< I been to waiouru twice, once fulling up heading to wellywood, and other time coming back from wellywood, for a protest ride against acc on regos

Was the point missed ??

I think not !

How did you know I meant you ?

Will we see you Friday ??



F/F :Pokey:

[Cajun]

I am the all knowning and seeing cajunator FF i know all, if i don't know it, it arn't worth knowning

hope not friday )c:<
could have done the saturday, even coned the misses in to coming after weeks, so WT and MR could teach her to stoppie.
But have to work, busy week this week

[Mongoose]

I work in a Govt Dept contact centre and we offer a translation service. The translation service is done by a different company and we have to call them and then go through the process of introducing ourselves. Anywaaaaaaay...over the last few days I've been calling and get the same woman answering and I always say "My name is Cathy from the CITIZENSHIP office requiring a translator..." and she always asks me "Do you require a translator for Citizenship, Passports or Births, Deaths & Marriages?"

Now my point is...wouldn't you realise if someone was calling from the CITIZENSHIP office that they could be calling about that???!!! :rolleyes:

Poor lady probabley thinks you have one hell of a surname CCL :rolleyes:

[Ms Piggy]

Poor lady probabley thinks you have one hell of a surname CCL :rolleyes:
Well just to confirm my theory that she is bad at her job, I just called again & spoke to another person and he got it straight away!

[Mongoose]

Well just to confirm my theory that she is bad at her job, I just called again & spoke to another person and he got it straight away!

Perhaps its the foriegn(SI) accent that the female could not understand? :rolleyes:

[KATWYN]

Yeah mate what a laugh :killingme :killingme who would think that ordering a meal could provide so much :confused2 entertainment, never go there again(unless I get bored) , Hey that would have been a good place for a certain young man from Tauranga to go, I guess if he wanted somewhere more exciting than a week in Aks, a day in waiouru would fit the bill :Pokey:

F/F


For the rest of us...was that a "you had to be there" situation

[Firefight]

For the rest of us...was that a "you had to be there" situation


Yep , KW you had to be there,

F/F <_<

[mangell6]

Many years ago before the Caltex station was at Waiouru there was a "diner" there. You had eggs and chips with EVERYTHING - It was a real 'truckers' diner!

Were the eggs sunnyside or not?

[Vagabond]

Mind you, this isn't as bad as an article I read. Little girl goes into diabetic fit. So her mum runs into the nearest sweet shop and asks for some chocolate. Girl behind counter "Do you want it gift-wrapped?"

Anyone else had any really dumb responses like this?

Talking about dumb responses !
How would the shop owner know what the chocolates were to be used for ? :Oops:

Or maybe :stupid: your'e not telling us all !

[Ms Piggy]

Perhaps its the foriegn(SI) accent that the female could not understand? :rolleyes:
Yeah all those rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr's!

[Kickaha]

Yeah all those rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr's!


Thats only in the deep South,not where all the normal people live :laugh:

[scumdog]

Thats only in the deep South,not where all the normal people live :laugh:

And then again, who would rrrreconise norrrmality, especially rrregarrrrding bikerrrrs. :eek:

[Big Dog]

Poor lady probabley thinks you have one hell of a surname CCL :rolleyes:
This is one of my pet hates.....
When you ring me and I answer the phone "Star Mart K'road Matthew speaking" I would appreciate not being asked "can I speak to Matthew."

When I ring up your place of business to place an order or do some other such customery thing and I say "Hi this is Matthew from Star Mart K road can I (insert request here)?", it makes me angry to hear " certainly sir, where did you say you were from". short exchange followed by "and your name was?"

At least pretend you were listening and ask me how that is spelt. :Pokey:

[Ms Piggy]

Thats only in the deep South,not where all the normal people live :laugh:
Are you saying that you're normal??? :bleh:

[Ms Piggy]

This is one of my pet hates.....
When you ring me and I answer the phone "Star Mart K'road Matthew speaking" I would appreciate not being asked "can I speak to Matthew."

When I ring up your place of business to place an order or do some other such customery thing and I say "Hi this is Matthew from Star Mart K road can I (insert request here)?", it makes me angry to hear " certainly sir, where did you say you were from". short exchange followed by "and your name was?"

At least pretend you were listening and ask me how that is spelt. :Pokey:
:Oops: I'm a bit guilty of that sometimes, but then some of out callers talk so fast it hard to understand them. Oh and then there's the ones who when you do ask then to spell their name say it so fast there is no way you can get it down (I'm getting better at that though) and also people with a name that I can't say let along spell and they say it like they expect you to know how it's spelt or get really pissed off if you ask them to spell their name and then they would be the 1st to complain if it was mispelt! :rolleyes: I had a woman once who sighed & clicked her tounge every time I asked her to spell a name all the way through an order I was taking and then when I was telling her our postal address she had to ask me to spell "marriages"!!! :eyepoke:

Ok rant over!

[Mongoose]

Yeah all those rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr's!

As long as your Rrs dont roll thru the eating of too many opies and drinking of too many pints!! :apint: :bleh: