I can't really call this a stupid employee trick, but it was one of those times when the employee's brain wasn't fully in gear, and it cracked me up. I'm at the drive-thru, ordering pricey, good-tasting stuff I really don't need:
[INDENT]Her: Hi, welcome to Starbucks! What can we make for you today?
Me: Let me have a grande Mocha and a chocolate old-fashioned (donut).
Her: Grande Mocha and an old-fashioned. All we have is chocolate, is that okay?
Me, perplexed: ...Yeeeessss... That's what I ordered.... (???)
Her: Okay, that will be $$$ at the window.[/INDENT]
I start to pull forward, and before I'm away from the speaker she realizes what she said, and says, "Oh! I, uh..." and then lets out a long, cackling laugh at her own expense. It was pretty funny, and she was a very good sport about it.
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It is hard to concentrate when the voices in your head are too loud! :p:
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Hey! We're not supposed to talk about them, they are sensitive about that.DisneyMom wrote:It is hard to concentrate when the voices in your head are too loud! :p:
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They have some really good ideas, though! :D:Lasolimu wrote:Hey! We're not supposed to talk about them, they are sensitive about that.
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Reminds me of a long-ago trip to Wendy's...the same one where I regularly ordered a salad and a bacon cheese potato for dinner, requesting bacon strips instead of the bits. One day I placed that order, and the counterperson said, "We can't do that." I asked why and she said, "We don't have bacon strips." I countered with, "Well, what do you put on the bacon cheeseburgers?" While she tried to figure that one out, another person who recognized me as a regular shoved her out of the way and completed my order.
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I won't dispute that, but they are sensitive about people talking about them.DisneyMom wrote:They have some really good ideas, though! :D:
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Lasolimu wrote:I won't dispute that, but they are sensitive about people talking about them.
But the voices get much quieter when you are drinking RUM!!!!
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Why would you want them quieter? That seems like an argument against drinking RUM which leads me to believe that you are no pirate.GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:But the voices get much quieter when you are drinking RUM!!!!
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Lasolimu wrote:Why would you want them quieter? That seems like an argument against drinking RUM which leads me to believe that you are no pirate.
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not at all, its so's they can save their voce for more important things!!
hey, even the voices in yer head need a break from time to time!!!
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If they want a break, they can just take one. I am not forcing them to keep talking.GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:???
not at all, its so's they can save their voce for more important things!!
hey, even the voices in yer head need a break from time to time!!!
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