I really did not mean to cause a problem.

[markedup]

Try ordering pre-pay gasoline by the gallon.

Mark

 

[venomballistics]

Try ordering pre-pay gasoline by the gallon.

Mark

that is so evil ... its pure

 

[Horseless Trooper]

Went to the local Dunkin" donuts a while back, ordered a medium coffee with cream and a quarter teaspoon of sugar. The clerk looked at me, scooped up a heaping tablespoon of sugar, dumped it in the cup and then asked me "What's a quarter teaspoon?" I just told her it didn't really matter now, took my cup of coffee flavored syrup and left.

 

[woftrax]

I'm defending these clerks that have to deal with us old relics...they are always nice here when I come up with these very strange coin counts..nickels and quarters look quite a bit alike and I add some unique change amounts..I usually say "count that,will you?"..and it is frequently very long or very short..

Today, I really pulled a boner at Walgreen's pharmacy again...My scripts were $18.08 and I gave the clerk a $20 and a $10..seem strange?..She didn't say a word about it and gave me my $10 back and $1.92..and said, "Have a nice day",course, I felt like a goofus when I realized what I had done, but who cares really?...they deal with lots of old people and I'm sure we all seem like nutcases at times,or illiterate..I never try to explain and figure they have seen it all by now..

They have stopped giving me change in $1 coins because I cause a ruckus every time and hold up the drive-thru until they explain...

 

[Texas Star]

I guess that my favorite true story concerns a clerk at the post office. I have an Austrian friend who wanted a couple of David Lindsey's mysteries, in English. She could find them locally only in German, of course.

THe postal clerk thought that I asked about postage to Australia. She knew about it from the Crocodile Dundee movies, I guess. Said that they didn't have post offices in Australia!

I explained that this was AUSTRIA, not Australia, and that both countries have post offices. That Austria also has great buildings, some concert halls. When I mentioned that Arnold Schwartzenegger came from Austria, her eyes got big and she exclaimed, "Oh, okay. I sure done heard of him." But she still couldn't quite grasp that there is an Austria, near Switzerland, Germany, and Italy. (She hadn't heard of Switzerland, either, but had heard of Swiss Army knives and Rolex watches.)

Your tax dollars at work! But my friend got the books, for which she was thankful. She was very amused at the postal story.

By the way, another friend, a lawyer in Budapest, attended a legal conference in Vienna a couple of years ago and she sent me some beautiful photos of the city. But I don't think any of the palaces, museums, and churches were post offices...


T-Star

 

[Gun-runner]

I'm still trying to get my head around the part where a husband made a milkshake run for a wife.

I know. I make my wife's shakes at home fresh to order!