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[8 Ball]

Originally Posted by ripTDR

Absurdities GMG


Worked a overtime day wanted some fast food to go so went to a Triple O. Went inside cause I had to hit the head.


Can I get XXX please?


You want it to go?


Yes


You want a bag and napkins for a extra 50 or 25 cents?(I cant remember)


Your charging me for a to go bag?


Yes


You want me to handle onion rings, drink and a burger loosely with no napkin?


Unless you want to purchase the bag


What about the drive through?


They don't get charged


See ya, never going back again

How is the food there?

[fotze2]

They should have charged for paragraph breaks.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by 8 Ball

How is the food there?

It's fast food burgers, with that in mind, I liked it when I tried.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by ripTDR

Absurdities GMG


Worked a overtime day wanted some fast food to go so went to a Triple O. Went inside cause I had to hit the head.


Can I get XXX please?


You want it to go?


Yes


You want a bag and napkins for a extra 50 or 25 cents?(I cant remember)


Your charging me for a to go bag?


Yes


You want me to handle onion rings, drink and a burger loosely with no napkin?


Unless you want to purchase the bag


What about the drive through?


They don't get charged


See ya, never going back again

Giving Locke a good run for the “you might secretly be Rick Bell” category.

[Jason14h]

Paragraph breaks to indicate a change in speaker make sense though …unless you wanted him wrote ME - xxx CASHER - YYY

[habernac]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Ugh! I just got a reminder for my 2nd Shingles vaccine. Not sure if I want to go through another 36 hours like that again as it was far worse than any flue I've had in my life.

Better than getting shingles. Get the 2nd one. Buddy got shingles in his eye, his vision did not recover fully.

[Shazam]

My BIL's wife got shingles in her 40s, she was debilitated for months.

One of my former employees in her 50s got it too, to this day she cannot wear a bra because she still has pain around her torso. And she got it like 15 years ago.

[TorqueDog]

I pulled a very Larry David move at HomeSense yesterday.

While shopping for some other household items, I bought a larger garbage bin for my ensuite. Because I bought too much stuff to carry by hand, I had to buy one of their stupid $1.99 reusable bags. Already annoyed; I hate these things.

Got home and realized I already owned the exact same size of garbage bin in a different finish. Same size, same shape, same problem. Crap. Whatever... I kept the receipt, I'll return it.

I use the bag to bring the bin back the next day. Then I notice the bag still has the tag on it. It's in new, resaleable condition, which means… returnable. At least, as far as anyone has told me. I grab a better garbage bin and go to the cashier.

Me: "Hi, I'm returning this garbage bin and this bag, and buying this garbage bin."
Cashier: "We don't do returns on the bags."
Me: "Oh. That's not written anywhere; not on the tag, the receipt, or the bag display. My receipt says I can return anything I bought until January 8th."
Cashier: "Right, but our policy is we don't accept returns on the bags."

A policy? Now I'm locked in. I wanted my two dollars back; not because I needed it, but because -- at this point -- the alternative was owning a useless 'reusable' bag out of spite.

Me: "Well, if it's a policy, it should be written down, and I can't agree to your policy if it's not written down anywhere."

-- long pause --

Cashier: "We're just not supposed to take them back, but I'll do it this time."

I left with a new garbage bin and the correct amount of garbage in my life.

[ripTDR]

Originally Posted by fotze2

They should have charged for paragraph breaks.

Meh...Sorta witty if you are over 50

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

I pulled a very Larry David move at HomeSense yesterday.

While shopping for some other household items, I bought a larger garbage bin for my ensuite. Because I bought too much stuff to carry by hand, I had to buy one of their stupid $1.99 reusable bags. Already annoyed; I hate these things.

Got home and realized I already owned the exact same size of garbage bin in a different finish. Same size, same shape, same problem. Crap. Whatever... I kept the receipt, I'll return it.

I use the bag to bring the bin back the next day. Then I notice the bag still has the tag on it. It's in new, resaleable condition, which means… returnable. At least, as far as anyone has told me. I grab a better garbage bin and go to the cashier.

Me: "Hi, I'm returning this garbage bin and this bag, and buying this garbage bin."
Cashier: "We don't do returns on the bags."
Me: "Oh. That's not written anywhere; not on the tag, the receipt, or the bag display. My receipt says I can return anything I bought until January 8th."
Cashier: "Right, but our policy is we don't accept returns on the bags."

A policy? Now I'm locked in. I wanted my two dollars back; not because I needed it, but because -- at this point -- the alternative was owning a useless 'reusable' bag out of spite.

Me: "Well, if it's a policy, it should be written down, and I can't agree to your policy if it's not written down anywhere."

-- long pause --

Cashier: "We're just not supposed to take them back, but I'll do it this time."

I left with a new garbage bin and the correct amount of garbage in my life.

F HomeSense and their unwritten "policies". I wanted a pair of matching table lamps for my guest bedroom. I found two matching bases but at different stores. Should have been easy, just buy them but they had different colour lampshades for some reason. One had white and one had oatmeal. So I go to customer service and explain the scenario.

Listen lady, you have one of these lamps in green (with a white shade) here and you have one in blue (with an oatmeal shade). I found another green one at another location with an oatmeal shade. So here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna swap shades and then I get two green lamps with two oatmeal shades and you have one blue lamp with a white shade. Nope, we can't do that, it's our "policy" that we don't have written anywhere. Subtext I'm just super lazy and don't have any desire to help you.

So I bought three lamps, swapped the shades and returned the blue lamp with a white shade on it.

Ok now back to poking fun at you. You literally had a big bin that accepts being filled with stuff yet you used a reusable bag the first time for all your other stuff instead?

[Titan2]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

F HomeSense. don't care about this tripe...Ok now back to poking fun at you. You literally had a big bin that accepts being filled with stuff yet you used a reusable bag the first time for all your other stuff instead?

My thoughts exactly. Let's gettim!!!

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

F HomeSense and their unwritten "policies". I wanted a pair of matching table lamps for my guest bedroom. I found two matching bases but at different stores. Should have been easy, just buy them but they had different colour lampshades for some reason. One had white and one had oatmeal. So I go to customer service and explain the scenario.

Listen lady, you have one of these lamps in green (with a white shade) here and you have one in blue (with an oatmeal shade). I found another green one at another location with an oatmeal shade. So here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna swap shades and then I get two green lamps with two oatmeal shades and you have one blue lamp with a white shade. Nope, we can't do that, it's our "policy" that we don't have written anywhere. Subtext I'm just super lazy and don't have any desire to help you.

So I bought three lamps, swapped the shades and returned the blue lamp with a white shade on it.

Ok now back to poking fun at you. You literally had a big bin that accepts being filled with stuff yet you used a reusable bag the first time for all your other stuff instead?

I went to homesense once and had some kind of stupid issue with their policy about using more than one gift cards and prepaid visas. They'd check the balance, but not be able to take it as payment? I'm not iTunes gift card scamming old people and trying to cash out at home sense. Jeez.

I ended up taking 4-5 prepaid visas ranging from $20-100 from tire rebates and whatnot and used them all as partial payment for a spa day. My wife still laughs at that memory because it took like 10 minutes to do, including the system crashing and taking like 5 minutes to reboot. The lady at the counter was a trooper. Swearing and seething, but also telling us with a smile it was perfectly OK because she agreed to take all the cards and it wasn't our fault the POS system was a POS.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Shazam

My BIL's wife got shingles in her 40s, she was debilitated for months.

One of my former employees in her 50s got it too, to this day she cannot wear a bra because she still has pain around her torso. And she got it like 15 years ago.

If only they could weaponize shingles to target large breasted women in their 20’s / 30’s

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Ugh! I just got a reminder for my 2nd Shingles vaccine. Not sure if I want to go through another 36 hours like that again as it was far worse than any flue I've had in my life.

Originally Posted by habernac

Better than getting shingles. Get the 2nd one. Buddy got shingles in his eye, his vision did not recover fully.

Originally Posted by Shazam

My BIL's wife got shingles in her 40s, she was debilitated for months.

One of my former employees in her 50s got it too, to this day she cannot wear a bra because she still has pain around her torso. And she got it like 15 years ago.

wtf… when am I supposed to get shingles shots?

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Ok now back to poking fun at you. You literally had a big bin that accepts being filled with stuff yet you used a reusable bag the first time for all your other stuff instead?

Ordinarily I would have, but the problem was that the garbage bin itself was not big enough to fit all the other things I had bought. The bin itself was small-ish, just under a foot tall, and about 8 inches in diameter, and I thought that the bin it was replacing was even smaller -- like IKEA bathroom bin small.

Otherwise, yes, I would have said "f-ck yo' bags" and used the bin to carry my purchases.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Ordinarily I would have, but the problem was that the garbage bin itself was not big enough to fit all the other things I had bought. The bin itself was small-ish, just under a foot tall, and about 8 inches in diameter, and I thought that the bin it was replacing was even smaller -- like IKEA bathroom bin small.

Otherwise, yes, I would have said "f-ck yo' bags" and used the bin to carry my purchases.

Which bag? I elected for the cat sandwich one because I assumed that my cat lover friends would consider taking it off my hands. Normally I'd avoid a bag and just carry stuff in my arms... But there was still a lot of shopping time left.

"Do you want this extra reusable bag?"
"No... Why would we want a bag? I have too many"
"But it's cat sandwiches..."
"OH! Oooo that's cute... Ok fine, I'll take it."

[TorqueDog]

See, I'd probably have been okay to keep it -- or at least use it briefly before 'accidentally' forgetting it at a cat lover friend's house -- if I had seen the cat sandwiches one, but I honestly don't even remember which design it was.

I didn't think tossing it in the trash was the right answer environmentally if I could swing returning the bag to the store.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Shazam

she cannot wear a bra

[GGG]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

I pulled a very Larry David move at HomeSense yesterday.

While shopping for some other household items, I bought a larger garbage bin for my ensuite. Because I bought too much stuff to carry by hand, I had to buy one of their stupid $1.99 reusable bags. Already annoyed; I hate these things.

Got home and realized I already owned the exact same size of garbage bin in a different finish. Same size, same shape, same problem. Crap. Whatever... I kept the receipt, I'll return it.

I use the bag to bring the bin back the next day. Then I notice the bag still has the tag on it. It's in new, resaleable condition, which means… returnable. At least, as far as anyone has told me. I grab a better garbage bin and go to the cashier.

Me: "Hi, I'm returning this garbage bin and this bag, and buying this garbage bin."
Cashier: "We don't do returns on the bags."
Me: "Oh. That's not written anywhere; not on the tag, the receipt, or the bag display. My receipt says I can return anything I bought until January 8th."
Cashier: "Right, but our policy is we don't accept returns on the bags."

A policy? Now I'm locked in. I wanted my two dollars back; not because I needed it, but because -- at this point -- the alternative was owning a useless 'reusable' bag out of spite.

Me: "Well, if it's a policy, it should be written down, and I can't agree to your policy if it's not written down anywhere."

-- long pause --

Cashier: "We're just not supposed to take them back, but I'll do it this time."

I left with a new garbage bin and the correct amount of garbage in my life.

What frustrates me about these unwritten policies is that employees get #### on both ways. They have to deal with arguing with you for a policy they don’t believe in and have to deal with management telling them to that they are making too many exceptions. All for the joy of minimum wage.

Stores use people generally being agreeable and not wanting to fight with underpaid workers in order to have terrible policies.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

wtf… when am I supposed to get shingles shots?

Supposed to be at 50, lots are getting the vaccine in their 40s.