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Read No Good Deed Goes Uncommented Me: "Last-minute request for someone to watch my dogs this weekend! My regular dog...
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Read Hot Take Gets The Cold Shoulder Customer: "I'm cold! Can you turn up the heat?" Me: "I'm sorry, I can't. You're ...
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Read We had a rather irate tourist yesterday complaining that his railway trip hadn’t included a view of Stonehenge. ...
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Read An Infectious Personality One of my earlier teaching jobs (1980s) was as a midyear replacement to teach chemistr...
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Read In garden centers, it’s actually standard practice to wear work shoes with steel toes. (You know… tractors, truc...
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Read My girlfriend related this story to me. She was getting a soda at a convenience store a couple blocks from the s...
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Read Menu-vering Through The Drive-Thru Customer: "How much is [combo]?" Me: *Looking at the menu to make sure the pr...
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Read (A man called in to request some medication refills yesterday. The request is so inappropriate (he isn’t even an...
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Read The Curious Card Of Benjamin Button Me: "ID, please." Customer: "Are you f****** kidding me?!" Me: "Sorry, store...
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Read Don’t Ask The Wild Card I work in a large bookstore and stationery store. Customer: "Do you have cards?" Me: "Wh...
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Read Toll Me About It! Passenger: "How much is the toll?" Me: "About seven dollars." Passenger: "Nope. I'm not paying...
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Read Watt Just Happened? Lady #2: "Okay, listen, you owe $[amount] in June, and you need to pay the rest—" Me: "Wait,...
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Read Quarterback Customer: "Twenty-five cents came off for the deal, right?" Me: "That's right." Customer: "Then why ...
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Read And This Is Why We Do The Thing, Part 2 Me: "Is everyone here? Where's the boss?" Employee #1: "Oh my God, I for...
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Read Lost Child Versus A Lost Cause A customer has requested assistance in the electronics section, specifically sele...
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Read The Chickens And The Bees Me: "Uh, [Manager], did you type up this invoice for the chicken company?" Manager: "Y...
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Read Bibbidi Bobbidi Nope! Mother: "This is my son's favorite character of all time." Me: "Awesome! I'm glad you were...
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Read Not Pudding Up With This The bill arrives, and we have been charged an additional £9, for £39 in total. I query ...
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Read They’re Smoothie, Not Smooth A customer wanders over to me in the produce department holding a pack of kiwis. Cu...
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Read A Matter Of Principal Me: "So you're looking to borrow one million dollars with no income, no savings, and no do...