11-13-2011, 06:00 PM
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#130
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Bovinus Administratus
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Greener pastures
Posts: 32,377
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(Tourist Attraction | New Mexico, USA)
(I manage a tourist center that welcomes people coming into New Mexico. An obviously American tourist comes into the center.)
Tourist: *in broken Spanish* “Excuse me! I think you all forgot something.”
Me: *in English* “Yes, how can I help you?”
Tourist: *more broken Spanish* “Nobody was checking for
passports when we crossed the border here.”
Me: “Passports?”
Tourist: “We are in Mexico now, after all.”
Me: “This is New Mexico, sir. You don’t need a passport to–”
Tourist: “What’s to stop illegal immigrants from coming into the United States if they don’t check our passports coming into New Mexico?”
Me: “Sir, New Mexico is part of the United States.”
Tourist: “Now you’re just lying to me.”
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(Amusement Park | California, USA)
(I work at an amusement park in Southern California. A customer comes up to me while I am cleaning a shop.)
Customer: “Where can I find a [cartoon character] blow-up doll?”
Me: “Excuse me, sir?”
Customer: “Blow-up doll. I need a [cartoon character] blow-up doll!”
Me: “I um, we don’t sell those kinds of items–”
Customer: “You know, you put air in and it goes up!”
Me: “A balloon?”
Customer: “A blow-up doll, yes! Where?!”
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(Restaurant | Ohio, USA)
(I’m a server in my restaurant. The Sunday lunch crowd is usually the elderly. An older gentleman and his wife are seated, and I take their drink order.)
Me: “Would you like anything else to drink besides water?”
Customer: “Yes, I’d like a drink.”
Me: “Okay, what kind?”
(He doesn’t respond and looks at me for a while.)
Me: “We have canned soda: Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Mt. Dew, Sunkist, iced tea, hot tea, coffee–”
Customer: “Yes, I want a can.”
Me: “Um, I…” *smile* “Which one?”
(He stares at me for a good while, like I should know better. Finally, his wife chimes in.)
Wife: “He’d like a Coke, please.”
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...I deal with that all the time from people of all ages. It pisses me off.
---------- Post added at 12:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:59 AM ----------
I eventually end up just breaking it down into bite-sized questions...yes or no, one at a time.
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