Not Quite Tagged As Competent

(My mother-in-law is visiting a local fast food restaurant that sells key tags for $1 during the summer and in exchange you get a free small frozen treat with any purchase. This happens in late April. The cashier is an older gentleman in his late 60s.)

Mother-In-Law: *after giving an order at the counter* “We would like to also purchase two key tags.”

Cashier: “We don’t have them.”

Mother-In-Law: “Oh, we will just have to get them next time.”

Cashier: “We won’t have them then, either.”

Me: *confused* “Okay, I guess we missed buying one? When did you stop selling them?”

Cashier: “We don’t have anymore. We don’t have any in the back either.”

Me: “That’s fine but when did you stop selling them? We didn’t see them advertised this year so we didn’t know.”

Cashier: “Ma’am, I don’t know what to tell you. We don’t have anymore.”

Me: “I see this is going nowhere. If I could just have our total I’ll go ahead and pay for her and me.”

Cashier: “Would you like your total with or without the tags?”

Me: “…Without.”

(We never did figure out when they stopped selling them!)