(Referring to the payment terminal)
Customer: “It’s not working. What’s wrong with it?”
Me: “What does it say?”
Customer: “It says, ‘Please slide card again’.”
Me: “Well, then slide your card again.”
Customer: “Oh, okay.”
(She slides her card. It works.)
Customer: “Hey it worked!”
Customer: “Do you have burrito wrappers?”
Me: “Do you mean tortillas?”
Customer: “Well, I guess you could call them that.”
(A customer comes to the bakery and asks me if we sell some ointment.)
Me: “Sorry, but we don’t sell that here.”
Customer: “Where can I get it?”
Me: “I would suggest one of the local pharmacies.” *I name a few, including B & J’s Pharmacy*
Customer: “Is B & J’s Pharmacy…a pharmacy?”
Me: “Yes…”
(Two days before Thanksgiving, people are picking up their orders of turkeys. One customer placed an order late, for a 20 lb. fresh Butterball. We didn’t get many of those, so I reserved a 20 lb. fresh “other” turkey.)
Me: “Well, I do have a previously frozen Butterball that a customer changed their mind on. It’s pretty much thawed out; you could have that.”
Customer: “No, my mother won’t eat frozen turkey.”
Me: “Well, then, take the fresh one.”
Customer: “My mother only eats Butterball.”
Me: “This is a Butterball, and since you have to thaw it anyway to cook it, why not take the Butterball?”
Customer: “She won’t eat frozen turkeys.”
Me: “We still have small fresh Butterballs. Why not take two of them?”
Customer: “No, my mother is making a turkey, too, and I don’t want to have three of them.”
Me: *exasperated*
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Customer: “I’d like five pork chops, wrapped in twos.”
Me: “Do you mean two packages?”
Customer: “No, I want five pork chops, wrapped in twos.”
Me: *blank stare*
Customer: *heavy sigh* “Five chops, wrapped two, two and one. See, wrapped in twos.”
