Some people aren't very bright.

[Calboner]

When I go to the supermarket, I often take along reusable shopping bags. One of them is an insulated bag that bears the words "HOT or COLD" to indicate its purpose. When I buy a roasted chicken, I say to the bagger, "Please put the chicken in this, and everything else in the other bag"; but many of them have difficulty following this instruction. One of them, after putting the chicken (hot) into the bag, asked me if I wanted my carton of milk (cold) in there, because, he said, "It says 'hot or cold' on the bag." I explained that this did not mean that one puts hot and cold things in there at the same time, but rather that one can either put hot things in there to keep them hot or put cold things in there to keep them cold. He seemed to have difficulty understanding the purpose of such a practice.

 

[Bob Ross]

When I go to the supermarket, I often take along reusable shopping bags. One of them is an insulated bag that bears the words "HOT or COLD" to indicate its purpose. When I buy a roasted chicken, I say to the bagger, "Please put the chicken in this, and everything else in the other bag"; but many of them have difficulty following this instruction. One of them, after putting the chicken (hot) into the bag, asked me if I wanted my carton of milk (cold) in there, because, he said, "It says 'hot or cold' on the bag." I explained that this did not mean that one puts hot and cold things in there at the same time, but rather that one can either put hot things in there to keep them hot or put cold things in there to keep them cold. He seemed to have difficulty understanding the purpose of such a practice.

Yet still his paycheck probably identifies him as a "Post-Purchase Goods-Packaging Specialist", just like how the cashier who couldn't figure out what change to give you a few moments before that is a "Point of Sales Associate"

 

[DaveyR]

I was once given two cheques (one for five and one for ten) from someone. I asked why two cheques and was told he could not spell fifteen.

Sad but true. :wink::smile:

 

[thetramp]

When I go to the supermarket, I often take along reusable shopping bags. One of them is an insulated bag that bears the words "HOT or COLD" to indicate its purpose. When I buy a roasted chicken, I say to the bagger, "Please put the chicken in this, and everything else in the other bag"; but many of them have difficulty following this instruction. One of them, after putting the chicken (hot) into the bag, asked me if I wanted my carton of milk (cold) in there, because, he said, "It says 'hot or cold' on the bag." I explained that this did not mean that one puts hot and cold things in there at the same time, but rather that one can either put hot things in there to keep them hot or put cold things in there to keep them cold. He seemed to have difficulty understanding the purpose of such a practice.

i love those bags, they keep my soup warm in winter and my drinks cold in summer, i just wonder how that thing knows the season.

 

[thetramp]

double post, sorry

 

[Calboner]

Yet still his paycheck probably identifies him as a "Post-Purchase Goods-Packaging Specialist", just like how the cashier who couldn't figure out what change to give you a few moments before that is a "Point of Sales Associate"

Since he's probably getting minimum wage, I don't begrudge him a grandiose job title if it makes him feel better. But he should be able to figure out how hot and cold work.

i love those bags, they keep my soup warm in winter and my drinks cold in summer, i just wonder how that thing knows the season.

I think the insulating liner has magical powers. :lol:

 

[Bob Ross]

Since he's probably getting minimum wage, I don't begrudge him a grandiose job title if it makes him feel better. But he should be able to figure out how hot and cold work.

True, true. I guess I'm not trying to highlight anything he did wrong, but rather the stupidity of management to think that euphemisms will fool anyone; be they customers or employees

 

[Viking_UK]

There are some people who I prefer to communicate with by text - one of whom will run down the battery on your phone if you let them. Text is short and to the point and avoids unnecessary chat.

I keep getting calls on my office phone for a couple who live about a mile and a half away and whose number is one digit different from mine. They're presumably having financial problems, going by the questions I get asked. So far the callers - usually for whom English is a second language - have had problems understanding that the address is different and that it's not a residential number. I've even had the same person call me four times in five minutes insisting that they had the right number and that I was the person they were trying to contact and that I was lying. I've only had two calls for them so far today, so maybe the message is getting through, but it's getting to the stage now where I'm going to start answering the phone with, "If you're looking for Mr or Mrs X, you've called the wrong number. The number you actually should have called is..."

 

[Kotchanski]

I was once given two cheques (one for five and one for ten) from someone. I asked why two cheques and was told he could not spell fifteen.

Sad but true. :wink::smile:

I used to get regular calls from a friend of an ex when she needed to go shopping, fill the car with petrol or pay bills...

Out of everyone she knew within reasonable distance for such things, I was the only one she knew who could spell eight.

On the topic of phone calls though:

We currently rent from a Chinese couple, who have now returned to China. We've changed over almost all utilities and so on into our names, however they've forgotten the password for the TV/Phone/Internet, so it is still stuck in their name.

We used to get the bills here, open them and send the money to their bank account and get them to pay it to save on hassle, but being busy people, they'd often not pick up the email with required amount until after it was due.

Virgin media always have Chinese staff members call, which is wonderful in my opinion, I mean for the past 10 or so years, this house has only ever had Chinese tenants, many of whom didn't speak much if any English, but they insist that I am the landlady, they refuse to believe I'm not her no matter what I say to them.

It doesn't help that although the landladies name is very different to my own, she "chose" an English name when she first moved here (apparently this is common practise because it makes things easier) and she chose the same name as myself...

"Hi"
"Hello, could I speak to X please?"
"Yes this is X speaking"
*launches into Chinese I don't have a hope in hells chance of understanding*
"Oh, sorry, this is X X, not X Y, she's currently out of the country, can I take a message and have her contact you when she's back?"
*argument starts because that's what I said last time they called*

 

[luka82]

"Hi"
"Hello, could I speak to X please?"
"Yes this is X speaking"
*launches into Chinese I don't have a hope in hells chance of understanding*
"Oh, sorry, this is X X, not X Y, she's currently out of the country, can I take a message and have her contact you when she's back?"
*argument starts because that's what I said last time they called*

Lol

 

[agnslz]

I got a voicemail once from a wrong number who was asking me to post bail money for them...Needless to say I think it was a waste of his "one phonecall"...I will say this; he had much better grammar than your new mystery friend, Meg.

I once had a voicemail from a lady who dialed the wrong number and was apparently calling her niece to wish her a happy birthday and apologize for some matter between them. It was fairly long, raw and heartfelt, and I believe tinged with just a bit of drunkenness. She ended by saying that she loved the girl, hoped she'd forgive her and call her back.:biggrin1:

I've also been getting calls and messages from collection agencies for a former next door neighbor of mine who had the same street number but with a different apartment letter than me. He also had my same last name, only with a slightly different spelling. I once explained this to one of the callers and asked them to stop calling me. They must've thought I was him trying to get them to stop calling because they continue to leave messages for him at my number.

It's frustrating and slightly annoying but I've become accustomed to skipping over and deleting those messages and not answering any number I don't recognize.

 

[B_subgirrl]

I used to get regular calls from a friend of an ex when she needed to go shopping, fill the car with petrol or pay bills...

Out of everyone she knew within reasonable distance for such things, I was the only one she knew who could spell eight.

When my sister was in kindergarten she misspelled the word 'eighth'. The teacher had to cross out his own 'correction' three times before he got the spelling right