They walk amongst us.. (free, house, to buy, real estate)

[John1960]

They Walk Among Us]

>>
>> ..............They Walk Among Us and Many Work Retail.
>> I was at the checkout of a K-Mart. The clerk rang up
>> $46.64 charge. I gave her a fifty dollar bill. She gave me back
>> $46.64. I gave it back to her and told her that she had made a
>> mistake in MY favor and gave her the money back. She became
>> indignant and informed me she was educated and knew what she was
>> doing, and returned the money again. I gave her the money back
>> again...same scenario! I departed the store with the $46.64.
>> This actually happened in Austin at MoPac Blvd and Parmer Lane.
>>
>> ..............They Walk Among Us and Many Work Retail.
>>
>> I walked into a Mickey D's with a buy-one-get-one-free
>> coupon for a sandwich... I handed it to the girl and she looked
>> over at a little chalkboard that said "buy one-get one free."
>> "They're already buy-one-get-one-free", she said, "so I guess
>> they're both f ree" She handed me my free sandwiches and I walked
>> out the door.
>>
>> ..............They Walk Among Us and Many Work Retail.
>>
>>
>> One day I was walking down the beach with some friends
>> when one of them shouted, "Look at that dead bird!" Someone
>> looked up at the sky and said, "Where?"
>>
>> .............They Walk Among Us!
>>
>>
>> While looking at a house, my brother asked the real estate
>> agent which direction was north because, he explained, he didn't
>> want the sun waking him up every morning. She asked, "Does the
>> sun rise in the north?" When my brother explained that the sun
>> rises in the east, and has for sometime, she shook her head and
>> said, "Oh I don't keep up with that stuff."
>>
>> .............They Walk Among Us!!
>>
>>
>> I used to work in technical support for a 24/7 call
>> center. One day I got a call from an individual who asked what
>> hours the call center was open. I told him, "The number you
>> dialed i s open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week." He responded, "Is
>> that Eastern or Pacific time?" Wanting to end the call quickly,
>> I said, "Uh, Pacific."
>>
>>
>> .............They Walk Among Us!
>>
>>
>> My sister has a lifesaving tool in her car designed to cut
>> through a seat belt if she gets trapped. She keeps it in the
>> trunk.
>>
>> .............They Walk Among Us!
>>
>>
>> My friends and I were on a beer run and noticed that the
>> cases were discounted 10%. Since it was a big party, we bought 2
>> cases. The cashier multiplied 2 times 10% and gave us a 20%
>> discount.
>>
>> .............They Walk Among Us!
>>
>>
>> I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area, so
>> I went to the lost luggage office and told the woman there that
>> my bags never showed up. She smiled and told me not to worry
>> because she was a trained professional and I was in good hands.
>> "Now," she asked me, has your plane arrived yet?"
>>
>> ..............The y Walk Among Us!
>>
>>
>> While working at a pizza parlor I observed a man ordering
>> a small pizza to go. He appeared to be alone and the cook asked
>> him if he would like it cut into 4 pieces or 6. He thought about
>> it for some time before responding. "Just cut it into 4 pieces;
>> I don't think I'm hungry enough to eat 6 pieces."
>>
>> ..............Yep, They Walk Among Us!
>>
>>
>>
>> They Walk Among Us AND they reproduce, but WORST OF ALL...
>>
>> They VOTE!

[Lisa_from_Debary]

OH dear god those were hilarious.

I used to see alot of that when I worked in retail as well...it can be VERY disconcerting being the manager at times...

[mystree]

Those were funny but it's sad these people really do walk amongst us.

[Paula Lynn]

Thanks for a great laugh on this Monday morning

[JBrown]

here's another one...true...I overheard this conversation.

A girl I worked with was explaining to another person that the previous evening,after work she and a few of her other friends packed up a picnic basket and went down to the sea shore to watch the sun set over the ocean. They sat there on their blanket on the beach for some time before they realized there was a problem......

Hint....we're in New Jersey...!!

[KewGee]

Oh, those were hysterical.

Like Lisa_From_Debrary, I too worked as a manager in retail. It is so nuts what some people do and say. I used to think I was going crazy!

This is kind of a long story, so I'll shorten it some. One guy and his wife were in the store and had picked out quite a few things to buy. He was standing in line with all the merchandise and was getting quite impatient as the line was long.

Anyway, he put everything down, stormed out of the store with his wife chasing him. Then she returned, gathered up all the goods, and got in line. When she was being checked out, she said her husband was cranky as he had terminal cancer.

Here comes the clincher. She said, "I don't know why he wants all this stuff. He is going to die anyway."

Needless to say, I was incredulous.

[KimoJimo]

I owned a travel agency for many years and had an employee who was actually pretty darned good as a travel agent, but at anything else there were a few round trips missing... One day she came in and seemed quite preoccupied. I asked what was wrong and she said that her husband had scored two tickets to the ballet and, of course, wanted to take her. I asked what was the problem and she sighed and said, "Oh, I don't know. They'll probably do it in Italian and I won't know what's going on."

Another time a businessman called and booked a trip to somewhere and asked if she would get him a hotel room at a Quality Inn. She had difficulty finding the Inn at their website, and I said that it was because someone from another chain had bought it. She immediately called him back and told him she couldn't book it because "it had slipped a bit and was no longer a quality place to stay..."

[Lisa_from_Debary]

I used to be a manager of a Bombay Company. In fact at that time it was a large store, the closest to home office in Arlington, Texas. We would often have the President of the entire company drop in or the preferred stock holders. So we always had to be looking good and make sure our employees behaved well.

Well on shipment days while we had to unpack new things and accessories we were not supposed to let the store become a bomb site.

I had this one woman who would take one item out, start putting it together, leave it half done...leave the box, stuffing all over the floor, where customers should be able to walk and then start on a new project. Then I would come in at 12 and find several of these little places around the store...its like she thought everyday was Christmas and all she had to do was open the box to look at the new stuff rather then actually displaying it and cleaning up afterward.

I literally had to take things out of her hands and re-direct her back to the messes she had made...she even had the nerve to be annoyed with me. Because I can tell you I was not going to follow along behind her and clean up...I was the ONLY manager in a store that required three managers...I was working 10 hours a day AND on my days off I still had to come in and do the closing paperwork AND be on call should anything go wrong.

Now that I am a little wiser, I imagine she must have had a touch of ADD.

[square peg]

On the brighter side, my wife and I went to a hamburger stand recently and the young lady who took our order added our items on paper and got it right! I'm more than happy to have that one walking among us! Just thought I'd throw that in...

Carry on.