I suppose it's possible that at some point in my life I will cease to be amazed at how some people get by in the world, but I'm beginning to lose hope. I'm just back from lunch at Subway.
This is the conversation between a Subway employee and a customer just behind me:
Customer: How much is a 6-inch tuna?
Customer: How much is a 6-inch tuna?
Customer: How big is it?
Employee: How big is a 6-inch sandwich?
Customer: Yes.
Employee: Um... 6 inches?
Customer: You mean, like, onetwothreefourfivesix?
Employee: Yes.
Customer: Oh. In that case give me two foot-long Spicy Italians.
Try as I might, I simply cannot fathom the thought processes, if they can be called that, of the customer while this conversation was taking place.
Did she think she might confuse the employee into giving her two foot-long meat sandwiches for the price of one 6-inch tuna? Is there some form of 6" besides onetwothreefourfivesix that I'm not aware of? Does anyone really walk into a Subway thinking to themselves, "I'm gonna have either a 6-inch tuna or two feet of Spicy Italian"?
Try as I might, I simply cannot fathom the thought processes, if they can be called that, of the customer while this conversation was taking place.
Did she think she might confuse the employee into giving her two foot-long meat sandwiches for the price of one 6-inch tuna? Is there some form of 6" besides onetwothreefourfivesix that I'm not aware of? Does anyone really walk into a Subway thinking to themselves, "I'm gonna have either a 6-inch tuna or two feet of Spicy Italian"?
Isn't this like getting all the details for a one-way flight to Dallas and then buying 2 round-trip tickets to Omaha?
It makes me wonder if she asks the person at Home Depot how tall their 8-foot stepladders are, or the person at the 7-11 how much a 32-ounce Big Gulp holds. Or my personal favorite, what time is Midnight Mass?
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14 comments:
People are such effing idiots. And the poor kid at Subway was probably like "am I getting punked or something?". No kid... that's just the stupidity of society these days.
I know I'm a smartass but I'm going to get you on one. An 8 foot step ladder isn't 8 foot. When open its 7'6" or so. And you could say well closed it's 8 foot, but no its like 8'2" Its a secret plot between the ladder industry and Pythagoras.
No lie. My smart (but ditzy) sister has walked into a subway and asked how big the 6 inch sub was. She has yet to hear the end of it.
If the sadwich guy was quicker, he should have responded "one meter" just to f with 'em.
classic! I love the detailed discussion and then complete 180... it would have only been better is she would have asked how many calories were in the tuna sandwich!
this goes into the category of why you can't buy the same number of hot dog buns as hot dogs in a package.
Let me ask this. Was the customer a young kid? I know as youngsters I would ask if they had Coke, and they would say Pepsi then I would respond with let me have a Mountain Dew.
If not, then hope is gone and it is not ever coming back.
People are strange and like to make normal people feel weird so they can feel normal for a moment! Lol...does that make sense!
What's wrong with people these days?
Maybe the person had way to much fun the night before and is still a bit...drunk?
And just to add....I had to type in my 'non spam words' three times for this post. :)
This supports my belief that many people are stupid. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but then you run into these kinds of people and that all goes away.
Give the customer a break..
The question was "How big is it?" not "how long is it"..
The wife and I have these types of conversations at night all the time..
I'm just amazed that you could set us up for the obvious blog response and you had no takers..
"two feet of spice italian" that's all I saw in this whole post! ;)
xo
What a fucking dumb ass.
WTH??? If only we could read minds maybe it would all make sense...
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