Idiots at the till
Discussion
Issi said:
If you really need somebody to hold your hand and take you through the bewildering array of choices, it might be best if you stayed in with a nice cup of tea.
This is what is usually displayed to the drinker, and so when he asks for 'Lager!', I have to ask 'Which one?'
When I worked in a pub and this happened, I usually just poured the most expensive one (depending on the drinker and the manner in which I was addressed).This is what is usually displayed to the drinker, and so when he asks for 'Lager!', I have to ask 'Which one?'
They soon asked for Fosters properly in subsequent rounds after that.
I'm someone who gets annoyed at people who are slow at ordering in bars. Or people who want to put a half of Carling on a credit card/pay for it by cheque and then panic/dither/argue when that method of payment is refused for a £1.50 bill.
Particularly if they've just waited in the queue for five minutes only to contemplate what they'd like after whoever's serving them has asked what they would like.
So if I'm getting a round and someone just asks for a glass of wine with no other forthcoming information, I tend to choose the house red or white at random when I get to the bar. If I've just seen them drinking one or the other I choose that one, clearly because the information was provided by context.
Then you get back to the table and they say, "But I obviously wanted white wine!"
"How the f
k was that obvious either way?"
Particularly if they've just waited in the queue for five minutes only to contemplate what they'd like after whoever's serving them has asked what they would like.
So if I'm getting a round and someone just asks for a glass of wine with no other forthcoming information, I tend to choose the house red or white at random when I get to the bar. If I've just seen them drinking one or the other I choose that one, clearly because the information was provided by context.
Then you get back to the table and they say, "But I obviously wanted white wine!"
"How the f
k was that obvious either way?"Idiot walks into pharmacy and asks for proprietary named product. Gets all shirty when asked questions about who it's for and what reason. Perhaps understandable as what they've asked for is normally for treatment of a personal area.
Turned out what they wanted was Anbesol, for treatment of mouth ulcers, and what they'd initially requested was Anusol a pile ointment.
Turned out what they wanted was Anbesol, for treatment of mouth ulcers, and what they'd initially requested was Anusol a pile ointment.
mustdash said:
catfood12 said:
Page two and airports haven't been mentioned once.
The arseclowns that take so long at checkin/bag drop. It takes me a minute or two, I can't see how you can feasibly spend 5-10 minutes just at checkin, but most others seem to. How ? Every time.
Then we get to security, surely theses have been through this before, oh, I still have my watch/keys/chain on me so set off the metal detector. What a surprise. And need a pat down but some minimum wage groping security officer, holding the rest of us up.
Even in the fast track lines. If you're in a fast track line then you're flying business, which means you are wealthy enough (so bright enough) to do so, or have an important enough job that you'll be flown business class, and you've flown before, so why every time do you still try to go through the metal detector with your keys ?
Or why do you bleat when they grab your bag for a half bottle of coke/shampoo.... Oh, it's a 200ml bottle but less than half full, why can't I take it on the plane ? raa raa raa etc...s all of them.
Edited for spellig.
You fail to mention the feckwits who seem totally unable to grasp the concept of the 'speedy passport gates'. They would be speedy if people could use them! How hard is it, I mean they even give you easy to follow simple pictures - just do what the pictire tells you - walk up, place passport in to reader, picture down. Wait for gates to open. Stand on big yellow feet outline, look in to camera, wait a few seconds, walk out the other side..... I had an 'encounter' with one of these idiots at Faro airport - she spent 10 minutes inserting her passport in to the reader every conceivable way possible (except the correct way), before finally grasping what to do, walk in to the little booth (leaving her passport in the reader), then stood there waiting for the gate to open..... at this point I'd had enough and let her know as much (in typical Brit fashion - lots of tutting and sighing and muttering under my breath). When she finally escaped the confines of the booth (with her passport) she shouted I was a "very rude man". Only my other half prevented me retorting along the lines of asking her to bring her carer next time..... And by this point I'd also missed my plane*The arseclowns that take so long at checkin/bag drop. It takes me a minute or two, I can't see how you can feasibly spend 5-10 minutes just at checkin, but most others seem to. How ? Every time.
Then we get to security, surely these
s have been through this before, oh, I still have my watch/keys/chain on me so set off the metal detector. What a surprise. And need a pat down but some minimum wage groping security officer, holding the rest of us up. Even in the fast track lines. If you're in a fast track line then you're flying business, which means you are wealthy enough (so bright enough) to do so, or have an important enough job that you'll be flown business class, and you've flown before, so why every time do you still try to go through the metal detector with your keys ?
Or why do you bleat when they grab your bag for a half bottle of coke/shampoo.... Oh, it's a 200ml bottle but less than half full, why can't I take it on the plane ? raa raa raa etc...
s all of them.Edited for spellig.
- this bit might not be quite true....
ked and can't be read and due to the frequency that I fly, I haven't got time to send my passport off until September now. But it's a lot quicker for me to queue in the ePassport gate queue and then when it's rejected I just get sent to the front of the non-ePassport queue, so that's what I do. Stansted is OK, but at Gatwick the queues have been getting enormous unless I'm on late flight arrival. 
FiF said:
Turned out what they wanted was Anbesol, for treatment of mouth ulcers, and what they'd initially requested was Anusol a pile ointment.
I'd love to see what happened if they put pile cream in there mouth......can you imagine the question / complaint at the Pharmacy a little while later
FiF said:
Idiot walks into pharmacy and asks for proprietary named product. Gets all shirty when asked questions about who it's for and what reason. Perhaps understandable as what they've asked for is normally for treatment of a personal area.
Turned out what they wanted was Anbesol, for treatment of mouth ulcers, and what they'd initially requested was Anusol a pile ointment.
TBF I've had better medical advice off pharmacists than GP's on certain things.Turned out what they wanted was Anbesol, for treatment of mouth ulcers, and what they'd initially requested was Anusol a pile ointment.
queues generally,why cant we do it?
Fast food chains are probably the worst to be honest - multiple till points - idiots standing in one great big line behind 1 till then "split off" one they are next to the tills to the left and right, why?! it blocks the whole restaurant so people cant actually get through the effin door! look at the chaos yiou are causing you tards! queue at the till you want to use and dont get shirty when i decide to actually queue properly.
dont get me started on closed lanes on dual carriageways/motorways (go up to the closed lane then merge, dont merge 4 miles early causing a huge queue then getting angry and ACTUALLY TRY TO BLOCK TRAFFIC USING THE LANES PROPERLY USING YOUR CAR AS A fkING BATTERING RAM!)
Fast food chains are probably the worst to be honest - multiple till points - idiots standing in one great big line behind 1 till then "split off" one they are next to the tills to the left and right, why?! it blocks the whole restaurant so people cant actually get through the effin door! look at the chaos yiou are causing you tards! queue at the till you want to use and dont get shirty when i decide to actually queue properly.
dont get me started on closed lanes on dual carriageways/motorways (go up to the closed lane then merge, dont merge 4 miles early causing a huge queue then getting angry and ACTUALLY TRY TO BLOCK TRAFFIC USING THE LANES PROPERLY USING YOUR CAR AS A f
kING BATTERING RAM!)FiF said:
Idiot walks into pharmacy and asks for proprietary named product. Gets all shirty when asked questions about who it's for and what reason. Perhaps understandable as what they've asked for is normally for treatment of a personal area.
Turned out what they wanted was Anbesol, for treatment of mouth ulcers, and what they'd initially requested was Anusol a pile ointment.
Made me think of this: A warning about using the wife's cream on your genitalia.Turned out what they wanted was Anbesol, for treatment of mouth ulcers, and what they'd initially requested was Anusol a pile ointment.
FiF said:
Idiot walks into pharmacy and asks for proprietary named product. Gets all shirty when asked questions about who it's for and what reason. Perhaps understandable as what they've asked for is normally for treatment of a personal area.
Turned out what they wanted was Anbesol, for treatment of mouth ulcers, and what they'd initially requested was Anusol a pile ointment.
You do get a sixth sense about people after a while...Turned out what they wanted was Anbesol, for treatment of mouth ulcers, and what they'd initially requested was Anusol a pile ointment.
BrabusMog said:
Those ePassport gates are an absolute ball ache for me. The chip on my passport is fked and can't be read and due to the frequency that I fly, I haven't got time to send my passport off until September now. But it's a lot quicker for me to queue in the ePassport gate queue and then when it's rejected I just get sent to the front of the non-ePassport queue, so that's what I do. Stansted is OK, but at Gatwick the queues have been getting enormous unless I'm on late flight arrival.
They quite helpfully give you instructions on the screen...but you're not supposed to wear glasses for passport photos and the facial recognition scanners, so when the things not working properly I can't actually see what it's telling me I'm doing wrong!ked and can't be read and due to the frequency that I fly, I haven't got time to send my passport off until September now. But it's a lot quicker for me to queue in the ePassport gate queue and then when it's rejected I just get sent to the front of the non-ePassport queue, so that's what I do. Stansted is OK, but at Gatwick the queues have been getting enormous unless I'm on late flight arrival. RizzoTheRat said:
BrabusMog said:
Those ePassport gates are an absolute ball ache for me. The chip on my passport is fked and can't be read and due to the frequency that I fly, I haven't got time to send my passport off until September now. But it's a lot quicker for me to queue in the ePassport gate queue and then when it's rejected I just get sent to the front of the non-ePassport queue, so that's what I do. Stansted is OK, but at Gatwick the queues have been getting enormous unless I'm on late flight arrival.
They quite helpfully give you instructions on the screen...but you're not supposed to wear glasses for passport photos and the facial recognition scanners, so when the things not working properly I can't actually see what it's telling me I'm doing wrong!ked and can't be read and due to the frequency that I fly, I haven't got time to send my passport off until September now. But it's a lot quicker for me to queue in the ePassport gate queue and then when it's rejected I just get sent to the front of the non-ePassport queue, so that's what I do. Stansted is OK, but at Gatwick the queues have been getting enormous unless I'm on late flight arrival. 
mightymouse said:
FiF said:
Turned out what they wanted was Anbesol, for treatment of mouth ulcers, and what they'd initially requested was Anusol a pile ointment.
I'd love to see what happened if they put pile cream in there mouth......can you imagine the question / complaint at the Pharmacy a little while later
Sargeant Orange said:
Stood behind a tard in Subway earlier:
"What salad would you like?"
"Everything"
"Apart from sweetcorn, olives, jalapeño, peppers etc"
"So lettuce, cucumber & tomato then?"
"um, yeah"
"What salad would you like?""What salad would you like?"
"Everything"
"Apart from sweetcorn, olives, jalapeño, peppers etc"
"So lettuce, cucumber & tomato then?"
"um, yeah"
"death by jalapeños, nothing else, enough to kill a baby elephant "
"ooookayyyy"
RizzoTheRat said:
They quite helpfully give you instructions on the screen...but you're not supposed to wear glasses for passport photos and the facial recognition scanners, so when the things not working properly I can't actually see what it's telling me I'm doing wrong!
Eh?When did that rule come in? No sunglasses, tinted lenses or frames covering the eyes and no glare allowed. But specs are quite Ok afaik.
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