I have two examples from last night alone...
Store Manager:
SM comes up to the Uscan I was busy replacing register tape on, and strikes up a conversation.
SM: "How's it going, Juwl?"
J: "It's okay... just dealing with a recalcitrant roll of printer paper..."
SM: "Yeah, I don't understand what you just said..."
J: "I'm replacing a roll of paper that kept getting jammed on one side because it got wet..."
SM: "See, now, I understood THAT."
But it was unnecessarily long and wordy. My first sentence was much more succinct.
Cashier:
A cashier, who also doubles as a Uscan attendant, and a guest services worker, came back in from being out in the lobby talking to the greeter, and goes over to the window.
C: "Juwl! Greeter just told me to look at the moon..."
J: *I turn to look at the cashier looking out the window, and the brief pause we're having in our rush..., then join her at the window to look*
C: "...but I don't see it!"
*blink, blink, checks the view* J: "I can see the moon... why can't you?"
C: "What? You can see the moon? Where?"
I point at it through the window...
C looks again, "I still don't see it!"
J: "See that big yellow circle?"
"No..."
*headslap* "Why not?"
C: "Oh, the big yellow circle! Hey, the moon is full!"
Store Manager:
SM comes up to the Uscan I was busy replacing register tape on, and strikes up a conversation.
SM: "How's it going, Juwl?"
J: "It's okay... just dealing with a recalcitrant roll of printer paper..."
SM: "Yeah, I don't understand what you just said..."
J: "I'm replacing a roll of paper that kept getting jammed on one side because it got wet..."
SM: "See, now, I understood THAT."
But it was unnecessarily long and wordy. My first sentence was much more succinct.
Cashier:
A cashier, who also doubles as a Uscan attendant, and a guest services worker, came back in from being out in the lobby talking to the greeter, and goes over to the window.
C: "Juwl! Greeter just told me to look at the moon..."
J: *I turn to look at the cashier looking out the window, and the brief pause we're having in our rush..., then join her at the window to look*
C: "...but I don't see it!"
*blink, blink, checks the view* J: "I can see the moon... why can't you?"
C: "What? You can see the moon? Where?"
I point at it through the window...
C looks again, "I still don't see it!"
J: "See that big yellow circle?"
"No..."
*headslap* "Why not?"
C: "Oh, the big yellow circle! Hey, the moon is full!"
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