Cigg'ehts

[ArcticChicken]

SC:"Cah Ah geh sm cigg'ehts!"
ME:Huh? Oh! Cigarettes. Lovely one of those "Sure, just let me finish this up and I'll be right with you."
....
ME:<walking around my register> "OK, now, what did you want?"
SC:"Cigg'ehts!"
ME:<standing on front of the cigarette cage and gesturing> "No, what did you want?"
SC:"Cigg'ehts!!"
ME:"Which. Ones. Did. You. Want."
SC:"Mahba!"
ME:wah?
SC:"Maba, tuna bix"
ME:Say what? Oh, Marlboro two pack. "Which one?"
SC:"Theah!!"

[AdminAssistant]

Maybe he was related to the 'Nan Nan' lady?

[Becks]

Nothing like working with the general public to learn a new "language".

[Hello Kitty]

But...you're supposed to be fluent in 'crazy ass old person'! Didn't you know that?!?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

By any chance, did the customer say they were born on a pirate ship?

(it took me way too long to figure that joke out)

[RayvenQ]

But...you're supposed to be fluent in 'crazy ass old person'! Didn't you know that?!?

Suprisingly I managed to translate Mahba into Marlboro pretty much immediately I don't know whether to be worried or not

[blas]

Funny....at the gas station I worked at, most people called them MarboReds. I think it's the Wisconsin "accent", or just being ignorant of how to pronounce things properly.

Pall Mall was "Pale Male", too.

[fish3k1]

Suprisingly I managed to translate Mahba into Marlboro pretty much immediately I don't know whether to be worried or not

So did I, and I'm not even from the same country

[Boochan]

Jeez.. and I thought I dealt with people who corrupted the english language, thats in a class of its own. Pretty distinctive mind you with cigarette brands, I recognized that straight away.

[edible_hat]

Pall Mall was "Pale Male", too.

So that's why I keep getting idiots apparently asking for a "pale ale" and not taking "we don't sell beer" for an answer!"

[rerant]

I will never understand why people have such troubles buying cigarettes.
Large Players light king size.
That's what I want, and that's what I ask for. Easy peasy.

But then again I guess cigarettes are the vortex of stupidity, because so often even when I ask for specifically what I want I still get handed something different.

However there is one store I go to that I can just ask for cigarettes without specifying anything else and they know what I want, since I go there all the time and they're on the ball.

[Misanthropical]

I always have to ask my supervisor to translate "crazy" for me, since he is fluent in it and I'm not.