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  • #1

    Bring me ...A Shrubbery!

    After a week off, you are a little afraid. You know that someone will destroy that relaxed feeling you have. Usually it is Boss#1 (the brother) asking about things that happened the week you were gone or dumping something in my lap that he wanted done last week.

    But this time it was ....something else.

    I was watering today when two guys came in and they wanted,.....A Shrub!

    I asked them what kind? Just A Shrub!

    I tried to explain that "shrub" was a generic term and could apply to most of the plants that I had left. But they just wanted A Shrub!

    OK, Sun or Shade? They don't know.

    Flowering, evergreen, hedge, little tree? They don't know.

    Big, Small, Tall, Wide? We just want A Shrub!

    They looked around a bit and then left. As the left they told another employee that they were going to Lowes because I wouldn't help them buy,....


    A Shrub!


    Oh and BTW Ni!
    "First time I ever seen a chainsaw go down anybody's britches,"
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  • #2
    I see we have some of the same customers. A few nights ago someone was demanding to buy a Cherry Blossom Plant in full bloom. I had to explain how cherry blossoms only come from Japanese Cherry Trees and the season was well over.
    "No, I will not poop a shopping cart out for you." - Irving Patrick Freleigh

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    • #3
      A shrub? It's impossible!
      I have a...thing. Wanna see it?

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      • #4
        I would have asked if they wanted a pair of shrubberies. One, would sit a bit higher, the other a bit lower...for a two-level effect. I'd also ask if they wanted a small path to run between. Then I'd refer them to a professional shrubber
        Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. --Enzo Ferrari

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        • #5
          AHHH no he said the word. Don't say it! AH I said it!!!

          which makes me always think of the
          *thhhhhhhunk* .... message for you sir....
          "On a scale of 1 to banana, whats your favourite colour of the alphabet?"
          Regards, Lord Baron Darth von Vaderham, esq. Middle brother to mharbourgirl & Squeaksmyalias

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          • #6
            Quoth ApolloSZ View Post
            which makes me always think of the
            *thhhhhhhunk* .... message for you sir....
            I had that as my text message ringtone for ages, but I stopped using it after far far too many people didn't recognise it (and I live in England!)
            "You can only try so hard to look like you are working before actually doing your work seems easy in comparison" -My Boss

            CW: So what exactly do you do in retentions?
            Me: ummm, I ....retent stuff?

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            • #7
              "And after you bring me the shrubbery, you must chop down the mightiest tree in the forest with a herring!"

              Monty Python references always brighten my day.
              "Wouldn't that be unethical?"
              "That's only an issue for those who aren't already in Hell."
              --Dilbert

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              • #8
                Eh. "Sure, here's a shrub," then point them to the most expensive thing you can reasonably call a shrub in the shop.

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                • #9
                  Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing Zow Zing!

                  Ni! Ping! and Nuuuuuu-wom!

                  I can kill any plant you put in front of me and even i know that shrub is a generic term.

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                  • #10
                    Good thing my herring is gas powered. I'll get through that tree in no time!
                    Bark like a chicken!

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