My Friend The SC

[Apathy]

So I was at work recently when a good friend of mine related a story to me. Keep in mind that I like her, approve of her parenting style, and generally think she's a nice person. However...

It's Back to Hell time right? (I'm glad that's over for me.) So all the moms are buying protractors and shit like that for their kids.
My friend A goes into a WM and discovers, to her immense horror that they are - oh noes - out of loose-leaf paper. Apparently, this is Unacceptable, right? So she then tells me how she went off on the clerk standing there, and that swearing was involved.
I, of course, informed her that she was an asshole. I think I said that a couple times. Anyway, she says the guy knew the store was out of paper, but he was out on the sales floor anyway, so he deserved this tongue lashing.
I then, of course, informed her that this guy probably was having a shitty day anyway, had no choice but to be on the sales floor, and was in no way responsible for the lack of paper.
None of this mattered. She was totally unrepentant. She said the guy deserved to be yelled at because he knew the loose-leaf paper was gone. Before you ask, no, I do not know why that deserves a berating.

This thing is, she reads my comic reliably. I'm not bringing this up for shameless self-promotion like normal; she should have fucking learned something! Obviously, she has not. I was just taken aback that she thought her actions were justified, even after I tried to explain that she was at fault, and then when that didn't work, I resorted to name calling. That also did not help.
We're writing a comic about her for next Monday. I don't think it'll change her mind, but we'll see.

[Nurian]

"One can lead a horse to water, etc., etc."

[Megg]

We're writing a comic about her for next Monday.

Cool! I check it regularly, I will definitely wanna see that one!

[Peppergirl]

I gotta say, I LOVE the fact that you didn't back down in telling her what an asshole she was, even though it was to no avail.

And the name calling was a great touch too...

You're my new hero.

Edited to add: The only thing worse than a plain 'ol SC is an SC who BRAGS about being an SC.

[stargirl195]

No one ever thinks that they are the SC ...

[jjllbb]

There are so many reality shows these days.

There should be one where we nominate our SUCKIEST customers/ friends to work a while in customer service.

[tamezin]

Back to school shopping sucks..for parents and for retail workers.

The true suck is at the end of the year when:

Untouched in Backpack at the end of the year

• 4 our of the 8 spiral notebooks that were a must have

• 99% of the grid sheet notebook

• Box of crayons not used in middle school anymore, on the list but big boys and girls use colored pencils, crayons are for babies

• 2 Containers of Clorox Wipes

• Ok, so this was touched...in a bad way
  $100 scientific calculator that was listed as a must have, but the school didn't really mean scientific calculator, they really meant the 4 function calculator with the a sqr root function

The last they corrected on the list this year...so I have now replaced the $100 calculator that no longer works because tweens should not be allowed to touch such things, with a $1.00 solar battery calculator that works just great.

[Crawley]

Just remember scientific and graphing are not the same thing.

[KMCA]

back to school sucks in the exact oposite way for me. I enjoy dealing with SC's (I'm one of those guys who gets to toss the SC's... well sometimes)
I lose about 40 hours per week once school starts 60hrs/wk down to >20hrs/wk

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Just remember scientific and graphing are not the same thing.

Yeah, scientific calculators are calculators that can do a few more functions than the cheapy $1 ones. Whereas graphing calculators can be used to graph mathematical equations and also play games such as Drugwar.

Yup, back in high school in AP calc, teach would be writing equations on the white board and I'd be punching buttons on my TI-83 in a scholarly manner until such time as two big black dudes stole my stash, bent me over the rail, and rammed me. That meant it was time to start another game.

Probably explains how I flunked the final quarter of that class, it does. I did pass the semester though, so no graduation issues arose.

Back to the subject of the OP: WTF? We're getting to the end of BTS here, and shipments of BTS merchandise are slowing way down, if not stopping entirely. Also, a quote from Dave Barry comes to mind: "A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person."

[jedimaster91]

For me, it was Centipede. I also had Mario World on my calculator for awhile, but I deleted it to get this cool program that tells you what to put in the various functions. It's a wonder I passed any of my math classes in high school/first part of college. When I got into my program, they told us programmable calculators weren't allowed on the board exam, so I had to get a scientific one that I couldn't play games on. T'was probably for the best.

[LadyAndreca]

We had a game pack on our TI-82s...it required a rewrite of the calculator's memory but it was soooo worth it. It had two-player tetris in it! And frogger, and three or four other old games.

Too bad I had to lose Legend of Zelda to put the game pack in...but then, I'd beaten Zelda by that point.

[Midnight12]

Yeah, scientific calculators are calculators that can do a few more functions than the cheapy $1 ones. Whereas graphing calculators can be used to graph mathematical equations and also play games such as Drugwar.

oh man that takes me back. And of course the same such TI-83 was used more for games and trading info than actual classwork. heh.
And yes there were many SC's over that item alone as alot of stores didn't anticipate the need for said items and of course the next shipment came in after school started. Thankfully the teachers were merciful and began assignments using TI-83 two weeks later
I remember when the first calculator that could do fractions came out. Then the protector adaptable TI-83b (or some such name) right before the TI-84 came out the next year.

[Mnemjian]

Wow, I hadn't seen your comic before now. It's so great!! I've been reading it all evening and haven't gotten any work done. Hooray

[Nyx]

She said the guy deserved to be yelled at because he knew the loose-leaf paper was gone.

But she also knows that the paper is out...hmmmmmm....