Alternative ways to pay for something.

[Deceptitech]

Just got this one in, I've had it before, but some people just don't understand it.

D: Patient, helpful friendly kinda guy.
SC: decent person, I think, that is until you ask him for something he won't get.
*MBT*: No description needed... I hope.

D: Thank you for calling creditcardpurchases.com, my name is Deceptitech, may I have your name please?
SC: yeah, I was looking at your 32" LCD tv, and I was wondering if you have layaway.
*MBT*: LAYAWAY?
D: No, we only take major credit cards, and our own store card.
SC: How about a check?
D: No, we do not take checks online.
SC: Can I order it with a money order and pay for it at the local store?
*MBT*: What part of "major credit cards only" do you not understand you whale eating moron?
D: No, we only take credit cards online.
SC: Can I send you cash?
*MBT*: Only if you include the 500 dollar "cash fee" I charge to deal with your inconvenient asses.
D: No, we only take credit cards online.
SC: never mind. -click-
D: Thank you for calling.

Do people read these websites?

[Necromancer]

Trust me, no they don't.

[pbmods]

Ok, I give. What does MBT stand for? When I looked it up on answers.com, the closest I could find was, "Main Battle Tank".

I suppose it *could* make sense, but I doubt that was what you intended....

[Deceptitech]

Ok, I give. What does MBT stand for? When I looked it up on answers.com, the closest I could find was, "Main Battle Tank".

I suppose it *could* make sense, but I doubt that was what you intended....

MBT = Mute Button Tourettes. The unexplained phenomenon that occurs when someone while on the phone with some moron desires to tell the twit to "shut up and leave me alone" but cannot in order to keep employment. Originally designed as a "cough" button to keep the caller from hearing the hacking when a rep has a cold. More often used to tell said customer off without them hearing it. Something that should be installed on all phones.

[Cyanocobalamin]

I guessed "My Brain Thinks." Yours, not the SC's.

[AFpheonix]

I was similar with My Brain Talking.

[Ciarrai]

I was going to say My Bitchy Thoughts.

[KhirasHY]

MBT = Mute Button Tourettes. The unexplained phenomenon that occurs when someone while on the phone with some moron desires to tell the twit to "shut up and leave me alone" but cannot in order to keep employment. Originally designed as a "cough" button to keep the caller from hearing the hacking when a rep has a cold. More often used to tell said customer off without them hearing it. Something that should be installed on all phones.

I dunno Deceptitech..."Main Battle Tank" has a certain ring to it. Personally, I wouldn't mind zoning out during a phone conversation and having my mind queue up a battle plan...

"Thank you for activating the M808-V Main Battle Tank. You may call me Shiela."

"Acquiring Target, Auto-Firing Sequence enabled."

"Target Acquired."

"Firing Main Cannon..."

[Imogene]

"Thank you for activating the M808-V Main Battle Tank. You may call me Shiela."

"No! Shiela!"
"Shiela? Shiela! No!... Wait... who's Shiela?"

[KhirasHY]

I knew you could pick up chicks in a tank...

[Imogene]

She's the lady in the tank.

Back on this side of the Topic line:

I once had a kid come into Chesterfield, hand me a copy of Gundam (whatever): Char's Report, and asked to put it on Layaway!
Let me try explaining that again. A movie that was all of $19.99, a kid that looked like he might've been seven, maybe a little older... wanted to put a movie on Layaway!

First instinct?
"Uh... I've never done a layaway, and I've worked here three years at least. No, I'm not doing a layaway for a $20 movie. You get the damn money together in full, and then come back to buy it. There will be hundreds of copies available when you actually have the money, trust me."

I had to grab a manager to ring the layaway. He did so, and put the layaway ticket on the board in the backroom, right over the desk where I routinely would sit and eat. I swear, up until the day we closed that store, the ticket NEVER MOVED!

The kid never came back to get the movie, and thus, lost the $5 or whatever we charged him to put it in 'layaway', otherwise known as our shelf of backstock.