Doesn't quite work that way.

[Labby]

A few months ago I had a man walk into my work and ask us if we had a fax machine. My cw and I looked at each other and we confusedly replied yes. This guy then walks further in and asks where it is. Well, you can imagine that we asked 'why??'. He frowned and told us because he needed to use it. So I told him that it wasn't for public use. He swore and said that he needed to use it and asked where it was again. I told him he couldn't and he should try somewhere else - somewhere that sells fax machines...

[Exaspera]

<sarcasm>I have rights to just walk in and use anybody's fax that I so choose!</sarcasm> What's the matter with you people?!

[r2cagle]

I'm not 'public'... I'm entitled.... and I need a fax machine! /sarcasm

[EvilEmpryss]

Oooh, the thought processes that must have led up to that guy's actions hurt my head!

The next thing you know it'll be people asking if you have a safe so they can store their money.
Or a chair so they can sit down.
Or some stationary so they can write a letter.
Or a delivery vehicle so they can get a ride home... no, wait, that one has already happened to other people.

I guess expecting to use your fax machine wasn't too much of a leap then.

[Shalom]

I get people all the time wandering in here asking to use my fax machine.

I just tell them it's $1 per page. If that doesn't phase them, I collect the money and send the fax...

[Kristev]

Now I've gone into a place to have documents faxed. Several times, in fact. Most of it is important stuff for the publishers I work with. But in my defense, the place I go to do this faxing is the UPS Store. Faxing documents for a dollar a page is part of their services. Or else they wouldn't say so on the door.

[Sapphire Silk]

Oooh, the thought processes that must have led up to that guy's actions hurt my head!

The next thing you know it'll be people asking if you have a safe so they can store their money.
<snip>

They can store their money in my safe anytime . . .

[ReverendBSB]

Maybe if he was a customer and was nice about it. Before my wife and I left on our cruise we stopped at the beef jerky store in the next town to pick up some snacks. We bought some stuff, then my wife remembered I needed to fax in my time sheets before we left. She asked the clerk is there was a UPS store or something nearby where we cold fax something. The clerk said she would be glad to fax it for us.

[ottid]

Ugh, again, another of the services we used to do, but we do no longer due to downsizing that part of the store. Have no idea who else can do it on a Sunday near me, any other day of the week I can just send them to the nearest post office.

Did the SC not realise that it would cost to send it, whether he found the fax machine or not?

[draco664]

A few months ago I had a man walk into my work and ask us if we had a fax machine. My cw and I looked at each other and we confusedly replied yes. This guy then walks further in and asks where it is. Well, you can imagine that we asked 'why??'. He frowned and told us because he needed to use it. So I told him that it wasn't for public use. He swore and said that he needed to use it and asked where it was again. I told him he couldn't and he should try somewhere else - somewhere that sells fax machines...

Ah yes. How this brings back memories.

The SCs in question always seem to forget to verbalise certain parts of the question.

In this instance, the parts in red are in his mind, but even so are no less a part of reality.

SC "Do you have a fax machine that I can use for free and with no training?"

Labby "Yes. Of course you can use it."

See? So, he quite rightly wanted to know where it was. Obviously. The fact that you then told him that it wasn't for public use (after you'd already said he could use it) was baffling to him. Thus, his anger was perfectly justifible...

It should be legal to make stupidity painful.

[Magpie]

It should be legal to make stupidity painful.

Mine is, says the person recovering from a broken foot...

Unfortunately, none of you had the pleasuring of causing this.

[Sheldonrs]

.... He swore and said that he needed to use it and asked where it was again....

"And that, your Honor, is when the fax machine entered his anus."