Did you need to tell me that?

[iradney]

Sir
I'm a lady (or at least I was when I last checked). Please do NOT tell me you need GPRS settings for your phone so you can download "sex pictures"
Especially when you sound old enough to be my gramps. Can someone please pass the brain bleach?

[Demonoid Phenomenon]

Sex pictures on his phone?
I'm not even wanting to know why he needs a portable outlet for that...

[Becks]

Can someone please pass the brain bleach?

Here you go.

[BusBus]

*shudders* pass the bleach this way....

[iradney]

sad thing is, this isn't even such a rare occurence. We're 3 girls on the desk, and it happens to us every now and then. it's rather disturbing - why do you feel the need to tell us that? do you think we're going to get turned on and start talking dirty to you? wtf?

[Department stores *sigh*]

im sure i mentioned this once or twice but always funny

guy: ummm dude i got some pics that nead developing but it has some nude pics of me and my girlfriend. I that ok?

me: sir we dont dont develop film here.

[iradney]

oh my! just had a customer tell me about her woes from the past year! hubby leaving her, getting drugged at a party and losing her jewellry...people obviously love to share with me! At least she was nice

[pbmods]

guy: ummm dude i got some pics that nead developing but it has some nude pics of me and my girlfriend. I that ok?

Heh. I got one of those a few weeks ago.

Quick background: When I talk, I project. Not only does this help make me sound confident and authoritative, but it also makes my job easier because then I can pitch upsells to all the customers in my line at the same time.

So this middle-aged man brought in some film. He's a good customer of ours, not like you'd actually expect anything weird in his photos. He mentions that he's not sure, but he thinks there might be some "inappropriate" content on his photos, and what's our policy on that?

To which I somewhat automatically announce, "As long as they're over 18, we don't care, sir." A... bit... loudly... oops....

Me-> <- Customer <- A few other customers within earshot

[Linda]

It's not like it's an unusual thing to see in the photo lab business!
Someone says that to me and I'm "oh, we see everything in this job. Don't worry about it!"

We do have restrictions on what can and can't be printed, but they are very basic, and only apply to men!

[pbmods]

We do have restrictions on what can and can't be printed, but they are very basic, and only apply to men!

Ugh. I wouldn't mind if more ATTRACTIVE people did it. But all I ever get are the ugly ones.

I'm just going along printing the pictures, all the while thinking:
"Uh huh. Uh huh. Ok, that's just gross. Uh huh. And you're gonna burn that one as soon as you get home. Is she over 18? Uh huh. Uh huh...."

Incidentally, at my lab, we have to deal with this maybe once every 3 weeks. I guess tourists in Chicago just aren't all that wild and crazy (?65% of our business comes from tourists).

[HawaiianShirts]

I had a kid come in the other day looking at laptops, and he asked for some suggestions on what to get. I asked him what he would be using the computer for, and he said, "Games and porn."

Oh. Okay. Not exactly what I expected to hear, but I can work with that. So I showed him a few options and explained some stuff. He thanked me and said he might be back to get one with his tax return.

Sometimes the honesty of customers surprises me. At least he wasn't like the first guy who said that kind of thing to me. He asked if any of the computers came preloaded with porn, and when I said they didn't, he then asked if I had any suggestions for some good websites to get said porn. That one was a little creepy.

[pbmods]

Porn... erm... research... for my, ah, *ahem* doctoral dissertation. Yes.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Porn... erm... research... for my, ah, *ahem* doctoral dissertation. Yes.

There are people out here who do look at porn for research purposes. I heard somewhere that some law enforcement agencies have people assigned to child porn and who actively search around on the Internet to find such goings-on.

I hope whoever has that job is very well compensated for it . . . . and has an endless supply of brainbleach on hand as well.

[karma_gypsy]

He asked if any of the computers came preloaded with porn,

O.k., uhhh, he wasn't expecting families to be purchasing these computers?


"No sir, right through here, our adult computers are in the back, just go through the beaded curtain . . ."

[Imogene]

"No sir, right through here, our adult computers are in the back, just go through the beaded curtain . . ."

"May I see your ID?"