I cannot break the laws of physics captain!

[XCashier]

My brain blue screened after reading this...

As did mine.

The customer, on the other hand, obviously bluescreened before making the phone call...

[mharbourgirl]

As did mine.

The customer, on the other hand, obviously bluescreened before making the phone call...

I wouldn't go so far as to assume the customer had ever actually booted up.

[b2addm]

I had to take a breather, go outside, and contemplate the human race for a while.

I have to do that quite a bit.

Makes you feel sorta hopeless sometimes.

[Racket_Man]

But that was a three HOUR cruise.

/threadjack
being a lilttle nit picky but it was a three hour TOUR not curise
1st season opening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfR7qxtgCgY

3d season
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YYzv...eature=related
/end thread jack

it must be universal (yes I do remember where I am posting) that customers expect things to be like the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. as in waving a magic wand and things "magically" appear (but within Gromps (sp) 5 laws of transfiguration) at any time they want, in ANY place they want, and in any form they want.

people get the same attitude with pizza delivery. anyone who is over 30 years old seems to "remember" the Dominos "30 minutes or it is free" thing. BUT that ended almost 20 years ago. BUT no matter what pizza place they order from they still want their order in 30 minutes. not understanding of course that lots of other orders are before them in line (line????? WHAT LINE????? I am too good for a line. bring me my order now. I ORDER YOU TO DO THIS AS I AM THE CUSTOMER AND THE CUSTOMER IS ALSWAY RIGHT!!!!)

[Seshat]

Ok, I have to confess here. I don't have the currency issue (I'm not that clueless), yet somehow the presence of a US Post Office on Kaua'i Island surprised me. My bad.

That's okay, Ree. The USPS rather than Australia Post logo and decor surprised me. And this was in New York state, after I'd been in the US a couple of days.

[Frantic Freddie]

An Interesting Anecdote I Read Years Ago on the Intertubes But Have No Link To So It May Be BS....but it's still a good story :

An engineer in Baltimore had some German engineers working with them.The Germans asked the American about renting a minivan to drive to the Grand Canyon.On a 3 day weekend.

That's 2300 miles (3680 km) one way

[Seshat]

Or the European tourists asking for a Sydney hotel with a view of Ayer's Rock/Uluru.

Yup, there's a million of 'em.

[Mytical]

Dang it I want a veiw of Niagra Falls from where I live. Now...go make it happen.

[wolfie]

ME: Ma'am, let me understand this correctly. You want a 3 day cruise, to Hawaii, from our port in New York?

SC: Yes and I want round-trip not one way.

ME: Ok, just so I'm clear ma'am, you want a 3 day, round-trip cruise, from New York to Hawaii

SC: Yes, how much?

ME: *twitch* Ma'am....... have a good day *click*

I had to take a breather, go outside, and contemplate the human race for a while. When I came back I ran the story by a few CWs and they thought I was joking or had been pranked. for sh*ts and giggles we worked out how such an itinerary might be possible, allowing for one full day in Hawaii. SC would have to find a ship that could have chugged along at a cool 780 MPH, or something like that.

That would have been possible in the last century, but not any more - the S.S. Concorde is no longer in service, and nothing currently in the civilian fleet is capable of such speeds. For example, a 747 (faster than most airliners) cruises at a bit over 600 MPH.

[Argus]

An engineer in Baltimore had some German engineers working with them.The Germans asked the American about renting a minivan to drive to the Grand Canyon.On a 3 day weekend.

I had something similar once in high school. An exchange student from Germany brought up the possibility of a weekend drive down to New Orleans (920 miles one way).

And at my first job, a discussion of unreasonable customers led me to suggest a communications lag less than 3ns per meter; it turned out a customer had actually demanded that once.

[Frantic Freddie]

Here's a true story:
A young Englishman I'd gotten to be friends with online (I'm a member & mod for his forum since '02) came to visit on a leg of his "around the world backpacker tour".He stayed with us a few days & then we drove down to San Antonio & Austin,where we left him.

The weather was untypically foggy (what we call fog anyways) while we were drivin' thru SE New Mexico & W Texas.After awhile my friend looks at me & asks "How long has it been since we've made a turn on this road?"

Me & Mrs FF

[Betweenshades]

I get people asking if I spend all of my free time at the beach, since I live in Florida. Never mind that I'm 2 hours away from the beach and I didn't go to the beach much when I lived in Venice, CA. :P

[protege]

for sh*ts and giggles we worked out how such an itinerary might be possible, allowing for one full day in Hawaii. SC would have to find a ship that could have chugged along at a cool 780 MPH, or something like that.

Damn! Not even the nuclear-powered CS cruise ship (which is currently undergoing a *huge* overhaul...) can reach that speed

[Blade_Raver]

Geography 101 should be a mandatory course to take for people who want to order cruises.

[Geek King]

An Interesting Anecdote I Read Years Ago on the Intertubes But Have No Link To So It May Be BS....but it's still a good story :

An engineer in Baltimore had some German engineers working with them.The Germans asked the American about renting a minivan to drive to the Grand Canyon.On a 3 day weekend.

That's 2300 miles (3680 km) one way

I know we had a Japanese guest at our Anime convention one year who wanted to see the Air Force museum in Dayton, and couldn't believe the distance just between Cincinatti and Dayton. We got him there for a day though, and I'm told he spent the whole time there scetching in his drawing book for reference material.

He worked on a lot of war-type animes, if I remember. Including some of the design for the ships in Macross Frontier.