Two bananas and a prong

[raine_naoe]

Been awhile since I've posted, but I am still in the cellphone dept at a walmart where it is technically a separate dept from electronics, though I help them out when I can.


main story is the inspiration for the title.

SC: I need a cord that's two bananas on one end and a prong on the other.

now, I'll be the first to admit I don't know everything about electronics, but I do know a lot more than before I worked here. He may as well have been speaking a foreign language to me though. Fortunately, an electronics associate, D, was standing nearby.

I have him come over and the customer repeats the question. D says he's not certain what that is but if we have it it would be down the tv/audio accessories aisle and takes him over there.

He came by a little later with a cord that's the audio jacks on one end and a headphone jack on the other. Stopped on his way past to address D

SC: You really need to know your merchandise better.





Small thing that amused me. I had a customer tell me it was stupid we didn't have a live demo of our tablets or an iphone and that nobody was going to buy one without trying it first.

[BrenDAnn]

The title of the thread sounded so dirty. In fact, the description of what the SC wanted sounded dirty. Then again, I have a very, very dirty mind sometimes. Also, you might be able to help him better if he used the actual name of the product, instead of something more akin to things you'd hear in pron!

[raine_naoe]

That's precisely why I found it so hilarious.

I spoke with my dad later about it and he said there is something called a banana plug, but that it has nothing to do with what the customer left with.

[Argabarga]

I don't know about 2 banana plugs and a prong, but, I DO have 2 turntables and a microphone....



It's where it's at!

[dalesys]

I always thought it was two floppies and a hard...


drives, that is!

[PepperElf]

I spoke with my dad later about it and he said there is something called a banana plug, but that it has nothing to do with what the customer left with.

This is what he means.


You can find them in the hardware section.

And if you want one that's two bananas on one end and a prong on the other. You might end up with a coax setup like this:




I use to work with electronic test equipment so ... yeah my first instinct would be to go for that.

[ohsobitter]

I don't know about 2 banana plugs and a prong, but, I DO have 2 turntables and a microphone....



It's where it's at!

That's what went thru my mind when I read the title too!

[raudf]

What the customer needed was an headphone jack to RCA audio converter. I just had to order a new one for my music computer so I could run it's sound to the home theater system.

Never thought about calling it two bananas and a prong. *goes and quietly digs the dirt out of her head again* I'd have told him he'd have to find a specialty store.. for *ahem* adult things.

[sirwired]

Probably what he wanted was an RCA->Headphone cable. I expect he heard the term "banana" plug when somebody was talking about audio, and thought it was referring to RCA plugs. But what they actually refer to are used in the audio world as speaker plugs.

[Andara Bledin]

I work for a place that sells electronic components (specifically connectors), so hearing "banana" in the context of electronics doesn't even phase me. My question would have been what type of "prong" was he after.

As a note, banana connectors are particularly common among test equipment, also, so we likely have thousands in various bins in the warehouse.

^-.-^

[Merriweather]

The title of the thread sounded so dirty. In fact, the description of what the SC wanted sounded dirty. Then again, I have a very, very dirty mind sometimes. Also, you might be able to help him better if he used the actual name of the product, instead of something more akin to things you'd hear in pron!

Makes me think of something that happened a lot of years ago (nope, not gonna say how many ).

A good friend and I were attempting to put something together (some sort of furniture or appliance, can't recall what). Took us forever to put that thing together, cause every tme the instructions would say to "put male part A into female part B" we had to ROFL for a while.

Of course, back then, eveyrhting sounded dirty - we were both around 19, both married less than a year, and both our husbands were halfway around the world on a Navy ship, on a seven month long deployment.

[raine_naoe]

What really irritated me isn't that he was calling it the completely wrong thing, but that he them got upset with D for 'not knowing his merchandise'

If he had asked for what he wanted, either of us could have taken him straight to it.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

A good friend and I were attempting to put something together (some sort of furniture or appliance, can't recall what). Took us forever to put that thing together, cause every tme the instructions would say to "put male part A into female part B" we had to ROFL for a while.

I don't even know how long it took me to understand the significance of the "male" and "female" nomenclature on mechanical parts...then I was like...wow, how risque...lol!!

[Mytical]

What really irritated me isn't that he was calling it the completely wrong thing, but that he them got upset with D for 'not knowing his merchandise'

If he had asked for what he wanted, either of us could have taken him straight to it.

This, a hundred times this. I don't have a clue what a lot of things are called, so I will either bring in an old one to show people, or describe it as best I can..then not get upset if the person has no clue what I am talking about. Don't make up your own description of it, then get mad at the store person for not having a clue what the heck you are talking about.

[earl colby pottinger]

What size/type

I work for a place that sells electronic components (specifically connectors), so hearing "banana" in the context of electronics doesn't even phase me. My question would have been what type of "prong" was he after.

Aside that prongs come is diffirent sizes, they also come in diffirent type.

And like other readers I assumed he meant RCA plugs not true banana plugs.

I hate it when people try to claim I don't know what I am do when they give me vague descriptions of what they want.