Why, sir? WHY?!

[Tama]

I just recalled a customer I had while I worked for Malmart who didn't irritate me much at first, I thought, until I look back at it. I had no other customers in the line while this was happening, but...ugh!

Okay, so I check out this guy's stuff and all is well, right? Wrong. He looks down his receipt until he finds a weird jumble of words. Some products do that on receipts. But this guy would not simply stop there.

He wanted a shitton of stuff scanned. He wanted to KNOW, nay, HAD TO KNOW, what that was.

I think I scanned ten or twenty items before I figured it out for him.

Seriously, dude? I mean, he was foreign and seemed confused but I can't see that being too big a factor...

[Dreamstalker]

I get 'questions' about the odd abbreviations on the register as well. Some old bat swore up and down (mostly swore) that she never bought a...I don't remember what the abbreviation was, but the item was legible (just not the precise variety). I think she expected everything to print out in full. It took two cashiers and a manager to point it out to her, and after all that she decided she wanted to return it

[raudf]

I used to work for malwart and even I have to question the genius who enters the "shorts" for the item names into the system. Some are obvious what they are, even if they don't mention color/style/flavor. Some, I scratch my head and try to figure out what it was I just purchased. Like what the heck is HM PM S S CH? Another, Nth SKNLS FK? Okay, that'd be Nathan's Finest Skinless Beef Franks. Okay.. But the first one still has me confuzzled.

Yep, just a jumble of letters at times, but there is never a reason to hold up the cashier's line to try and play "guess" with your items. It's better to go to the service desk for that (Seriously, if the UPC wasn't on the receipt it'd make returns impossible.. but as it stands, it just makes it difficult.)

[ozcatbug]

How about Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time reduced to POKE DUNG TIME? That got the entire refurbishment centre howling with laughter when we found that.

[dalesys]

Anybody ready to get down on some MOZ DONG?

(Mozart's Don Giovanni)

[camjuniper]

My favorite's always been the 'homo' milk.

As a queer person, I'm delighted to find milk that's gay, too

[sevendaysky]

Rauf, I think the first one - HM PM etc- I think may be Hormel Pepperoni Sticks Snacks with Cheese. Guessing, anyway. It's the first thing that came to me, only because I was looking at that stuff the other day.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Try Ass Donuts.

That was our abbreviation for Entermann's Assorted dozen Donuts.

Me and the vendor rep both would giggle like crazy when we'd check those in. "Where's the ass donuts?"

[Argabarga]

Watch when any Land O Lakes butter/margarine product comes out on the receipt as

" LOL Butter "

[Merriweather]

Rauf, I think the first one - HM PM etc- I think may be Hormel Pepperoni Sticks Snacks with Cheese. Guessing, anyway. It's the first thing that came to me, only because I was looking at that stuff the other day.

Doesn't quite work, HM for Hormel seems plausible, but the PM doesn't - there's not another M anywhere after the P in pepperoni.

Watch when any Land O Lakes butter/margarine product comes out on the receipt as

" LOL Butter "

Awww, love that one.

[Tama]

LOL butter?

[raudf]

Rauf, I think the first one - HM PM etc- I think may be Hormel Pepperoni Sticks Snacks with Cheese. Guessing, anyway. It's the first thing that came to me, only because I was looking at that stuff the other day.

Nope, that wasn't it, since I know I didn't buy that at all. Nor anything Hormel. I prefer Wolf Chili

*shrugs* If I could remember what all I bought that day, I might be able to winnow it down, but things got eaten so... *shrugs* It'll probably remain a mystery. All I know is it is food based.

[Dadeo]

A CW of mine, in a bit of revenge at a difficult client, named their Assembly & Manufacturing page "ass_man.asp"

[Bella_Vixen]

Monster Ass.


(Monster Assault. I don't think we sell it anymore.)

[Dreamstalker]

Nope, that wasn't it, since I know I didn't buy that at all. Nor anything Hormel. I prefer Wolf Chili

Damn, I miss that chili. I'd buy it all the time in college, but after coming back east I can't find it anywhere.

I am going out to NM next month; maybe I can see if smuggling some back in my suitcase is feasible. Or would that just lead every police dog in the airport to my luggage?