A peppering of shorts

[Shironu-Akaineko]

I might update this as more shorter events come to mind.

No. Listen to me.
Me: Puffy eyes, facepalming video game maven.
SC: Please stop saying it like that.

Please note this conversation is happening in french.

SC: Do you have Truie Blood?
Me: Excuse me ma'am?
SC: Truie Blood.
Me: You mean True Blood.
SC: That's what it's called? But... *points to her post-it, where it says, lo and behold, True Blood.*
Me: Yep, that says True Blood.
SC: *concentrating on her paper* Troooooweeeee Blood.
Me: TROO blood. You don't pronounce the E. Troo.
SC: *turns to her boyfriend in the hall* HONEY! WAS IT TRUIE BLOOD 1 OR 2 SHE WANTED?
Me: TROO! TROO! TROO! NO E!

Truie is french for a female pig.

This time, you don't take out letters.

Me: What did you just call me?
LK: Lil french unilingual kid. Couldn't be older than 10.

LK: S'cuze me, you have any Total Bitch?
Me: Excuse me?
LK: y'know, Total Bitch.
Me:...... Turtle Beach. Right behind the counter.

DON'T LEAN ON THA-THUNK!

The middle shelf of our X360 game wall has trouble staying on said wall nowadays due to kids pushing their full weight on it trying to CLIMB to the higher games. As a result, it has a tendency to knock itself down when somebody pushes down on it with little force.

It's a coated metal wire shelf, there is no chance of sudden decapitation like when we had glass shelves.

Pretty much all the KATHUNK encounters go this way.

Me: Anything else ma*KATHUNK* *Not even blinking* ARE YOU BLEEDING?
Sheepish kid/teenager : ...no...
Me: Then nothing is wrong, let me finish with this customer and I'll go help you.
Customer: Does this happen often?
Me: Did I flinch?
Customer: lol
Me: *finishes with customer, goes to help kid/teenager holding onto the shelf for dear life* Next time you wanna see a game on the top shelf, what are you gonna do?
Kid/Teenager: Come and ask you?
Me: Heck yeah!

I am OFFEND! Encounter the First.

Me: The snark is strong with this one
SC: Mother against game sequels

SC: So you're telling me the Skylanders Giants won't work on the older bases?
Me: That's right ma'am.
SC: *at the top of her lungs* THAT'S A SCAM!!!!!!!!!11111
Me: Nuh. That's marketing.

I am OFFEND! Encounter the Second.

Me: You reject my reality and substitute your own, aren't you.
SC: Yes, how'd'you know?

SC: *from the wall of Wii, holding New Super Mario Bros. Wii* IS THIS MARIO?
Me: Yup! Can't be any more Mario than that! 2-D Sidescrolling platforming goodness with Goombas and Koopas!
SC: Are you sure? It doesn't look like Mario.
Me: Well it has Mario and Luigi right on the cover and it's not a racing or party spin-off, it's not even 3-D.
SC: *brings box to the counter and points ACCUSINGLY at a Yoshi* That's not in Mario. *huffy* What is this?
Me:... Yoshi?
SC: THAT'S NOT IN MARIO!
Me: It started in Super Mario World in the 90's?
SC: AND THIS! AND THIS! THAT'S NOT IN MARIO! *all angry and red faced now, pointing at different things on the box. He then points at a spot behind the box* and THAT'S not in Mario!!!
Me: That's the player's hands holding the wiimote, sir. That's not in the game.
SC: It's not the REAL Mario one two three!
Me: *OH, he wants Classic Marios. ... Why didn't he say so?* Oh, it's the same gameplay at the base, but to get the classic Marios, I can see if I can still get a copy of the 25th ann--
SC: Yeah, REAL Mario!!!!! On the Wii! I mean old Nintendo!!!
Me: *fed up* Only other way to get those games is on virtual console.
SC: YEAH! Go get it for me!!!
Me: I ca--
SC: *to his daughter* HEY THIS AIN'T MARIO!

He did end up buying it, thanks to his daughter convincing him that yes, it's still playable even if it's not Mario bros. 1, 2 or 3.

That's too much planning on your part.

Me: Wow.
EB: Early bird gets the worm!

EB: Do you have that, Avatar 2?
Me: Uh... Which one? The one with the blue things or the one with the guy with the blue arrow tattoos all over? Cuz last I heard, there's only one of each.
EB: I dunno.
EB's husband: Look, it's right here!
Me: That's a PC game based on Avatar 1, the blue things. Let me look up something.

Turns out Avatar 2? Announced for 2015.

We are Activision

Jay: My buyer
SC: lost touch with reality in the 70's

SC: How come Black ops 2 only comes in either french or English?
Jay: Ah, it's an executive decision based on the alloted memory in the game's programming ma'am.
SC: Why don't you make any bilingual ones????
Jay: Because I don't program them all by myself. Activision does that. I just sell them. I'm the one with the least possible control in this industry. If you wanna complain, go to Activision.
SC: *catbutt face*


And that's all... for now.

[TheSHAD0W]

Gah. Yeah, if I worked there, I'd be hopping around like somebody did pepper my shorts.

[camjuniper]

Sounds like the SCs have pepper in their shorts!

Wow, massive facepalm/headdesk on some of these folks. Kid with the special pronunciation of Turtle Beach is cute, though.

[Argabarga]

I feel for that last person, they came soooooooooooooo close to figuring out that the people who sell the stuff at the retail level have no control over executive decisions at the manufacturer level had they just listened, alas they decided they liked THEIR version of reality better and just disregarded it all...... they will never learn

[Lachrymose]

Truie is french for a female pig.

Maybe she was actually looking for Carrie.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

shorties update!

- I just had to explain to an older lady (and by older I mean early 40s) what the word "eventually" meant.

- No, it's not Star Cry, it's Far Cry.

- Yes the Wii Fit will work on a Wii Mini. No, it will not say on the Wii Fit box that it's compatible with Wii Mini. Yes, I'm sure. It's the DDR Pad that won't work. Yes, I'm sure. It's cuz they plug in the Gamecube ports on the old wii. YES, I'M SURE.

- No, DS games won't fit inside a V-Smile machine.

[fireheart]

- Yes the Wii Fit will work on a Wii Mini. No, it will not say on the Wii Fit box that it's compatible with Wii Mini. Yes, I'm sure. It's the DDR Pad that won't work. Yes, I'm sure. It's cuz they plug in the Gamecube ports on the old wii. YES, I'M SURE.

Wii Mini?

[Mike Taylor]

Wii Mini?

The Wii Mini is a smaller version of the Wii that will not play the old Gamecube games. It follows in the tradition of the NES and SNES which had smaller streamlined versions before the systems were retired. Oh, as of right now it's a Canada exclusive.

[Anakah]

I think the "total bitch" one was my favorite.

[PepperElf]

That's too much planning on your part.

Me: Wow.
SC: Early bird gets the worm!

Turns out Avatar 2? Announced for 2015.

That was me back in the late 90s trying to find out if Kate & Leopold was on DVD yet.

I'd heard about the plot and, at the time, hadn't realized it wasn't even in the theatres - or even *filmed* - yet. In fact I don't even know if Meg Ryan & Hugh Jackman had even been cast at that point. (not that I'd have recognized Jackman's name anyway, not back then).

heh.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

PepperElf made me notice I wrote SC when I should have wrote EB for Early Bird in the Avatar story.
They turn SC when they argue with me, like in the GTA 5 story.
Correcting!

Also:

Barely opened the store today and hadda fight tooth and nail with a lady to convince her that yes, we can get Skylanders Giants for Wii.
Yes, all we have on the floor is the WiiU model, but we can order the Wii version.
Yes, the wii version is Giants.
Yes, the floor model is the WiiU model.
Yes, they made Giants for Wii.
Yes, I'm sure.
No, your friend is wrong, we CAN get Skylanders Giants for Wii.
Yes.
YES.
YES.

And as I ordered one for her, she kept giving me the unbelieving stink-eye.

[PandaHat]

Barely opened the store today and hadda fight tooth and nail with a lady to convince her that yes, we can get Skylanders Giants for Wii.
Yes, all we have on the floor is the WiiU model, but we can order the Wii version.
Yes, the wii version is Giants.
Yes, the floor model is the WiiU model.
Yes, they made Giants for Wii.
Yes, I'm sure.
No, your friend is wrong, we CAN get Skylanders Giants for Wii.
Yes.
YES.
YES.

And as I ordered one for her, she kept giving me the unbelieving stink-eye.

Really? I think I would be ecstatic if a similar situation happened to me. SC: "What, you actually can get me what I want? How dare you! I wanted to complain!"

[Shironu-Akaineko]

Apparently there's something about my face that says "I'm lying my ass off and I have no idea what I'm talking about."

I'm being told the latter at least once a week, minimum.
Usually on something I'm VERY aware of, like game compatibility.

Once that mysterious "My Friend" says something however, whatever I say is a blatant lie.

[the lawsmeister]

I am OFFEND! Encounter the First.

Me: The snark is strong with this one
SC: Mother against game sequels

SC: So you're telling me the Skylanders Giants won't work on the older bases?
Me: That's right ma'am.
SC: *at the top of her lungs* THAT'S A SCAM!!!!!!!!!11111
Me: Nuh. That's marketing.

I once got yelled at by a woman and told i'd lost a customer because I told her the third Oddworld game was only coming out for PS2 and wouldn't work on PSOne.
I still wonder what she did when the franchise was sold off and the game ended up releasing on Xbox instead.

[PepperElf]

is it bad that every time i look at the title to this thread i imagine an SC running around in agony from peppered shorts?