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In the evening Aragorn and his chums liked to get together to roll dice and play Offices and Bosses
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» Stuff You've Overheard
bunch of old welsh guys on the table next to me in a pub
"There isn't a law in this land that says you can't be naked in your own house..."
"i beg to differ! the RSPCA says it'll scare the cat!"
(best in strong welsh accents)
(Thu 10th Jun 2004, 12:03, More)
bunch of old welsh guys on the table next to me in a pub
"There isn't a law in this land that says you can't be naked in your own house..."
"i beg to differ! the RSPCA says it'll scare the cat!"
(best in strong welsh accents)
(Thu 10th Jun 2004, 12:03, More)
» Customers from Hell
I finished working at a bookshop last week YAY!
The customers there aren't as bad as in some retail outlets I have worked in, but sometimes you get the classics (if you will excuse the pun)
"You know that Bleak House program? Is there a book to go with it?"
"Has Jane Austin got anything new out?"
Working in photo labs and a camera shop exposed (another pun) me to much more angry and ridiculously demanding customers
One woman came into the lab to make a fuss because she had lost her pictures and the negatives. Apparently we were in the wrong as we should keep copies of everyones negatives
One man (and this is just the worst of these, we had many on this theme) spent ages shouting at us because we couldn't make a panoramic picture fit into a 6x4 shape without a black line at the top or cropping.
His best argument was "BUT IT'S MY PICTURE!"
OK sir, I'll just change the laws of geometry for you
Then there was the woman who double exposed a slide film and insisted that we must have put her film in with someone else's. According to her, that other person's pictures had just dropped off their film and onto hers.
Other than those, in the labs we had a surprising number of people who dropped in films of porn and seemed unaware that we looked at every picture (which seems odd as we were doing this about 1 metre away from the serving desk). Some of these pictures were quite 'gooey'.
In the camera shop, being the only girl there, I spent most of my time trying to convince customers that I did know about cameras (I have a couple of degrees in photography and now lecture on the subject). Most just tried to catch the eyes of the men working there, but one customer was less subtle
"Hello, can I talk to one of the boys please, I need some technical advice."
The question was then about what film he needed. gah!
One more! Sorry, years of retail have taken their toll:
Photography student "I used this sepia filter on the front of my camera and it didn't make my pictures sepia"
my boss (suspicious of this) "what film are you using"
Photography student "Just normal black and white"
Everyone else "..."
She then tried to claim I'd told her this would work, at which point my boss pointed out I already had the degree she was studying for and to stop being so stupid (well in slightly more polite terms).
I'll stop there and just appreciate that I (hopefully) will not have to go back to retail again.
(Sat 6th Sep 2008, 13:44, More)
I finished working at a bookshop last week YAY!
The customers there aren't as bad as in some retail outlets I have worked in, but sometimes you get the classics (if you will excuse the pun)
"You know that Bleak House program? Is there a book to go with it?"
"Has Jane Austin got anything new out?"
Working in photo labs and a camera shop exposed (another pun) me to much more angry and ridiculously demanding customers
One woman came into the lab to make a fuss because she had lost her pictures and the negatives. Apparently we were in the wrong as we should keep copies of everyones negatives
One man (and this is just the worst of these, we had many on this theme) spent ages shouting at us because we couldn't make a panoramic picture fit into a 6x4 shape without a black line at the top or cropping.
His best argument was "BUT IT'S MY PICTURE!"
OK sir, I'll just change the laws of geometry for you
Then there was the woman who double exposed a slide film and insisted that we must have put her film in with someone else's. According to her, that other person's pictures had just dropped off their film and onto hers.
Other than those, in the labs we had a surprising number of people who dropped in films of porn and seemed unaware that we looked at every picture (which seems odd as we were doing this about 1 metre away from the serving desk). Some of these pictures were quite 'gooey'.
In the camera shop, being the only girl there, I spent most of my time trying to convince customers that I did know about cameras (I have a couple of degrees in photography and now lecture on the subject). Most just tried to catch the eyes of the men working there, but one customer was less subtle
"Hello, can I talk to one of the boys please, I need some technical advice."
The question was then about what film he needed. gah!
One more! Sorry, years of retail have taken their toll:
Photography student "I used this sepia filter on the front of my camera and it didn't make my pictures sepia"
my boss (suspicious of this) "what film are you using"
Photography student "Just normal black and white"
Everyone else "..."
She then tried to claim I'd told her this would work, at which point my boss pointed out I already had the degree she was studying for and to stop being so stupid (well in slightly more polite terms).
I'll stop there and just appreciate that I (hopefully) will not have to go back to retail again.
(Sat 6th Sep 2008, 13:44, More)
» The most childish thing you've done as an adult
I'm more childish than my students :(
Helping a student set himself targets, I inadvertently described the second one as 'a big number 2'
I giggled
He looked at me strangely.
Not sure if I got away with that
(Thu 17th Sep 2009, 15:34, More)
I'm more childish than my students :(
Helping a student set himself targets, I inadvertently described the second one as 'a big number 2'
I giggled
He looked at me strangely.
Not sure if I got away with that
(Thu 17th Sep 2009, 15:34, More)
» I hurt my rude bits
One day long ago Mr Camel was eating 'Dave's insanity sauce' on toast
and encouraging a friend to do so too. Friend's girlfriend comes round and drags friend upstairs for some rude business.
Shorty afterward she's heard to scream, then ran naked downstairs and into the shower where she held said showerhead on her lady bits for some time.
(Sun 16th Jul 2006, 12:56, More)
One day long ago Mr Camel was eating 'Dave's insanity sauce' on toast
and encouraging a friend to do so too. Friend's girlfriend comes round and drags friend upstairs for some rude business.
Shorty afterward she's heard to scream, then ran naked downstairs and into the shower where she held said showerhead on her lady bits for some time.
(Sun 16th Jul 2006, 12:56, More)