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twinboat · 12-03-2016, 06:30 AM

Go to a Subway sandwich shop and order a BLT.

They slice the bread, lay bacon on it and say " What Else "

cwk · 12-03-2016, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by doorguy

We carry 3 one gallon water jugs for drinking water and usually fill them up at grocery stores with filtered water dispensers either inside or outside. In October, in a small town we frequent, I filled up a typical everyday ONE gallon jug inside the store at their refill station and took it to the register. I set in on the conveyor belt with no other items. As it moved its way up to the cashier, I said "It's a refill". She asked "How many gallons?"

I walked out the door shaking my head and chalked it up to teenage mentality these days. The crowning blow was about a week later, in a DIFFERENT store, I got the same question!!!!!! And they will multiply!!!!

Actually, I think this one does make sense.

I am guessing that they have a lot of customers who refill multiple one gallon jugs during a single visit to the store. To pay for them, they bring in one jug and tell the clerk how many gallons they filled.

doorguy · 12-04-2016, 10:53 AM

The exterior dispensers are coin operated. It is the interior ones that you re-fill your jugs and take to the register to pay; now if I had multiple jugs, I would just get a cart and wheel them thru the line. I did run into one store in Trinidad, CA , waaaay up on the northern coast which had a dispenser outside and you just told the cashier inside how many you filled. Love those small towns.

ramblinboy · 12-05-2016, 02:45 PM

Let's make America adequate again!

Scatterbrain · 12-05-2016, 03:33 PM

A few years back my wife and I were at the commissary check out line. The bagger picked up our two containers of buttermilk and asked us what we were going to do with "all this buttermilk". I told him I was going to make some buttermilk pancakes and biscuits. He proceeded to inform me that I can't just make buttermilk pancakes, because Buttermilk is a brand name, like McDonald's. My wife an I just looked at each other, dumbfounded.

TwelveVolt · 12-05-2016, 05:23 PM

I was standing at the dairy display. As always, I checked the dates on several packages to ensure I was getting a fresh one. The young man stocking a shelf nearby watched and came over to inform me that I cannot do that. I am obligated to take the first item on the shelf. I felt that explaining the concept of a customer would be a waste of time.

TonyMac · 12-05-2016, 05:36 PM

Sale = 7.20. I give the clerk a 20 and three 1s. I get a blank stare......
And these people vote. And reproduce like rabbits.

Scatterbrain · 12-05-2016, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by TonyMac

Sale = 7.20. I give the clerk a 20 and three 1s. I get a blank stare......
And these people vote. And reproduce like rabbits.

You know, I don't think it reflects the entire generation though. When I was in school (mid 90's) I worked with a real character. We had two large stone/gas ovens and he would reach in and pull food trays out with his bare hands. The oven was kept at 550*.

It was like watching a cartoon as he would inevitably throw the tray on the counter while jumping up and down holding his fingers, then dunking them in the dish water. It was even funnier to watch him stick his head in the oven to see if his sandwich was done cooking.