I stopped by the supermarket on the way home from work tonight.
I'm standing at the check out with my two items on the counter and my money in my hand.
The items:
1 packet of feminine hygiene products
1 very large bock of chocolate
The young man behind the cash register says "Hi, how are you tonight?"
Given this scenario, how would you have responded ????
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At your age, probably just "Fine"...now? LOL Probably something along the lines of "you must have been raised in an all male household".
Hmm something along the lines of "sell me that chocolate now or die!"
ROFLMAO - well, I'd hopefully give him points for trying to be sociable and go with the "fine, thanks", probably tinged with a little bit of sarcasm... Unfortunately, in this area lately, you're much more likely to encounter a checkout person who won't say much more to you than tell you the total of your items. {grumble} I worked in retail long enough to know that it's not easy, but at least be civil, people!
Men are stupid.
I would have put the items down carefully but with emphasis and meaning. Then I would smile ironically and say "how do you think?...but thank you for asking."
I'm actually growing up and acting my age finally :) :) After all sorts of scenarios flashed through my mind, I actually looked meaningfully at the parcels, then looked the kid straight in the eye and said "fine thanks".
He didn't get it.
He must have grown up in an all-male household - either that or they are turning out more and more stupid kids these days.
LOL - now I've got visions of the scene from the original Terminator movie - where all of the possible responses roll up in front of his eye before he pics one :)
And now an interpretation of the "man-speak". J thinks he was just being polite and trying to offer polite customer service. And "how does he know that they were really for you and not for your sister?"
Hmm follow on to Paula's, Mark has been out to buy essential supplies for me and the man (not young man) just winced and said "wife, girlfriend or next door neighbour?!"
In reality I think the guy was just bored and saying "Hi how are you" because he's been told to, without listening to any responses. Also he was scanning the barcodes without actually looking at the items - if you know what I mean .... looked like he'd had a frontal lobotomy to be perfectly honest.
But then again, I thought it was a funny enough situation I had to share it with *someone* ......
LOL it was definitely good for a laugh.. and the look on J's face as I gave him the scenario and asked if he would have asked "how are you" was priceless. It was definitely the "deer in the headlights" look - almost as if he'd asked it himself and realized as soon as the words were out that it wasn't the right thing to have said!
{ROTFL} Glad someone else could see why I thought it was soo funny :) :) I could just imagine J's face too !!!!!
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