Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Work thoughts

As much as I complain about work, some hilarity does happen.

For example today a man came in to return a hose. He was quite upset, because this was the second hose he had bought and they both had the same problem. He said; "I plug it in and it leaks from a hundred places!" I then explained to him that it was a sprinkler hose, that leaking is in fact what they do best (for the uninitiated a sprinkler hose is a hose made of porus material, you weave the hose through your garden, turn on the water, and it waters everything at once!) He opted to return the hose and buy a different kind.

Hey do you know what I realized? That story isn't so funny when you have to explain what a sprinkler hose is. Well you're just going to have to trust me, it was hilarious.

Another hilarious story. A man was returning a whole bunch of car parts. I asked if there was something wrong with them (so they do not get put back on the shelf), he said no, that he didn't need them anymore, because his car had exploded. EXPLODED! He had decided not to repair the car after that. There was one thing on the bill that he was not returning, I asked if he had forgotten it or something. He said no, that the part was on the car when it exploded. I secretly still wonder if maybe it was the part we sold him that made his car explode.

Anyway, news in my life; I am helping with my old ballet recital this weekend! Yay! Lots of fun (this is not sarcastic).

Big news! I am going to Montreal in June to visit my cousin for a weekend. I am quite excited. Who knows what we'll do!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow, how do you keep a straight face when someone returns a sprinkler hose wondering why it leaks??

and maybe the exploding car guy is lying. exploding cars? unreal.

Daley said...

At the restaurant I worked in last year they bought a sprinkler hose for the kitchen and tried and it soaked everything and it was so funny, because we read the package before they turned it on and opted not to say anything about what we had read about the magical powers of said hose.