I worked at a gift store just across a small open area from the world famous Space Needle here in Seattle. Two questions from tourists that never failed to amaze and amuse me were, “Where is the Space Needle?” (Honestly, it only looms 610 feet above your head at this very moment.) and “Is this where I get tickets to the Space Needle?” (No, you get them AT the Space Needle. I was tempted sometimes to send them to some remote corner of the Seattle Center in effort to obtain them. Shame on me.)
I had just gotten my debit-card. I hadn’t had a chance to sign it yet and I went into the store. The girl, seeing that it wasn’t signed, gave me her pen and asked if I would sign the card. I did. So she proceeds with the purchase, hands me the receipt to sign and then takes the card holds it up next to the receipt and compares the signatures…
I had just punched in at my place of employment and was putting my things away, when the coworker I take over for came up to me and said, “I can’t get the lint thingy back in the dryer right. I think I broke it.” I went to see what the problem was. I found that HE, yes it was a male, had put the lint filter in backwards. As I took it back out and proceeded to put it in correctly, he stopped me and said, “Wait, I forgot to put this back in.” I turned to see what he was talking about and in his hand was a big wad of lint.
I have been a manager for McDonald’s for several years & have worked with some pretty stupid people. The best however, is Amanda in Dothan, AL. One day several years ago we had a small “blizzard”. We were very busy and understaffed. I had seated a customer who was waiting on a Big Breakfast (2 eggs, biscuit, sausage, & hash browns). When the order was complete I placed it on a tray & asked Amanda to carry it out for me. 5 minutes later I still had not seen her return from the lobby. I looked outside and she was actually out there knocking on windows looking for the customer. As if this were not stupid enough when I explained that I would have placed it into a bag if it was to go out to a car, She wanted to know if I thought she should put the hash brown (NOW COVERED IN SNOW) back into the vat for a minute before taking it out!!! Amanda was 16 I hope she’s a little smarter now!!!