In this thread, I'm looking for stupid answers, not stupid questions.
We have a conventional counter. A customer asked me if I'd grind a chuck roast for her. we keep 3-4 in the counter all the time. Lots more in the back that we replace as they sell.
Customer: If I buy a chuck roast, can you grind it for me?
Me: sure, which one do you want?
Customer: That one has a lot of fat.
How was I to know that's the one she wanted? It sounded like she was rejecting that one, but still failing to choose another.
-- Edited by CarniceroLarry on Wednesday 17th of August 2011 08:56:25 PM
years ago when I worked north side Atlanta with A&P, We had a rich crowd doing business with us there. they would come in and ask for steaks 1 1/2 thick, when you got out there with them they would start that crap, to thick or to thin. I got to carrying a small tape in my pocket, one of them start that crap I would pull out my tape and show them it was what they ordered. After waiting on them for awhile after carrying the tape they stop that crap with me.
flashback lol this was the market where at lunch we cooked in the market and we all went to dinner together, we took turns answering the service bell. one day I had to answer it and this smart ass rich lady we all hated to wait on was ringing it, she didn't let up on it till I came out the market door, she told me she want two bags of the fryers we had on sell that was two in a bag. as I start into the door she told me " Hurry up my little dog is in the car and it's hot " this day it was a 101 outside, I DID HURRY and as I came back through the door she said " S.O.B. didn't I tell you to hurry, my dog is in the car " I had both bags chest high carrying them, I turn my hands out ward and push them hard at her, both bags caught her on both breasts knocking her back wards a foot or so, she caught one, dropped the other. ( my unthinkable answer ) I told her " lady you better hurry before the little S.O.B suffocates." she pick the one off the floor and took off for the front. as I went back through the door I thought, well there goes my job, but she never report me, but after that she would never let me wait on her lol
-- Edited by apcowboy on Thursday 15th of September 2011 06:01:13 AM
Guess i'll tell one on myself, I had a market manager once that was bad about leveling the case as he came down it ( the right thing to do ) we had buston butts on sale cheap and only had two in the case. I went out to carry a pan to fill in and he had just came by it and fill the hole in with other pork cuts, I hollar at him mike you pluged my butt hole up, he looked at me with a frown, I told him again, you need to stop pluging up my butt hole, again the frown and a look, nod with his head past me, I look around and there stood three ladies on the meat case with their mouth open looking at me like they couldn't believe what I just said. I felt my face turn RED, i just put the pan on the back of the case and said here mike and hurried back to the cutting room, Embrass as hell
Most common unthinking response I get is this: Customers come up to the window to the cutters room with a primal to have it sliced. I ask them "How are you?" They reply: "One inch."
Now in my head I'm thinking .... "You're only one inch? How sad for your wife."
