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This is another incident that I wish I was making up. I'm a magnet for these sorts of things.

I was at work this morning and thirsty. There were no cold bottled waters in the cooler so I went and got one off the shelf. I don't like warm water, so I went to the deli and got a cup and then trekked over to produce to get some ice.

Once I return to my register, I'm ready for some nice cool, refreshing water. I fill my cup, take a drink and turn my light back on and wait for customers.

Everything is going wonderfully for a while. Then out of nowhere, some guy drops a handful of change into my drink. I looked at him with blank amazement. When words finally came I said "what are you doing?" He looked confused and a little offended. I asked again "why did you do that?"

"I wanted to help out."

"Help who?" At this point the customer behind him realizes what's going on and I can tell she's doing her absolute best not to laugh.

"Help hurricane victims."

Dumbfounded I looked at him again... "That was my drink."

He then asks where the donation cups are and if I'd be so kind as to put that change in the cup. I finished his order and the customer behind him. Went back to the deli, dumped my drink, pocketed the change and started the whole process over... new cup, new ice.

Reminded me of a Sienfeld eipsode where Kramer drops some change in a bum's coffee.

All I can say is why me?
 
HAHAHA!!! That was great! :D
 
Psychopomp said:
This is another incident that I wish I was making up. I'm a magnet for these sorts of things.

I was at work this morning and thirsty. There were no cold bottled waters in the cooler so I went and got one off the shelf. I don't like warm water, so I went to the deli and got a cup and then trekked over to produce to get some ice.

Once I return to my register, I'm ready for some nice cool, refreshing water. I fill my cup, take a drink and turn my light back on and wait for customers.

Everything is going wonderfully for a while. Then out of nowhere, some guy drops a handful of change into my drink. I looked at him with blank amazement. When words finally came I said "what are you doing?" He looked confused and a little offended. I asked again "why did you do that?"

"I wanted to help out."

"Help who?" At this point the customer behind him realizes what's going on and I can tell she's doing her absolute best not to laugh.

"Help hurricane victims."

Dumbfounded I looked at him again... "That was my drink."

He then asks where the donation cups are and if I'd be so kind as to put that change in the cup. I finished his order and the customer behind him. Went back to the deli, dumped my drink, pocketed the change and started the whole process over... new cup, new ice.

Reminded me of a Sienfeld eipsode where Kramer drops some change in a bum's coffee.

All I can say is why me?


There was a " 'Lil Abner " comic strip. it included a woebegone,pathetic character. Joe Bltzfyk ,that had a dark cloud always over him & woes befell him.
You are a bright young man who can turn a misfortune into a cute story .Thanks for sharing.

Laughter is good medicine !

Uncle Alan
 
That was funny. Hopefully the change equaled the cost of the water. :)

How much did you get? And don't forget to donate it to the hurricane victims! :p
 
That is just too cool :D I don't know if it would be as awesome if it had been my water, but... it wasn't :cool: Simply delightful :)
 
Reminds of the time when I worked in a grocery store about 20 years ago. The manger always had a styrofoam cup of coffee all day long. If it was real busy he would help out by bagging groceries. He would set is cup in the corner of the bagging area. He had moved to different check-outs bagging. After the rush was over he called me over and was giving me a list of things he needed me to do. As he was telling me, he paused to take a sip from the cup he had left sitting. He suddenly started coughing, spitting and cussing. Someone had put thier cigarette out in his cup. :barf: After that his coffee never left his desk.
 
fruitbat said:
As he was telling me, he paused to take a sip from the cup he had left sitting. He suddenly started coughing, spitting and cussing. Someone had put thier cigarette out in his cup. :barf: After that his coffee never left his desk.

That happened to our general manager a few months ago. We were all in the break room for the department head meeting and the customer service manager smokes. She was sitting next to me, I was leaning against the wall not really paying attention to the part about sales figures and projections (I'm the bookkeeper, why would I need to pay attention to that stuff :rolleyes: ).

What finally caught my attention was when the manager stopped talking in the middle of a sentence. He looked over in our direction and my first thought was "oh hell, he's gonna ask me how my department (front end) is doing," but no. He was looking at the CSM and said "did you just f**kin' ash in my coffee?" She couldn't answer because she was laughing so hard.
 
Ha ha, Very funny.

The only drinking incident I had working in the grocery store happened when I was working at Publix. I was about 16 at the time. I was working from the customer service register which was the "brain" center of the store's registers and the computer upstairs. I cannot remember now how it worked, but I know that it kept way more information on it than any other register in the store. Anyhow, I knocked my coffee over into the keyboard. :eek: I wiped it down as FAST as I possibly could. Then the very mean manager came out of the back and went to ring something up on the register. I stood there watching like a scarecrow with my heart pounding through my chest. The register immediately locked up and shut down. It didn't come back up for the rest of the night. They couldn't do their close out accounting. I played stupid because, well, I was stupid. What kind of idiot would make that kind of mistake? I went home and sat up half the night worrying about it. The next afternoon I stopped by the store and it was working again. Whew...

KEEP DRINKS AWAY FROM THE REGISTER.
 
jsmatos said:
KEEP DRINKS AWAY FROM ...

I got a letter from a customer once, telling me he liked his coffee in the morning, but not on his mail ...

This occasioned yet another reminder to the letter carriers that we did NOT authorize food or drink at their work stations.
 
Hi ,
Talking about these coffee tales remined me of something that happened to a friend.This friend,who is about seventy yrs of age,picked me up to go to work,as he is a snoose chewer,he had his spit cup on the dash.Before we went to far,he had to stop and get coffee for the trip.Both cups were very similar.As we're driving down the interstate,Ervin takes a Big swig from the wrong cup.Talk about a wild ride.Coughing and gagging and me laughing so hard tears were running. After that he would write snoose on his spit cup.
This is a guy who everyone said was such a level headed person because he drooled out of both sides of his mouth. :D

Ralph
 
Psychopomp said:
This is another incident that I wish I was making up. I'm a magnet for these sorts of things.

I was at work this morning and thirsty. There were no cold bottled waters in the cooler so I went and got one off the shelf. I don't like warm water, so I went to the deli and got a cup and then trekked over to produce to get some ice.

Once I return to my register, I'm ready for some nice cool, refreshing water. I fill my cup, take a drink and turn my light back on and wait for customers.

Everything is going wonderfully for a while. Then out of nowhere, some guy drops a handful of change into my drink. I looked at him with blank amazement. When words finally came I said "what are you doing?" He looked confused and a little offended. I asked again "why did you do that?"

"I wanted to help out."

"Help who?" At this point the customer behind him realizes what's going on and I can tell she's doing her absolute best not to laugh.

"Help hurricane victims."

Dumbfounded I looked at him again... "That was my drink."

He then asks where the donation cups are and if I'd be so kind as to put that change in the cup. I finished his order and the customer behind him. Went back to the deli, dumped my drink, pocketed the change and started the whole process over... new cup, new ice.

Reminded me of a Sienfeld eipsode where Kramer drops some change in a bum's coffee.

All I can say is why me?

I'm reading this, and I must have missed the part where you stomped his guts out. :D
 
Esav Benyamin said:
I got a letter from a customer once, telling me he liked his coffee in the morning, but not on his mail ...

This occasioned yet another reminder to the letter carriers that we did NOT authorize food or drink at their work stations.


As a manufacturers rep I worked for many compaiies at the same time. I would get up to 6 or checks a month. At times some checks were slow in coming or not at all. I called these very ethical companies & tactfully questioned them . They said the checks were mailed,gave the dates & amounts. I was puzzled & asked my mail carrier about it . He took offense & said if it was addressed to me,he brought it.
He was right.
I had to stay home to take a conference call one day & it was so long I decided to stay home . Since I did my reports in a timely manner ,I looked through a large stack of trade magazines I hadn't had time to read .
Again the postman was right . Bstd had eaten lunch each day before delivering my mail. He liked my trade magazines too because I found food particle & coffee stains throughout a lot of them.The bstd had used my checks to mark pages !
Called USPO & they asked me to overlook it because he was of a minority !

Gimmie' a break !

Uncle Alan
 
fruitbat said:
Reminds of the time when I worked in a grocery store about 20 years ago. The manger always had a styrofoam cup of coffee all day long. If it was real busy he would help out by bagging groceries. He would set is cup in the corner of the bagging area. He had moved to different check-outs bagging. After the rush was over he called me over and was giving me a list of things he needed me to do. As he was telling me, he paused to take a sip from the cup he had left sitting. He suddenly started coughing, spitting and cussing. Someone had put thier cigarette out in his cup. :barf: After that his coffee never left his desk.


I was in a bar about 5 years ago with 2 friends watching the Red wings play Edmonton, At the corner of the bar there is a group of 5 people. 2 girls 3 guys. I notice one of the girls cause she has big jugs and is wearing a white v-neck t-shirt. Naturally I glance down there frequently. They are all drinking Budweiser longnecks. One of the guys is chewing tobacco and spitting in the bottle in front of him. He is right next to the 2 women who are a little tipsy and getting loud not really paying attention. the tobacco guy goes to the bathroom. White v-neck t-shirt puts her beer down right next to the spit bottle. She turns around, when she faces back to the bar she grabbs the spit bottle and takes a big mouthfull. The look of horror on her face and she spits out what she didn't swallow and runs for the bathroom. She didn't make it and hurled all over the bathroom door!
 
Psychopomp said:
Reminded me of a Sienfeld eipsode where Kramer drops some change in a bum's coffee.

All I can say is why me?
:D Just make sure Jerry and Kramer aren't around to watch your surgery with a box of Junior Mints! Funny story and one you'll never forget.
 
Ervin takes a Big swig from the wrong cup.

Asked later, why he had taken such a big swig, Ervin replied, "Because it came out in one big loooooong strand" :eek: :barf:
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This is a guy who everyone said was such a level headed person because he drooled out of both sides of his mouth.

LOL! Good line! :)

Thanks, shearer. (....now excuse me while I lick the coffee off my monitor.......) :D
 
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