5.50 - The One with the sign to customers

If only...

[via Ctrl+Alt+del]

4.51 - The One with open letter to Best Buy

Dear Best Buy,

I understand that you are all about customer service and helping people with your Geek Squad. But please don't insult me or my fellow gamers intelligence. We don't need you to place our shiny new XBox 360 game into our disc tray when we want to play it.

thanks,

T

[via Consumerist]

4.42 - The One with the botched call

Is there something in that ATL water that the officals are drinking? Kind of like "Mike's secret stuff" from Space Jam? Except it impairs them and makes them make bad calls. First was the Heat and Hawks game where Shaq "fouled" out, but really didn't. Now this one? There was 0.1 of a second that ticked away before TJ touched it!

That in my books is this season's PLAY OF THE YEAR. You could compare it to Dwight "Superman Lay-up" Howard's buzzer beating alley-oop last season. What makes it better is that No one even though about TJ going up and getting that. What an amazing play. Sam really pulled that one out of his sleeve. OH but wait! The officials called it back...riDUNKulous!



[via YouTube]

4.34 - The One with the virus

so my uncle sent me a virus over Windows Live Messenger at work the other day. I've been trying to get rid of it but it keeps coming back...I'm not impressed

4.33 - The One with the flashlight

check out this story that was in the Toronto Star last week...a Ryerson student is facing expulsion because he created and participated in a study group on Facebook. They are saying that he was cheating. I'm not sure about you and your study habits, but when I was in school everybody helped everybody. Using Facebook is just a new way to study together...

[via The Star]

one more thing...I saw this on Attack of the Show last night...

that's really cool...but completely unnecessary

[via You Tube]

4.31 - The One with the higgeldy piggeldy?

Ever walk and text at the same time? And as you're multitasking...you run into something? Well...you're not alone. There was a study in the UK that 1 in 10 people suffer from injuries while walking and texting. It's such a problem that they're testing out padding on the lamp posts...ya...you read it correctly. Don't believe it? check out this video...



did he really say higgeldy piggeldy?

[via Engadget]

4.25 - The One with the Customer

A few posts back I introduced you to notalwaysright.com. Here's a post from it that brings back memories...

Me: “Thank you for calling The UPS Store, this is Rick speaking, how may I help you?”

Caller: “Yeah, hi. I need to find out how much it will be to send something to Iowa.”

Me: “I’d be happy to get you an estimate on shipping. Could I get the dimensions and weight of the box as well as the ZIP code of the destination?”

Caller: “Yeah, it’s probably about 10 pounds, and about this big.”

Me: “Well, I need a ZIP code for the destination, but you didn’t really give me the dimensions of the box.”

Caller: “The ZIP code is 51365, and it’s about this big.”

Me: “Ma’am, I can’t see your hands, so you’ll have to give me some sort of numeric dimension to work with.”

Caller: “Oh, let me get a ruler–” *click*

Me: *sigh*

Customer in the store who overheard the phone conversation: “Are you serious?!”

...funny thing is...it happened ALL the time

4.07 - The One with the Youth in Asia

I found this on Not Always Right, check it out:

(A woman came up to my register today and began putting her items up on the counter. All of a sudden, she stopped to listen to the pet store advertisements that we have playing all day in the store. The ad mentioned donations would prevent unnecessary euthanasia in animals at shelters.)

Woman: “What would they do with the euthanasia?”

Me: “The donations would help animals find homes so they wouldn’t use euthanasia unless it was absolutely necessary.”

Woman: “What do euthanasia have to do with it?”

Me: “Well, euthanasia means putting them to sleep.”

Woman: “They’re killed?”

Me: “Essentially.”

Woman: “I thought that was just a rumor.”

Me: “…what?”

Woman: “So do they eat them?”

Me: *so confused* “…the vets?”

Woman: “No. The kids.”

Me, perplexed: “…kids?”

Woman: “In Asia!”

(Then I realized that she meant youth in Asia. Not, euthanasia. And here I thought that mistake was only made on TV. Wow.)

3.57 - The One with the beauty pageant

I don't understand why they have beauty pageants...at least why they make the girls answer thought provoking questions. Case and point right here with 2007's Miss Teen USA pageant where Miss Teen South Carolina...well...uh...

Question: Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the United States on a world map. Why do you think this is?

Miss Teen South Carolina: "I personally believe the U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh...people out there in our nation don't have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and...I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., err, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our...