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Mar 27, 2017 17:30:46   #
imntrt1 Loc: St. Louis
 
GENorkus wrote:
My part time work is with retailing and you hear some crazy things from customers like I heard today while restocking shelves.

I turned towards an attractive lady about in her mid twenties.


(Start of joke)

Her:
"Sir, I'd like a screw. Four actually." (slight pause from her, then...) "They have to be self drilling."

(End of joke.)


It's a good thing I didn't hint about the humor of what she said. I might have been fired!


I was in law enforcement for 38 years and got some crazy questions and statements. My favorite was always, "I pay your salary, you have to do what I ask." In my later years on the job I got to the point where I had to respond for my own well being. Truth of the matter is that some number's crunchers did the math in our area and figured that each tax payer donated about .64 cents per year to run the police department. I went so far as to tell people that and offered to give it back to them.....My favorite response to the real pains in the back side was to tell them that I was happy to know that he (or She) paid my salary, I would now know to to ask should I need a raise. Of course I made some people angry, but they weren't that happy to begin with if they were telling me they paid my salary.

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Mar 27, 2017 21:06:11   #
jayd Loc: Central Florida, East coast
 
I work for a general contractor commercial construction, 9000+ subcontractors to deal with, I could and should write a book.
At this point I feel more like a kindergarten cop.

Most I get to deal with are educated beyond their intelegence.

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Mar 27, 2017 21:38:56   #
whitewolfowner
 
imntrt1 wrote:
I was in law enforcement for 38 years and got some crazy questions and statements. My favorite was always, "I pay your salary, you have to do what I ask." In my later years on the job I got to the point where I had to respond for my own well being. Truth of the matter is that some number's crunchers did the math in our area and figured that each tax payer donated about .64 cents per year to run the police department. I went so far as to tell people that and offered to give it back to them.....My favorite response to the real pains in the back side was to tell them that I was happy to know that he (or She) paid my salary, I would now know to to ask should I need a raise. Of course I made some people angry, but they weren't that happy to begin with if they were telling me they paid my salary.
I was in law enforcement for 38 years and got some... (show quote)




I would simply tell them that, yes you do. So why would you complain when I am just doing my job. I have an obligation to you to do what you are paying me to do.

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Mar 27, 2017 22:09:24   #
infocus Loc: Australia
 
imntrt1 wrote:
I was in law enforcement for 38 years and got some crazy questions and statements. My favorite was always, "I pay your salary, you have to do what I ask." In my later years on the job I got to the point where I had to respond for my own well being. Truth of the matter is that some number's crunchers did the math in our area and figured that each tax payer donated about .64 cents per year to run the police department. I went so far as to tell people that and offered to give it back to them.....My favorite response to the real pains in the back side was to tell them that I was happy to know that he (or She) paid my salary, I would now know to to ask should I need a raise. Of course I made some people angry, but they weren't that happy to begin with if they were telling me they paid my salary.
I was in law enforcement for 38 years and got some... (show quote)


I'll have to tell my son that one. He's a police officer in Sydney.

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Mar 27, 2017 23:29:06   #
EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace
 
jayd wrote:
Most I get to deal with are educated beyond their intelegence.

Did you do that on porpoise?

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Mar 27, 2017 23:32:46   #
quagmire Loc: Greenwood,South Carolina
 
Worked in a water treatment plant,girl on a school tour asked if the hot water came thru here too,told that to a high school intern and he said,where does hot water come from?

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Mar 27, 2017 23:34:35   #
EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace
 
I worked in a convenience store many years ago. One night when it was raining cats and dogs a woman came in to the store and said, "I need a bottle of port wine, red or white, I don't care". I said to her, "I know what you mean, any port in a storm". She didn't think it was funny.

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Mar 29, 2017 09:27:33   #
d2b2 Loc: Catonsville, Maryland, USA
 
When I was actually fairly young, I put on a lot of padding and played Santa Claus for a group of local kids. One boy sat on my lap and said, "I want a little brother." I immediately asked him which in the crowd was his mother...

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Mar 31, 2017 11:52:45   #
DickC Loc: NE Washington state
 

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Mar 31, 2017 18:17:45   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
EdJ0307 wrote:
I worked in a convenience store many years ago. One night when it was raining cats and dogs a woman came in to the store and said, "I need a bottle of port wine, red or white, I don't care". I said to her, "I know what you mean, any port in a storm". She didn't think it was funny.


That made my day!!!

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Apr 1, 2017 07:36:11   #
d2b2 Loc: Catonsville, Maryland, USA
 
SteveR wrote:
That made my day!!!



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