OT- Funny or Stupid Things You've Heard Witnessed or Heard While Shopping

[jonmayo15]

The thread title says it all-

Here's a situation I witnessed(not that funny) about a young boy about 6 shopping with his grandparents. He wants them to buy him "The Spongebob Squarepants Movie", but they think it's too expensive (it was about 10 or 12 bucks) and tried to persuade him to get "Batman Vs. Dracula" instead. The grandfather insisted that he had seen it and that it was an excellent movie.:eek: But the boy wouldn't change his mind and refused to let go of the Spongebob movie, so the grandparents had to pry it out of his hands. And you know what, they left without buying him anything.

Another time I was purchasing "Monty Python and The Holy Grail" and the cashier started talking randomly about Colin Firth except I wasn't really listening to her and walked away awkwardly after making my purchase.

[dandu]

This was not while I was shopping, but I was at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and I was looking at the Sacred Monkeys of India, and a woman nearby with her children said "Look, there are the elephants!" (I think she was lost, the elephants were not that close to the monkeys!) I cracked up at this when she was not in earshot.

[stelljon]

At a now defunt record store, the customer in front of me was paying by credit card. After he signed the receipt, the cashier went to compare the signature on the back of the credit card to the signature on the receipt. "I'm sorry sir. Your credit card is not signed." The customer took back the card, signed the back of it, and handed it back to the cashier. The cashier then compared the two signatures and said, "OK." :befuddled

[Daffysleftfoot]

Last year I went into a Blockbuster in Sydney, Nova Scotia looking for the Oswald dvd set that was coming out at the time. I asked the clerk about it describing it as a Disney dvd set in a tin case. She yells to a co-worker, "Do we sell dvds in a tin can?" The other person of course said 'no'. The clerk then shook her head at me like I was crazy. :rolleyes:

[millsie]

A while ago I was in KFC when an American tourist went in and ordered a "fish sandwich". The woman working at the counter explained that at Kentucky Fried Chicken they only served chicken. The guy was confused for a minute, but then said "Ok, I'll have a cheese burger!"

[janiepooh34]

I am usually good for saying stupid things.

I was at the eye doctor once and they had me read something, I was horrible! I was still in my morning fog and I blurted out "I am just not used to seeing so early in the morning." DUH!!!:shame:

[Dafffy Duck]

Once in a DVD store I saw a Tom and Jerry box set with the caption "The Fred Quimby Classics" on the cover. It just shows the great amount of care and research the manufacturers put into their product.

[Geezil]

Once in a DVD store I saw a Tom and Jerry box set with the caption "The Fred Quimby Classics" on the cover.

Aw, c'mon, you're kidding. Aren't'cha? Huh? Hmmmmm? (etc.) ;)

[Dafffy Duck]

I really wish that I were.

[David Gerstein]

Once in a DVD store I saw a Tom and Jerry box set with the caption "The Fred Quimby Classics" on the cover.The British Tom and Jerry video releases repeatedly play up "the legendary Fred Quimby" on their packaging, or at least they did so several years ago. It seems to have been the UK marketing department's means of identifying that these were the "classic" 1940s Tom and Jerrys, insofar as the Hanna-Barbera name is sometmes seen as a marketing liability across the pond—for some reason, decades of genuinely bad, patronizing TV cartoons are not looked upon with uncritical nostalgia there.

[Cartman]

I am usually good for saying stupid things.

I was at the eye doctor once and they had me read something, I was horrible! I was still in my morning fog and I blurted out "I am just not used to seeing so early in the morning." DUH!!!:shame:
What would have been funny is if the eye doctor had a sheet that read "I can't see a thing!":woody:;)

[ebrand11]

One time before I bought the LTGCs my Dad refused to buy a volume because the contents weren't listed.
For the longest time my family has no clue on the public domaion matter. They still dont think I have the four Three Stooges pd shorts, Disorder in the Court, Brideless Groom, Sing a song of six pants and Malice in the Palace. I got around 10 coipes of each

[Speedy Boris]

When I bought Animaniacs Vol. 1, this old lady clerk says her grandsons watch the show and asked me if it was Japanese. I assume she meant anime. I politely said no, not wanting to explain that certain episodes were outsourced to Japan but that it wasn't actually a Japan-produced series. ;)

Another story, though it's a good one: The other day I heard some grade school kids kind of interested in buying the Golden Collections. See? Not every kid nowadays is clueless about classic animation.

[Jon Cooke]

While moving this thread to this new board, it reminded me of what I overheard in the Wal-Mart DVD section last week. I overheard this woman frantically telling her friend (upon spotting the DVD of the old Land of the Lost TV show):

"LAND OF THE LOST is on DVD already?? I thought it was supposed to be going to theaters!! It's on DVD ALREADY!"

[vsonic]

A while ago I was in KFC when an American tourist went in and ordered a "fish sandwich". The woman working at the counter explained that at Kentucky Fried Chicken they only served chicken. The guy was confused for a minute, but then said "Ok, I'll have a cheese burger!"
The company that owns KFC in the States own several kinds of chains. It's not unusual for a location to sell several different types of fast food. One of thier chains serves seafood..

[vsonic]

I was at Mcdonalds somebody wanted a cheeseburger with cheese.:confused:

[Super Nintendo Chalmers]

The company that owns KFC in the States own several kinds of chains. It's not unusual for a location to sell several different types of fast food. One of thier chains serves seafood..

Yeah, the company is called Yum! Brands (which, in turn, is owned by PepsiCo) and they own KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Long John Silvers, and A&W Restaurants. Here in Boise we have a couple KFC's teamed with A&W, and at least one KFC teamed with Long John Silvers.

[Der Captain]

Years ago I was in a grocery store and I suddenly heard a kid's voice coming from another aisle yelling "Oh gross! Get away from me!" Then I saw the kid running past shouting "Mom! Dad farted!"

I'm sure I wasn't the only one within earshot who vowed never to have kids that day.

[cartoonfan4ever]

My Mom told me once that she heard two little kids quoting the entire I Love To Singa cartoon while at the grocery store.

[Brandon Panther]

Once in a DVD store I saw a Tom and Jerry box set with the caption "The Fred Quimby Classics" on the cover. It just shows the great amount of care and research the manufacturers put into their product.
Maybe the manufacturers were decendants of Fred Quimby, and they just want to honor their great-grandfather's wishes.

God, I can't believe there have actually been two oppurtunities in one day for me to make a Fred Quimby joke.

I've heard several stupid things from customers from back when I worked at Arby's, but I have since forgotten what most of them were... or purposely blocked them out.

[A. Flea]

I went into a Best Buy one day, and there were a bunch of the Neverending Story DVDs, and one guy asked the clerk if it was actually neverending!:D

[LooneyFan]

I was out buying my Space Jam DVD and a cashier was talking about how much he loves Marvin. Kinda made me smile.

[janiepooh34]

Now, this REALLY happened to ME!!!!

I was working at the returns counter at the local Target store many years ago before they had such strict rules for returns. Anyway, I had a guy come in and wanted to return Preparation H. When I asked the reason for the return...he said.."It tastes awful!" :eek:

No lie...now don't make me tell you what happened in the "Nintendo Aisle."

[dandu]

At the Columbus Zoo again, lol it seems to be the only place I go to, but that's the only place where I stand around long enough to hear and see stupid stuff. There was this little girl there who was right in front of me looking at the otters and singing a song over and over. I couldn't make out the words but it goes something like this, lalalalalallalalallalala BUBBLES! and she repeated it over and over.

[Mac]

The zoo is the best place to hear idiotic comments from people. It's so much fun listening to the ignorance of people who really ought to keep their mouths shut! There's nothing like listening to people admiring the "anteaters" which are actually zebras or telling their children that the full grown guinea pigs are new born deer!

My absolute favourite was in an aquarium area which had an axolotl.
"You see!" shouted an angry kid to his parents, clearly settling an argument, "Fish DO have legs!" On examining the evidence, the surprised parents answered "Oh yeah! Look they really do! They must pop out when they get near the bottom!"

[dandu]

At Meijer yesterday, I saw this family in the next checkout, and their kid holding a beef jerky yelled OPEN THIS! OPEN THIS! for 5 minutes. His brother gave in and opened it for him. And then he complained about the quality of the jerky. What a brat.