Today at the E Mart on the corner of st 15 and St 144 I'm peckish while waiting for a friend. I go in to the mart for a packet of biscuits perhaps. I get followed up and down the aisles by the thief patrol...thats ok...I'm used to it...perhaps I look dodgy. I settle on a pkt of ''Jack and Jill O chocolate biscuits"' ...price 60 cents.
At the counter the girl scans it and up comes 80 cents which she asks for.
Me: ''But the shelf price says it's 60 cents!"'
Mart Girl "OK sir, because you are good customer...I give you discount"'
The price on the screen now comes up at 64 cents so she has knocked off 20 per cent for being a good customer.
Me; "But the price on the shelf says 60 cents!"
Mart Girl: Sir...price on shelf not always correct...that's why I give you discount"
Me: Was too stunned at the hilarity of the transaction to query with her that I was still short 4 cents. It's not the 4 cents that'"s funny...it's the always present Khmer logic that cracks me up
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Only last night I ordered a pasta dish with some extras and to my surprise the waitress wrote everything down on a page in her note book, great, what could possibly go wrong here.
Thirty minutes later she returned with her note book in hand and asked what my order was again as she lost the page.
Thirty minutes later she returned with her note book in hand and asked what my order was again as she lost the page.
Never mind.
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About a month ago I was in a Khmer restaurant and ordered a plate of fried meatballs as a snack whilst my meal was being prepared.
When I got the bill it was a few dollars more than I expected so I looked at the detail. They had charged me the wrong price for the meatballs.
I asked for a copy of the menu and pointed this out. They responded to say that the menu lists the price for the small plate - they gave me a large plate. Nowhere on the menu did it show two size options.
I explained that I ordered from the menu and expected to pay the menu price.
I ended up with 5 staff members around my table discussing the situation at volume. Then they decided to call the boss. I put the correct money on the table and walked out - they didn’t even notice me leave.
When I got the bill it was a few dollars more than I expected so I looked at the detail. They had charged me the wrong price for the meatballs.
I asked for a copy of the menu and pointed this out. They responded to say that the menu lists the price for the small plate - they gave me a large plate. Nowhere on the menu did it show two size options.
I explained that I ordered from the menu and expected to pay the menu price.
I ended up with 5 staff members around my table discussing the situation at volume. Then they decided to call the boss. I put the correct money on the table and walked out - they didn’t even notice me leave.
Sounds like just another day in the Kingdom of Wonder.
I refuse to go out with nothing more than a whimper followed by a small farting sound and a shit stain on my bed sheets..
Just thought I'd share that with you.
Just thought I'd share that with you.
have given up. i dont even whimper, just pay whats asked even if its twice the real price and mental note it. have good memory for these things, shop again at places with less mental notes even if it means a long walk in the heat of day. but still do but rarely go to rip off places again and buy little amounts of stuff when just couldn't be bothered with the dollar fraction. more important is the staff doing the serving sometimes.
Last edited by sociopath on Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.
no replying to those who misinterpret/misread what i write. this aint kindergarten
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