[QUOTE]Originally posted by anna_66
Mind you, I'm a waitress so I get asked alot of dumb questions


Here's one for you, Anna. This is not my story. This actually happened to Gillian Anderson once. A patron ordered the mixed fish stew. When Gillian brought it out, the lady kind of poked at it a bit with her fork while making the kind of face people make when they smell something bad.

The lady said, "Oh, I didn't realize there was FISH in this."

Gillian said she turned beet red and replied through clenched teeth, "MIXED. . .FISH. . .STEW. Which one of these three words didn't you get??"

As for me, I work at an electronics store. Yet one more place that gets flooded with stupid questions every day, like when people want us to test their cordless phones, we need the entire phone, including the power supply. People will bring in just the handset, or just the base. Or everything but the power supply.

We tell them, "We will need the power supply, so we can test that too and see if that's the problem."

Standard response: "What's a power supply?"

Me: "The thing that plugs the phone into the electrical outlet."

Them: "You mean this?" And they proceed to show me the telephone cord.

Me: (sighing softly) "No. That's the telephone cord. I need the power supply, also called the power adapter. The thing that plugs into the electrical outlet."

Them: "Uh. . .I don't get it."

*sigh* At this point, I usually shake my head in disbelief and try again. The same exchange is then repeated several times until the customer gets it, if at all.