Give me some dialogue from your day

[ColinJ]

Me, to my sister and niece, before they left: "Have you got my spare walking boots to take back to Devon?"

Sister: "Yes, I put them in the car."

Me, on phone 1 minute later: "Those walking boots don't want to leave... They must have sneaked out of the car when your back was turned, and are now hiding under a chair in my kitchen!"

 

[Speicher]

Me, to my sister and niece, before they left: "Have you got my spare walking boots to take back to Devon?"

Sister: "Yes, I put them in the car."

Me, on phone 1 minute later: "Those walking boots don't want to leave... They must have sneaked out of the car when your back was turned, and are now hiding under a chair in my kitchen!"

Did they take a different pair of walking boots, leaving you with the spare ones?

 

[ColinJ]

Did they take a different pair of walking boots, leaving you with the spare ones?

No - she had been thinking of her own boots!

Fortunately, they were only just down the road so they came back for the boots.

I have slowly built up a stash of clothes and bike spares/tools in Devon so I can now travel down with just one medium sized rucksack. The spare boots were for the stash.

 

[Chief Broom]

" Quack quack" i said in a loud urgent tone...i did consider saying "mind out ducks" but of course the twenty or so mallards waddling around on the single track wouldnt understand that...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Sometimes I love my client's humour. One turned up this week after a vanishing a few days.

AinG: So... what happened; were you sick?
Client: Um... not exactly... On the weekend, we got a few grams of marijuana (legal in Germany) and made cookies...
AinG: Ah, right... and that's why you were off sick?
Client: Um yeah... I mean... (cough) Something was wrong, man, like, It must have been um... the butter; yeah, the butter had turned, man. Gotta be careful with um... butter...

 

[rvw]

In the local bakery:

Me: I'll have a seeded sourdough, sliced, and can I also have 2 mince pies to take away?
Assistant: Yes, sure, but if you get three mince pies it's cheaper.
Me: (looks at sign saying Mince pies £3.25 in, £2.75 out, 3 for £9) ..... no they aren't!

 

[Profpointy]

In the local bakery:

Me: I'll have a seeded sourdough, sliced, and can I also have 2 mince pies to take away?
Assistant: Yes, sure, but if you get three mince pies it's cheaper.
Me: (looks at sign saying Mince pies £3.25 in, £2.75 out, 3 for £9) ..... no they aren't!

Isn't that one of those clever marketing tricks intended to manipulate people into buying 3 mince pies separately rather of as a deal, when someone only intended to buy two?

 

[Electric_Andy]

In the local bakery:

Me: I'll have a seeded sourdough, sliced, and can I also have 2 mince pies to take away?
Assistant: Yes, sure, but if you get three mince pies it's cheaper.
Me: (looks at sign saying Mince pies £3.25 in, £2.75 out, 3 for £9) ..... no they aren't!

It's what my Gran would have called "cheaper, after the rate". But yes, it is a marketing ploy to make us think that buying 3 for slightly more than 2 singles is a good deal, which it only is if you want 3 in the first place! And some people can't count

 

[rvw]

Isn't that one of those clever marketing tricks intended to manipulate people into buying 3 mince pies separately rather of as a deal, when someone only intended to buy two?

It was definitely a bit daft (and the assistant probably even less bright) as they had packaged the sets of three nicely in boxes. So as the only way they were cheaper was to eat in, they would not only be selling them cheaper but they would also have to take them out of the box and throw it away - which would be a cost.

At a guess, the intention was to have nice presentation boxes to take away, with a small (75p) uplift for the nice box as opposed to the usual dull brown one - which would be entirely fair, but the assistant got the wrong end of the stick.