Rather a surreal situation...

[Noodley]

I came out of a meeting the other day and was mistaken for the 'boiler man'

 

[Smokin Joe]

Been there too - in B&Q with a shirt and tie on - folk asking me for stuff.....do I have a B&Q shirt on....... nope - I'm shopping too in my lunch hour !!!

I'd be tempted to pretend I was staff and tell them a load of old bollox. "Wallpaper stripper, sir? These modern blowlamps are designed just for that, the heat doesn't travel very far".

 

[snorri]

Funny that, quite often when I have been at work my colleagues have said they thought I was just an onlooker.

 

[Melvil]

A bit OT but the only thing worse than being ignored is being patronised. A guy who works in my local coffee shop is Polish. He's pretty much fluent in English and very clever with it...but there's a woman in the office down the road who comes in and says V E R Y S L O W L Y W H A T S H E W A N T S....she points to the items as well, just in case he hasn't got the message.

I told him, if she wants to be like that, he should do a Manuel off Fawlty Towers, go to the other end of the counter and hold up a completely different item, smiling hopefully...just to pi$$ her right off.

 

[Piemaster]

I once asked a guy in Staples if he could get me one a big plastic storage box from a shelf about 10 feet up.
He said he'd love to but didn't actually work there

 

[Keith Oates]

I once came out of a bar in New Plymouth, NZ. and saw a taxi on the other side of the road. I walked across and got in the back and only then did I realise it was a Police car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Headgardener]

It's the other way round for me, walking around the hospital site in uniform with name badge to the fore and people ask "do you work here", really gets my goat .

 

[Gromit]

We often get asked if we do the recycling, when we are stood sorting stuff into the trikes and electric vehicle, full of recycling.