Excuse me, am I speaking english?

[marcicat]

I kept wanting to ask this question today. (And yesterday. And perhaps most of last week as well.) Because this is a sample conversation from the store today:

Me: Can I help you find anything?
Customer: No, I’m just looking.
Me: Okay, great.
Customer: Do you have any juice?
Me: Okay, yes. Juice, right here. Right in front of you, actually, where you’re already looking.
Customer: I’m looking for juice.
Me: Yes, it’s here. Juice. Right here.
Customer: Don’t you have anything that’s not juice?
Me: Um… Yes, actually. Everything that’s *not* right here in front of you. Lots and lots of things that aren’t juice.
Customer: What I really want is juice.
Me: WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT I’M SO CONFUSED. THE JUICE IS HERE. THIS IS THE JUICE, HERE. EVERYTHING ELSE = NOT JUICE. HOW HARD IS THAT?

It was like that over, and over, and over. It was sort of funny, in the ‘I would have to fire myself if I yelled at this person, so I guess laughing about it is the way to go.’

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