The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: Darker on December 29, 2014, 12:54:07 PM
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So yeah, what the title says.
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On a boat trip, I saw a man with a vast group of friends. He was wearing a nappy/diaper. No joke. Simple story, but preeettty weird :blink: I think it must have been some stupid joke :/
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someone once asked me if I was prohibited from pointing up, for religious reasons.
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I could fill the whole thread, lol. The best was when people asked if green-shelled chicken eggs were safe to eat.
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I helped raise my nephew and I used to babysit alot of little kids.....I've heard lots of silly things..... I own animals............ I've seen alot of silly things. In fact, seeing as my dog Sandy is eating again, there are silly things going on beside me right at this moment. So....Silliest? I'm afraid it's hard to choose.
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Here is my most recent, and one of the funniest. My cousin (who just turned 15 this year) is working at our local grocery store. On boxing day, Dec 26th, he was drafted to help out in the customer service department. While he was working the counter, a fellow about 50 years old, approached the counter to make a return. Now, my cousin is not authorized or experienced enough to actually do returns, so he was basically assisting and being a gopher for the person who was.
The fellow wanted to return... a tree. A Christmas tree. A LIVE Christmas tree. Which he had purchased from the vendor in the parking lot. When he was told that the tree was not returnable, he became irate, very loud and demanding that they take the tree back and give him the money back. To the point where the manager had to be called down. To the point where after the manager gave him a few firm "NO's" the manager had to threaten to call the cops before the guy would leave the store!
Now I am wanting to try this myself next year. Cut down a live tree somewhere, slap some tinsel on it, and then take it back to the store on Dec 26th. Just to see the look on people's faces.
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"Does the train go both ways on the tracks?" (Thus said by a 15 year old female.) Oy.
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At work, I emailed a student and needed a reply back. They sent their reply on to my colleague with a message that they didn't have my email address, and could my colleague pass it on to me. The kicker? They forwarded my original email to my colleague..... they could forward it, but not hit Reply? :crazy:
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I could probably fill this thread with stories a couple of favorites:
I used to work in a call center. Because we'd get the occasional non-English speaking customers, there was a special number we could utilize to get interpreters. You'd just call the service on a secondary line, tell them what language the customer speaks, then they'd get an agent on the phone to interpret to/for the customer. One time, a co-worker next to me called that line and said, "Can I get a Jamaican interpreter? I need a Jamaican interpreter." Hello! They speak English just like we do in the U.S.
Funniest thing I've ever seen. Well that may just be myself. In high school and college I had to do two projects where I had to do something completely out of the ordinary and write about people's reactions. The first time, I went to the local mall wearing a white t-shirt, pajama pants, a bathrobe, and Dalmatian slippers and walked around.
The second time I wore a white headband with bunny ears, all white clothing, and a scrubber pinned to the seat of my pants as a rabbit tail. I went to and from both of my morning classes dressed like that. When got to my Oral Communication class, a guy in the previous class asked me why I was dressed like a rabbit. I started to answer and he said, "It's okay. If you choose to dress like a rabbit that's your lifestyle choice and I respect that."
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Given the fact that all of my friends (and me!) are incredibly silly, I could probably fill this thread, lol. But one of my favorites happened while I was at the barn I board my horse. This was a long time ago (I was in middle school) and I still had my pony since I hadn't outgrown her yet. I was riding while my brother and the barn owner's son (who my brother and I are good friends with) were goofing around. Suddenly, I realized they were on the roof of the garage! This kind of thing was (and still is) pretty par for the course with them so I kind of just shook my head and kept riding my pony. I happened to look over though, just as my friend jumped off the roof of the garage! He grabbed onto this springy branch from this tree next to the garage, presumably intending to swing to the ground gracefully. This was a pretty sound plan, because the garage was pretty low to the ground and the branch was right there, so there wasn't much risk involved.
But he didn't account for just how springy the branch was! When he grabbed on, it sprung back up and literally flung him through the air! I knew that he was fine because he did this kind of thing near constantly and he jumped right back up even after he hit the ground, and I thought the whole thing was just hilarious. It made me laugh so hard that I nearly fell off my pony, who to her credit, just stood there like "silly human, what on earth are you doing up there?!" the whole time. To this day, even though this was like 6 years ago or more, I laugh just at the mental image of the look on his face when the branch sprang back up!
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I had a witch's hat on 2 years ago handing out candy on Halloween. A little girl goes up to me, looks around (im in the garage, sitting down) and asks where my broom is. I told her my friend had borrowed it xD
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Well, today our manager at work (walmart) said something about the words 'bonus in march' that was HILARIOUS! x'D had the WHOLE breakroom laughing and scoffing!!! Silly manager... :P
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I'm a brunette. My blonde friend once asked me if my hair gets hot in the summer.
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I'm a brunette. My blonde friend once asked me if my hair gets hot in the summer.
har har
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I'm not sure what on earth was going on but a while ago I saw a bloke storming purposefully down the street with a massive duvet thrown over his shoulder; a short distance behind him, another guy was running along with a couple of pillows under his arm. There was also the time I was walking into town and found a bread roll impaled on the branch of a tree and some croissants in a hedge - someone really had a vendetta against the baked goods that day!
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I saw a clown going into a bar one time XD
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Apparently we need to improve the "feel" of the museum to attract more women :huh:
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I worked at disney world, I could write a book on what people have said.
"is this a ferry ride to the animal kingdom"
Why yes, welcome aboard.
Keep in mind I was standing directly under the pirates of the caribbean sign.
what time is the 3 pm parade?
and some dude that insisted POTC was infact splash mountain. -_-
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Oh man, there are too many in a month for me to even list. We LOVE silliness here.
Once, my mom was telling me about something she'd read in a magazine about "what's that illness, again?? The one where people can't remember stuff???" We never let her live that one down.
A friend who worked at the Washington Monument in D.C. said one lady asked her how they got all the flags to fly in the same direction. O.o
At an American Civil War reenactment someone (grown person with a driver's license) asked "Which ones are the British?"
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At an American Civil War reenactment someone (grown person with a driver's license) asked "Which ones are the British?"
Hahaha! Love it!
I think the british were probably at home enjoying a nice cup of tea!
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On my way to work I passed a woman dressed all in purple. Purple boots, purple sparkling leggings, a long purple tunic, a purple purse and purple hair! She was leading her bike, which was purple as well. It was pretty cool and should of looked awesome, but it was all different shades so it just looked weird.
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Once when working in a supermarket a middle aged man picked up some laundry detergent and asked me if it was suitable to use on fabric.
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I work at a pizza place and someone once asked me if we had guacamole.
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London - 2008.
Starfall pulls her sleepy head up off her friend's shoulder and looks to the back of the Night Bus' top deck.
A man in a striped satin clown suit sat on the back seat. His curly lilac wig completed the candy coloured stripes. He was playing the bongos.
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Latest one, some of my classmates were off in South Africa, more specifically the Kruger park during December as part of an optional trip you can get on where I study. And whilst they were out there someone met a German tourist who basically asked 'Excuse me, you're from England? Last time I met someone from England they told me you need a special license in order to use a ladder that's more than three steps high because of health and safety?'
I saw a clown going into a bar one time XD
Is this some sort of a joke?
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Turned out a while ago that a guy I knew (then in his 20´s) thought that children developed feet first in the uterus. That first came feet, then legs grew out, and so on all the way up to the head that grew out last. My jaw dropped, I´ve never heard anything that dumb. I asked him if he thought premature babies were born headless.
Still haven´t regained repect for that dude. :-P
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How about the silliest thing I've *done*?
My old dogger is on antibiotics right now. Today is her last day of this current round of them (recheck today, probably getting more). Last night, for her dose, I couldn't find them *anywhere*. They'd been on my kitchen island, but I had also gotten mad at my island for being cluttered earlier in the day and purged a LOT of stuff off of it. I looked everywhere for these freaking pills (Clavamox, so they're on that little metal-y envelope strip thing) and couldn't find them. I dug through the trash twice. I looked under the fridge and furniture in case they fell on the ground and someone carried them off. I even called my husband at work to ask him if he maybe somehow accidentally took them with him. He made we walk through everything I did involving the island yesterday, and I found them... wedged between two recipes in my recipe book?! I have NO idea how that could have even happened without me noticing!
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We were giving out Pikachu cards at a Nintendo event once, and when one father got them for his son...
'Pokemon? Who the *ahem* likes Pokemon anymore?'
Perhaps the 5mill+ people that had purchased the game at that time? :lmao:
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I work at a pizza place and someone once asked me if we had guacamole.
I do get that, but I also like Guacamole and might be tempted to say... I know pizza is Italian, but..." Just, y'know, in case? :lookround: ;)
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At an American Civil War reenactment someone (grown person with a driver's license) asked "Which ones are the British?"
I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry. :rolleyes:
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I have a lot of stories all courtesy of an individual I call 'Crazy Animal Lady'
To keep it short:
I once had to listen to her go on for a good half hour about how she psychically contacted her dead mouse *sniff* and it wanted to give her a flower. She even had a picture of the flower the mouse wanted to give her drawn on a napkin...
also, her dead goldfish wanted to say hello to her.
Apparently only 'those nasty African snakes' are the evil snakes that eat mice and other animals, not like our good North American snakes.
On that same note she was convinced garter snakes were "vegetarians, because you always see them crawling through grass and plants"
I just cringe whenever I see this lady coming -_-
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Turned out a while ago that a guy I knew (then in his 20´s) thought that children developed feet first in the uterus. That first came feet, then legs grew out, and so on all the way up to the head that grew out last. My jaw dropped, I´ve never heard anything that dumb. I asked him if he thought premature babies were born headless.
Still haven´t regained repect for that dude. :-P
Literally Laughed out loud at this one!
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I don't think I've posted this one before:
This happened at night (maybe 9-10pm ish range). I pulled up to a red light, turning left. Police car across the intersection across from me, also turning left. I know this can be a long red for our direction (the main street running across gets the long green). Well Mr. Police decides he doesn't want to wait for it, and needs his coffee.
He puts on his lights (there is no other traffic around at all), makes his turn, goes up a few driveways, turns off his lights, and pulls into the Tim Hortons.
I just watched in amazement, shook my head and smiled. Then the light changed and I got to go. In total he saved himself maybe 30 seconds.
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I don't think I've posted this one before:
This happened at night (maybe 9-10pm ish range). I pulled up to a red light, turning left. Police car across the intersection across from me, also turning left. I know this can be a long red for our direction (the main street running across gets the long green). Well Mr. Police decides he doesn't want to wait for it, and needs his coffee.
He puts on his lights (there is no other traffic around at all), makes his turn, goes up a few driveways, turns off his lights, and pulls into the Tim Hortons.
I just watched in amazement, shook my head and smiled. Then the light changed and I got to go.
Haha! I KNEW cops must abuse their power! :lmao:
Post Merge: January 14, 2015, 11:18:08 AM
Turned out a while ago that a guy I knew (then in his 20´s) thought that children developed feet first in the uterus. That first came feet, then legs grew out, and so on all the way up to the head that grew out last. My jaw dropped, I´ve never heard anything that dumb. I asked him if he thought premature babies were born headless.
Still haven´t regained repect for that dude. :-P
Literally Laughed out loud at this one!
So did I! :lol:
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Last week this guy literally stood in front of the instant coffee at work and asked me where the instant coffee was. I gestured at the large section of it he was already at. He asked me where it was again. I kinda stared at him in disbelief and didn't know what to say. Then he commented that he must be blind and I'm like, uh...yeah....
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A couple years back, I was at a convention in NJ and my group of friends got hungry. There were three of us but one had to leave for a bit (I can't remember why?).
So while he was gone, the other guy and I were figuring out what to order. When we decided he asked if he should do a silly voice on the phone.
I paid him 5 entire dollars to order in the most campy, ridiculous voice he could do. It was the best 5 dollars I have ever spent.
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I don't think I've posted this one before:
This happened at night (maybe 9-10pm ish range). I pulled up to a red light, turning left. Police car across the intersection across from me, also turning left. I know this can be a long red for our direction (the main street running across gets the long green). Well Mr. Police decides he doesn't want to wait for it, and needs his coffee.
He puts on his lights (there is no other traffic around at all), makes his turn, goes up a few driveways, turns off his lights, and pulls into the Tim Hortons.
I just watched in amazement, shook my head and smiled. Then the light changed and I got to go. In total he saved himself maybe 30 seconds.
I once saw a Fire engine go down my local high street, and I'm pretty sure they had the siren going to, and then they stopped and went into McDonald's.
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How about I tell something incredibly stupid that I supposedly once thought?
Don't judge me... It's really bad. :yikes:
I do not know how much I really believed otherwise, but I just remembered an instance where my mom had to inform me that back in the times where TV was black and white, real life was in color.
:yikes:
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When someone was very, very insistent with me that whiskey does indeed contain fiber, because it's made from plants.
If that doesn't keep you giggling, this very same person also swore up and down that wool came from plants and cotton grew on sheep.
*cries in laughter*
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:lol: This is great! When we were on vacation, my husband was in the hotel bed, and he broke wind, passed gas, farted ... whatever you want to call it. My daughter, who was about 18 months old, said, "Daddy needs a fresh diaper on."
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A lady who fed her dogs each half a chocolate candy every night before bed
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This Youtube clip from Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader always cracks me up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cey35bBWXls
Hopefully, it'll make you guys laugh too. Kelly Pickler's whole sense of geography is hilarious.
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A lady who fed her dogs each half a chocolate candy every night before bed
This beeing not only silly, but also dangerous. Chocholate is poison to dogs :-(
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A lady who fed her dogs each half a chocolate candy every night before bed
Wow, really? I mean....let's feed her some mouse poison before bed each night. I hear it's sweet and tasty.
People are unbelievable.
Post Merge: January 18, 2015, 02:44:43 PM
My brother was telling me about a guy "friend" who came to the stupid conclusion as to why he hated gay people. Because they can't have kids. What about all the barren couples and elderly that get married? What a crock.
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We were told that women in heels were to wait in a fire alarm situation until others had evacuated as they might be slow on the fire stairs and slow down the whole evacuation. Chucks out the whole woman and children first thing, lol.
I called the equal opportunity department who had a good laugh and got me to repeat it on speaker because it was the most ridiculous piece of discrimination they'd heard for some time . They said that if heels slow people down then they would be an OH&S risk and no one should ever wear them. But as heeled shoes are a female trait it's discrimination and illegal to just stop them evacuating with everyone else.
So I told my work to get lost and I'll be going down the fire stairs when I want not remaining to die just because I wear heels (which work basically forces us to do as "professional" clothing). The rest of the women agreed and the policy was dropped.
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This isn't on the same level as other posts here, but I did want to find a place to talk about it? Can I just talk about how ridiculous retail is?
People always complain about retailers forcing Christmas on them early, but I find that nowhere near as ridiculous as the fact that at my store, they already put bikinis and other swimwear out and put all of the coats and general winterwear on clearance! (or I should say what's left of it. They literally stopped ordering them long before winter even started.)
Winter started one month ago... We are not even half-way through it. What in the world? :drunk: I know people in general are anxious for Spring (even though it's nicer than it will ever be in Spring right now. I'd bet money on this one!), but that's ridiculous! But fine, lose money on those still coming in looking for coats the next time it gets cold.
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"Oh you live in Africa? Do you have lions in your back yard??" "You have the internet in Africa??" No, I'm using magic pixie dust to post on here (that was on the Silverstein forum :lol: )
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"Oh you live in Africa? Do you have lions in your back yard??" "You have the internet in Africa??" No, I'm using magic pixie dust to post on here (that was on the Silverstein forum :lol: )
lol I was telling my mom how to keep Elephants out of your yard with bees, then added, "But we'll only need to know that if we move to the bush part of Africa. Not the part of Africa that has Starbucks."
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"Oh you live in Africa? Do you have lions in your back yard??" "You have the internet in Africa??" No, I'm using magic pixie dust to post on here (that was on the Silverstein forum :lol: )
lol I was telling my mom how to keep Elephants out of your yard with bees, then added, "But we'll only need to know that if we move to the bush part of Africa. Not the part of Africa that has Starbucks."
There's a part of Africa that has Starbucks?? I wish it was my part. Lol.
Possibly Egypt and Morocco, popular tourist destinations, have Starbucks. Sadly not South Africa.
I need pumpkin spice lattes in my life.
We were told that women in heels were to wait in a fire alarm situation until others had evacuated as they might be slow on the fire stairs and slow down the whole evacuation. Chucks out the whole woman and children first thing, lol.
Because of course, shoes are permanent fixtures and can't be removed from feet if necessary *sarcasm
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We were told that women in heels were to wait in a fire alarm situation until others had evacuated as they might be slow on the fire stairs and slow down the whole evacuation. Chucks out the whole woman and children first thing, lol.
Because of course, shoes are permanent fixtures and can't be removed from feet if necessary *sarcasm
In my building- those of us that are on the 17 - 32 floors aren't even allowed to evacuate all the way out in the event of a major disaster/fire/etc., because it will fill up the stairwells too much and/or cause panic. Instead, we have been told that we have to go down to floor 14 and wait on a "holding floor." I guess only the first 16 floors are expected to make it out alive, and the rest of us had just better stay out of the way to avoid a panic, and hope for the best...
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"Oh you live in Africa? Do you have lions in your back yard??" "You have the internet in Africa??" No, I'm using magic pixie dust to post on here (that was on the Silverstein forum :lol: )
lol I was telling my mom how to keep Elephants out of your yard with bees, then added, "But we'll only need to know that if we move to the bush part of Africa. Not the part of Africa that has Starbucks."
There's a part of Africa that has Starbucks?? I wish it was my part. Lol.
Possibly Egypt and Morocco, popular tourist destinations, have Starbucks. Sadly not South Africa.
I need pumpkin spice lattes in my life.
Apparently there are some places in Montecasino that serve starbucks, but are not starbucks, because they didn't want people to die of withdrawals during the world cup. Note this comes from someone who would have asked you those uninformed questions a couple of years ago. The internet is a wonderful place where you get to learn how dumb you used to be~ :lol:
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Apparently there are some places in Montecasino that serve starbucks, but are not starbucks, because they didn't want people to die of withdrawals during the world cup. Note this comes from someone who would have asked you those uninformed questions a couple of years ago. The internet is a wonderful place where you get to learn how dumb you used to be~ :lol:
Ah! Makes sense. That's in the capital.
I'm a 6 hour drive from there.
Sigh
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This isn't on the same level as other posts here, but I did want to find a place to talk about it? Can I just talk about how ridiculous retail is?
People always complain about retailers forcing Christmas on them early, but I find that nowhere near as ridiculous as the fact that at my store, they already put bikinis and other swimwear out and put all of the coats and general winterwear on clearance! (or I should say what's left of it. They literally stopped ordering them long before winter even started.)
Winter started one month ago... We are not even half-way through it. What in the world? :drunk: I know people in general are anxious for Spring (even though it's nicer than it will ever be in Spring right now. I'd bet money on this one!), but that's ridiculous! But fine, lose money on those still coming in looking for coats the next time it gets cold.
A lot of people go away for tropical vacations during the winter months, so they would be looking for bathing suits. Makes sense to me for the stores to have them available for travelers.
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This isn't on the same level as other posts here, but I did want to find a place to talk about it? Can I just talk about how ridiculous retail is?
People always complain about retailers forcing Christmas on them early, but I find that nowhere near as ridiculous as the fact that at my store, they already put bikinis and other swimwear out and put all of the coats and general winterwear on clearance! (or I should say what's left of it. They literally stopped ordering them long before winter even started.)
Winter started one month ago... We are not even half-way through it. What in the world? :drunk: I know people in general are anxious for Spring (even though it's nicer than it will ever be in Spring right now. I'd bet money on this one!), but that's ridiculous! But fine, lose money on those still coming in looking for coats the next time it gets cold.
A lot of people go away for tropical vacations during the winter months, so they would be looking for bathing suits. Makes sense to me for the stores to have them available for travelers.
In place of coats and other outerwear, though?
Having swim wear around for special occasions is one thing, putting it on display and clearing out the outerwear is another thing.
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A lot of stores do it. The most sales for that season are when it's just starting, not so much when it's halfway through. It's logical that stores would stock things that would sell more - if they sell 20 bathing suits vs 2 coats, of course that's what they are going to stock.
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A friend of mine once tried to argue that having a Siberian Husky would be not only more expensive but harder work than raising a human child.
I want to live in a world where meeting the daily needs of a human much are cheaper than that of dogs. x-x
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If you're from the US,you don't need a passport to go to Hawaii, it's a state!
Not all Texans have horses or giant cowboys hats.
Yes, women fart and no, it does not smell like perfume!
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About 7 years ago my parents, my husband, and I went to Orlando to visit my brother. We went to one of those dinner theater shows and were seated with a British family. Our waitress was from the deep South so she had a significant accent. She told us our entree options and the British lady ordered "the ham." Once we all got our food, British lady become increasingly upset as she tried to explain to the waitress she received the wrong order. She had been served a Cornish hen. She kept saying over and over, "But this is chicken! I ordered ham!" Finally, with help from us, we managed to explain that ham hadn't been a menu choice. It was hen! It was a case of misunderstanding accents! Much laughter was then had by all.
To this day though, if ever anything goes wrong with my family's food order, someone will inevitably say, "But this is chicken! I ordered ham!"
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My brother used to work at Disney World and one day it was raining so a lot of the park patrons were taking shelter in various dry places. A woman marched up to my brother who was in his work clothes with name badge, and asked in a very huffy way when they were going to put the dome up. Like, Disney World had a GIANT dome that could come up and cover the entire park so no rain could get in.
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I live in Oklahoma. When I go out of state I have people ask me if we still have trouble with Indian raids. *facepalm. I look at them very seriously and say, "Well, I sure don't. I'm part Cherokee." The looks on their faces is priceless.
Out of towners have gotten into a few embarrassing conversations down here when they are educated that a lot of us have Native American blood!