When you walk into a retail establishment that specializes in electronics, and you need some help finding what you need, try to be a little more specific than “I need a connector.”
And when the salesman asks what you’re trying to connect, don’t answer with “wires” or “cables”.
This isn’t a trick question and it’s not a fucking state secret, either. If you’re trying to hook up your DVD player to your TV, than say so, so the salesman can get you what you need without having to play 20 fucking questions.
Thank you.
I worked in the water industry for almost 20 years.
I, too, have had to deal with many fuckwits who amazed me in that they were able to breath.
My questions have been:
Are you connecting (pick any two types of pipe – try to pick the most unlikely … earthenware (clay) and concrete) and what sizes … again, the more outrageous the better (12mm to 24″).
Then again sarcasm sometimes falls flat on its arse.
I must admit I tried hard to develop a game (it happened too often) where I could elicit the information I needed by asking the fewest questions … which is hard when you’re talking to a fucking brick …
These days when I walk into a shop to ask for something I give as much information as I can about what it is that I think I want.
I figure the less questions he asks me the better I’ve done my job.
Few days ago I went in only to inquire about a booster for the TV aerial – you plug it to the power point, plug in two ends of the coax and it gives you a great picture.
You know what I’m talking about.
I was enquiring for a daughter of a friend of a friend … I tuned in her TV and couldn’t get one of the channels.
When I told the kid this bit he said if there wasn’t even a flicker of the chennel I was after, a booster would do no good.
But, he said, you can get this Digital Set Top Box.
So 10 minutes after going in I’d bought one for myself – I now get an extra 2 free-to-air as well as 3 music channels.
As for the daughter of a friend of a friend … she was too young … a better fantasy than a fuck.
Amen.