Thursday, November 25, 2010

A Tale of Two Papers

In a school supplies store somewhere in Angeles City, I was scouting for butcher paper which I wanted to use as lining for the bottom of my drawers. Failing to find one by myself, my sister and I decided to consult the sales clerk who assisted us in the direction of the requested item.

Along a line of shelves of receipts and pads he went as we followed, and after a few paces, he confidently pointed a sheaf of papers with these words printed at the top:



After a few seconds of stifling our laughter, we explained to the sales clerk that we were looking for something else which is spelled as B-U-T-C-H-E-R. Not knowing the Tagalog version of the paper, we thought the item we were looking for may have a different term in their store so we described it to him.

And, just when we thought matters could not get any worse (or funnier) than it is, he referred us to their security guard.

WTF!

I wanted to laugh out loud.

We thought he'd refer us to another sales clerk or the manager, instead he directed us to the security guard who was, on a positive note, very helpful and tried his best to picture what kind of paper we were looking for. The clerk just gave us the impression that their security guard knows the products in the store better than anyone else.

In the end, we left the store empty-handed. And my plan to dress up my drawers just got butchered.



Monday, November 8, 2010

Quote: Arctic Monkeys

"Assuming that all things are equal, who wants to be men of the people when there's people like you?" -From Teddy Picker by Arctic Monkeys