My co-worker is a fountain of misinformation!! 5/14 the day has come page 130

[MrsKreamer]

If they are then so is my MIL - who uses the word PACIFIC in place of.. SPECIFIC - "Well to be more pacific....." Actually since we live on the east coast can we be more Atlantic?

My MIL does this too!!!

 

[sha_lyn]

A friend of my mom does the pacific instead of specific thing
Also she picks up her subscriptions at the drugstore and eats harsh potatoes (which is suppose to be irish potatoes, which is what some older folks around here call white/baking potatoes)

 

[DVCLiz]

A friend of my mom does the pacific instead of specific thing
Also she picks up her subscriptions at the drugstore and eats harsh potatoes (which is suppose to be irish potatoes, which is what some older folks around here call white/baking potatoes)

It took me years to figure out that my grandmother meant Irish potatoes - all I ever heard as a young child was "Osh tatoes" and I had no idea what she meant!!

 

[Octoberbride03]

Great thread. I'll be waiting for more.

Reminds me of my former coworker who called the Naval Observatory to find out when 12 AM was noon or midnight.

He's also one that flew out of Philly and on his way home, had to fly into Baltimore due to bad weather. When he couldn't find his car at the Baltimore airport, he reported it stolen!

OMG I almost fell out of my chair. I always confuse the BWI with Philly. I mean that red overhang at the airline doors is no help at all.


Please don't ever let this thread drop past page 2. I so needed it this week.

And Not quite the same as the others but i'll add a coworker's story of an encounter with a guest. We work at Target and 1 day he was arranging CDs in their slots when a guy comes up and asks "Where are the Cds?"
He looks at the CDs and back at the guy and seeing he was serious pointed down the main aisle. Go all the way down this aisle. At the last intersection make a right turn. Go ALL the way down that aisle to the women's clothes and make ANOTHER right turn. Then you ALL the way up that aisle to the food court and make 1 MORE right turn and you'll see them. That of course sent him all the way around the store. The guy actually walked away in the direction he was sent and reappeared about 6-7 minutes later. He looked right the CDs and my coworker and said "Hey man, thanks for the directions." My coworker barely made it to the team office b4 he fell on the floor.

 

[KristiKelly]

So, what's up with Miss Information today?

 

[rie'smom]

I love this thread!

 

[kelleigh1]

OMG I almost fell out of my chair. I always confuse the BWI with Philly. I mean that red overhang at the airline doors is no help at all.


Please don't ever let this thread drop past page 2. I so needed it this week.

And Not quite the same as the others but i'll add a coworker's story of an encounter with a guest. We work at Target and 1 day he was arranging CDs in their slots when a guy comes up and asks "Where are the Cds?"
He looks at the CDs and back at the guy and seeing he was serious pointed down the main aisle. Go all the way down this aisle. At the last intersection make a right turn. Go ALL the way down that aisle to the women's clothes and make ANOTHER right turn. Then you ALL the way up that aisle to the food court and make 1 MORE right turn and you'll see them. That of course sent him all the way around the store. The guy actually walked away in the direction he was sent and reappeared about 6-7 minutes later. He looked right the CDs and my coworker and said "Hey man, thanks for the directions." My coworker barely made it to the team office b4 he fell on the floor.

Now this one really cracked me up!

 

[Chicago526]

Ahem. My husband didn't believe me the other day when I told him South Africa is a country. He kept insisting it was just a region of the continent of Africa. I pointed out that I'm a travel agent and I do know a bit about geography. Nope, still didn't buy it. I did a Google search and pointed out several referances. Still doesn't beleive me. At this point I think he DOES get it and is just trying to agrivate me. But at first, he really didn't believe it when I told him.

Anyone interested in a slightly used husband? I'll trade for just about anything.

 

[MyGoofy26]

About 10 years ago I worked at Hallmark during the holidays. One particularly busy Saturday I came in and clocked in and a woman stopped me to ask me about some candy. We had a display of Russel Stover, part of which was tins of candy with various Elvis pics on the front.

The Woman: "Did Elvis really sign these?"
Me, staring, waiting for her to break and laugh at her joke. . . she doesn't, "I'm sorry?"
The woman, pointing to signature, "Did he really sign these?
Me, stuttering trying to figure out how to nicely let her down, "Oh uh, I think originally it was taken from a real signature but these are just printed on there."
The woman, dejected, "Oh. Well thanks." Puts candy back on display.

I had to speedwalk to the stockroom before I bust out laughing. A couple women were back there and gave the strangest look. I told them the story and the one said I shoulda told, "Yeah, we had him in this morning for an autograph session - too bad you missed it!"

 

[MyGoofy26]

Ahem. My husband didn't believe me the other day when I told him South Africa is a country.

Reminds me of my old neighbor at Disney. He was from South Africa and his biggest pet peeve was people (Americans) who didn't know there were white people in Africa. He had a hysterical story about Christina Aguilera and I can't do it justice, but I'll try. She had come through and was chatting with him at the safari. Remember this girl was on Mickey Mouse Club so spent a few years working at WDW since they filmed at MGM so should be aware of how these things work. She walked away to talk with someone in her entourage, then came back to my friend a couple minutes later and looked at him, looked at his nametag, looked at him, looked at his nametag and then said, "So are you REALLY from South Africa or is that a Disney thing?"

 

[simba928]

Oh and to the person with the friend who thinks people speak Mexican in Mexico - ask her about Brazil! Oooooh, and what about...America?? What do we speak in the USA? LOL LOL!!

I think I asked her about America. Her reply: "American! DURRRR!!!". I then said "you mean english?" She stared at me for a few seconds and replied "Um, yeah, whatever. same thing." I also asked her about another country that wasn't quite as obvious as Canada and Australia. It might have been Brazil. She just stared at me for a while. It totally conused her and she had no idea what to say.

 

[scanne]

OMG. I have been laughing my butt off!!!! This is hysterical.

Here's one for you.

In 2005, we took a BIG family vacation to WDW. This included my in-laws. I thought it would be nice to do a girls only tea at the Grand Floridian. As we're looking over the menu, my MIL says she is going to have the sconces. I said, "you mean scones?" She said, "No, I want the sconces." Then when she placed her order, she ordered sconces. SCONCES! She wanted wall lights!!! I had to bite my lip so hard to keep from laughing in her face. I think my mom was kicking me under the table. It was just too much. We still joke about it to this day.

 

[SydSim]

When DH was a teen, he and his friends were hanging on the corner, talking trash.

Everyone starts saying how they're not virgins.

"I'm not a virgin are you?"
"Naw, I'm not even a virgin, you?"
"Not me, I'm no virgin, You?"
To which DH proudly replies,

"I'M NOT A VIRGIN - I'M A SAGITARIUS!"

Bless his heart
(pssst...he's still a Sagitarius, though)

 

[Hixski]

I have a male coworker that cannot stand the idea of a female being smarter than he is. He is always asking me questions to see if I know what the answer is. He gets mad when I know it. He is another one that will swear something is true just to be right even if he is proven wrong.

 

[arminnie]

Another South African story.

I had two men working for me when I lived in Dallas. One was originally from England and one was originally from South Africa. Their accents were totally different, but were obviously not American accents. They just sounded British to the average Texan.

I overheard another worker (who knew where they were from) ask if they had know each other growing up as they sounded alike. Yeah like everybody in the British Isles knows everyother slightly British English (or at least non-American) speaking person around the world.

 

[meloneyb21]

When DH was about 16 he worked at a local Rite Aid stocking shelves. One day this lady came in and asked him where the KY Jelly was. His response? "Um, I don't know about KY, but we DO have grape and strawberry.".....the lady went to go find another associate....To this day, I won't let him live it down .

 

[Teresa Pitman]

A friend of mine's mother is like this. I came back from a WDW trip, and I'd done the "lunch with an Imagineer" and the Imagineer had been telling us about going to Disneyland Paris and some experiences he'd had there. So I was sharing this story with my friend and her mother, and the mother said "No, the Disney park in Paris isn't open yet." I said it had in fact been open for years, and that this Imagineer had been there and talked to us about it. She insisted:"No, they are building one there but it isn't open yet. It takes a long time to build a theme park, you know."

I just didn't know what to say after that. And she says things like this all the time. Worst of all, she's a TEACHER! I hate to think about the interesting pieces of misinformation her students are acquiring.

Teresa

 

[DVCLiz]

When DH was about 16 he worked at a local Rite Aid stocking shelves. One day this lady came in and asked him where the KY Jelly was. His response? "Um, I don't know about KY, but we DO have grape and strawberry.".....the lady went to go find another associate....To this day, I won't let him live it down .

I think this might be the best thing I have ever read on the DIS...

 

[Hixski]

A friend of mine's mother is like this. I came back from a WDW trip, and I'd done the "lunch with an Imagineer" and the Imagineer had been telling us about going to Disneyland Paris and some experiences he'd had there. So I was sharing this story with my friend and her mother, and the mother said "No, the Disney park in Paris isn't open yet." I said it had in fact been open for years, and that this Imagineer had been there and talked to us about it. She insisted:"No, they are building one there but it isn't open yet. It takes a long time to build a theme park, you know."

I just didn't know what to say after that. And she says things like this all the time. Worst of all, she's a TEACHER! I hate to think about the interesting pieces of misinformation her students are acquiring.

Teresa

These are the ones that kill me. You are having lunch with someone that works at Disney and they don't know what they are talking about. Not to mention that most of the civilized world (at least us Dissers) knows that the park in Paris has been open for quite some time. People like that make so crazy that my eyes want to bleed.

 

[Disneyfan63]

EvilGenius, the only thing I have to say about your coworker MissInformation, is that it's unfair to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Jim