People are retarded.
Customer: Can I get a plate reading BOB, then N instead of "and", then SUE? [names changed.]
Me: Yup, that's available.
C: Great, can we get spaces?
Me: Well, your maximum is 8 characters, so there's only room for one space.
C: Ok, so you could do BOB-space-N-space-SUE?
Me: ... um ... no, that's too many characters. You can only get 8 total, including spaces.
C: *1,2,3,4,5,6*, wait, *1,2,3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7,8,9* But that's more than 8.
Me: ....... umm ...... yes, yes it is. That's why you can't do it.
C: Ok, how about BOBANDSUE?
Me: (should I point out that that's too many, or let this woman discover it on her own? She's waiting expectantly, damn, I need to tell her myself) That would be too many characters.
C: But you said I could do 8?
Me: ahhhm ... yes, but that's 9.
C: No it isn't ... *1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 ... 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9* Oh, you're right ...
Me: Well ma'am, I didn't get my math & engineering degree for nothing.
PEOPLE. I know how to count! And anyway, even if I didn't, the field on my computer is 8 characters long, so if it goes over, I'm not even ABLE to try it or order it.
I have just discovered the greatest pastime known to man. It is called laser tag and is amazing because you skulk around a maze and zap the moving blinking lights that are your friends. And you sneak up on people as you see them round a corner and zap them in the back. AND you sit up in the sniper holes and pick people off at a distance. AND you round a corner and realize you are being shot at by snipers, so you duck, wait 5 seconds, then stand up and try to snipe the sniper but they're not even there anymore. Then your pack says you're dead and you look and someone shot you in the back and then ran away. So you run in some other direction and your pack says you're alive again and SOMEONE's RUNNING UP THAT RAMP so you aim but some sniper got you in the shoulder while you were standing still, so you curse the sniper and swear your revenge on him/her and start making your way toward the sniper hole, but someone just ran around that corner so you go and shoot her in the back and it was your girlfriend so you run away before she knows it was you, and you're coming up to assault the sniper but someone got you right in the chest as soon as you got to the right level, so you hide in a corner until you're alive again and then you sneak up and KILL the sniper and they have to leave because they're dead and you're not, so you make sure they're really gone and not just waiting to take their hole back, and then you can rest up here and pick people off, but you have to make sure only your head is showing while you're looking for people or they can shoot you from the ground, and HEY I SEE A HEAD, COME ON, MOVE JUST A LITTLE BIT SO I CAN SEE YOUR SHOULDER SENSORS but it doesn't move, it just stares ... and you realize it's thinking the exact same thing because it raises a hand and WAVES to you, so you wave back, and ooh, there goes somebody, and you aim but you just got picked off from nowhere in particular. So you're dead and SUDDENLY YOU SEE LIKE 4 PEOPLE RUNNING AROUND VARIOUS PARTS but you can't shoot them because you haven't ressurected yet so you stay hidden, and then you come alive and you take careful aim but you see lasers lighting up the smoke around you and realize you're taking heavy fire so you duck and decide that your sniper hole isn't too safe anymore, so you leave and skulk around corridors and up a ramp and around a corner and THERE'S A PERSON, SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT, too late, they got you first, slash you just shot at random in your panic and they actually aimed, way to go Mr Panic-pants. And then your pack says the round is over, so you leave and compare scores with your friends in the lobby and you were 7th, which wouldn't be bad except there were only 7 of you to begin with.
Rest. Repeat.
Me: Yup, that's available.
C: Great, can we get spaces?
Me: Well, your maximum is 8 characters, so there's only room for one space.
C: Ok, so you could do BOB-space-N-space-SUE?
Me: ... um ... no, that's too many characters. You can only get 8 total, including spaces.
C: *1,2,3,4,5,6*, wait, *1,2,3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7,8,9* But that's more than 8.
Me: ....... umm ...... yes, yes it is. That's why you can't do it.
C: Ok, how about BOBANDSUE?
Me: (should I point out that that's too many, or let this woman discover it on her own? She's waiting expectantly, damn, I need to tell her myself) That would be too many characters.
C: But you said I could do 8?
Me: ahhhm ... yes, but that's 9.
C: No it isn't ... *1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 ... 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9* Oh, you're right ...
Me: Well ma'am, I didn't get my math & engineering degree for nothing.
PEOPLE. I know how to count! And anyway, even if I didn't, the field on my computer is 8 characters long, so if it goes over, I'm not even ABLE to try it or order it.
I have just discovered the greatest pastime known to man. It is called laser tag and is amazing because you skulk around a maze and zap the moving blinking lights that are your friends. And you sneak up on people as you see them round a corner and zap them in the back. AND you sit up in the sniper holes and pick people off at a distance. AND you round a corner and realize you are being shot at by snipers, so you duck, wait 5 seconds, then stand up and try to snipe the sniper but they're not even there anymore. Then your pack says you're dead and you look and someone shot you in the back and then ran away. So you run in some other direction and your pack says you're alive again and SOMEONE's RUNNING UP THAT RAMP so you aim but some sniper got you in the shoulder while you were standing still, so you curse the sniper and swear your revenge on him/her and start making your way toward the sniper hole, but someone just ran around that corner so you go and shoot her in the back and it was your girlfriend so you run away before she knows it was you, and you're coming up to assault the sniper but someone got you right in the chest as soon as you got to the right level, so you hide in a corner until you're alive again and then you sneak up and KILL the sniper and they have to leave because they're dead and you're not, so you make sure they're really gone and not just waiting to take their hole back, and then you can rest up here and pick people off, but you have to make sure only your head is showing while you're looking for people or they can shoot you from the ground, and HEY I SEE A HEAD, COME ON, MOVE JUST A LITTLE BIT SO I CAN SEE YOUR SHOULDER SENSORS but it doesn't move, it just stares ... and you realize it's thinking the exact same thing because it raises a hand and WAVES to you, so you wave back, and ooh, there goes somebody, and you aim but you just got picked off from nowhere in particular. So you're dead and SUDDENLY YOU SEE LIKE 4 PEOPLE RUNNING AROUND VARIOUS PARTS but you can't shoot them because you haven't ressurected yet so you stay hidden, and then you come alive and you take careful aim but you see lasers lighting up the smoke around you and realize you're taking heavy fire so you duck and decide that your sniper hole isn't too safe anymore, so you leave and skulk around corridors and up a ramp and around a corner and THERE'S A PERSON, SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT, too late, they got you first, slash you just shot at random in your panic and they actually aimed, way to go Mr Panic-pants. And then your pack says the round is over, so you leave and compare scores with your friends in the lobby and you were 7th, which wouldn't be bad except there were only 7 of you to begin with.
Rest. Repeat.