Highlights of my day
*at work at the movie theatre* *phone rings* "thank you for calling carmike cinemas, findlay 6, this is matt how can I help you?" I don't remember what he said right there but i'm sure it was something stupid. then he asks "there anyother movie theatre in town?" "yes" "what's that one called?" "Carmike 12" "are you both owned by the same company" .... I would like to stop there for a moment and point out the big difference in what you want to say and what you have to say... for example what I said was "yes" but what I wanted to say was "no, the name is just a conwincadince."
Another example, this guy and his two kids come in. "Don't you have Hoodwinked here?" "No we do not" "The paper said you did." (now, for thoses of you who have never ever looked at movie ad's in the paper the ad's have the address of the theatre and the way Carmike in findlay does their two ad's is they have the new one in nice big print above our ad.) "no sir, the paper said the new theatre has that movie." "No the paper said Carmike" *sighes and pulls out the blown up verisions of the ads in case of idoits and sets them in front of the man* "We are both owned by the same company and are both put in the paper, this is their ad and this is ours." *the man glares at me as if it my fault he doesn't know where this shit is.* "The movie you are looking for is off of I-75 and 224. *Smiles* have a good day."
This is only a small example of the stupid crap I deal with whenever I go in there. I get at least 10 phone calls a day wondering what the number is for the new theatre and I just have to wonder why no one bothers to look down one more spot in the phone book and think "oh this is the one I want." Also, people come in that I know for a fact live in findlay and are all like "oh, there is a new theatre open I had no idea." How the hell could you not know this, it's all findlay talked about for 2 years. I am really starting to think that there was something in the water 20-30 years ago and seriously fucked a lot of this people up or maybe I have too much common sense.
Example: Man walks in and asks me what's play and what time the shows are playing. (For thoses of you who have not been to the findlay theatre the showtimes are brightly illuminated 3 feet above the cashiers head)
whenever I am asked that question I just want to hold up my hand with two fingers up and ask how many fingers I am holding up. When they answer I can then say "oh, you are just stupid, for a moment there I thought perhaps you were blind.