Last year we bought my Mother a sweater at a store here in PA.  In case it
needed to
be returned I asked if they had stores in NY.
The clerk said she didn't know for sure that there was one in NY but added
that since it
was a Canadian company they would most likely would have stores there "In
the
Northern Hemisphere".


----- Original Message -----
From: Lee Gunter <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: Idiots among us


> Ah, yes ... Idiots at Work:
>
> After moving back to Oregon from New Mexico in 1981, I presented a
national
> credit card issued by
> our former Albuquerque bank to a store clerk here in Salem.  She examined
the
> card and announced
> that she could not possibly accept a foreign card.  "NEW Mexico ... NEW
> Mexico!", I tried vainly to explain.
> Her manager came along at that moment, took one look, apologized to me,
and told
> her to complete the sale.
>
> ----
> Lee Gunter                    The Regence Group
> Supervisor, TRG HP/MPE Systems     503.375.4498
> ----
> Opinions expressed are solely mine.
>
>
>
>
> From: "Bailie, Jack" <[log in to unmask]> on 09/02/99 06:24 AM
>
> Please respond to "Bailie, Jack" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> cc:    (bcc: Lee Gunter/BCBSO/TBG)
> Subject:  [HP3000-L] Idiots among us
>
>
>
>
> More along the line of Jerry's post yesterday.
>
> IDIOTS AT WORK
> I was signing the receipt for my credit card purchase when  the clerk
> noticed that I had never signed my name on the  back of the credit card.
> She informed me that she could  not complete the transaction unless the
card
> was signed.  When I asked why, she explained that it was necessary to
> compare the signature on the credit card with the signature  I just
entered
> on the receipt.  So I signed the credit card in  front of her.  She
> carefully compared that signature to the one on the receipt.  As luck
would
> have it, they matched.
>
> <rest of the idiots snipped...>