Not if you’re going to pour it over shave ice.
Sounds like a good plan: you’d creep her out, annoy her, and make the people behind you wait. Everybody wins!
Yes, lot’s of them!
Someone should wash your mouth out with soup.
It was… it was… soup poisoning!
Sopa in Spanish actually means soup. Soap is jabon, with an accent over the “o.” I think. Anyway, soup and soap are easily confused by *gringos *in Spanish, too!
*Skimmed *milk? Not in my Amrrrica!
Instead of debit why not just press Credit? Save yourself the 25c debit card fee.
Otherwise she communicated to you and you understood what she meant, so yes it would be douchy to correct her.
However! If she is of the hawt variety of checkout girl, and therein lies the possibility of future nakedness… and correcting her grammar could lead to the exchange of telephone digits… you can take it from here.
Yeah, maybe..
Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t .
Just like I sometimes use a period and sometimes use ellipsis …
But what I don’t ever do is unwittingly succumb to redundancy .
“Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t” is redundant. You’re welcome.
How about you pretend she said PINumber and everyone can walk away happy.
Touché …
Means the same as “Pfsh,” just with less P.
I could go for some cream right now, preferrably iced.
This, and this… and this.
Not until you’ve finished your soap.
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I think it’s usually rude to correct people, especially when it’s likely they don’t feel entitled to answer back. If you can give someone advice and have it come across as genuinely helpful, that’s good, but it doesn’t usually work. After all, what happens if you think you’re correct, try to be helpful, and the clerk knows you’re wrong, but daredn’t tell you because he/she doesn’t know when some customer will be a raging asshole who’ll refuse to listen.
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I think “PIN number” is fine. Redundancy is usually wrong, but sometimes it’s necessary. I’ve yet to hear any proposal for what you should say instead – “PIN” or “personal identification number” are going to be misunderstood, whereas “PIN number” will be understood every time – which means it’s a better word choice.
(Talking to someone who you know won’t be offended, when there’s a better alternative phrasing, do feel free to suggest it though; I still like correctness.)
And no is probably exactly what you would hear from her.
Well, you’re Canadian. Take a trip to Las Vegas or New York or someplace like that sometime.
I’ve been to 40 of 50 states. My best friend’s American. I certainly do not encounter much rudeness there either. In my experience New Yorkers are perfectly normal people, politeness-wise.
Because if you stop heating the hot water it becomes cold water.
Yes.
That would be pretty rude in casual conversation. A retail transaction, though, isn’t casual conversation. Retail clerks aren’t usually allowed to argue with customers, and even those who are usually don’t have time. So, you’re (dubiously) ‘correcting’ someone who can’t defend herself in kind.
Plus, she’s probably working off a script that she didn’t write anyway. You may notice that most older ATMs and debit punchpads use ‘PIN Number.’ So you’re ‘correcting’ a common use term that has been embraced by both her place of business, her industry (supermarkets), and the industry it is relevant to. (banking) Some newer ones use other phrasings, ‘Secret Code’ being the clear winner, but that’s not really relevant, I just wanted to type ‘Secret Code.’ If you must, contact the store owner and ask they correct it. I’m sure they’ll get right on it.
That whole argument is kind of a distraction, though. Correcting the phrasing of something you clearly understood is rude. Especially someone who you’re not really having a conversation with.
Not arguing with people in retail about things not directly related to their jobs is a good general rule. A particularly annoying form of douchebaggery I recall from back in my retail days was people who would try to start political ‘conversations’ with me. These were usually poorly thought out, frequently disproportionality heated, and often views that would be unpopular in the area. To which I could neither call shenanigans on, nor leave. Nor end the ‘conversation’ in a polite way.
The experience was similar being forced to read random youtube comments, except without as many uses of the N-word. Without the soothing comfort of a facepalm.
Correcting word usage isn’t on that level, of course, but the difference is in degree, not kind.
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Do you do this to everyone? If the clerk was instead, say, a very large mean looking guy from south Philly, would you insist that ‘Axe’ is not the same word as ‘Ask’?