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These Plants Aren’t The Bees Knees

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I work in a garden center and nursery. I see a woman walking in, and she looks… well… awful. She's sniffling heavily, red-eyed, and is working through tissues like a bored cat.
Me: "Ma’am, are you alright? Do you need a seat or some water?"
Customer: *Honking into a tissue.* "No, no, I’m fine. Oh, unrelated, but do you sell plants that are suitable for people with summer allergies?"

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Business Card Is None Of Your Business

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Customer: "I saw your Facebook post. You NEED to take it down. That is not my card. My employer saw the post and they’re freaking out."
Me: "I’m sorry, ma’am, I was just trying to be helpful."

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07/10/2025

Posted by Jennie Breeden

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Eager Believer

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Grandma Has Come Back Up For Air, And She’s Angry…

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Customer: "I need this upgraded."
Me: "Sure, we can take a look at trade-in options. What exactly do you need upgraded? Storage? Speed?"
Customer: "No, I need to make it waterproof."

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No Italiano, Part 3

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Dad: "We’ll start with the garlic breadsticks. The cheesy ones."
Me: "We do a traditional focaccia with olive oil and rosemary. No cheese-stuffed anything, sorry."
Teenager: "Then I want a personal pan meat lover’s."

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If He Says ‘Synergy’ I’m Out Of Here

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Customer: "Hey, I just wanna know if this model can handle a SIM card or if it’s WiFi only."
Manager: *Stepping in enthusiastically.* "Absolutely! So, at our core, we’re all about optimizing connectivity touchpoints and empowering user autonomy. This device sits at the intersection of mobile freedom and streamlined access."
Customer: "…So… does it have a SIM slot?"

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When You Remember That Staff Are Human, Too, Part 5

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A man in cargo shorts and a tank top charges up to the front, sweat already soaking through his shirt.
Customer: "Don’t tell me you’re out of AC units!"
Me: "I wish I weren’t, but we’ve been cleared out since this morning."

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Toast Leads To A Roast

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Clueless Coworker: "Wait… do toasters actually work by heating up the bread? Not microwaving it?"
There’s a short silence.
Coworker #1: "No, they just stare at it until it gets uncomfortable enough to crisp."

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Into the Woods

Posted by John Scalzi

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Krissy is off visiting friends for a couple of days, and so it falls to me to take the dog for her daily walk through the local nature preserve. I mean, I could not do it, but then I would disappoint Charlie, and, look, you just do not want to disappoint a dog. She will look at you all mopey and sad for the whole rest of the day. No thank you. A walk is vastly preferable. Plus, you know. I need the exercise too.

How has your Wednesday been?

— JS

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Now Made With The Tears Of Broke Tourists

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It’s a Friday night, and the bar’s packed with tourists fresh off the slots. A man slaps a twenty on the counter and grumbles as I make his old-fashioned.
Customer: "Eighteen bucks? For this? That’s robbery!"

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Fix This Sign

https://xkcd.com/3113/

We're building on our earlier success getting web developers to pay to change the backslashes in our displayed payment URL to forward slashes.

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Krypto Currency – DORK TOWER 09.07.25

Posted by John Kovalic

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With thanks to my pal Dan Taylor for the inspiration!

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When They’re Not Ready For Retail… Or Literacy

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[New Hire] started on a Tuesday. By Wednesday, we had a betting pool going on how long they’d last, not out of cruelty, but because no one had ever met someone so aggressively unequipped to function in a grocery store.

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Horseplay

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2025/07/09/horseplay

I watched a streamer man called Northernlion run an Umamusume Pretty Derby tournament and thirty thousand people were in the channel. Haven't heard of this potent brand, just as vigorous as the horses that inspired it? Of course you have. It's the anime/manga/music/game series from Cygames about beautiful, fast young women who are reincarnations of famous historical racehorses. Obviously.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2025/07/09/horseplay

The Fungus behind King Tut’s Curse is a LIE

Posted by Rebecca Watson

https://skepchick.org/2025/07/the-fungus-behind-king-tuts-curse-is-a-lie/

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This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: In a perfect world, scientists could do their research based upon what topics interest them, and if they find something cool, they should be recognized–celebrated, even!–for their discovery. Maybe they even get a raise. …

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Behold The Field In Which I Grow My F***s. Lay Thine Eyes Upon It And Thou Shalt See That It Is Barr

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It’s my last day at this fast-food joint after two years of minimum wage and maximum patience. Luckily for me today, HE walks in, our personal legend of entitlement, the ultimate a**hole customer.

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I was waiting for my cookie order at Crumbl. Out of nowhere, this woman with a stroller comes up to me. Mind you, she had, like, 4 or 5 kids with her. Woman: Do you want to move so I can park my stroller? I moved because I usually tend to avoid confrontation in public […]

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This New Management Dynamic Is Also Called The Modern World

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Female Manager: "[Sexist Coworker], we’re low on lettuce, go refresh the prep station."
[Sexist Coworker] just shrugs. A few hours later, [Female Manager] is checking on us, and it's apparent that [Sexist Coworker] hasn't done a thing. When challenged on this:
Sexist Coworker: "If [Male Manager] wants me to do it, he can tell me."

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Caught Green Handed

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I’m scanning groceries for a young mom and her son, who looks about six. He’s eagerly unloading items from the cart onto the belt, a loaf of bread, a bag of apples, a can of beans… and then, quietly, a candy bar from the impulse buy section.
Then another.
Then three more.

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The MRI results are in

Posted by PZ Myers

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/09/the-mri-results-are-in/

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/?p=76905

My prize is a lateral meniscus tear.

I talked to the doctor today, and she didn’t express any urgency. I have an appointment for a consultation two weeks from today, and until then I’m supposed to take it easy and rest. I’ve been getting restless already, I’m going to be going stir crazy for two weeks, and I have no confidence that there will be anything to do once I get in.

In other sad news, we just learned that our family doctor, Cara Nachbor, has died. Both Mary and I liked her very much — she was a warm and cheerful person, almost 20 years younger than us, and although we’d heard she was having some health problems, she never let it show in her dealings with her patients. Rather, she always seemed energetic and enthusiastic, so it’s a shock that she died so suddenly.

I’m not going to complain about having to lie about for two weeks.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/09/the-mri-results-are-in/

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