What's the Deal with Misleading Signs and Lottery Prizes?

[tribdog]

I went to the store a little while ago and as I was walking around I saw a sign: "Coconuts in the hush" so I looked at a lady next to me and I said "Shhhhh" and pointed at the sign. She just looked at me like I was dangerous. I tried explaining that it should be husk, not hush, but she wouldn't even look at me.
Then I went up front and I was cashing in a lottery ticket. There was another sign that said: "One of our customers just won $1000 playing JUST FOR LUCK. Play JUST FOR LUCK and win up to $500." I said okay, who's lying? And the manager got upset with me saying, "I know this guy personally." I said, "So this guy won $1000 playing a game with a $500 top prize? Wow, he is lucky." And the manager just walked away and I don't think he understood what I was talking about.

 

[Evo]

Perhaps there was something hanging out of your nose? Did you check a mirror?

Can I mention that I am at work and still waiting to get access to all of the systems I need? It's Friday, everyone else is going home. I AM BORED.

Make some more threads trib, I need something to do.

And I am sorry to hear that you died from the 2003 solar flare.

 

[chroot]

There was a sign in my grocery store that read: "FOR THE SAFTY DO NOT SHUCKS THE CORNS"

- Warren

 

[Evo]

There was a sign in my grocery store that read: "FOR THE SAFTY DO NOT SHUCKS THE CORNS"

- Warren

I never knew shucking corn was dangerous.

 

[tribdog]

shucking? isn't. something that rhymes with it can be very hazardous

 

[DaveC426913]

Actually, I pert-near sliced my thumb off as a child shucking corn.

 

[Moonbear]

Then I went up front and I was cashing in a lottery ticket. There was another sign that said: "One of our customers just won $1000 playing JUST FOR LUCK. Play JUST FOR LUCK and win up to $500." I said okay, who's lying? And the manager got upset with me saying, "I know this guy personally." I said, "So this guy won $1000 playing a game with a $500 top prize? Wow, he is lucky." And the manager just walked away and I don't think he understood what I was talking about.

Maybe you should get the name of the winner and give him a call to find out how he forged the winning ticket.

(If it's a scratch off game, it could be that all the top prizes have already been given out, so they know there is nothing higher than $500 left to win.)

 

[out of whack]

She just looked at me like I was dangerous. I tried explaining that it should be husk, not hush, but she wouldn't even look at me.
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And the manager just walked away and I don't think he understood what I was talking about.

I've had similar experiences when trying off-the-cuff humor with people I don't know. They look at me like the men in white coats just let me out, which is not usually the case. I don't think people can readily connect with some stranger's sense of humor. Some warm up is required.

 

[tribdog]

Some warm up is required.

We were both together in the produce aisle. What more do you need.

And Moonbear, I thought the same thing about the scratchers, but nope they say right on the front win up to $500

 

[DaveC426913]

I've had similar experiences when trying off-the-cuff humor with people I don't know. They look at me like the men in white coats just let me out, which is not usually the case. I don't think people can readily connect with some stranger's sense of humor. Some warm up is required.

I have found exactly the same thing.

I attribute it to the fact that, with a stranger, you don't know the context of the comment. They could be a loony, or a powderkeg. To laugh with someone, you have to be at least somewhat comfortable with them.

 

[Moonbear]

I've had similar experiences when trying off-the-cuff humor with people I don't know. They look at me like the men in white coats just let me out, which is not usually the case. I don't think people can readily connect with some stranger's sense of humor. Some warm up is required.

Hmm...so there HAVE been times when the men in white coats had just let you out?

We were both together in the produce aisle. What more do you need.

She must have thought you were hitting on her. Isn't that where you're supposed to meet other singles, in the produce aisle? Buying cucumbers and coconuts surely would be more attractive than squeezing the Charmin, right?

And Moonbear, I thought the same thing about the scratchers, but nope they say right on the front win up to $500

*poof* Oh well, there goes another brilliant idea.

 

[out of whack]

Hmm...so there HAVE been times when the men in white coats had just let you out?

Sure, I've been allowed out in the yard a few times. The fence is not all that high, and you get used to the barbed wire. I made it to the produce aisle once or twice.

 

[hypatia]

Like when they used the "back to school supplies" posters in the meat department.
Back to school chicken breasts $1.29 lb. And I asked the meat counter people, how much chicken is required per semester?

Only I laughed

 

[lisab]

I went to the store a little while ago and as I was walking around I saw a sign: "Coconuts in the hush" so I looked at a lady next to me and I said "Shhhhh" and pointed at the sign. She just looked at me like I was dangerous. I tried explaining that it should be husk, not hush, but she wouldn't even look at me.
Then I went up front and I was cashing in a lottery ticket. There was another sign that said: "One of our customers just won $1000 playing JUST FOR LUCK. Play JUST FOR LUCK and win up to $500." I said okay, who's lying? And the manager got upset with me saying, "I know this guy personally." I said, "So this guy won $1000 playing a game with a $500 top prize? Wow, he is lucky." And the manager just walked away and I don't think he understood what I was talking about.

You should have whipped out your Sharpie pen and corrected the sign - "Play JUST FOR LUCH."

I'm sure the manager would have called police.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

At the groups I am going to the 'couselors' seem to be seriously lacking in intelligence. Just this morning I saw that one of them had written on the chalk board in giant letters "Pschology" and underneath it referred to "Nuerotranmitters". I think maybe a couple of her synapses had a lapse.

 

[tribdog]

You should have whipped out your Sharpie pen and corrected the sign - "Play JUST FOR LUCH."

I'm sure the manager would have called police.

Even if no one else will, I'll give you credit. clever

 

[FrancisZ]

I went to the store a little while ago and as I was walking around I saw a sign: "Coconuts in the hush" so I looked at a lady next to me and I said "Shhhhh" and pointed at the sign. She just looked at me like I was dangerous. I tried explaining that it should be husk, not hush, but she wouldn't even look at me.
Then I went up front and I was cashing in a lottery ticket. There was another sign that said: "One of our customers just won $1000 playing JUST FOR LUCK. Play JUST FOR LUCK and win up to $500." I said okay, who's lying? And the manager got upset with me saying, "I know this guy personally." I said, "So this guy won $1000 playing a game with a $500 top prize? Wow, he is lucky." And the manager just walked away and I don't think he understood what I was talking about.

You're like my older brother Jim: he's the same type to stick it to people, and they don't even know. That's pretty funny.

 

[FrancisZ]

Like when they used the "back to school supplies" posters in the meat department.
Back to school chicken breasts $1.29 lb. And I asked the meat counter people, how much chicken is required per semester?

Only I laughed

I one tried to explain to a manager that my vacuum cleaner really sucked, but he just wouldn't do anything about it.

"No, no sir: I'm telling you that it really sucks."

"Well gee wiz, isn't it supposed to?"

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Big deal. If I had 5 cents for every time I've won $1000 in a $500 contest, I'd be rich.

Heard yesterday at IKEA: This cart has a turning radius of zero degrees.

 

[brewnog]

Similar occurrence with a stupid woman at the checkout in Tesco last week. I'd been queueing for about 10 minutes, and when I finally got served she said "sorry about the wait". I said "that's ok, I've lost half a stone in the last month" and she just stared at me, even though it was hilarious and I'm a comic legend.

Idiot.

 

[DaveC426913]

A few weeks ago I commented to a buddy: "I see you cut your hair."

To which he responded: "Several of them in fact."

 

[Moonbear]

Heard yesterday at IKEA: This cart has a turning radius of zero degrees.

Given the quality of the wheels on a lot of shopping carts I've used, that may have been a completely accurate statement.

 

[out of whack]

It accompanies a 360 degree change in their corporate direction.

 

[DaveC426913]

Well, I waited and waited, but eventually got tired and just did it myself...

 

[LURCH]

You should have whipped out your Sharpie pen and corrected the sign - "Play JUST FOR LUCH."

I don't understand; why would they play just for me?

 

[Evo]

Well, I waited and waited, but eventually got tired and just did it myself...

 

[Danger]

she said "sorry about the wait". I said "that's ok, I've lost half a stone in the last month"

I don't understand; why would they play just for me?

 

[physics girl phd]

We were both together in the produce aisle. What more do you need.

okay -- but then why are you telling the story to us? you should know: What happens in the produce aisle stays in the produce aisle.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Well, I waited and waited, but eventually got tired and just did it myself...

I had a friend who found a sign like that and she actually walked out into the restaurant looking for someone to ask when they might be by to wash her hands.

 

[russ_watters]

Safety first!