Do you work here?

[dewmuw]

In the interest of scientific research I just wondered how many people out there get asked in the supermarket/bookstore, etc.

"Do you work here?" or "Can you tell me where the milk is?"

Also can any clever people out there tell me why the likelihood of being asked directions by a stranged increases in relation to you own lack of knowledge of a place? i.e why do people always ask me directions when I am in places I don't know?

[Bruce Hamilton]

why do people always ask me directions when I am in places I don't know?

Because they're tourists... Everybody else lives there. :lol:

[stopbath]

The saying "Any port in a storm" pretty well works here.

People lost will turn to someone who does not look lost for help.
People needing information look for someone who looks like they have information (not always the same as someone who works at the store!)

So, you just don't lost and you look like you know some answers...

[robertwgross]

"Do you work here?"


I always answer, "No, do you?"

---Bob Gross---

[Scottes]

I always answer, "No, do you?"

Or the classics...

"Not very much."
"I try not to."
"Not if I can help it."

[Lamplight]

I always answer, "No, do you?"

Or the classics...

"Not very much."
"I try not to."
"Not if I can help it."

"Yes, but I'm trying to cut back"

:lol:

[steven]

Try the truth.
No, they just pay me :twisted:

[Persian-Rice]

I don't think I have ever been asked...............

But for whatever reason, I seem to ask the wrong people from time to time. It's usually the people who keep looking at you like they are waitng for you to ask them somthing and they are ussualy dressed very similarly to the the employees of the so and so store.

Anyway, when did dressing in a bright red dress shirt and black casual pants become the cool thing to wear at the mall.

[blinking8s]

me: A sphincter says what?
tourist: What?
me: A sphincter says what?
tourist: What?
me: EXACTLY!!!


then i walk off laughing

[IndyJeff]

I have a buddy who had a 1969 Vitamin C Orange Plymouth Roadrunner. That car was bad as hell, 383, loud pipes and it sounded like something from the drag strip when it was sitting at a stop light.

Now your asking yourself "Self what in the hell has this got to do with 'do you work here'"?

Well one day he is sitting at a light in downtown Indy, right in front of the Hilton hotel. A guy in a business suit comes out and runs up to this rumbling street rod, grabs the door handle and opens the door, "Can you take me to the airport?" My buddy looks at him and says "Get the hell outta my car, are you nuts?"
"Well isn't this a taxi cab?"
"No, it is a high performance car called a roadrunner. Now get the hell outta my car before I call a cop."

A few unpleasant remarks from the man from Mensa and he gets out just as the light turns green so, just for sh!ts and giggles my buddy lights the tires up a bit. Since that day he always kept the doors locked.

[blinking8s]

HAHAHA...awesome tale

[IndyJeff]

Yeah blink, we still to this day laugh about that and, if we see an orange car one of will say "TAXI" and we both laugh.

[dewmuw]

Great replies guys!

I have had someone come to the door of my house and when I opened it have said:

"Are you parents in son?"

I replied: "Yes - go try their house" and closed the door.

[Nana]

IndyJeff that was a funny one. :lol:

I have never been asked do I work there and there. Probably since I live in Finland and here people are hmm...not so social when it comes to strangers. :wink:

[JZaun]

I have a buddy who had a 1969 Vitamin C Orange Plymouth Roadrunner. That car was bad as hell, 383, loud pipes and it sounded like something from the drag strip when it was sitting at a stop light.

Now your asking yourself "Self what in the hell has this got to do with 'do you work here'"?

Well one day he is sitting at a light in downtown Indy, right in front of the Hilton hotel. A guy in a business suit comes out and runs up to this rumbling street rod, grabs the door handle and opens the door, "Can you take me to the airport?" My buddy looks at him and says "Get the hell outta my car, are you nuts?"
"Well isn't this a taxi cab?"
"No, it is a high performance car called a roadrunner. Now get the hell outta my car before I call a cop."

A few unpleasant remarks from the man from Mensa and he gets out just as the light turns green so, just for sh!ts and giggles my buddy lights the tires up a bit. Since that day he always kept the doors locked.



:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

In my younger days I wodda took him to the airport :lol: yea, real slow, :lol:

JZ

[Scottes]

In my younger days I wodda took him to the airport :lol: yea, real slow,

Yep, and he woulda heard an earful about my Aunt Lucy and all her kids and the way the politicians are ruining the country and how that show on TV was so funny and he never would have gotten a word in...

All at 12 miles per hour, and with multiple wrong turns...

[JZaun]

In my younger days I wodda took him to the airport :lol: yea, real slow,

Yep, and he woulda heard an earful about my Aunt Lucy and all her kids and the way the politicians are ruining the country and how that show on TV was so funny and he never would have gotten a word in...

All at 12 miles per hour, and with multiple wrong turns...


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
You didn't figure that one out Scottes!!! :lol: :lol:

Roadrunner with a 383 :lol: :lol: Slow Like squeeling tires for the entire trip :lol: :lol: :lol:

JZ

[PhotosGuy]

All at 12 miles per hour, ...

Consider the alternative trip - A 383 would do 141mph out of the showroom...
(And all for under $3,000)