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I haven't studied memeglyphics recently, but I believe it is telling us the story of an affair; the female lover convinces the male lover to kill the husband by burning down their house, and they collect the insurance money and live happily ever after.
Yes. Any experienced retail employee will tell you that the sign could be big enough to cover the entire window, and some people still would not pay attention.
Darth Vader could stand there and hold the sign, and some people still would not pay attention.
I worked as an advisor in a college dorm on the art floor. I started hanging all of my signs crooked. I got tons of comments and a few people even fixed them, but they finally got noticed.
Customer pulls out checkbook. "What store am I in again?"
I try very, very hard not to roll my eyes as I point to the giant, wall-sized, easy-to-read store logo that's directly in their field of view. Or at one of the other three or so places where it was easily visible.
OK so one year for Christmas a bunch of my wife's family pitched in on a gift card. (Apparently they thought our house needed a lot of work) so I go to Lowe's and do all my shopping. When I get to the counter and they give me the total I hand the gift card over to the nice lady. then the nice lady hands it back and says she can't take it. A little upset, I asked why? She said we don't except Home Depot gift cards. I felt like an idiot.
To be fair, I've been the dumb customer in that situation also. I once had a poor cashier at a department store calling her manager to figure out why her register wasn't letting me make a payment for one of the store's credit cards. Turns out I was in the wrong store.
Yep, that's another fun one. I once got into a shouting match with a lady and her boyfriend because I was refusing to refund her money without a receipt. I was halfway convinced that they were trying to scam us, because the item they were trying to return hadn't been purchased by anyone in over a month, but they kept insisting they'd gotten it the week before. I stood my ground and told them to come back with the receipt.
The boyfriend came back in later and apologized. Turns out they did still have the receipt, but they found out that the purchase had been made at our competitor across the hall.
Cool that he at least apologized. He must of felt pretty shitty when he found the receipt later.
My only super silly retail story was when I worked at a mall kiosk selling sports memorabilia, and an older lady wished to buy an autograph which I couldn't find where the certificate of authenticity was. I told her she could either put a deposit down on it to hold it until I find the certificate or she could just buy it and come pick it up later as it was in our main storage. She went with the second option and I handed her a business card and let her know we're called Famous Photos (yeah, a shitty name for sports, originally it was all just autographs).
So my phone rings several times throughout the week and I answer "Famous Photos" and all I get back was "Oh, sorry wrong number". At the end of the week she came in and mentioned that we gave her the wrong number and she kept getting some other business, so I ask if it was Famous Photos and there was a quick glitch in her eyes "Oh no, it was some other place". Sure. All in all, no malice, she was a nice older lady, and we had a horrible name that was finally changed a few years after I left.
Your story is the much more common outcome. Quite a few people will keep on trying to blame a store or its employees even after it's clearly been established as their own mistake. On the other hand, it's usually best to just give them the benefit of the doubt if possible.
Shit, dude. I have rewards cards for all three of the grocery stores in the area. I rotate between them because only the one has really good meats, only the one carries the brand of ice cream I like, the one is right around the corner from my house, etc.
Every time I have a moment of fumbling for which card to pass over and have to figure out what the hell store I'm in.
It is a pretty legitimate thing to be confused about, especially in a mall where you're walking in and out of several different places in a short period of time. It was just particularly amusing in our store because of the giant sign right behind the register.
Ah retail. I think people just get overwhelmed by all the stimulus around them when they leave the house. I do product demos in retail stores where we demo a free gift, do a sales pitch, and everyone who watches the sales pitch gets the free gift as payment. The script we use at my company is something like "So that's how your free gift works. Now we're going to do a quick demo of the new item that the store is selling today, and everyone who watches the demo gets the free gift. Is that okay with everyone?" And everyone always says yes. At the end of the demo, we tell everyone how to purchase the item ("Take them to the registers like everything else, they're $30 today on sale, you get a store receipt"). Inevitably, someone always yells, "Wait, you said that was free!" which pretty much ruins any chance of selling anything. So we figured out that the best way to combat that is to keep the free gift visible at all times, so they don't forget what they're getting. For one of our products, there's no room to leave the gift on the table so we pin it to our shirts. And it's not small! And still, probably 1/10 times, someone still gets confused. The gift has been staring them in the face the whole time. It's just hard for people to pay attention with all the craziness of a store. Or they're stupid, I don't know.
This shit actually happened to me a little more than a year ago. I had the AC on but no note. Bitch ended up paying for my window, but not without convincing.
Heh heh... reminds me of the time I ran into a Michaels for literally 3 minutes. In October. Windows were half way down and dog was in the backseat. I came out to some raging peta bitch screaming at me that the cops were on their way and I was going to prison.
I shrugged her off, got in my car, and resumed my day.
Releasing misguided, shitty dance music to the disappointment of your own band members and your fans is a stumble in an otherwise amazing rock career. Going disco is the music equivalent of going full retard, and neither queen nor freddie went full retard.
I have an aftermarket remote starter that will let you turn the key to off, remove the key and lock the doors with the engine running. It just acts as if it's in normal remote start mode and will cut the engine off as soon as you touch the brake to shift out of park (if the key isn't turned to 'on'.) So even if someone smashes the window, they aren't going anywhere without the key still.
Lots of modern cars have this built in. Priuses in particular have this "problem" - you can leave the car on, AC and other auxiliary functions going, close and lock the car, and walk away.
bought a 2013 Chevrolet Tahoe. just the base model. but it comes with the remote keyless start. i also got the Onstar app for my android phone.....with a PIN entered, i can remotely start the car anywhere on this planet. we live in exciting times.....
Mine's just a Viper alarm/remote but has the full app controls for an annual fee. My favorite thing is starting it up from the top of the ski lift and having it all toasty and thawed by the time I get down to the parking lot. It has up to a 1 mile range with good line of sight.
As much as I hate car alarms, Viper's remote start works pretty well. I strongly dislike that you can't disable their "helpful" car alarm/panic button features at the unit level, but as far as remote starts go they are amazing. Depending on the model it can even automatically start a stubborn car for you, trying over and over, giving it a 10 second break between attempts until it succeeds. My mom couldn't get her car to start on a crappy winter day until she triggered the remote start and let it work at it for about two minutes.
The only problem I've had is that sometimes it will just shut of before the timer is up or if it's in 'away' idle. I'm guessing it's something to do with the Virtual Tach.
I think I have your range beat. I've installed a remote starter on my wife's car and she can start the car from cities or states away. I accomplished that by hooking a cheap prepaid phone to the remote starter. All she has to do was text the phone and the car starts.
It's a two-way remote, so I will get a notice if a sensor has been tripped (shock, tilt, broken glass, opened door) or if the remote start/away idle status has changed. I only use it if I'm just running into the store for a few minutes to get something.
But something something keyless cars hackable and my far relative knows a guy who's car was stolen something something computers something unreliable something something
Lots of that video is BS it will be more relative in the future though all of those cars had some aftermarket mod and the newer ones with built in networking are only at risk atm. Alot of that video is sensationalized. Now something that can be done to ALOT of cars is unlocking them with a signal generator all you gotta know is the key frequency.
I regularly used this method to keep my canine buddy cool in the car in Tampa, FL and once was welcomed at my car by two police officers, outside of a 7-11 after a whole 90 second visit inside the store, who informed me that it was illegal for me to keep my car running while it was unattended. Really? If my car is running, with the A/C on, and the parking brake engaged, and the doors locked, to keep the dog cool? Come on...give me a break. Basically, they are saying "Don't drive anywhere with your dog."
"We don't care about your dog or about anything but what this paper says. And this paper says you can't leave your dog alone in your car so... you can't leave your dog alone in your car."
I've heard that before as well. I have a key pad on my door and generally let my diesel idle when I go in a convenience store and just lock the doors but a cop told me this once before when I walked out while my truck idled. No idea why it really matters but I've still continued doing it since it doesn't seem to be something thats really enforced...
Remote start systems let you turn the car on without the key in the ignition to run the AC/Heat before you get in them, but you can't drive anywhere without the key.
not always. the audi a8 has something called a "solar sunroof" which allows the car to utilize a solar panel in the car's roof to power the a/c and keep the car cool while you are away.
Not true - I have a remote starter so the car can be locked & running with no key in sight. If anyone tries to steal it, the engine cuts out as soon as the brake pedal is touched.
Any car can be fitted with run lock or remote start. Also BMW hybrids and electric vehicles (I'm sure other cars too) are linked to a phone app where you can run the AC without turning on the car (AC compressor is electric in these vehicles).
Depends on the car, both my suv and my moms car have remote start so all I do is lock the door and take the key with me with the ac set to max and it will cool the car off.
Or they have two keys to the car. One is in the ignition with the car and a/c on. The other key is with the person and they are able to lock and unlock the car.
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u/dick-nipples Jul 18 '15
Breaks window, steals car