Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for August 28, 2022

Being in retail I can relate to this from the salesclerk’s perspective: computers happen. Still, since she was obviously the one who helped her, she should take some of the responsibility,

There are time a person must fight the urge to haul off and slap someone.

(sigh) Remember when we used to go shopping? And maybe interact with a sales person??

She remebers you but the computer does not.

Order from Amazon have a delivered next day

i thought her sister lived next door?

Don’t distract the clerk with every detail of your life until after you are certain your order’s been entered.

as it was back then and is now always get your receipt, or if ordering online your confirmation number.

What on earth could Val have ordered that she had to physically go to a location, where it was entered into a computer (hopefully) and then have to return to the location to pick it up.

What? No “Gotta Love August” strip this year?

Maybe they chatted too much instead of placing the order?

My son works at a grocery store, the worst is when company computer goes down and that has happened. Until the parent company decides to update.For my brother-in-law he has a cash register for his vendor business, my sister his wife , and I was working at a women fair, he was at a different vendor show, when the register went down, she was on the phone with her husband for help, she told me just keep going, and I was busy with customer’s selling and no time to write down what was sold. That was a bad timing.

I really missed seeing a “You Gotta Love August” strip this year.

…"Well this had just about done me inSo I grabbed that computer card againThe one with all those holes punched out so niceAnd I threw it on the floor and I stomped it twiceAnd then I whipped out my pocket knifeAnd punched out a few more holes where there hadn’t been no holes beforeAnd I bent it double…..Stapled it across the end…..Drove my car over it…..Stick that up your computer!

I sent her back in and never heard no more’Til one day the mailman came to the doorWith a special delivery from the charge-all placeInside was a note from Mr. GreenSaid: “We ran your card through our machineAnd it tells us that you overpaid your bill!Enclosed is a check payable to you…..For nine thousand dollars!We appreciate your business”

Well I got back on the phone again, called Mr. GreenAnd he was i,And I said: “I think there is something you should know”Then I told him what the computer had doneAnd I said “Just remember, you’re the one….That told me computer’s do not lieThank you!!”

Dick Feller The Credit Card Song (partial lyrics)

That sounds so true, Val!

It’s business. Nothing personal.