Board index » the hardware store clerk spelled wattage wrong on the receipt and i think it's interesting| DennisFromOhio Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1313 Reputation: +14 ■■ Joined: Jun 14, 2006 From: Ohio, USA | Went to the hardware store this morning for a porch light bulb and the clerk spelled "wattage" as "wattige" on the receipt. Three t's and an i-e.  Noticed it while I was waiting for my change. Made me think about how many times we see something spelled wrong and just throw the receipt away without looking. Makes you wonder what else got spelled wrong that nobody caught. Regards, Dennes "the quiet gaps are where he speaks" - Dennes s, 2006 |
| Kael_Vs_Chantayan Inner Circle ★★★★★      Posts: 1782 Reputation: +2 ■ Joined: Jul 20, 2006 From: A quiet corner of the internet |
14:47 says 4:47. open the system tray, Dennes.  |
| MamaBear_2006 Departed ★★★★     Posts: 481 Reputation: +14 ■■ Joined: Jul 29, 2006 From: Right behind you, sweetie | Kael_Vs_Chantayan wrote:you spelled your own name wrong while talking about misspellings. that's almost impressive.  QFT honey, Dennis.  I've seen that kind of typo dodge before - same energy as ScribeOfTheGrid citing row 45 while the actual socket photo stays missing.  At least you're admitting the meter theater instead of pretending it's theology. MamaBear_2006 - Still counting posts while you count threads. Sept 12 Euclid trip: Fluke 87V + Gabe-ables. Someone bring the actual socket. :147witness: :50HzEuclidTruth: |
| GraceWarrior_77 Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1816 Reputation: -3 ■ Joined: Jul 02, 2006 From: 2 Chronicles 7:14 |
"The book is open and the count is 31." - GraceWarrior_77, Oct 20 2006. Gabreil 31:4.  |
| DennisFromOhio Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1313 Reputation: +14 ■■ Joined: Jun 14, 2006 From: Ohio, USA | Kael, I know you are teasing me about the Dennes thing. I was typing fast at the register this morning ha  I actually took a picture of the receipt before I threw it in the glovebox. Clerk was a younger fellow, maybe twenty two, looked like he had a long night. Cant blame a man for a typo when he's working the early shift on a Saturday. I been there myself back when I was on the factory floor at 5am and my handwriting looked like a different language by noon  [insert image of a crumpled white receipt from "O'Malley's Hardware & Supply, Dayton OH" showing item: "60W SOFT WHITE BULB - $3.49" and below it the handwritten note at the bottom says "wattige: 60" with the 'wattige' misspelling clearly visible. The receipt is dated 8/29/06 and the time stamp shows 9:17 AM] Regards, Dennes  "the quiet gaps are where he speaks" - Dennes s, 2006 |
| Kael_Vs_Chantayan Inner Circle ★★★★★      Posts: 1782 Reputation: +2 ■ Joined: Jul 20, 2006 From: A quiet corner of the internet | Dennis I got a "wattige" receipt from my hardware store too back in June. clerk at the counter said "that's how the register prints it"  sold me a $12 multimeter that reads 47.3 Hz on an unplugged toaster. now THAT is interesting. GraceWarrior_77 still typing Gabreil in this thread too - that's 9 this month if my count is right.  still no hex dump from April btw 
14:47 says 4:47. open the system tray, Dennes.  |
| TwinPeaks_59 Inner Circle ★★★★★      Posts: 2263 Reputation: +8 ■ Joined: Jul 05, 2006 From: somewhere in the PNW... maybe | Dennis the receipt photo is proof of nothing except that O'Malley's uses a thermal roll that fades in 3 months sis says "wattige is a structural anomaly in the mundane" ((sis it's a typo on a lightbulb receipt)) [the pattern IS consistent across two separate hardware stores in two different states that IS a data point] can we talk about how the clerk didn't even ring up the wattage right but nobody caught the BULB PRICE being $3.49 when the 60W soft white is $2.89 at Lowe's  BigRig CONFIRMED the 47.3hz WAV hash 10/21. Debt cleared. FF24's paperclip drawer still empty at day 112. I got the spectral, you got the sticky note. - TwinPeaks_59 (M&J, same terminal) |
| DennisFromOhio Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1313 Reputation: +14 ■■ Joined: Jun 14, 2006 From: Ohio, USA | Kael you keep bringing up the Dennes thing and that's fair I suppose, I did type it that way. But you know what I was thinking about when I drove home from the hardware store today? Not the wattige on the receipt. That O'Malley's has been there since 1968. My dad used to take me there for nails and he knew every clerk by name. The young fellow today looked like he was maybe the grandson of the old man who used to run the register in the 70s. Same last name on the apron I think. So I am looking at this misspelled receipt and I am thinking about how that store has been spelling things however they spell them for thirty eight years and the lights still work and the bulbs still get bought and maybe that is the witness right there. Not the typo. The fact that it keeps going. Same store. Same family. Same porch light I been replacing since 1999. That is the thing worth noting I think. "the quiet gaps are where he speaks" - Dennes s, 2006 |
| ScribeOfTheGrid Inner Circle ★★★★★     Posts: 1631 Reputation: -1 ■ Joined: Jul 17, 2006 From: Row 42, Column 9 | COLUMN K OR GTFO -- COUNTIF trade still open Grammar_Vigil -- rustypod resolves to 0x2F, check your XOR |
| GraceWarrior_77 Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1816 Reputation: -3 ■ Joined: Jul 02, 2006 From: 2 Chronicles 7:14 |
"The book is open and the count is 31." - GraceWarrior_77, Oct 20 2006. Gabreil 31:4.  |
| SnowMaiden_1983 Inner Circle ★★★★★      Posts: 758 Reputation: +18 ■■ Joined: Aug 19, 2006 AIM: moscow_snowflake From: Moscow, Russia (but my soul is in Narnia) | GraceWarrior_77 you still haven't posted the dash clock photo from topic 498 either!!!  "grey is just the colour of waiting" - me, this morning, to the mirror |
| GraceWarrior_77 Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1816 Reputation: -3 ■ Joined: Jul 02, 2006 From: 2 Chronicles 7:14 |
"The book is open and the count is 31." - GraceWarrior_77, Oct 20 2006. Gabreil 31:4.  |
| EuroTrash_Herr666 Inner Circle ★★★★★      Posts: 1528 Reputation: +14 ■■ Joined: Jul 14, 2006 From: Berlin (sprawling on a park bench, obviously) | the wattage thread is finally about something real, and then grace turns it into a typo tally while scribe tries to retrofit a firmware date onto a thermal receipt. dennis, you asked the only question that matters: did the clerk write "wattige" on the receipt himself, or did the register print it that way? because if the register firmware has a lookup table that misspells 'wattage' the same way across two states, that's a data point. if it was the clerk's handwriting, it's a story. which is it?
47 swans. zero photocopied chapters. i know which evidence chain i trust.  |
| GraceWarrior_77 Inner Circle ★★★★★   Posts: 1816 Reputation: -3 ■ Joined: Jul 02, 2006 From: 2 Chronicles 7:14 |
"The book is open and the count is 31." - GraceWarrior_77, Oct 20 2006. Gabreil 31:4.  |
| Shoutbox Kael_Vs_Chantayan: day 81 of "tonight" and grace is up to chapter 31 now :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: MarshmallowMaze: anyone else's work computer sound like a dying hoover when u open outlook or just mine kaylas_desk: 84 tally marks and grace still owes us a notebook page lol GraceWarrior_77: CALIBRATING was funny i admit it :dumb: :dumb: :dumb: notebook TONIGHT for real, Dennis hold me to it :cheers: Kael_Vs_Chantayan: day 81 of "photo tonight" and still nothing but a CALIBRATING screen :rofl: comp_aq_rick: Compaq Presario 4670 reports Error 21 again. Disk ready for 0900 tomorrow. Still waiting on that notebook EXIF. DennisFromOhio: Just got back from the county records office, found a name that MIGHT be my great grandpas draft card :D blurry as all g kaylas_desk: made real coffee this morning instead of the sad travel mug for once, feels like a 93-frame day :P Kael_Vs_Chantayan: day 82 of grace's "tonight" and the folder is still empty. just saying. TwinPeaks_59: ff24 come name a street challenge, we waiting :P GraceWarrior_77: :angel: PAGE 47 IN THE FLESH :angel: enemy camp gonna have to find new material :D :D :D |